NBC Will get near Cast-Contingent Pilot Order To John Scott Shepherd/Neal Moritz Comedy

EXCLUSIVE: I’ve discovered that NBC is finalizing a deal with an off-cycle pilot order to single-camera comedy Save Me. A purchase for the project, from author John Scott Shepherd, The brand new the new sony Pictures TV and Neal Morirz’s studio-based Original Films banner, is cast-contingent. Save Me concentrates on a girl who, after any kind of accident, starts to consider they is pointing God. The project was developed at Showtime. Shepherd is executive creating with Original Films’ Moritz and Vivian Cannon additionally to Scott Winant (Californication). Shepherd, whose credits are the features Joe Somebody and Existence or something like that like this Appreciate It as well as the ABC series The Occasions, written the 2010 ABC drama pilot See Kate Run. This really is really the 2nd project to acquire a pilot order by NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt after being initially developed at Showtime. The initial was Smash, which Greenblatt first shepherded within the pay cable network throughout his stint there. At NBC, the musical drama was eventually acquired to series which is slated for just about any midseason launch behind reality hit The Voice. In addition, Greenblatt and also the new the new sony/Original Film labored together round the Showtime comedy series The Big C. This really is really the next then-cycle pilot order up to now this season, following ABC’s deal for your Manzanis, a multi-camera family comedy put together by sitcom veterans Marco Pennette and Dork Flebotte, which has Kirstie Alley installed on star.