Exclusive: David Schulner has signed a new rich two-year, seven-figure overall deal with Universal Television. Schulner is the creator/executive producer/showrunner of the Universal TV-produced Jekyll & Hyde-esque medical drama pilot Do No Harm. The NBC pilot, starring Steven Pasquale as a brilliant neurosurgeon wrestling with his dangerous alter-ego that threatens to wreak havoc on his personal and professional life, has been garnering strong early buzz. This marks the second pilot order for Schulner who burst into the scene in 2007 when his high-concept spec The Oaks, which sparked a bidding frenzy, ultimately landing at Fox with a series commitment and a seven-figure penalty. But the project, about the intertwined stories of three families living in the same house during different periods, became a victim of the writers strike, with neither Schulner nor Shawn Ryan, who came on board as showrunner, able to attend the pilot shoot which started on...
- 4/11/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Usually Americans are the ones to adapt foreign concepts for their markets. This year alone has seen three remakes of British television shows to hit the American airwaves and it’s only February: MTV adapted E4’s controversial teen-drama “Skins” for the American market, Syfy remade BBC Three’s “Being Human” and Showtime went with a new take on E4’s long-running drama “Shameless”.
It’s rather unusual for a British network to adapt an American tv series, but that’s exactly what ITV did with its newest drama-series “Marchlands”, which premiered last week. “Marchlands” is based on the American tv series “The Oaks”. Written by David Schulner, it was developed for Fox in 2008 and starred Matthew Morrison (”Glee”) and Jeremy Renner (”The Hurt Locker”) among others, but was ultimately rejected by the network’s executives, when the produced pilot failed to make an impression. Rejected pilots rarely get a second chance of life,...
It’s rather unusual for a British network to adapt an American tv series, but that’s exactly what ITV did with its newest drama-series “Marchlands”, which premiered last week. “Marchlands” is based on the American tv series “The Oaks”. Written by David Schulner, it was developed for Fox in 2008 and starred Matthew Morrison (”Glee”) and Jeremy Renner (”The Hurt Locker”) among others, but was ultimately rejected by the network’s executives, when the produced pilot failed to make an impression. Rejected pilots rarely get a second chance of life,...
- 2/6/2011
- by Sascha Antschak
- The Cinema Post
TNT has greenlighted Generations, a drama pilot from Robert Redford's production company Wildwood Enterprises. Written by John Sacret Young (The West Wing), the project centers on a Southern family and crosses back and forth through time to follow the lives of three generations of the same family who have lived in the same house. (The concept sounds somewhat similar to David Schulner's 2008 pilot The Oaks, which flashed back-and-forth among 3 different families that lived in the same house in different time periods, but that house was also haunted.). Young is executive producing with Redford and Bill Holderman. The project, which has been given a cast-contingent pilot order, is targeted to shoot in late spring/early summer. Generations has been in the works at TNT for awhile and was first announced as part of cable network's development slate at the cable network's 2008 upfront. It joins 4 other recently ordered TNT pilots: Dallas,...
- 1/14/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
By Josef Adalian
Nearly three years after failing to take root at Fox, "The Oaks" has found new life as a British series.
The U.K.'s ITV1 network has ordered five hourlong episodes of a new take on the format, first produced by 20th Century Fox TV for Fox Broadcasting back in 2007. Shawn Ryan, who had produced that pilot, is not on board the reworked version.
"The Oaks" is being brought back to life as part of a joint deal between ITV Studios and 20th Century Fox TV Distribution signed in 2008. That creative collaboration previously prompted a U.K. remake of "Dharma &a...
Nearly three years after failing to take root at Fox, "The Oaks" has found new life as a British series.
The U.K.'s ITV1 network has ordered five hourlong episodes of a new take on the format, first produced by 20th Century Fox TV for Fox Broadcasting back in 2007. Shawn Ryan, who had produced that pilot, is not on board the reworked version.
"The Oaks" is being brought back to life as part of a joint deal between ITV Studios and 20th Century Fox TV Distribution signed in 2008. That creative collaboration previously prompted a U.K. remake of "Dharma &a...
- 3/31/2010
- by Adalian
- The Wrap
Cuesta planted at 20th TV with 'Oaks'
Michael Cuesta has inked a two-year overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television to direct, executive produce and co-write series projects for the studio.
Under the pact, Cuesta is directing/executive producing The Oaks, 20th TV's high-profile drama pilot for Fox, now in preproduction.
In addition to getting The Shield creator Shawn Ryan on board as showrunner, securing Cuesta as director also was key to Fox and 20th TV's landing the project, which had been coveted by two other networks.
20th TV chairman Dana Walden said the studio was impressed with the first project Cuesta worked on for them, Babylon Fields, the zombie dramedy pilot for CBS that he co-created, directed and exec produced.
"From the script to the dailies to the final cut, it was inspired," she said. "It completely captured a tone that was distinctive and original, and a lot of that was because of Michael Cuesta."
For Cuesta, his experience on Babylon also was crucial to his decision to ally with 20th TV.
"They were extremely supportive and really got behind it," he said.
Under the pact, Cuesta is directing/executive producing The Oaks, 20th TV's high-profile drama pilot for Fox, now in preproduction.
In addition to getting The Shield creator Shawn Ryan on board as showrunner, securing Cuesta as director also was key to Fox and 20th TV's landing the project, which had been coveted by two other networks.
20th TV chairman Dana Walden said the studio was impressed with the first project Cuesta worked on for them, Babylon Fields, the zombie dramedy pilot for CBS that he co-created, directed and exec produced.
"From the script to the dailies to the final cut, it was inspired," she said. "It completely captured a tone that was distinctive and original, and a lot of that was because of Michael Cuesta."
For Cuesta, his experience on Babylon also was crucial to his decision to ally with 20th TV.
"They were extremely supportive and really got behind it," he said.
- 10/19/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fox plants pair of Brits in 'Oaks' cast
Fox and 20th Century Fox TV are going with a cast of relatively unknown actors for the high-profile new series The Oaks.
British actresses Gina McKee and Sienna Guillory have landed lead roles on the project, joining previously cast Bahar Soomekh, Matt Lanter and Shannon Lucio.
Written by David Schulner and to be run by Shawn Ryan, Oaks tells the intertwined stories of three families -- a young couple who have just lost a child in 1968, a family of four in 1988 and a pregnant couple in 2008 -- who live in the same house and are haunted by a restless spirit.
McKee will play the wife in the 1988 family, a harried mother of two struggling to keep passion alive in her marriage. Guillory will play the 2008 couple's neighbor with Asperger's syndrome who went to school with the father-to-be and shares a secret with him.
The casting of McKee and Guillory continues the trend from last development season of casting U.K.
British actresses Gina McKee and Sienna Guillory have landed lead roles on the project, joining previously cast Bahar Soomekh, Matt Lanter and Shannon Lucio.
Written by David Schulner and to be run by Shawn Ryan, Oaks tells the intertwined stories of three families -- a young couple who have just lost a child in 1968, a family of four in 1988 and a pregnant couple in 2008 -- who live in the same house and are haunted by a restless spirit.
McKee will play the wife in the 1988 family, a harried mother of two struggling to keep passion alive in her marriage. Guillory will play the 2008 couple's neighbor with Asperger's syndrome who went to school with the father-to-be and shares a secret with him.
The casting of McKee and Guillory continues the trend from last development season of casting U.K.
- 9/20/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Trio branch out for Fox's 'Oaks'
Bahar Soomekh, Matt Lanter and Shannon Lucio have been cast in Fox's new paranormal drama The Oaks.
The project, from 20th Century Fox TV and Little Engine, was picked up by the network last month with a rich series commitment after a heated bidding war.
Written by David Schulner and to be run by Shawn Ryan, Oaks tells the intertwined stories of three families -- a young couple who have just lost a child in 1968, a family of four in 1988 and a pregnant couple in 2008 -- who live in the same house and are haunted by a restless spirit.
Lucio and Lanter will play the 1968 couple; Soomekh will play the pregnant woman, who is a highly educated, capable executive, in 2008.
Michael Cuesta is directing the pilot for Oaks, which is slated to begin production in November. He also is executive producing with Schulner, Ryan and Little Engine's Gina Matthews and Grant Scharbo.
The project, from 20th Century Fox TV and Little Engine, was picked up by the network last month with a rich series commitment after a heated bidding war.
Written by David Schulner and to be run by Shawn Ryan, Oaks tells the intertwined stories of three families -- a young couple who have just lost a child in 1968, a family of four in 1988 and a pregnant couple in 2008 -- who live in the same house and are haunted by a restless spirit.
Lucio and Lanter will play the 1968 couple; Soomekh will play the pregnant woman, who is a highly educated, capable executive, in 2008.
Michael Cuesta is directing the pilot for Oaks, which is slated to begin production in November. He also is executive producing with Schulner, Ryan and Little Engine's Gina Matthews and Grant Scharbo.
- 9/14/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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