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UPDATE: ABC Greenlights Adaptation of British Drama ‘The Syndicate’ From David Zabel, Jason Richman & Amblin TV

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday January 31, 2013 @ 12:30pm PSTTags: David Zabel, Jason Richman, Lucky 7
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: ABC has given green light to Lucky 7, a drama pilot based on Kay Mellor’s BBC series The Syndicate, which premiered last year and has been renewed for a second season. This is ABC’s 12th and last drama pilot pickup this season.

David Zabel and Jason Richman wrote the U.S. version, which is produced by ABC Studios and Amblin TV. Lucky 7 is about seven employees of a service station in Queens whose lives are changed in many unexpected ways when they win a lottery jackpot. The original series revolves around five supermarket workers who enter into a syndicate and win the lottery. (Watch a trailer below) Each episode of the series centers around a different character, and each season will follow a different group in similar circumstance. Zabel, Richman and Amblin TV’s Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey executive produce Lucky 7 alongside Mellor through her company Rollem. READ MORE »

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TV Script Sales: CBS Buys 2 Comedies, ABC Goes For Witch Drama

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 29, 2011 @ 6:54pm PDTTags: ABC, ABC Studios, CBS, CBS Studios, Jason Richman
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In an interesting twist, sitcom veteran Chris Case, who was in contention to write the new Charlie Sheen sitcom Anger Management, has sold a sitcom project to CBS, the network where Sheen was a star on Two and a Half Men for 8 seasons. Case, creator of TV Land’s comedy series Retired at 35, is co-writing the untitled comedy — about a recently separated father of two who attempts to move on with his life — with Joey Gutierrez (Still Standing). CBS TV Studios is producing with Mindy Shultheis and Michael Hanel’s Acme Prods.

This is a project a lot of my colleagues can unfortunately relate to: CBS has bought multi-camera comedy script Malled, written by Bill Kunstler (Accidentally On Purpose). It centers on a career journalist who, after getting laid off from her job at a newspaper, takes a retail job in a clothing store at a mall. CBS Studios and studio-based Tennenbaum Co are producing, with Kunstler, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum exec producing. Read More »

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‘Detroit 1-8-7′ Duo Re-Teams For New ABC Drama Project

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 15, 2011 @ 3:00am PDTTags: ABC, ABC Studios, David Zabel, Detroit 1-8-7, Jason Richman
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EXCLUSIVE: After working together last season on the ABC/ABC Studios cop drama Detroit 1-8-7, series creator/executive producer Jason Richman and executive producer/showrunner David Zabel have teamed … Read More »

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TCA: No Title Change For ‘Detroit 1-8-7′

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday August 1, 2010 @ 10:48am PDTTags: ABC Detroit 1-8-7, David Zabel, Detroit, Detroit 1-8-7, Jason Richman, TCA

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage:

As a Detroit native, I can confirm that Detroit is an economically troubled, crime-ridden, racially polarized city that for decades hasn’t seemed able to catch a break.  And at today’s TCA, it became clear that the fact ABC has set and is shooting its new crime series Detroit 1-8-7 in the Motor City, while a boon to the local economy, is already causing controversy there. Discussed today were the clashes Read More »

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