TNT Reveals Dynamite Plan for More Original Content
Mark-Paul Gosselaar by Amy Tierney/ WireImage.com
TNT on Monday revealed its ambitious plan to change most of its weekday prime-time schedule to original fare by the year 2010. (Popular movies will still be the cabler's bread-and-butter on Fridays/weekends.) Here's what's on tap.
Already greenlit for production:
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Raising the Bar, a Steven Bochco drama about a public defender (
Mark-Paul Gosselaar), his boss (
Gloria Reuben) and an imperious judge (Jane Kaczmarek). Teddy Sears and Melissa Sagemiller also star.
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Leverage, in which a former insurance investigator (
Timothy Hutton) assembles a team of highly skilled thieves, hackers and grifters.
In consideration:
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Truth in Advertising, an ad-biz drama starring
Eric McCormack,
Tom Cavanagh and Monica Potter.
In development (scripted):
Generations (from
Robert Redford, a drama following three generations of the same family living in a house); an untitled family drama set in 1950s Indiana; a series based on
Tess Gerritsen's crime novels;
The Genie Chronicles (about... a genie in a lamp); and
Technophobia (a psychological drama from
Twin Peaks' Mark Frost).
In development (unscripted):
Wedding Day, from Mark Burnett; a series following
The Greatest Show on Earth (Ringling Bros., not
Friday Night Lights);
Lean on Me (tributing everyday mentors); a celebration of
Crimes of the Century (from
Ridley and
Tony Scott); the true crime-inspired
Shadow of a Doubt; and
Behind the Drama, a revealing look at great films, TV shows and actors.
