2015 Launch Pad Pilot Competition Winners Announced
OVERALL WINNER
RUNNING MONEY
David Hoffman
DAMAGES meets THE FIRM
When an untested MBA graduate finds herself in the midst of Wall Street’s most successful hedge fund, she must decide how far she is willing to go in order to succeed.
Drama
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Winner
TOP DRAMA
GREYSHORE
Rohit Kumar
HEMLOCK GROVE meets WAYWARD PINES
After a disgraced doctor discovers that the couple who raised him aren’t his biological parents, he takes his own family to an inherited estate where he begins to feel the pull of dark, mysterious forces that threaten to change everything he knew about himself and his place in this world.
Drama Horror Thriller
Agent: ICM | Andrew Murphy, Brandy Rivers, Matt Baldovsky Manager: Benderspink | David Baggelaar, Scott Stoops
Winner
TOP COMEDY
LATE BLOOMER
Shira Hoffman
NEW GIRL meets 13 GOING ON 30
An awkward young woman who has been struggling to make her mark on the world herself with a blessing and a curse when she finally hits puberty at 25.
Comedy
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Winner
COMPLETE LIST OF WINNERS
20,000 LEAGUES
Cody Pearce
DA VINCI’S DEMONS meets THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN
A fantasy-world detective is charged with hunting down a mysterious sea monster that is terrorizing the town, while a young reporter and his photographer sister also search for the beast.
Drama Period Sci-Fi
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 50
APALACHEE
Gannon Kenney
MR. ROBOT meets HOMELAND
A UN officer is coerced into spying for the NSA after leaked information from his computer helps to fuel a terrorist plot on American soil.
Drama Thriller
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 25
ARCANE
Joe Marino
JUSTIFIED meets SUPERNATURAL
A young woman with mysterious powers makes an alliance with a retired exorcist when their southern hometown becomes ground zero in a supernatural war between nightmarish forces.
Drama Horror Supernatural
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Energy Entertainment | Brooklyn Weaver, David Binns
Honorable Mention
ASH LAKE
John Schlirf
THE KILLING meets BLOODLINE
A recent high school graduate seeks justice for her wrongly-accused brother, bringing her up against the detective who’s keeping the truth hidden to protect her own son.
Drama Crime Mystery
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Honorable Mention
BAIT
Homa Mojtabai
REVENGE meets HARD CANDY
After the system fails her, a sexual assault victim takes justice into her own hands.
Drama
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Heroes and Villains Entertainment | Henry Huang
Guarenteed Signing
BANK SQUAD
Evan Menzel
BOYZ N THE HOOD meets THE WIRE
On the cusp of the L.A. Riots, young brothers navigate a gangland while two very different FBI agents work together to solve a string of bank robberies.
Drama Crime Period
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 25
BELT, THE
Joel Dorland & Garrett Lander
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA meets DEADWOOD
An assassin must keep a young girl with mysterious powers safe on a space colony while the universe as they know it begins to change around them.
Drama Sci-Fi
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Benderspink | Daniel Vang, Scott Stoops
Top 25
BENEATH
Ryan Stack
THE STAND meets LOST
An oil tycoon down to his last dollar makes a deal to drill on the land of a farmer and his family, only to discover that what is beneath the ground is far more than ordinary fossil fuel.
Drama Horror Supernatural
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Energy Entertainment | Brooklyn Weaver
Top 25
BETTER
Esther Celia Finkelstein
UNITED STATES OF TARA meets TOGETHERNESS
After a failed suicide attempt and a stint in a psychiatric hospital, a woman must find her way to a new normal.
Comedy Dark Comedy
Agent: Rothman Brecher | Rina Brannen, Robb Rothman, Stephani Rothman Manager: Available for Managers
Top 50
BEYONCE’S HUNGRY
Mark Ganek
VEEP WITH A CELEBRITY UPSTAIRS/DOWNSTAIRS TWIST
A well-organized battalion of workers coordinate Beyonce’s life, with rival coworkers vying for the top job.
Comedy
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Principato/Young | Maggie Haskins
Top 50
BIRDLAND
Charlotte Cohn-Williams & Jason Odell Williams
STUDIO 60 ON SUNSET STRIP meets MONEYBALL
The new untested and reluctant general manager of Baltimore’s major league baseball team must juggle her cocky players, rookie beer vendors, and diehard fans -all while trying not to strike out in her personal relationships.
Comedy Drama
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 25
BLACKRUSH
Brent Beath
LONGMIRE meets JUSTIFIED
Murder, violence, and corruption threaten to engulf a New Mexico town on the verge of a fracking boom unless a detective from Boston, who has deeper connections than he knows, can stop the daughter of the powerful founding family from taking control.
Drama Mystery
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Honorable Mention
BLUE BOOK
Andrea Janakas
THE X-FILES meets MAD MEN
A desk jockey gets promoted to director of the Blue Book Project, which monitors and analyzes all UFO sightings in 1960s America, and subsequently explains them away, no matter what the evidence actually shows.
Drama Sci-Fi
Agent: Paradigm | Jennifer Good Manager: Infinity Management | Seth Nagel
Top 50
BOY UP
Cynthia Furey
MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE meets FRESH OFF THE BOAT
An awkward, cowardly eleven-year-old thinks he’s finally free of his schoolyard bully, only to discover that his mom has invited his nemesis into his home as a step-brother-of-sorts.
Comedy
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 25
BY DEGREE
Annah Feinberg
YOU’RE THE WORST meets THE RINGER
A woman with five masters degrees and no discernible skills subsumes her more-successful sister’s identity after her untimely death.
Comedy Dark Comedy
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Grandview | Merideth Bajana, Zac Frognowski
Top 50
CANVAS 31
Jared Doles
WHITE COLLAR meets THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR
A master art thief is offered a chance to stay out of prison in exchange for helping a museum track down priceless pieces of stolen art.
Drama Heist Dark Comedy
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Honorable Mention
CASEY CAN’T
Kaitlin Fontana
CALIFORNICATION meets 30 ROCK
When a veteran, old school music critic loses her job, she is forced to take a new one with the sort of magazine she’s always despised: an online blog.
Comedy Dark Comedy
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Brillstein | Brad Petrigala
Top 25
CHAIN, THE
Teresa Huang
ENEMY OF THE STATE meets FACE/OFF
A terrorist plot gets closer to fruition as a mysterious event causes several people, including the Vice President, to wake up in the body of someone else.
Drama Sci-Fi Thriller
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Art/Work Entertainment | Cindy Ambers, Julie Bloom
Top 25
CINEPHILE
Chris Dymond
TRUE DETECTIVE meets CASTLE
A retiring police detective with early onset Alzheimer’s disease tries to solve her last murder mystery case involving a serial killer who stages the deaths of his victims exactly like iconic movie scenes.
Drama Mystery Thriller
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Honorable Mention
CURED
Joe Osborn
QUEER AS FOLK meets THE O.C.
In the summer of 1996, a gay Midwestern teenager is sent to a co-ed conversion therapy camp so he can be “fixed.”
Drama LGBT
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Honorable Mention
DARK AND BROKEN CODE
Zack Kaplan & Graham Funke
MR. ROBOT meets RAY DONOVAN
A seasoned FBI Cyber Agent must collaborate with a notorious ex-hacker, his son who he put in jail, in order to stop a killer who uses technology to murder people.
Drama Thriller
Agent: Paradigm | Jennifer Good Manager: Heroes and Villains Entertainment | Mikhail Nayfeld
Top 25
DAWN OF THE DRUG WAR, THE
Matthew Tente
THE UNTOUCHABLES meets BOARDWALK EMPIRE
In 1933, the Prohibition Bureau considers an African-American federal agent, who recently lost his partner in a drug bust and was subsequently laid off, to spy on the South Side of Chicago community as they ramp up their war on narcotics in light of prohibition being repealed.
Drama Crime Period
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Good Fear Film + Management | Jake Wagner
Honorable Mention
DEVIL RIVER
David Sullivan
TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE meets HELL ON WHEELS
When a timid slave preacher is separated from his wife and child by a gambling professional, he decides to team up with a mysterious black gambler on the Mississippi steamboats to learn how to win his family’s freedom.
Drama Period
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 50
ECHO LAKE
Elena Song
MAD MEN meets THE KILLING
In the winter of 1974, a suffocatingly small Connecticut town is put through the ringer when the high school principal turns up dead in the frozen lake, and everyone’s a suspect.
Drama Mystery Period
Agent: APA | David Meese, Ryan Saul Manager: Echo Lake Management | Dave Brown, Matt Horwitz
Top 25
ECLIPSED
Sarah Acosta
FRINGE meets FLATLINERS
A medical student with a haunted past joins a team of researchers determined to answer the question: What happens after you die?
Crime Drama Supernatural
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Madhouse Entertainment | Robyn Meisinger, Ryan Cunningham
Honorable Mention
ELEVENTH HOUR, THE
Ahmadu Garba
LAW AND ORDER meets LUTHER
A former death-row inmate suffering from constant hallucinations joins an amnesty organization to investigate capital punishment cases overturned by the state supreme court.
Drama
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Epicenter | Allard Cantor and Jarrod Murray
Top 50
EMBEDDED
Andy Muir
AMERICAN ODYSSEY meets GENERATION KILL
Rescued after being abducted while on assignment in Afghanistan two years ago, a celebrated female photojournalist returns to the war torn country to exorcise her demons and determine what happened to her still missing colleague.
Drama War
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Honorable Mention
FIREFLIES, THE
Lauren W Stenmoe
GOSSIP GIRL meets DEGRASSI
The origin story of a superstar rock band starts in high school, when a whip-smart but emotionally adrift girl with a gift for guitar transfers to a new school and finds her voice when she teams up with three other talented outcasts.
Drama Teenage
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Jon Kanak Management | Jon Kanak
Top 50
FRAGMENT
Cameron Pattison
THE SOPRANOS meets INCEPTION
Years after the release of wearable technology that can induce reality-like lucid dreaming, a veteran and her brother struggle to work for their manipulative crime boss father’s illegal and expanding dream sedative trafficking business.
Drama Sci-Fi
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 50
GEMINI PROCESS
Paola Andrea Ariza & Frank Nestor
IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA meets WORKAHOLICS
Dim-witted twins decide to use a sizable inheritance from their grandmother to open their own process serving business.
Comedy
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Honorable Mention
GENERATION GWEN
Megan Karasch
SUITS meets THE MINDY PROJECT
A young woman must learn how to balance raising her newborn child by herself while maintaining her high-pressure career.
Comedy
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 25, Mentor Program
GOVERNESS, THE
Christopher Basler
DOWNTON ABBEY meets THE OTHERS
In 1906 Newport, a young woman with a troubled past and sins to atone for becomes the new governess at a house plagued by scandal -but the forces that drew her there in the first place may be from beyond the grave.
Drama Horror Period
Agent: ESA | Antoni Kaczmarek, Varun Monga Manager: Industry Entertainment | Ava Jamshidi, Micah Klatzer
Top 25
GREYSHORE
Rohit Kumar
HEMLOCK GROVE meets WAYWARD PINES
After a disgraced doctor discovers that the couple who raised him aren’t his biological parents, he takes his own family to an inherited estate where he begins to feel the pull of dark, mysterious forces that threaten to change everything he knew about himself and his place in this world.
Drama Horror Thriller
Agent: ICM | Andrew Murphy, Brandy Rivers, Matt Baldovsky Manager: Benderspink | David Baggelaar, Scott Stoops
Winner
HALCYON FALLS
Jeff Bower
AMERICAN CRIME meets THE KILLING
In the aftermath of a tragic school shooting in a seemingly idyllic American small town, long-hidden secrets are threatened to be exposed.
Drama
Agent: Abrams Artists Agency | Manal Hammad, Paul Weitzman Manager: Available for Managers
Top 25
HARMONY FALLS
Anthony Nero
AWAKE meets TWIN PEAKS
A writer returns to his hometown to find inspiration and finish his novel, but the move spells danger for his family thanks to the entity that haunted his youth lying in wait, and a long-ago tragedy that seems to be replaying itself.
Drama Mystery
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 50
HATCHETMEN
Kevin Lau
GANGS OF NEW YORK MEET BOARDWALK EMPIRE
Within the dawning metropolis of San Francisco comes the rise of a Chinese kingpin whose relationship with tycoons of the day is wrought with crime, conspiracy, jealousy and power.
Crime Drama Period
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Martin Management | Christine Martin
Top 50
I HAVE FIVE FUCKING ROOMMATES
Joshua Statman
NEW GIRL meets SHAMELESS
After his girlfriend breaks up with him, an out of work bachelor accidentally moves into a house that already has five eccentric tenants.
Comedy
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Honorable Mention
KARMA, INC.
Jarrod Lohoff
DEXTER meets REVENGE
A down on his luck salesman joins a mysterious new company whose mission is, for a price, to dole out karmic revenge.
Drama Thriller
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 50
KINDERHOOK
Patch Darragh & Adrian Rieder
IN TREATMENT meets MAD MEN
A New York psychologist infiltrates an esoteric cult, uncovering the mystery of his own traumatic past.
Drama Psychological Thriller
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Honorable Mention
LATE BLOOMER
Shira Hoffman
NEW GIRL meets 13 GOING ON 30
An awkward young woman who has been struggling to make her mark on the world herself with a blessing and a curse when she finally hits puberty at 25.
Comedy
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Winner
LEGACY
Alex Freedman
SUITS meets THE GOOD WIFE
Following the suicide of her father, an attorney is forced to return to her distant brother and family-owned probate law-firm in New York.
Drama Family Legal
Agent: CAA | Jacquie Katz, Praveen Pandian Manager: Untitled Entertainment | Jennifer Au
Honorable Mention, Mentor Program
LEGACY
Brian Shin
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS meets EMPIRE
An ex-NBA superstar is suddenly thrust into the position of Chicago Bulls head coach and must navigate a maelstrom of blackmail, gambling addiction, public hatred, disgruntled players, and a reckless son who undeservedly made the NBA.
Drama Sports
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Dialed-In Entertainment | Alex Creasia
Top 25
LETTERS, THE
Dani Bailes
BLOODLINE meets THE KILLING
After discovering her mother’s extensive correspondence with a notorious serial killer, a woman finds herself entangled in family secrets when similar murders begin occurring in her own backyard.
Drama Mystery Thriller
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Honorable Mention
LEXICON
Amanda Keener
THE WIRE meets HEROES
A mystical artifact is the object of desire for a cop, a reporter, a student, and a drug lord due to the power it provides the holder.
Crime Drama
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Echo Lake | Chelsea Benson, Zadoc Angell
Top 25
LORDS OF THUNDER
Michael Flores
IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA meets THIS IS SPINAL TAP
Two clueless aging metal-heads, and their equally as oblivious daughters, carry out their ridiculous antics and absurd schemes as they carve a place for themselves amongst the LA arts district.
Animated Comedy
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 25
LOST BOYS, THE
David Lawrance
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO meets INSOMNIA
When a Chicago cop suffering from PTSD returns to his hometown in the Ozarks, he becomes obsessed with solving a series of local child murders that threaten to further unravel him.
Crime Drama Mystery
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 50
MOWTOWN
Gabriel Worgaftik
ROYAL PAINS meets WORKAHOLICS
A recent college grad is forced to move back home to save money for law school, only to wind up alongside his best friend in the shady underworld that is the Cape Cod service industry.
Comedy
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Stacey Testro International | Katie Ybarra
Honorable Mention
MR. HEAD
Cooper Sukaly
ARCHER meets SOUTH PARK
An ex-CIA operative faces his most challenging assignment yet: Guidance Counselor at a tough inner city school.
Animated Comedy
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 50
NEVERLAND
Michael Stagliano
ATTACK THE BLOCK (WITHOUT ALIENS) meets OUTLANDER
When Captain James claims Neverland as his own, Tinkerbell employs the help of modern day cockney misfits to help win it back.
Drama Fantasy
Agent: CAA | Angela Dallas, Barry Kotler Manager: Epicenter | Allard Cantor, Jarrod Murray
Top 25
NEXT BEST THING, THE
Benjamin Kawaller
LOOKING meets LOUIE
A middle-aged gay man faces the upheaval of his closest relationships when he chooses to start dating women.
Comedy LGBT
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Benderspink | Jake Wagner
Top 25
ONE SOUL
Chris Wu
SOURCE CODE meets CLOUD ATLAS
In the future, where The Corporation has forced people into an existence of pure labor, one woman begins to view three of her past lives that take place in different times, locations, and religions of the world.
Drama Period Sci-Fi
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Bellevue | Jeff Portnoy
Honorable Mention
OWEN’S CREEK
Gabriel Feinberg
UNDER THE DOME meets DEADWOOD meets LOST
In 1890, a town full of reticent Old West settlers is on the brink of boiling over into an all-out resource war, and that’s before the entire town is mysteriously transported into a valley from which there is no way in and no way out.
Drama Period Supernatural
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Bellevue Productions | John Zaozirny
Top 50
PAMELA AND SHARONA
Tim Schildberger
THE ROCKER meets THE ODD COUPLE
A sloppy, faded 80s Rock Queen launches one final comeback with the help of a daughter she never knew she had.
Comedy
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Honorable Mention
PERMANENTS, THE
Maura Milan
LOST meets THE MIST
A group of people “living” in purgatory must survive the fog that contains beasts of unimaginable terror while trying to remember who they are and why they are there so that they may move on.
Drama Supernatural
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 50
POSTGRADS
Mitchell Golden
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER meets HAPPY ENDINGS
After graduation, a group of friends realize that they’ve finished the best years of their lives and must navigate the “real world” without growing apart.
Comedy
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Honorable Mention
PRESTON & MICKEY
Josh Sorokach
MOM meets COMMUNITY
On the first day of college, a timid male freshman is roomed with a wild 31-year-old woman who helps him live a fuller college experience.
Comedy
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 50
PROTECTION
David Hendon
THE SOPRANOS meets THE AMERICANS
After testifying against a dangerous gangster, a father is forced to move his family to Wisconsin as part of the Witness Protection Program, but his dark past follows them to their new home.
Crime Drama
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Honorable Mention
PUBLIC ACCESS
Katie Scrivner & Michael Sokey
PARKS AND RECREATION meets ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
A disgraced weatherman is forced to return home and work at a public access television station while dealing with his vengeful ex-, the station’s crazy employees, and his own frustrating relationship with the station owner, his father.
Comedy
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 25
QUARRY
Aisling Corristine
DEXTER meets BROADCHURCH
Returning home to facilitate her parents’ divorce, a young woman is forced to face the reasons she left in the first place when a local construction crew drain a quarry, uncovering a skeleton and exposing secrets from her past.
Drama Mystery
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 50
REAL GONE
Jared Laberdesque
THE AMERICANS meets THE UNTOUCHABLES
A sprawling ensemble that revolves around a closeted FBI agent who gets blackmailed into going undercover in the mafia controlled gay scene of 1950s New York.
Crime LGBT Period
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 50, Mentor Program
RECKONING, THE
David Hendon
THE MAZE RUNNER meets CHILDREN OF MEN
In a dystopian future, life is now lived underground in tightly controlled Facilities, but one boy may have the key to the survival of the human race.
Drama Sci-Fi
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Honorable Mention
REPEATERS, THE
Douglas Wolfe
EDGE OF TOMORROW meets SEVEN
After a mysterious blast destroys the world, a small town sheriff flashes into the past, reliving the apocalypse over and over again as he desperately searches for the one man who might know what’s happening -a serial killer whose grisly crime-scene messages predicted the catastrophe.
Crime Drama Sci-Fi
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 25
RIPL
Heather Schmidt
COLD CASE meets GHOST WHISPERER
A recently disgraced detective solves cold cases using information provided by those experiencing their past lives’ murders, only to discover she may be a past life victim herself.
Drama Supernatural
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Honorable Mention
RUNNING MONEY
David Hoffman
DAMAGES meets THE FIRM
When an untested MBA graduate finds herself in the midst of Wall Street’s most successful hedge fund, she must decide how far she is willing to go in order to succeed.
Drama
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Winner
SATURDAYS
Matthew Fruchtman
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS meets GREEK
When a former football legend returns to his alma mater to coach, he struggles to keep the alumni happy, the media at bay, and his unruly team under control – which now includes his own son.
Drama Sports
Agent: Paradigm | Adrian Garcia, David Boxerbaum, Ellie Schiff, Zac Simmons Manager: Artillery Creative | Tom Carter
Honorable Mention
SEE NORA RUN
Susan Jaffee
CALIFORNICATION meets YOUNG ADULT
The insulated life of a children’s book author who hates children breaks wide open after her estranged brother shows up at her door with his two young daughters in tow.
Comedy
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 50
SHUDDER HOLLOW
Sarah McChesney
ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK? meets VERONICA MARS
A young girl is invited into a secret society where she and her friends must decipher clues to solve the mystery of the spooky town’s missing children, before they unwillingly join them.
Children Drama Supernatural
Agent: Kaplan Stahler Agency | Cindy Mintz, Katherine Riley Manager: Dialed-in Entertainment | Stephen Marks
Top 25
STORYVILLE
Jonathan Marx
JUSTIFIED meets TREME
In 1903, a world-weary detective is hired to investigate crimes in Storyville, the red light district of New Orleans, where he must deal with corrupt officials, prostitutes, voodoo women, and more.
Drama Period
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Benderspink | David Baggelaar, Scott Stoops
Top 25
TARGETS
Nihar Patel
NUMBERS meets HOUSE OF CARDS
Two Secret Service agents, one who uses statistics to predict potential threats and another who relies on her well-honed instincts, try to stop would-be assassins from killing high-level targets.
Drama Political Thriller
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Honorable Mention
THICKER THAN WATER
Jenn Dlugos
FRIENDS meets ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
Three siblings must live together in the same apartment and navigate the difficulties of finding love, setting boundaries, and agreeing on a pet.
Comedy
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 50
TIMESTOPPERS
Allen Glover & Robb Lanum
HEROES meets PUSH
An escaped prisoner discovers that he is the key to discovering, and unlocking, the secrets of an unexplained power to stop time as he is put in the crosshairs of two powerful organizations both vying for his abilities.
Drama Sci-Fi Thriller
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 25
TYBURN TREE, THE
Russell Simpson
THE WIRE meets CRASH
A perfect maelstrom of political corruption and social injustice leads to the breakdown of society in the UK.
Drama
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Artillery Creative | Tom Carter
Top 50
USE YOUR WORDS
Julia Batavia
THE NEWSROOM meets MAD MEN
A desperate publisher and his editorial team fight to save their jobs and reputations in the increasingly endangered world of book publishing in the 21st century.
Drama Dark Comedy
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Top 50
VALLEY, THE
Jonathan Light
ELYSIUM meets CONTINUUM
In a future world, where the wealthy are technologically connected via brain implants while the poor live an analog existence in the Valley, one man discovers he may have the key that can get him over the treacherous mountains to the advanced land of the upper class.
Drama Sci-Fi
Agent: 42 Management | Kate Prentice (UK) Manager: Zero Gravity Management | Jeff Belkin
Honorable Mention
WATSON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, THE
Dane M Anderson
Y: THE LAST MAN meets GOSSIP GIRL
Sixteen years after a viral pandemic wiped out the planet’s male population, a group of teenage boys who were raised in quarantine are integrated into an all-girls boarding school and an all-female world.
Drama Teenage
Agent: Available for Agents Manager: Available for Managers
Honorable Mention
