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Josh Schwartz & Stephanie Savage’s Fake Empire Moves To ABC Studios With Big Deal

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday January 16, 2013 @ 1:03pm PSTTags: ABC Studios, Big Deals TV, Fake Empire, Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage
Nellie Andreeva

Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage are finalizing a deal to move their Fake Empire TV production company to ABC Studios with a three-year deal. Building a talent roster has been a priority for ABC Studios, which saw A-listers Greg Berlanti and Bill Lawrence go to Warner Bros TV over the past couple of years. I hear the studio went aggressively after Schwartz and Savage. Their Fake Empire was actually born at Warner Bros TV three years ago, when WBTV executive Len Goldstein came on board to run it. Schwartz had been at WBTV his entire professional life as a TV writer-producer — going back to his first series, The O.C. Fake Empire has two midseason series on the air — the CW’s The Carrie Diaries and Cult — as well as a slew of projects awaiting word on pilot pickups. The deal with ABC Studios, first reported by Variety, will begin after the end of the current pilot season when the company’s pact with WBTV expires. Fake Empire entered this season with four series on the air, all at the CW, where ABC Studios does not do business — Carrie Diaries, Cult, the departing Gossip Girl and sophomore Hart Of Dixie. ABC should be a good fit for the duo as most of their projects have been in the soap genre the network is known for on the drama side. In features, Fake Empire is based at Paramount Pictures.

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CW Buys Monster High School Drama From Fake Empire And Catherine Hardwicke

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday September 12, 2012 @ 3:45pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Catherine Hardwicke, CW, Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage
Nellie Andreeva

Stephanie Savage Josh Schwartz Copeland PrepJosh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, who are behind the CW‘s departing drama Gossip Girl, have set up another drama project at the network that take place in an elite school. The high-concept … Read More »

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Paramount Re-Ups Fake Empire’s Josh Schwartz And Stephanie Savage

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 6, 2012 @ 4:45pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Fake Empire, Josh Schwartz, Paramount Pictures, Stephanie Savage
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has re-upped Fake Empire partners Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage to a first look feature deal that keeps them at the studio through 2014. The duo has been at the studio since 2010…. Read More »

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Paramount Buys ‘The Diviners’ For Fake Empire

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday June 11, 2012 @ 6:17pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Josh Schwartz, Paramount Pictures, Stephanie Savage
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount has made a preemptive purchase of The Diviners, a young-adult novel by Libba Bray. Fake Empire’s Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage will be the producers. The book will be published in September by Little Brown, the first of … Read More »

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Paramount Acquires Novel ‘The Likeness’ For Stephanie Savage To Adapt

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 2, 2011 @ 2:38pm PDTTags: Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Tana French
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has acquired The Likeness, the Tana French novel that will be adapted by Stephanie Savage. She and Fake Empire partner Josh Schwartz will produce, and they acquired the book through the discretionary fund that’s part of their first … Read More »

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Fake Empire Comedy Among Latest Pilot Script Sales

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 30, 2011 @ 7:11am PDTTags: ABC, ABC Studios, Fake Empire, Fox, Josh Schwartz, NBC, Stephanie Savage, Warner Bros. TV
Nellie Andreeva

Known primarily for its hourlong series, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s Fake Empire has sold a half-hour comedy pitch to Fox. The single-camera comedy about three childhood friends who are all now fathers with teenage sons will be written by Barry Schwartz, who will co-executive produce. Fake Empire’s Schwartz, Savage and Len Goldstein will executive produce for Warner Bros TV. Fake Empire has three series on the air this season: NBC’s dramedy Chuck and the CW dramas Gossip Girl and Hart of Dixie. On the feature side, Barry Schwartz, repped by WME and the Gotham Group, sold Bromance to Montecito and DreamWorks and Parents Weekend to Kopelson Entertainment.

Writer-director Nancy Hower and her writing/producing partner, actor John Lehr, have sold a half-hour comedy pitch to NBC. Titled Retreat, the project is set at a corporate retreat. The sale was made based on a demo Hower and Lehr shot, which Hower directed and Lehr starred in. The demo, made in association with EUE/Sokolow, was probably helpful, as the duo uses a hybrid scripted/improv style where their scripts are incredibly detailed but don’t feature any dialogue. Read More »

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UPDATE: ‘The Carrie Diaries’ Now Officially At CW With ‘Gossip Girl’ Producers On Board

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday September 11, 2011 @ 9:40pm PDTTags: Amy Harris, Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage
Nellie Andreeva

PREVIOUS: CW Eyes ‘Sex & The City’ Prequel Series Shepherded By ‘Gossip Girl’ Producers

A month ago we reported that The Carrie Diaries, a TV series project based on Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell’s recent book about Carrie Bradshaw’s high school years, was headed to the CW. That has now become a reality after the project was pitched to the network on Friday and bought in the room. Under the deal, which is being finalized, Warner Bros. TV is producing with Gossip Girl executive producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s studio-based Fake Empire banner. Former Sex and the City writer/producer Amy Harris, who is writing for Gossip Girl this season, is penning the adaptation and executive producing with Bushnell, Schwartz, Savage and Len Goldstein. The Carrie Diaries is a young-adult novel that chronicles Carrie’s senior year of high school in a small New England town. Because of its young skew, it was never considered for HBO, which adapted Bushnell’s anthology book Sex and the City into the hugely popular comedy series created by Darren Star and starring Sarah Jessica Parker. Read More »

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NBC Developing ‘Lesbo’ Comedy About Gay And Straight Female Best Friends

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday September 7, 2011 @ 4:30pm PDTTags: Fake Empire, Josh Schwartz, Len Goldstein, NBC, Stephanie Savage, Warner Bros. TV
Nellie Andreeva

This is a title that will get attention: NBC has bought comedy pitch My Best Friend Is A Lesbo. The project, from Warner Bros TV and Josh Schwartz and Stephanie … Read More »

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CW Eyes ‘Sex & The City’ Prequel Series Shepherded By ‘Gossip Girl’ Producers

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday August 16, 2011 @ 6:35pm PDTTags: Amy Harris, Candace Bushnell, CW, Fake Empire, Josh Schwartz, Sex and the City, Stephanie Savage, Warner Bros. TV
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: With their sharp fashion sense and busy social life in Manhattan, the young ladies from the CW’s Gossip Girl often evoke Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw. Now a teen version of Bradshaw herself may be joining the CW’s lineup. I hear that the CW has emerged as the leading candidate for The Carrie Diaries, a TV series project based on Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell’s recent book about Bradshaw’s high school years. There are no deals in place, and talks are in preliminary stages, but I hear that Warner Bros TV would produce and Gossip Girl executive producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage are being courted to shepherd the project through their Warner Bros TV-based Fake Empire banner. Former Sex and the City writer/producer Amy Harris, who is writing for Gossip Girl this season, will likely pen the adaptation.

Because it previously adapted Bushnell’s Sex and the City into a hugely popular series, HBO has the rights to The Carrie Diaries, a young-adult novel that chronicles Carrie’s senior year of high school in a small New England town. But since the book is much younger skewing than HBO’s audience, the pay cable network had been seeking another outlet for the potential series. “Discussions are underway for The Carrie Diaries, Candace Bushnell’s book about Carrie Bradshaw’s high school years, to find a home as a potential television series,” HBO said in a statement. Read More »

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Paramount And Fake Empire Buy ‘Let It Snow’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday May 31, 2011 @ 12:11pm PDTTags: Brad Weston, Gil Netter, Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures-based Fake Empire has acquired Let It Snow, a pitch package that includes rights to an anthology of three intersecting short stories by young-adult novelists John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle. The script will be written by … Read More »

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Paramount Crafts ‘Forgotten’ For Its ‘True Grit’ Discovery Hailee Steinfeld

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday February 18, 2011 @ 8:25am PSTTags: Ethan Coen, Fake Empire, Hailee Steinfeld, ICM, Joel Coen, Josh Schwartz, Movie Deals, Movies, Paramount Pictures, Stephanie Savage
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: When you come out of nowhere and turn in an Oscar nominated breakout performance like Hailee Steinfeld did as Mattie Ross in the Joel and Ethan Coen-directed True Grit, it’s natural for the studio involved to do its best … Read More »

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Rachel Bilson To Star In CW’s ‘Hart Of Dixie’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 8, 2011 @ 3:15pm PSTTags: CW Pilots, Hart of Dixie Casting, Hart of Dixie Pilot, Josh Schwartz, Rachel Bilson, Stephanie Savage, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

The O.C. alumna Rachel Bilson will reunite with the show’s creator-executive producer Josh Schwartz this pilot season after all. Bilson is close to a deal to star in the CW hourlong pilot Hart of Dixie, from WBTV and Schwartz and … Read More »

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Michelle Trachtenberg To Develop & Star In CW Drama Produced by Josh Schwartz

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 21, 2010 @ 10:37am PDTTags: Fake Empire, Josh Schwartz, Michelle Trachtenberg, Stephanie Savage, Stuart Zicherman, TV, TV Deals, Warner Bros. TV
Nellie Andreeva

CW has handed out a script order to an untitled drama project starring Gossip Girl‘s Michelle Trachtenberg, which marks the actress’ producing debut. It hails from the creators of CW’s Gossip Girl, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, whose Fake Empire … Read More »

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NBC Snags ‘Ghost’ Romantic Comedy From Josh Schwartz Starring Rachel Bilson

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday September 28, 2010 @ 7:11am PDTTags: Josh Schwartz, Josh Schwartz Ghost Angeles, NBC, Rachel Bilson, Stephanie Savage, TV, TV Development, Warner Bros. TV
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: It’s an O.C. reunion at NBC! The O.C. creator/executive producer Josh Schwartz has a hot new hourlong project in the works, which will star O.C. alumna Rachel Bilson. After a heated bidding, the show, a supernatural romantic comedy titled Ghost Angeles, … Read More »

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Paramount Wins ‘Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 10, 2010 @ 3:28pm PDTTags: Josh Schwartz, Paramount Pictures, Stephanie Savage, Young Adult
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In what turned out to be the second spirited book rights auction in the last few days, Paramount Pictures has acquired screen rights to Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick, a Joe Schreiber novel that sold last Friday to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as a young adult title in a two-book … Read More »

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