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[09/21/09 - 06:34 PM]
Development Update: Monday, September 21
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!
FALLEN (FOX, New!) - Feature writer John Glenn ("Eagle Eye") has scored a script commitment from the network for a new drama about "a group of vigilante 'fallen' angels who take down the criminal and the corrupt in New York while falling in love, battling demons and seeking their own personal revenge." The project is set up at 20th Century Fox Television and The Chernin Company with Glenn executive producing alongside the company's Peter Chernin and Katherine Pope. No other specifics were given.
KEEP HOPE ALIVE (A.K.A. UNTITLED GREG GARCIA PROJECT) (FOX) - Michael Fresco ("Better Off Ted") has been tapped to helm the single-camera comedy pilot, about "a 25-year-old man raising an infant with the help of his quirky family after the mother of the baby, with whom he had a one-night stand, ends up on death row." He'll work from a script by creator Greg Garcia. 20th Century Fox Television is the studio attached.
Sources: Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Reuters
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