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ABC Buys Mystery Thriller From Di Bonaventura Television & Writer Jeffrey Bell

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday August 30, 2012 @ 10:19am PDTTags: Dan McDermott, Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Dan McDermott and Lorenzo di Bonaventura’s Di Bonaventura Television has sold another drama project. Patron Saints, which will be written by Jeffrey Bell (Spartacus), is described as a mystery thriller about a covert group who help people in lost, desperate and impossible circumstances. Bell, McDermott and di Bonaventura are executive producing for ABC Studios where di Bonaventura TV is based.

This marks the third major sale for CAA-repped di Bonaventura TV this season. The company landed a put pilot at NBC for a Cleopatra drama written by Michael Seitzman and has Founding Fathers set up at ABC with Rich D’Ovidio writing.

Bell, repped by CAA and Cliff Gilbert-Lurie, began his TV career on The X-Files. He went on to serve as executive producer/showrunner on such series as Angel, Alias, Day Break and Harper’s Island. He also was co-creator and showrunner of the Lifetime series The Protector, developed and produced by ABC Studios.

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NBC Buys Family Soap From Burr Steers, ABC Studios & Di Bonaventura Pictures TV

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 19, 2011 @ 5:15pm PDTTags: ABC Studios, Dan McDermott, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, NBC
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Burr Steers will make his TV writing debut with Palm Beach, a drama project for NBC from ABC Studios and Lorenzo DiBonventura and Dan McDermott’s studio-based Di Bonaventura Pictures Television. The project is described as an Upstairs, Downstairs-style … Read More »

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ABC Buys Mystery Drama From Paul Scheuring & Lorenzo DiBonaventura

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 23, 2011 @ 11:17am PDTTags: ABC, ABC Studios, Dan McDermott
Nellie Andreeva

ABC has bought Zero Hour, a mystery drama from Prison Break creator Paul Scheuring. The project hails from ABC Studios and Lorenzo DiBonaventura and Dan McDermott’s company, which is based there. Zero Hour is described as an epic adventure about a skeptical everyman who gets swept up in one of history’s greatest conspiracies. His search leads him on a dangerous journey around the world collecting clues that will unlock not only a spectacular mystery surrounding the Twelve Apostles but also questions about his own identity. DiBonaventura and McDermott are having a busy first development season with a number of high-profile sales, all to ABC. Read More »

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‘Blind Side’ Writer-Helmer John Lee Hancock Teams With Lorenzo Di Bonaventura For ABC Crime Drama Project

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday September 13, 2011 @ 6:06pm PDTTags: ABC, Dan McDermott, John Lee Hancock, Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: John Lee Hancock is returning to television. The Blind Side writer-director has teamed with Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Dan McDermott’s recently launched TV company for an untitled crime drama project that has been sold to ABC. Hancock is … Read More »

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