Thursday, January 15, 2015

Development News - NBC Orders 3 Comedies to Pilot; Luis Guzman & Finesse Mitchell Join 'Roadies'; Plus 1 More Update!

Development News - January 15, 2015

NBC's How We Live, Superstore & Untitled Suzanne Martin Project; Showtime's Roadies; and USA's The Queen of the South.





NBC's HOW WE LIVE
  • NBC has given a pilot order to single camera comedy How We Live written and executive produced by Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley. David Janollari also serves as executive producer for the project from Universal Television. The project centers on a blogger and his wife who move to the suburbs where he begins writing about marriage and the family lives of his suburban friends and neighbors, in the style of an anthropologist who's stumbled on an undiscovered tribe.
NBC's SUPERSTORE
  • NBC has ordered a pilot for single camera comedy Superstore written by Justin Spitzer and directed by Ruben Fleischer. Spitzer and Fleischer executive produce with David Bernad. Universal Television produces. The project focuses on a group of employees at a big box store, examining love, friendship and the beauty of every day moments.
NBC's UNTITLED SUZANNE MARTIN PROJECT
  • NBC has also handed a pilot order to an untitled multi-camera comedy from writer Suzanne Martin. Universal Television and Hazy Mills Productions produce, with Martin, Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner as executive producers. The project chronicles how things backfire for recent empty-nesters when their children and their parents move back home.
SHOWTIME's ROADIES
  • Luis Guzman and Finesse Mitchell have been cast as recurring guest stars on the comedy pilot starring Christina Hendricks. Guzman will play Gooch, the band's beloved tour-bus driver who is filled with stories and late-night wisdom. Mitchell will play Harvey, the tour accountant who has been known to dabble in side businesses that are not completely legal.
USA's THE QUEEN OF THE SOUTH
  • James Martinez (Breaking Bad, Aquarius) has joined the cast of the drama pilot starring Alice Braga. He will play Gato Fierros, a right-hand man of drug lord Cesar Guemes, who seems to delight in making his victims suffer before he does away with them.