Videoage International March/April 2021

18 March/April 2021 V I D E O A G E New U.S. TV Season Pilots company in Detroit, where a floundering group of executives tries to rediscover the company identity amidst a rapidly changing industry. Crazy For You (2020 holdover) Prod Co: Universal Television, Broadway Video, Sethmaker Shoemeyers Productions Writer/Co-Exec Prod: Rachele Lynn Exec Prods: Lorne Michaels, Seth Meyers, Mike Shoemaker, Andrew Singer, Hilary Marx, Jason Carden Premise: When Daisy’s life stalls, she decides to re-enter the dating scene only to discover that while she was out of the game, the game completely changed. Grand Crew (ordered to series) Prod Co: Universal Television Writer: Phil Jackson Exec Prod: Dan Goor Premise: An ensemble comedy about a group of black friends, dating, and wine. Jefferies (2020 holdover) Prod Co: Universal Television, Hazy Mills, Brillstein Entertainment Partners Writers/Exec Prods: Jim Jefferies, Suzanne Martin Exec Prods: Sean Hayes, Todd Milliner, Tim Sarkes, Alex Murray Premise: Jim Jefferies stars as a fictionalized version of himself — a comedian with a unique and often controversial take on modern life, relationships, and co-parenting with his best friend. Kate & Allie Prod Co: Fierce Baby Productions, Propagate, Universal Television Writer: Erica Oyama Exec Prods: Nahnatchka Khan, Ben Silverman, Rodney Ferrell, Jen Carreras, Peter Principato, Brian Dobbins, Howard T. Owens, Gregory Lipstone Premise: An updated take on the 1980s series about two best friends raising their children together in one household. The two prove romance isn’t necessary to be successful women and mothers. Someone Out There (2020 holdover) Prod Co: Universal Television Writers/Exec Prods: Matt Hubbard, Josh Siegal, Dylan Morgan Exec Prods: Emiliano Calemzuk, Gonzalo Sagardia, Javier Veiga Premise: A romantic comedy about two set- in-their-ways adults who are challenged by very unexpected strangers to become the best versions of themselves in order to find love and possibly each other. Based on the format Pequeñas Coincidencias , created by Javier Veiga. NBC (Drama) At That Age (2020 holdover) Prod Co: Universal Television, Blackmaled Productions Writer/Exec Prod: Carla Banks-Waddles navigating the highs, lows and sexiness of unsupervised early adulthood at a prestigious Historically Black College. Naomi Prod Co: Array Filmworks, Warner Bros. Television Writers/Exec Prods: Ava DuVernay, Jill Blankenship Exec Prods: Sarah Bremner, Paul Garnes Premise: Follows a teen girl’s journey from her small northwestern town to the heights of the multiverse. When a supernatural event shakes her hometown to the core, Naomi sets out to uncover its origins. Based on the characters from DC. Painkiller (backdoor pilot order) Prod Co: Warner Bros. Television Exec Prod/Writer/Director: Salim Akil Premise: Khalil Payne is a young man ridden with the guilt of his troubled past from a former life, where he was a super-enhanced killing machine known as Painkiller. Khalil has distanced himself from everyone he knows and loves by moving to a new city. As his violent, destructive history crashes into his idyllic new beginning, Khalil is thrust back into action with a new mission. The Powerpuff Girls Prod Co: Berlanti Productions, Vita Vera Films, Warner Bros. Television Writers/Exec Prods: Heather Regnier, Diablo Cody Exec Prods: Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, David Madden Premise: The Powerpuff Girls used to be America’s pint-sized superheroes. Now they’re disillusioned twenty-somethings who resent having lost their childhoods to crime fighting. Based on the original CartoonNetwork animated series. Tom Swift Prod Co: CBS Studios, Fake Empire Writers: Melinda Hsu Taylor, Noga Landau, Cameron Johnson Exec Prods: Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage Premise: The planted Nancy Drew spinoff follows the serialized adventures of the billionaire inventor who is thrust into a world of sci-fi conspiracy and unexplained phenomena after the shocking disappearance of his father. Untitled Urman/Rothrock/Weir Prod Co: CBS Studios, Sutton St. Productions Writers/Exec Prods: Claire Rothrock, Ryann Weir Exec Prods: Jennie Snyder Urman, Joanna Klein Premise: A dramedy about two millennial nuns — a devout true believer, and a new arrival who has yet to take her final vows — who start as strangers and become sisters on a funny, spiritual journey to understand their own faith and place in the Catholic church. (List compiled by Mike Reynold as of March 26) Exec Prods: MalcolmD. Lee, Debra Martin Chase Premise: An exploration of an African-American family’s legacy. After the Cooper family’s golden child suffers a catastrophic event, seven family members face a foundational shift, make life- altering decisions, and deal with deep secrets. Echo (2020 holdover) Prod Co: Universal Television, Davis Entertain- ment Writer/Exec Prod: JJ Bailey Exec Prods: John Davis, John Fox Premise: A high-concept, genre procedural revolving around a team of investigators who solve the highest-profile crimes by sending our heroes into the past... in the body of the victim. La Brea (ordered to series) Prod Co: Keshet Studios, Universal Television Writer/Exec Prod: David Appelbaum Exec Prods: Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman, Peter Traugott, Rachel Kaplan, Ken Woodruff Premise: When a massive sinkhole mysteriously opens in Los Angeles, it tears a family in half, separating mother and son from father and daughter. Half of the family find themselves in an unexplainable primeval world alongside a disparate group of strangers. Ordinary Joe (2020 holdover) Prod Co: 20th Television, 6th & Idaho, 3 Arts Writers/Exec Prods: Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner Director/Exec Prod: Adam Davidson Exec Prods: Matt Reeves, Adam Kassan, Rafi Crohn, Howard Klein Premise: The drama explores the three parallel lives of its main character after he makes a pivotal choice at a crossroads in his life. Based on a British concept Matt Reeves originally developed for ABC in 2006. The CW (Drama) The 4400 (straight to series) Prod Co: CBS Studios Writer/Exec Prod: Ariana Jackson Exec Prods: Anna Fricke, Laura Terry Premise: 4,400 undervalued or otherwise mar- ginalized people who vanished without a trace over the last hundred years are all returned in an instant, having not aged a day. As the government races to analyze the potential threat, the 4400 must grapple with the fact that they’ve been returned with a few… upgrades. Based on the 2004-07 USA Network series. All American: Homecoming (backdoor pilot order) Prod Co: Berlanti Productions, Warner Bros. Television Writer/Exec Prod: Nkechi Okoro Carroll Exec Prods: Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, David Madden, Robbie Rogers Premise: From the executive producers of All American , the show follows a young tennis hopeful from Beverly Hills and an elite baseball player from Chicago as they contend with the high stakes of college sports, while also (Continued from Page 16)