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[09/26/16 - 11:06 AM]
TNT Orders "Hinges" Pilot from Executive Producer/Writer Janine Sherman Barrois and Executive Producer John Wells
A series that provocatively and humorously dissects middle-class suburbia, "Hinges" follows two sets of neighbors whose lives are dramatically changed in the wake of a scandal that rocks the community.







HINGES (TNT)
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY:
9/26/16
STATUS:
previously in development (2017-2018 season)
DEVELOPMENT STAGE:
ordered to pilot
DESCRIPTION:
(from TNT's press release, September 2016) TNT, a division of Turner, has ordered a pilot for Hinges from John Wells Productions, which is being produced in association with Warner Horizon Television and Turner's Studio T. Centering on two middle-class families of different races living in suburban America, the hour-long drama pilots is being written by Janine Sherman Barrois (ER, Criminal Minds) and is based on her short story "The Boom." Sherman Barrois serves as executive producer. along with John Wells (ER, The West Wing, Animal Kingdom, Southland), Anthony Hemingway (The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Treme, Underground) and Mark Taylor (Underground, For the Love of Baltimore). Hemingway is also set to direct the pilot. A series that provocatively and humorously dissects middle-class suburbia, Hinges follows two sets of neighbors whose lives are dramatically changed in the wake of a scandal that rocks the community. Shifting focus to a different set of families each season, Hinges will expose the American Dream to be an illusion as it holds up a fun-house mirror to the cracks beneath a community's seemingly happy surface.
CREW INFORMATION:
· Anthony Hemingway as EP/DIR (Pilot)
· Janine Sherman Barrois as BOOK/CRTR/EP
· John Wells as EP
· Mark Taylor as EP
GENRE(S):
· drama
STUDIO INFORMATION:
· John Wells Productions
· Studio T
· Warner Horizon Television