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EXCLUSIVE: NBC is China-bound. The network has bought a cop drama project set in Shanghai from writers Cyrus Voris and Ethan Reiff. The project is about a pair of fugitive recovery agents working in China’s (and the world’s) largest city, population 23 million. It stems from a blind script deal Voris and Reiff had at NBC and will be produced by Universal TV. Voris and Reiff had been thinking about doing a cop show set in China for a while, and separately new NBC entertainment president Jennifer Salke had been looking to do a show set in the Asian country for some time, originally as top development executive at 20th TV. UPDATED: Voris and Reiff have an extensive background and knowledge of China working on Chinese-themed projects, including co-writing the story for DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda, which was set in old China. The new project reunites UTA-repped Voris and Reiff with NBC chairman Bob Greenblatt. The two co-created and executive produced the Showtime drama Sleeper Cell, which ran for two seasons while Greenblatt was at the helm of the pay cable network.
On the comedy side, NBC has bought Animal Kingdom, a vet hospital half-hour from writers Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka, Universal TV, and Scot Armstrong and Ravi Nandan’s studio-based American Work. The project centers on a vet who lives by the laws of the jungle. Gatewood and Tanaka, repped by UTA and Management 360, wrote the upcoming Jonah Hill comedy The Sitter and also have been attached to a Baywatch reboot.
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I’ve spent some time in Shanghai; it’s a spectacular city that makes New York look like a slum; with locations that range from Cartier on the Bund to Hooters in Pudung to Xintiandi’s high priced restaurants and jazz clubs to old Shanghai, it will be an eye-opener for Americans who don’t have a clue why the US will lose the economic battle with China in the next decade.
Don’t pack your bags just yet. There’s a not so old proverb: “China will grow old before it grows rich”. Google it. It pertains to ill conceived population control policies, zero pollution control policies and tons of imminent social unrest. Shanghai’s an amazing city where a very small portion of the Chinese population lives well. great place to set a cop show.
All those luxury boutiques are exactly the reason why certain areas seem so fake.
“Ohhh, ahhh, a Burberry store. Hermes Prada!”
Any sense of indigenous culture is being swept away by foreign companies looking to capitalize on the fawning of luxury brands.
It would be awesome to see a network drama filmed in another country.
I don’t have to Google it; I’ve been there. Shanghai has improved by leaps and bounds over the past 20 years. The salaries for skilled local workers are approaching American levels, and the education system is better.
Which would be great if Shanghai were a self-contained island instead of a tiny 25 million person drop in the bucket that is China’s vast quickly aging population which will have to be supported by generations of entitled only children who’ve gotten college educations and can’t find the decent jobs they’re qualified for and aren’t interested in skilled labor jobs assembling iPads for FoxConn. there are reasons China needs the U.S. and vice-versa. look behind the curtain.
I agree that China and the US need each other, and China’s demographics are frightening–but not as frightening as Japan, which is on its way to total depopulation!
Writing Kung Fu Panda makes someone an expert on China? Following that logic, the writer of Kangaroo Jack must be an expert on Australia…