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Dramas From Kyle Killen, Sofia Vergara & Ben Silverman Get ABC Pilot Pickups

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 25, 2013 @ 7:05pm PSTTags: Ben Silverman, Kyle Killen, Sofia Vergara
Nellie Andreeva

Lone Star and Awake creator Kyle Killen has received a pilot order by ABC for his latest drama project, Influence. The network also has given the green light to Killer Women, a soupy procedural written by Hannah Shakespeare and produced by Modern Family star Sofia Vergara, Ben Silverman and director Martin Campbell.

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Influence, from 20th Century Fox TV where Killen is under a deal, is described as a provocative workplace ensemble centered on the complicated relationship between two brothers — a bipolar genius in human psychology and a slick ex-con — who head a unique agency designed to solve their clients’ problems using the real science of human motivation and manipulation. In addition to helping their clients, the agency’s staff sometime turn their powers to pull strings on one another. Killen is the writer/executive producer. Influence, which had a put pilot commitment, marks a departure from Killen’s previous two series projects, Fox’s Lone Star and NBC’s Awake, which both had very complex, non-linear narratives as they centered on protagonists living dual lives. Still, Killen kept a duality element in his new show too, making one of the main characters bipolar.

Killer Women, from ABC Studios, is based on the Argentine series Mujeres Asesinas. It centers on Molly Parker, the only woman in the notoriously male Texas Rangers — a ballsy, beautiful badass who knows how to get to the truth and isn’t afraid to ruffle a few feathers on her way there. Shakespeare (The Playboy Club) wrote the script and is executive producing with Vergara, Silverman, Campbell and Luis Balaguer, Vergara’s producing partner at Latin World Entertainment. Jimmy Fox of Silverman’s Electus co-exec produces. The setup — Ben Silverman teaming with a well-known actress of Latin American origin for an hourlong ABC project with a female lead based on a Latin American format echoes Silverman’s successful ABC dramedy Ugly Betty, which he produced by Salma Hayek. In addition to Killer Women, Electus also has an NBC comedy presentation starring Jessica Simpson.

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Comics Scribe Ed Brubaker Sells Pair Of Projects To Broadcast Nets

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday October 10, 2012 @ 3:25pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Kyle Killen

Ed Brubaker is suddenly very busy. The graphic novel writer and the scribe who has written for several superhero comics including Captain America, Batman and X-Men, has sold a pair of projects to broadcast networks that he will write … Read More »

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Kyle Killen Drama Lands At ABC As Put Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday September 4, 2012 @ 5:55pm PDTTags: ABC, Big Deals TV, Kyle Killen
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Influence, a drama project from Lone Star and Awake creator Kyle Killen, has received a put pilot commitment by ABC in a competitive situation involving multiple networks. The project, from 20th Century Fox TV where Killen is under a deal, is described as a provocative workplace ensemble centered on the complicated relationship between two brothers — a bipolar genius in human psychology and a slick ex-con — who head a unique agency designed to solve their clients’ problems using the real science of human motivation and manipulation. Read More »

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Josh Duhamel and Dan Fogler To Star in ‘Scenic Route’

By BRIAN BROOKS | Tuesday February 21, 2012 @ 1:11pm PSTTags: Dan Fogler, Josh Duhamel, Kyle Killen

EXCLUSIVE: Josh Duhamel and Dan Fogler will star in Scenic Route, directed by Kevin and Michael Goetz. … Read More »

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NBC’s Midseason Drama ‘Awake’ Stops Production To Work On Scripts

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 26, 2011 @ 12:30pm PDTTags: Awake, Howard Gordon, Kyle Killen, NBC
Nellie Andreeva

Five episodes into its 12-episode midseason order, NBC’s drama series Awake is temporarily shutting down production to allow writers to catch up on scripts. The unplanned hiatus, which is expected to last a couple of weeks, is being done upon … Read More »

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Pilot Rarity: Laura Allen Promoted To Female Lead On NBC’s ‘REM’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday March 21, 2011 @ 7:30pm PDTTags: Howard Gordon, Kyle Killen, Laura Allen, NBC, Pilot, REM
Nellie Andreeva

A week ago, Terriers co-star Laura Allen got good news when she was cast in a supporting role on NBC’s drama pilot REM. Today, which happens to be her birthday, she got even better news – in a pilot rarity, … Read More »

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Five Actors Cast In Kyle Killen’s ‘REM’ Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday March 14, 2011 @ 3:04pm PDTTags: BD Wong, Kyle Killen, Laura Allen, NBC, REM, Wilmer Valderrama
Nellie Andreeva

That ’70s Show alum Wilmer Valderrama, The Practice veteran Steve Harris and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit co-star BD Wong have been cast opposite Jason Isaacs in NBC’s drama pilot REM, from Lone Star creator Kyle Killen and 20th … Read More »

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Jason Isaacs To Star In NBC Pilot ‘REM’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday February 20, 2011 @ 3:42pm PSTTags: Howard Gordon, Jason Isaacs, Kyle Killen, NBC REM, REM, REM Pilot, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: One of the hottest actors this pilot season, Jason Isaacs, is off the market. After fielding more than half-dozen offers, Isaacs has settled on the lead role in NBC’s drama pilot REM, from Lone Star creator Kyle Killen and … Read More »

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Several Pilots Get Showrunners

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 15, 2011 @ 7:13am PSTTags: ABC Poe, Cooper & Stone, Cooper & Stone Pilot, John Wirth Cooper & Stone, Jonathan Groff, Kyle Killen, My Frickin' Family, My Frickin' Family Pilot, REM Pilot, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

Human Target executive producer Brad Kern has been tapped as executive producer/showrunner on ABC’s drama pilot Poe. The crime procedural, from writer-exec producer Chris Hollier, Warner Bros. TV and Dan Lin’s Lin Pictures, follows Edgar Allan Poe, the world’s … Read More »

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NBC Picks Up 4 More Pilots: Drama From ‘Lone Star’ Creator, 3 Comedies

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday February 3, 2011 @ 5:19pm PSTTags: Dan Goor Pilot Project, Free Agents, John Enbom, Kyle Killen, LoveLives, NBC, NBC Pilots, NBC REM, REM Pilot, TV, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: NBC has picked up to pilot REM, the spec by Lone Star creator Kyle Killen which was taken out by 20th TV a couple of weeks ago. Additionally, the network has given the green light to 3 more … Read More »

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‘Lone Star’ Creator Rallies Support: ‘We’re Going To Have To Pull Off A Minor Miracle’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 23, 2010 @ 4:28pm PDTTags: Fox Lone Star, Kyle Killen, Lone Star, Lone Star Low Ratings, Lone Star premiere, TV, TV Premiere Week
Nellie Andreeva

Ahead of next week’s second airing of new Fox drama series Lone Star, which got a temporary reprieve after its disastrous premiere ratings on Monday, the show’s young creator Kyle Killen this morning wrote this emotional plea for support on his blog.

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TCA: Fox ‘Lone Star’ Deep In Heart Of Texas

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday August 2, 2010 @ 10:50am PDTTags: ABC My Generation, Fox, Fox Lone Star, James Wolk, Kyle Killen, Lone Star, NBC Chase, TCA, The Good Guys

What’s up with TV and Texas this season? This fall’s crop of new TV series includes NBC’s Chase shooting in Dallas, and ABC’s My Generation, shooting in Austin. At today’s TCA, Fox presented the new drama Lone Star — which, with that title, couldn’t really be set anywhere else. The show’s lead character (played by relative newcomer James Wolk) has two wives and two lives in two different locations, Houston and Midland. It will actually be shot in Dallas, the setting for another Fox series introduced earlier this year, The Good Guys. (Executive producer Peter Horton, who plans to direct some episodes, he joked of his involvement: “I thought it was going to be shot in San Francisco.”)

Lone Star creator/executive producer (and native Texan) Kyle Killen explained that when he pitched the series, ”I sold it as Dallas without the cheese.

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