Small town drama from writers Andrew Chapman and John Eisendrath (Alias), Sony Pictures TV and Maria Grasso and Deb Spera’s studio-based One-Two Punch Prods. has sold to ABC. Meanwhile Immortals writers Charley and Vlas Parlapanides have set up a high-concept drama at CBS, with ABC Studios, Bob Sertner and Chris Morgan producing. ABC’s Dakota is set in the tiny farm town of Williston, North Dakota that is undergoing an oil boom. It is centered around the respected Holmburg family, one of the last to sell their mineral rights, and the many newcomers who inhabit their hometown in search of the American dream. Chapman and Eisendrath will write the script and will executive produce with Grasso and Spera. The four previously worked together on the ABC/ABC Studios drama pilot A House Divided, which Chapman wrote and was later developed as a feature. He recently sold his debut novel Ascendant to Simon & Schuster.
- 10/2/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
More than a month after the broadcast networks made their series picks for next season, several pilots are still in play. The options for the actors on such projects as the ABC/Touchstone TV dramas Secrets of a Small Town, October Road and A House Divided and the Fox/20th Century Fox TV drama Beyond have been extended. Additionally, 20th TV has extended the options on Cole Hauser and Sarah Shahi, who star in Damages, the legal drama pilot for Fox. One of the project's leads, Kristin Lehman, recently was cast in another Fox/20th TV drama pilot, Drive (HR 6/14).
- 6/27/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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