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[04/15/14 - 11:25 PM]
Development Update: Tuesday, April 15
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC) |
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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:
Looking to keep track of all the various projects in development? Click here to visit our signature "Devwatch" section. There visitors can view our listings by network, genre, studio and even development stage (ordered to pilot, cast-contingent, script, etc.). It's updated every day!
IMPASTOR (TV Land, New!) - Christopher Vane ("Brickleberry") has scored a cast-contingent pilot order from the network for a new single-camera comedy about "a low-life on the run from his debts who hides away in a small town by conning them into thinking he's their newly hired gay pastor." Eric and Kim Tannenbaum are also on board to executive produce via their CBS Television Studios-based Tannenbaum Co. (Deadline.com)
AND IN OTHER NEWS... - CBS has quietly canceled the taping of its comedy pilot "The Mistake" (AudiencesUnlimited.com); Jake Busey has been cast as Samuel Wallace, who recites the legendary admonition "Remember the Alamo," in History's mini-series "Texas Rising" (Deadline.com); Michael Fresco, fresh off helming ABC's "Manhattan Love Story," has inked a third consecutive deal with the network and ABC Studios to direct and executive produce a pilot next year (Deadline.com); and Brad Paisley will visit his real life wife Kimberly Williams-Paisley on the season finale of "Two and a Half Men" (TVGuide.com).
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