'Bewitched', DJ Nash, Rough House Projects Among Flurry Of Early Comedy Sales

Are things getting corrected this development season? The unwritten rule from the annual broadcast pitch months are that drama projects venture out first, then comedy. But while hourlong pitches happen to be sluggish from the gate this summer time, comedy projects happen to be coming fast and furious. By week ago, one major broadcast network had already heard a lot more than 40 comedy pitches. Many of the early comedy activity was driven by The new sony TV, that has already offered 17-18 half-hour scripts, including a Bewitched remake at CBS, from write Marc Lawrence and also the producers of Nora Ephron's panned recent feature adaptation, single-camera comedy Ignore It at CBS, compiled by DJ Nash and executive created by Peter Tolan and Michael Wimer in addition to a half-hour project from Pam Brady at CBS and BAMFS, a higher-school comedy at ABC from author Leah Rachel and producer Jamie Tarses. Meanwhile, Rough House has offered the very first project under its lately signed pod cope with 20th TV, a comedy at Fox compiled by Max Winkler and Mike Manley to become directed by Winkler. The new sony is typically early towards the marketplace being an independent studio that advantages of pitching shows once the networks' development coffers continue to be full. Also energizing the comedy market is always that there's a brand new mind of comedy at NBC, Tal Rabinowitz, along with a new broadcast buyer, the CW, that is open for comedy pitches this season. Even though the greatest obligations to date this year have attended drama projects, the Marc Guggenheim/Greg Berlanti legal drama at Fox and also the Michael Brandt/Derek Haas firemen drama from Wolf Films at NBC, the big amount of early comedy sales has industry people take serious notice. In addition, the very first off-cycle pilot order this summer time also visited a comedy, the Marco Pennette/Dork Flebotte project starring Kirstie Alley.