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Jennifer Beals To Star In ABC Pilot ‘Venice’ Helmed By McG, Ilene Chaiken To Showrun

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 12, 2013 @ 6:43pm PSTTags: ABC, Big Deals TV, Ilene Chaiken, Venice
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: It is an L Word reunion on ABC‘s Romeo & Juliet-esque drama pilot Venice. The Showtime series’ star Jennifer Beals has signed on for a lead, while creator/executive producer Ilene Chaiken has come on board as executive producer/showrunner. Written by Byron Balasco, Venice, from Warner Bros TV and McG’s Wonderland Sound And Vision, is a soap about the haves and the have-nots of California’s most seductive city, Venice. It focuses on two rival families and a forbidden and dangerous romance emerging between them as the families battle for control of Venice. Beals, repped by APA and Greenlight Management, will play Lisa Carver, the elegant bohemian matriarch of the Carver family, one of the two feuding clans. McG is directing the pilot, which he, WME-repped Chaiken and Belasco executive produce with Peter Johnson.

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UPDATE: CBS Greenlights 3 Drama Pilots

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday January 26, 2012 @ 5:45pm PSTTags: CBS, Ilene Chaiken, James Mangold, Joel Silver
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: CBS picked up 3 more drama pilots tonight, the period Ralph Lamb project, which has James Mangold directing, PI show Applebaum directed by Christopher Columbus, and the Ilene Chaiken/Joel … Read More »

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NBC Buys 2 Dick Wolf Drama Projects

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 23, 2011 @ 5:26pm PDTTags: Darren Swimmer, Dick Wolf, Ilene Chaiken, NBC, Todd Slavkin, Universal TV, Wolf Films
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Dick Wolf’s Universal TV-based production company is having an active development season under new scripted development executive Danielle Gelber. Last month, NBC bought a firefighter drama from feature writers Michael Brandt and Derek Haas. Now I’ve learned that Wolf Films has set up two more hourlong projects at NBC — one from The L Word creator Ilene Chaiken and one from former Smallville executive producers Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer — that put a twist on two classic franchises, medical and cop dramas. In addition to the writers, each show is executive produced by Wolf, Wolf Films president Peter Jankowski and Gelber. The untitled Chaiken project centers on a lesbian couple who are doctors at an inner-city Philadelphia hospital. The Slavkin/Swimmer project is a high-tech character-driven procedural about investigators who go into the memory banks of murder victims in order to solve the crimes. Read More »

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Procedural Drama From Ilene Chaiken & Joel Silver Gets Put Pilot Commitment At CBS

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 15, 2011 @ 5:10pm PDTTags: CBS, Ilene Chaiken, Joel Silver
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: The L Word creator Ilene Chaiken has teamed with director-producer Joel Silver for a character-driven procedural which, in a competitive situation, landed at CBS with a put pilot commitment. … Read More »

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