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Pitch season is shifting into higher gear, and Fox has bought 3 more projects with significant commitments.
The hourlong alien-themed cop show Stranger Planet, from 
Chuck executive producer Matthew Miller, has received a put pilot commitment. Just like Chuck, it is an action drama with comedic elements. Produced by Warner Bros. TV, Stranger Planet centers on a hard-boiled L.A. cop who stumbles upon the existence of aliens living among us and must team up with two aliens in order to solve intergalactic mysteries on Earth. Miller is the writer-executive producer.
Another cop show, a drama from writer/executive producer Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Secret Life of Bees, Love & Basketball), Imagine TV and 20th TV, has received a script commitment plus penalty. It is described as a dual-female lead cop show set in one of the toughest neighborhoods of Los Angeles. And word is the cops are also the subjects of a reality show.
On the comedy side, Fox has handed out a script commitment with penalty to El Jefe (aka The Boss), from comedy veterans Moses Port and David Guarascio (Aliens In America) and Sony Pictures TV. It is about an upper-middle class 30-year-old guy who finally gets booted out of his dad and step-mom’s house and moves in with his cleaning woman’s family since he had nowhere else to go.
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Pilot deals for diversity writers!!!! AWESOME NEWS!!! AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!!!!
Oh please. No one cares if the writer/creator/EP of a show is a diversity hire. People only care if a show is good or not. I can’t wait for the day when color doesn’t matter to people who get wood over a ‘diversity hire.’
What a rude and unintelligent thing to say. Obviously Lisa who wrote the original post cares. Personally, I care, as do many other white and diverse writers. In fact most of the WGA candidates running this term have expressed the need for more diverse writers in their candidate statements and at the various endorsement events around town. Further, it’s simply the mark of a civilized person to strive for equality and diverse interests.
So it would seem that the opinion you are expressing is simply that you do not care, which makes you seem uninformed and a tad racist. I’d keep that to yourself in the future.
Dear Nanook, I don’t care either, and I fall in the ‘diversity hire’ category. If I find out that I had a project set-up because I am a ‘diversity hire’ there will be hell to pay.
I’m a diverse writer too. But I don’t think I get jobs because of that, in fact I’ve never been the network-paid diversity writer on staff. Nor do I think these pilots went because they were created by diversity writers. But that doesn’t mean that having diverse show creators isn’t a good thing. I’m also pleased when I see black, hispanic and other minorities achieving things in business and politics. I find it odd that deadline alone has so many people hating on diverse writers. I can’t account for it, except in the case of bitter people who feel like ‘them foreigners are stealing our jobs’ which is a little red-necky for my taste.
I had absolutely no idea Matt Miller was so handsome – well done Fox!
Sometimes Miller’s aim can be a little off, but i’m willing to give him another chance cause that show sounds awesome!
congrats to Gina Prince-Bythewood!!! she is such a talented writer/director. FOX knows talent when they see it.
” It is about an upper-middle class 30-year-old guy who finally gets booted out of his dad and step-mom’s house and moves in with his cleaning woman’s family since he had nowhere else to go.”
Funny Idea! Glad to see a network take a chance on something besides the usual dating sitcoms. I laughed when I read this idea and I would watch it. There should more of these different and funny ideas on TV. The audeince will show up!
what does it mean when a project is “with penalties”?
If the deal is ‘with penalties’ it typically means that the creator/producer(s) get $$$ if the script doesn’t go to pilot and/or series.
“with penalties” means that if the project doesn’t move forward into being shot, and the network ultimately cancels the deal, then it has to pay (usually very large) ‘penalties’ to the producers who sold the idea to them. It usually guarantees that the pilot will be shot… USUALLY. But networks have no problem paying people off to get rid of them (a la last year’s “Ghost Angeles” pilot debacle at NBC)