Scott Ellis is directing three multicamera pilots this season. The CAA-repped Ellis, who already helmed ABC’s off-cycle pilot The Manzanis, has signed on to direct two NBC pilots: the untitled Kari Lizer female buddy comedy and the untitled Jimmy Fallon male buddy comedy. Veteran multicamera director Gail Mancuso has signed on to direct Roseanne Barr’s NBC pilot Downwardly Mobile, marking a reunion between Roseanne star Barr and Mancuso, who spent seven years on the ABC comedy and got her start as a director there. Also part of the Roseanne reunion is Eric Gilliland, who co-wrote Downwardly Mobile and is executive producing, and Downwardly Mobile’s casting director Risa Bramon Garcia, who with Billly Hopkins cast the pilot for Roseanne. Mancuso is with ICM. Jeffrey Nachmanoff (Traitor) is set to direct NBC’s firefigher drama pilot Chicago Fire, written by Derek Haas and Michael Brandt and produced by Dick Wolf’s company.
- 2/9/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Lifetime has declined to pick up two in-development pilots to series. Both Meet Jane and an untitled project from Fairly Legal creator Michael Sardo failed to impress executives, according to Deadline. Meet Jane, written by Criminal Minds scribe Andi Bushell, starred Molly Parker as Jane, a woman who is forced to spy on her husband when he is suspected of leaking information to Russia. The project, which also starred 24 actor Rick Schroder as Jane's husband, was originally picked up to pilot in October last year. (more)...
- 7/27/2011
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
Lifetime has declined to pick up two in-development pilots to series. Both Meet Jane and an untitled project from Fairly Legal creator Michael Sardo failed to impress executives, according to Deadline. Meet Jane, written by Criminal Minds scribe Andi Bushell, starred Molly Parker as Jane, a woman who is forced to spy on her husband when he is suspected of leaking information to Russia. The project, which also starred 24 actor Rick Schroder as Jane's husband, was originally picked up to pilot in October last year. (more)...
- 7/27/2011
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
Lifetime has quietly passed on its remaining two pilots, Meet Jane and the untitled Michael Sardo project. Of the five pilots ordered under new Lifetime president and general manager Nancy Dubuc, two, Against the Wall and Exit 19, were picked up to series in February. Back then, Lifetime passed on the untitled Josh Berman pilot while keeping Meet Jane in consideration with some retooling and proceeding with production on the fifth pilot, the untitled Michael Sardo drama starring Carrie-Anne Moss. Now those two pilots also are not going forward, leaving the two cop dramas as the only series to come out of Lifetime's first batch of pilots ordered under the new regime. (Though they were developed under Evp Entertainment JoAnn Alfano, who left Lifetime in March and was replaced by A&E executive Robert Sharenow.) Meet Jane was written by Andi Bushell. She executive produced it with Mark Pedowitz, who has...
- 7/27/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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