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[04/24/12 - 11:02 PM]
Development Update: Tuesday, April 24
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!
SUPER CITY (ABC, New!) - Madeleine Sami is looking to import her New Zealand comedy of the same name at the Alphabet, which has given the project a pilot presentation order. Said half-hour, from the ABC Studios' new low-cost division, follows five different characters (all played by Sami) whose lives intersect - "an aging cheerleader, an immigrant taxi driver, a closeted lesbian gym instructor, a woman fostering impoverished artists, and a homeless girl who finds and adopts a baby." Taika Waititi (MTV's "The Inbetweeners") is on board to direct from a script by Sami with Kapital Entertainment's Aaron Kaplan and Fumes' Carthew Neal also serving as executive producers. Production is expected to begin later this year. (Deadline.com)
AND IN OTHER NEWS... - Josh Safran is finalizing a deal to join NBC's "Smash" as an executive producer next season, ending his five-year run on The CW's "Gossip Girl" (Deadline.com); "Nurse Jackie" co-creator Liz Brixius has inked a two-year overall deal with Universal Television, where she'll develop new projects for the studio (Deadline.com); E! is on track to order three additional seasons of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" as part of a new pact with the Kardashian clan which includes a first-look component on new projects (Deadline.com); and Ray Stevenson has been tapped for a recurring role on "Dexter" as "a high-ranking member of an Eastern European crime ring who arrives in Miami determined to learn who killed one of his associates" (TVLine.com).
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