- Mi 22. Sep 2010, 12:23
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ABC Picks Up Bruckheimer TV's 'Lost Girls'Mist, bei der Überschrift hatte ich einen Moment gedacht, dass es eine Adaption von Alan Moores Lost Girls ist. ..aber das wäre auch nicht für ABC geeignet. :lol:
In its first major sale this year, Jerry Bruckheimer Television is staying closer to its reality hit The Amazing Race than its stable of crime procedurals. ABC has given the company and Warner Bros. TV a put pilot commitment for an untitled hourlong project based on the blog and the book The Lost Girls.
In 2006, friends Jennifer Baggett, Holly Corbett and Amanda Pressner, who had been climbing the corporate ladder of Manhattan media, left their jobs, boyfriends, apartments and everything familiar behind to embark on a year-long search for adventure and inspiration. They chronicled their journeying across four continents and more than a dozen countries on theirwebsite, LostGirlsWorld.com, and later turned that into a travel memoir published by HarperCollins in May. Ildy Modrovich, who previously worked on Bruckheimer TV's CSI: Miami and Eleventh Hour, is writing the adaptation and will executive produce the project with Bruckheimer and Jonathan Littman. KristieAnne Reed is co-executive producing.
The Lost Girls project, which draws parallels to another female-centered travel memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, is a major genre departure for Bruckheimer TV, which has built its successful business on procedurals. It also reunites the company with ABC where it produced the series The Forgotten last season.
After months of negotiations, USA Network has closed a deal to bring Law & Order: Criminal Intent back for an 8-episode 10th season with the series' original star Vincent D’Onofrio, who will return as Detective Robert Goren, a role he played for the first eight seasons. Discussions are under way with Kathryn Erbe and other CI alums sans Jeff Goldblum, who recently announced his exit, to come back for the show's farewell season. Throughout the entire dealmaking process, USA's intention was to bring Law & Order CI back only if D'Onofrio agreed to return.
Additionally, USA plans to extend its relationship with Law & Order chief Wolf beyond Criminal Intent. The network's production arm, Universal Cable Prods., which produces the series with Wolf Films, has handed him a pilot commitment for a new project.
Law & Order: CI will return with new episodes next year. “We ...
http://www.deadline.com/2010/09/usa-pic ... w-project/
