EXCLUSIVE: NBC commissioned Writers’ Rooms for two-hour projects Garden Club Grosse Pointe, of good girls Creator Jenna Bans and her regular collaborator, before good girls executive producer Bill KrebsHow The hunting partya high-concept criminal case by JJ Bailey And The final game co-creator Jack Coburn. Universal Television, where Bans, Krebs and Bailey have overall contracts and Coburn has a first-look deal, is the studio for both.
Garden Club Grosse Pointe, which had a test commitment, was one of two sales on NBC this development season for Bans and Cancer via Universal TV. your other writing, murder by the book of good girlsRetta is attached to Stern, has been picked up as a pilot. It also originally had a pit pilot commitment.
NBC split its drama slate between the two models, with two pilots, Murder by the book And Wolf, and two writers’ rooms for direct viewing of the series.
The network has operated the dual strategy since the pandemic-plagued 2020 cycle, when it decided to drop some of its commissioned pilots, dramas Langdon And Normal Joe and comedies Night School, Grand Crew And american car, and follows a direct path to the series for drama La Brea with an order of five additional scripts. In the end, all series that emerged from this development season also included the half-filmed drama pilot debrisonly comedies Great team And American car and acting La Brea got a second season, an encouraging sign for the writer’s space model on the drama side. (La Brea was recently renewed for a third season.)
Written by Bans and Cancer, Garden Club Grosse Pointe, which echoes good girls a bit, follows four members of a suburban garden club, all from different walks of life, who become embroiled in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives thrive.
Bans and Cancer executive produces with Casey Kyber.
Written by Bailey, The hunting party follows a small team of investigators assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that wasn’t meant to exist.
Executive produced by Bailey and Coburn The hunting party. It premiered on NBC in August and was the first sale under Bailey’s overall deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.
Source: Deadline
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