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Summer TV: Under The Hood Of CBS’ ‘Under The Dome’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 30, 2013 @ 2:26pm PDTTags: Brian K. Vaughan, CBS, Neal Baer, Under the Dome

Diane Haithman is a Deadline contributor.

This morning members of the press got a first look at the first episode of CBS’ Under The Dome at CBS Studios in Studio City. The heavily promoted 13-episode summer series from Steven Spielberg and Stephen King premieres June 24 at 10 PM. But there also is an interesting story beneath Under: The series, from Lost veteran Brian K. Vaughan (who developed Under The Dome with co-creator Stephen King, whose dystopian novel inspired the show) and executive producer Neal Baer, took a long journey from concept-in-development at Showtime to CBS.

A little history: A few years ago, Vaughan had a meeting at DreamWorks, which had the rights to King’s novel. “They said they were thinking about taking it to Showtime to do an ongoing series,” Vaughan says. “It was in development for a really long time at Showtime and they were terrific. But I think when it came time to pull the trigger, they thought it was not a perfect fit for the direction that Showtime is headed. But [Showtime president] David Nevins thought: ‘This is a terrific script. I’m going to call [CBS entertainment president] Nina Tassler and see if it’s a better fit for CBS.’ ”

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CBS Buys Medical Drama From Neal Baer, James Mangold, Cathy Konrad, ‘Reaper’ Duo

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 27, 2012 @ 2:48pm PDTTags: Neal Baer
Nellie Andreeva

Neal BaerEXCLUSIVE: Law & Order: SVU and ER veteran Neal Baer has teamed with feature producers James Mangold and Cathy Konrad and Reaper creators Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters for a medical drama, which has been set up at CBS. The project is based on the book Your Medical Mind by renowned physicians Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband.

Inspired by their lives, the show focuses on a husband and wife – one a surgeon, one an internist – who end up working together in the same hospital. Their unique approaches to medicine — and different ways of dealing with tough ethical issues — will lead them to examine the state of their own marriage. “It’s about how they navigate their marriage now that they’re working together for the first time,” Baer said. “I’d love to see the medical world though the prism of marriage.” The project is produced by CBS TV Studios, where Baer and Fazekas & Butters are under overall deals and Mangold and Konrad serve as executive producers on the studio’s new CBS drama Vegas. Mangold and Konrad’s Treeline Film and Baer’s Baer Bones co-produce. Read More »

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Neal Baer Hires Jessica Shulman To Run His CBS TV Studios-Based Production Company

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday April 16, 2012 @ 1:41pm PDTTags: Neal Baer
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Jessica Shulman Baer BonesJessica Shulman has been tapped to run Neal Baer’s newly launched production company Baer Bones Inc. Former Law & Order: SVU showrunner Baer is finishing the first year of a three-year overall deal at CBS TV … Read More »

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TCA: ‘Gifted Man’ Showrunner Addresses Post-Pilot Tweaks

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday August 3, 2011 @ 5:02pm PDTTags: A GIfted Man, CBS, Jennifer Ehle, Neal Baer, Patrick Wilson, Sarah Timberman, TCA Press Tour, Television Critics Association

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of TCA.

There have been some changes on CBS’ A Gifted Man, starring Patrick Wilson as an ultra-competitive surgeon whose dead ex-wife (Jennifer Ehle) begins appearing to him, since the pilot for the supernatural medical drama written by Susannah Grant and directed by Jonathan Demme was shot. ER and Law & Order: SVU veteran Neal Baer was brought in as showrunner; actress Rachelle Lefevre was cast as a new regular, as a doctor, in as part of the effort to beef up the medical procedural element of the show; Pablo Schreiber was upped from guest star to regular; and Julie Benz, who plays Wilson’s sister, renegotiated her deal to change her status from regular to recurring. Despite all the changes, “we didn’t retool,” Baer, who is a licensed pediatrician, said at the show’s TCA panel this afternoon. “It’s the same show, the same characters. The pilot sets up the relationship between (Wilson’s and Ehle’s characters), and the next episode is a week later. … So there’s no retooling at all. There’s medicine in the pilot and there’s medicine in the next episode.” Read More »

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CBS Picks Up Susannah Grant Medical Drama To Series, Neal Baer To Run It

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday May 16, 2011 @ 1:31pm PDTTags: A GIfted Man, CBS, CBS TV Studios, Neal Baer, Susannah Grant
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATE 1:40 PM: Outgoing Law & Order: SVU executive producer/showrunner Neal Baer has been tapped as executive producer/ showrunner of A Gifted Man. This marks his first gig under his new overall deal at CBS TV Studios, … Read More »

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Warren Leight To Run ‘Law & Order: SVU’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday April 11, 2011 @ 11:00am PDTTags: Law & Order: SVU, Neal Baer, Neal Baer CBS Deal, Showrunners, TV, TV Deals, Warren Leight
Nellie Andreeva

Warren Leight is returning to the Law & Order franchise as executive producer and showrunner of NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Leight is finalizing a deal to succeed Neal Baer, who, after 11 year at the helm of SVU, is leaving the crime drama at the end of the season to segue into a rich three-year overall deal with CBS TV Studios. With an experienced showrunner like Leight in place, NBC and Dick Wolf have solved one of the two issues SVU faces in its quest for a 13th season. The other is re-signing stars Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni, whose deals are up at the end of the season. The two have just started talks with the network, with the pace of the negotiations expected to pick up during the next couple of weeks. Read More »

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‘SVU’ Showrunner Neal Baer Sells 3 Books, Eyes Movie Deal

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 11, 2011 @ 3:27pm PSTTags: Book Publishing, Books, Neal Baer, Neal Baer CBS Deal
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Law & Order executive producer/showrunner Neal Baer is making his novel writing debut with a series of 3 books. The novels, which Baer is writing with SVU co-executive producer Jonathan Greene, have been sold to Kensington. The medical … Read More »

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‘Law & Order: SVU’ Showrunner Neal Baer Signs Big Overall Deal With CBS TV Studios

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday November 23, 2010 @ 5:30pm PSTTags: CBS Television Studios, Neal Baer, Neal Baer CBS Deal, Nina Tassler, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

After 16 years at NBC – 5 on ER and 11 on Law & Order: SVU – Neal Baer is heading to CBS. In a competitive situation, Baer has signed a three-year overall deal with CBS Television Studios. The pact, said to be in the high-seven figures, includes development as well as showrunner services. It starts on June 2, a day after Baer’s contract on SVU expires. Baer has been the executive producer/showrunner on SVU since the series’ second season. With him departing and the deals of stars Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni up at the end of this season, the future of the veteran NBC crime drama is in limbo. Read More »

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