New ABC Family president Michael Riley is making his first development move a month after he took over the cable network following Paul Lee's move to ABC. ABC Family has greenlighted 3 pilots, Strut, Nine Lives and Switched at Birth. I hear the pickup of a fourth pilot, The Lying Game, is imminent. Two of the pilots, Nine Lives and The Lying Game, hail from Alloy Entertainment, the company behind ABC Family's freshman hit Pretty Little Liars.
Strut, whose order is cast-contingent, centers on a Las Vegas showgirl who unwittingly gets married to a Texan and becomes a high school instructor for a misfit drill team. Lamar Damon wrote the script and is executive producing with Anna Mastro, Karey Burke, Charlie Stratton and Norman Buckley.
Nine Lives is based on Alloy's Nine Lives of Chloe King series of 3 young-adult novels by Celia Thomson. Alloy Entertainment is producing the pilot, about Chloe King, a teenager with such super powers as super speed, agility and hearing. Dan Berendsen (Hannah Montana: The Movie) penned the script and is executive producing with Alloy's Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo.
Switched at Birth, written and executive produced by Elizabeth Weiss, centers on 2 teenagers who discover that they were switched at birth.
The Lying Game, which Alloy is producing with Warner Horizon TV, is based on the upcoming Alloy book series of the same name by Pretty Little Liars author Sara Shepard, which will be released in December. It centers on twin identical sisters separated at birth - one rich and one poor. When the rich one goes missing the poor sister sets out to find her. Chuck Pratt Jr. (Ugly Betty) wrote the script and is executive producing with Morgenstein and Girolamo.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
ABC Family Picks Up Four Pilots
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