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ABC Family Pilot ‘Terminales’ Picked Up To Series Titled ‘Chasing Life’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday April 24, 2013 @ 11:26am PDTTags: ABC Family, Big Deals TV, Chasing Life, Terminales
Nellie Andreeva

ABC Family Terminales Pilot Chasing LifeAfter lengthy deal-making process, ABC Family has given a series order to drama Chasing Life (formerly Terminales) for a launch in early 2014. Chasing Life, which I hear has received a 13-episode pickup, joins new ABC Family drama series The Fosters and Twisted, meaning all three ABC Family pilots from the most recent cycle went to series. (The network passed on its comedy pilots, Phys Ed and Continuing Fred.)

Chasing Life is an adaptation of the successful Televisa Spanish-language Mexican television series. The pilot was produced by Lionsgate in association with Televisa. As part of the series pickup, ABC Family and its in-house production arm BV Family Prods have come on board as co-producers. Kapital Entertainment’s Aaron Kaplan (The Neighbors), who has shepherded the project for the past two years, is executive producing alongside writers Susanna Fogel and Joni Lefkowitz, who joined last year and whose script was greenlighted to pilot. Chasing Life stars Italia Ricci as April, an ambitious young newspaper reporter who tries to balance her career aspirations with her family — her widowed mom Sara (Mary Page Keller), rebellious little sister Brenna (Haley Ramm), and her grandmother. Just as things start to look up at work, home and on the romance front with co-worker Dominic (Richard Brancatisano), April gets the devastating news from an estranged uncle that she has cancer. READ MORE »

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ABC Family Adds To Casts Of ‘Countinuing Fred’ And ‘Terminales’ Pilots

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 25, 2012 @ 1:10pm PDTTags: ABC Family, Continuing Fred, Terminales
Nellie Andreeva

Comedy veterans Mo Gaffney and Dan Castellaneta as well as Angelique Cabral are set to co-star opposite Mimi Gianopulos in ABC Family’s half-hour comedy pilot Continuing Fred, while I Hate My Teenage Daughter alum Aisha Dee has joined another ABC Family pilot, drama Terminales. Continuing Fred centers on twentysomething Winifred “Fred” Harris (Gianopulos), a newly graduated slacker with an overbearing family who surprisingly finds purpose when she begins to teach at a local elementary school. Read More »

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Italia Ricci Lands The Lead In ABC Family Pilot ‘Terminales’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 9, 2012 @ 2:59pm PDTTags: ABC Family, Terminales
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EXCLUSIVE: Italia Ricci has been cast as the lead of ABC Family‘s drama pilot Terminales. Based on a successful Mexican television format by Miguel Angel Fox, Terminales centers on April (Ricci), an aspiring young journalist who is … Read More »

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It’s Official: ABC Family Orders Three Pilots

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday September 17, 2012 @ 10:49am PDTTags: ABC Family, Big Deals TV, Continuing Fred, Phys Ed, Terminales
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Related: ABC Family To Order Drama Pilot ‘Terminales’, Two Comedy Pilots

ABC Family has made its pilot orders, greenlighting drama Terminales and comedies Phys Ed and Continuing Fred. The three pilots will go into production this fall along with the previously announced drama pilots The Fosters (working title), executive produced by Jennifer Lopez, and Socio. “These pilots will further our strength in both the drama and comedy areas,” said ABC Family EVP Kate Juergens, noting that the network is looking to extend its streak of launching a top-rated new series in the young demos every summer, something it has done in the past three years with Pretty Little Liars (2010), Switched at Birth (2011) and Baby Daddy (2012). Here are the new pilots’ official descriptions: Read More »

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ABC Family To Order Drama Pilot ‘Terminales’, Two Comedy Pilots

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday September 17, 2012 @ 8:06am PDTTags: ABC Family, Continuing Fred, Phys Ed, Terminales
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: I’ve learned that ABC Family is finalizing deals for three pilot orders — to drama Terminales and comedies Phys Ed and Continuing Fred. They will join the network’s recently picked up drama pilots: multi-ethnic family show The Fosters, executive produced by Jennifer Lopez, and Socio, about a teen psychopath.

Terminales is an adaptation of the Mexican drama series created and produced by Miguel Angel Fox. Described as “Sex And The City if Carrie Bradshaw was dying of cancer,” Terminales follows a young woman’s life after she is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Lionsgate TV and Kapital Entertainment are producing; Aaron Kaplan is executive producing; Paul Presburger is overseeing for Televisa, which owns the format. Read More »

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