By Lesley Goldberg. Television Editor, West Coast. Following another prolonged development season , the broadcast networks are gearing up for a busy pilot season as they compete with not only one another, but also with basic and premium cable as well as streaming services including Netflix, Amazon and Hulu β all of which are making major scripted pushes. Like last year, the networks continue to look to reboots, family fare and procedurals to help cut through the increasing clutter.
Also hot this development season were sports-themed projects as well as contemporary takes on old literary tales. Bookmark THR. Only the country these people are from is America and the war they are fleeing is years in the future. The local sheriff with a past, a federal agent and a mother in search of her missing refugee daughter drive this allegory with a surprising conspiracy at the center.
Television Location: New York. The ideas they invented were so dangerous that the list was sealed and the program shut down. But when a catastrophe occurs ripped from the pages of the missing doomsday book, the team is brought back years later to prevent the disasters of their own making. Inhumans eight-episode straight-to-series order Logline : Will explore the never-before-told epic adventure of Black Bolt and the royal family.
Thrust back into the world she thought she had left behind, Sonya must walk the murky line between the law and her family, and question her true destiny as a De La Reina. Location: Miami. Salamander Logline : Based on the Belgian format, the drama revolves around a brilliant but misanthropic engineer who recruits a skeptical homeland security agent to help him track a mysterious bank robber whose theft of 66 specific safety deposit boxes, belonging to the elite and powerful, sets in motion a series of blackmails that may be linked to a greater conspiracy.
Ten Days in the Valley off-cycle episode straight-to-series order Logline : Centers on Jane Sadler Kyra Sedgwick , an overworked television producer and single mother dealing with a fractious separation. Although these two have completely opposing views on crime and punishment, a highly entertaining and successful partnership is born. Television, Brownstone Productions Location: Vancouver.
