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CBS Buys High-Concept Drama From Writer Michael Seitzman

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 21, 2012 @ 1:01pm PDTTags: CBS, Michael Seitzman
Nellie Andreeva

North Country writer Michael Seitzman has sold a second drama this season. Intelligence, which has been bought by CBS, is based on unpublished book Dissident by John Dixon and centers on a man gifted and cursed with a top-secret experimental microchip implanted in his brain that makes him computer-like in the way he sees and processes information. ABC Studios, where Seitzman is under an overall deal, is producing, with Seitzman and feature producer Tripp Vinson (Red Dawn) executive producing. READ MORE »

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‘Cleopatra’ Drama From Producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura And Writer Michael Seitzman Lands At NBC With Put Pilot Commitment

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday August 10, 2012 @ 6:19pm PDTTags: Cleopatra, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Michael Seitzman
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation with two networks bidding, NBC has landed Cleopatra, a period drama about the famous Egyptian queen produced by Di Bonaventura Pictures TV and ABC Studios. The project will be written by Michael … Read More »

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ABC Buys Action Adventure Drama From Michael Seitzman and Mark Gordon

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday September 6, 2011 @ 7:48pm PDTTags: Mark Gordon, Michael Seitzman
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: ABC has bought one of its most ambitious projects so far this development season — a globetrotting adventure from North Country writer Michael Seitzman and producer Mark Gordon. Based … Read More »

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Writer Michael Seitzman Signs New Deal With ABC Studios

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 12:29pm PDTTags: ABC Studios, Michael Seitzman, overall deal
Nellie Andreeva

Drama writer Michael Seitzman is staying at ABC Studios with a new two-year overall deal. Under the seven-figure pact, he will continue to develop for the studio. Two shows he developed at ABC Studios during the 2008-09 season, Empire State … Read More »

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Networks Go For Dramas Based On Source Material; 3 More Adaptations Enter The Fray

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 10, 2010 @ 6:25pm PDTTags: Identity, Locke & Key, Michael Seitzman, Sony TV, Stephen King The Dark Tower, The Dark Tower, Treadstone, Treadstone Anthony Zuiker, Zoe Lister-Jones
Nellie Andreeva

With drama sale season in full force, book and format adaptations have emerged as a red-hot commodity. ABC is working on a U.S. version of hit British series Spooks with writer Michael Seitzman, NBC is developing an adaptation … Read More »

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ABC To Adapt British Spy Drama ‘MI-5′

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday August 12, 2010 @ 11:40am PDTTags: Michael Seitzman
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: An adaptation of the hit British series Spooks aka MI-5 is headed to American television via ABC. ABC Studios has closed a deal for the rights to Spooks, known in the U.S. as MI-5, with Kudos Rights LTD, … Read More »

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