ABC Buys 2 Projects From Feature Authors

Within the latest round of script purchasing, ABC has acquired two projects from feature auspices — a comedy from Buddies With Benefits authors Keith Merryman and David Newman, that is executive created by Mark Gordon, along with a drama from Altering Lanes scribe Michael Tolkin, that is executive created by Lorenzo Di Bonaventura. ABC TV Galleries, where Di Bonaventura and Gordon’s companies are based, is creating. This marks the very first purchase for Di Bonaventura Pictures Television, Di Bonaventura’s partnership with Serta McDermott released in June. Merryman and Newman’s Status Update is really a single-camera ensemble comedy in regards to a lady who's re-entering the field of dating equipped with the influences of recent technology and also the various opinions of her buddies and family. Gordon and Andrea Shay executive produce, with Merryman and Newman co-executive creating. Additionally to co-writing with Will Gluck the Justin Timberlake/Mila Kunis comedy Buddies With Benefits, Merryman and Newman, repped by APA and Circle of Confusion, also lately composed the film Think Just like a Guy, which just wrapped principal photography, in addition to a rewrite on Walden Media’s Mother’s Day. The untitled Michael Tolkin/David Zabel project, that has Tolkin set to create and former ER showrunner Zabel attached as showrunner, is really a drama in regards to a complex female ADA in Bay Area who runs against her boss and becomes the brand new DA. Tolkin, Zabel, Di Bonaventura and McDermott are executive creating. This is actually the third purchase for ABC Galleries-based Zabel this year, together with Western Gunslinger and 2 Streets, a drama with Jason Richman.