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MTV Pilot ‘Patito Feo’ Casts Lead While ABC Family Pilot ‘Nine Lives’ Finds Co-Lead

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday November 12, 2010 @ 6:30am PSTTags: Andy Fickman, Bert V. Royal, Nine lives, Nine Lives Casting, Nine Lives Pilot, Patito Feo, Patito Feo Pilot, Skyler Samuels, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Benita Robledo has landed the lead in MTV’s half-hour pilot presentation Patito Feo. Meanwhile, sitcom veteran Amy Pietz has been tapped to co-star opposite Skyler Samuels in the ABC Family drama pilot Nine Lives.

Based on the hugely successful Argentinean format, Patito Feo centers on a Mexican teenage girl  (Robledo) who moves to Florida with her mother and grandmother only to discover that the reality of high school in America is nothing like she expected when she crosses paths with the Queen Bee and accidentally sets off a war at school. Easy A scribe Bert V. Royal wrote the adaptation  and is executive producing with Teri Weinberg. Andy Fickman is directing. Robledo is best known for her recurring role on Gossip Girl.

Based on Alloy’s Nine Lives of Chloe King series of 3 young-adult novels by Celia Thomson, Nine Lives centers on Chloe King (Samuels), a teenager with heightened abilities (super speed, agility, hearing…claws) who discovers she’s being pursued by a mysterious figure. Pietz will play Chloe’s adoptive mother and protector, a slightly-harried, successful real estate agent who has raised Chloe as a single mother since her husband abandoned them over ten years ago. Caroline in the City alumna Pietz recently recurred on The Office.

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MTV Picks Up Latin-Flavored Comedy Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 7, 2010 @ 10:52am PDTTags: Andy Fickman, Bert V. Royal, Cable TV, MTV, MTV Pilot Pickup, Patito Feo, Patito Feo Pilot, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: MTV has handed out a pilot presentation order to Patito Feo, a half-hour comedy based on the hugely successful Argentinean format. The adaptation was written by Easy A scribe Bert V. Royal. Feature helmer Andy Fickman (You Again) is in negotiations to direct the project, executive produced by former Reveille and NBC executive Teri Weinberg. Patito Feo (in English, Ugly Duckling) centers on a Mexican teenage girl who moves to Florida with her mother and grandmother only to discover that the reality of high school in America is nothing like she expected when she crosses paths with the Queen Bee and accidentally sets off a war at school. Read More »

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‘City Slickers’ Scribes Re-Join Billy Crystal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 31, 2010 @ 4:39pm PDTTags: Andy Fickman, Babaloo Mandel, Billy Crystal, Lowell Ganz
Mike Fleming

Writers Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel have come aboard to do a quick rewrite of Us & Them, the Andy Fickman-directed film. The scribes worked with the film’s star/producer, Billy Crystal, on City Slickers, Forget Paris and Father’s Day.  Us & Them, picked up in turnaround from Paramount, is on … Read More »

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