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MTV Greenlights ‘Dumb Girls’ Comedy Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday July 29, 2011 @ 5:27pm PDTTags: Dumb Girls, Lauren Iungerich, MTV Pilot
Nellie Andreeva

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MTV is doubling its bet on Lauren Iungerich, creator/executive producer of the network’s new comedy series Awkward, which debuted 10 days ago to solid ratings. MTV has handed a pilot order to another comedy from Iungerich, Dumb Girls. The ensemble project, which will be produced in-house, revolves around a group of twentysomethings who are smart in life but dumb in love. Iungerich is executive producing with her manager at Madhouse Entertainment Robyn Meisinger and former CW head of comedy Kim Fleary who originally developed the project at the broadcast network.

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MTV Picks Up Comedy Pilot About Under- Employed College Grads From Craig Wright

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 23, 2011 @ 11:55am PSTTags: Craig Wright, Diego Boneta, MTV, MTV Pilot, TV, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: MTV is prepping its next pilot – a single-camera comedy about 5 twentysomethings in Chicago from Dirty Sexy Money creator Craig Wright.

Jared Kusnitz, Michelle Ang, Sarah Habel, Inbar Lavi and Diego Boneta have been cast as  the leads in … Read More »

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MTV Greenlights ‘Pants’ Drama Pilot From Universal Cable Prods. & Doug Liman

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday August 5, 2010 @ 5:00pm PDTTags: Cable TV, Dave Bartis, David Rosen, Doug Liman, I Just Want My Pants Back, MTV, MTV Pilot, Universal Cable Productions
Nellie Andreeva

MTV has greenlighted for production I Just Want My Pants Back, a drama pilot based on the book by David Rosen, which will be directed by Doug Liman. The project, from Liman and Dave Bartis’ Hypnotic and Universal Cable Prods., marks the first pilot order from an outside network for UCP, which has been ramping up development for unaffiliated cable networks in the past 6 months under SVP Maira Suro. It also falls under a two-year overall deal that Hypnotic has signed with UPC. Read More »

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