Jerry Bruckheimer
Taking a cue from ratings leader CBS, NBC has picked up an action procedural from Jerry Bruckheimer.
The as-yet-untitled show "tells the stories ...
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Kelsey Grammer, Courteney Cox Arquette and Reiko Aylesworth
ABC greenlit a half-dozen new series on Friday, bringing the network's total of newcomers for the 2009-10 TV season to eight.
Make the jump to see what, in addition to the previously ordered comedy Modern Family and the action-drama Flash Forward, is new to ABC's schedule.
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Not long after CBS showed its hand regarding a trio of drama projects, ABC has given a pilot order to what would be the network's first series from überproducer Jerry Bruckheimer. ABC also greenlit prospective series from Mark Gordon (Grey's Anatomy) and McG (Terminator Salvation).
Bruckheimer's untitled pilot, says the Hollywood Reporter, revolves around a team of amateur detectives who ...
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Jada Pinkett Smith, Dylan McDermott
TNT has given the greenlight to two new original series.
The network announced their new babies Thursday: A character-driven medical drama Time Heals, starring Jada Pinkett Smith (The Matrix Trilogy), and the fast-paced, undercover police drama The Line, starring Dylan McDermott (The Practice).
"Our new series are consistent with our belief that audiences are drawn to relatable, complex characters showcased in exciting, emotional settings and storylines," said Michael Wright, executive vice president of TNT, TBS and TCM.
"These new series also reflect our belief that great television comes from great talent. The talent at work on these shows is among the best in the business at delivering quality entertainment," said Wright...
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Michael Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer
The Hollywood pyrotechnics industry just got the best Christmas gift ever.
Big-screen heavyweights Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay are teaming with HBO to executive produce drama pilot Cocaine Cowboys, to The Hollywood Reporter.
The project, inspired by Billy Corben's 2006 documentary, chronicles the early days of cocaine trafficking in Miami ...
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Dylan McDermott
Dylan McDermott has landed the lead in The Line, TNT's new drama pilot from Jerry Bruckheimer.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the series focuses on a squad of undercover LAPD officers who do their job while battling the allure of easy, dirty money. McDermott, who won an Emmy for his work as Bobby Donnell on The Practice, will play ...
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CBS reportedly will announce on Wednesday the pick-up of six new series for the 2008-09 TV season, including no less than four new dramas. Among that bunch are The Ex List (nee The Mythological Ex, a title you knew wasn't going to play in Peoria) starring Grey's Anatomy's Elizabeth Reaser; The Mentalist, starring Simon Baker; Jerry Bruckheimer's Eleventh Hour (in which a science professor advises a government agency; and Harper's Island (a murder mystery set at an island wedding).CBS two new comedies are Worst Week of My Life, chronicling the days before a young couple's wedding (because Big Day blew the roof off the place) and an untitled laffer starring Jay Mohr as a recent divorce. As reported earlier by Ausiello, CBS is expected to bring back The Unit and How I Met Your Mother, though Moonlight and Old Christine remain question marks. — MWMMore Fall TV news:• Eli Stone Renewed! October Road Axed! Moonlight Dead?• Reaper Is Renewed• It's Official: Scrubs to AB...
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Is the world ready for a new Lone Ranger Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer are in talks with writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio to write a big-screen adaptation of the story of the masked man his white stallion Silver and his Native American companion TontoYeah I know what youre thinking Isnt the concept of the Lone Ranger a little dated Maybe but as the Hollywood Reporter astutely points out Elliott and Rossio are the gents who wrote both The Mask of Zorro and the Pirates of the Caribbean movies so they know a thing or two about freshening old genres If anyone can make the Ranger hip its themIn which case Hi-yo Bruckheimer away Mickey OConnor
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Jerry Bruckheimer is in talks with the National Hockey League about ponying up some $250 million to create a Las Vegas-based franchise, says Variety.... Former James Bond Pierce Brosnan is being investigated for not shaking or stirring but committing battery on a TMZ photographer this past Friday at a Malibu mall. (Funny how the assaulted shutterbugs are never on assignment from Time or Newsweek).... Bonnie Hunt's syndicated talker has been cleared in 55 percent of the country for a fall 2008 launch.... Resurrecting the Champ arrives on DVD Feb. 26.
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Following a fierce bidding war between CBS and ABC, Warner Bros. has cut a massive deal with the Eye for the rights to a Jerry Bruckheimer-produced take on the British thriller Eleventh Hour, says Variety. Sources close to the deal say it is easily the most lucrative pact of the development season, with CBS greenlighting a $4 million pilot and agreeing to produce 13 episodes at a pay-or-play licensing fee of $1.75 mil per.The X-Files-esque Eleventh Hour last year aired as a four-part miniseries in the U.K., with Patrick Stewart starring as a professor called in by the government to investigate mysterious cases involving matters of science, from cloning to global warming.
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