Exclusive: Producers Deborah Spera and Maria Grasso and their One-Two Punch Prods have closed a two-year first-look deal at ITV Studios America, the U.S.-based division of the ITV-owned British production company. The pact, which will have the duo develop new projects for ITV Studios, including formats from the ITV library, comes on the heels of a strong selling season for One-Two Punch, which has set up five projects at Fox, NBC and ABC, with a sixth close to a deal. Former Lifetime and Own executive Grasso and former Mark Gordon Prods president Spera, who met while working together on the Mark Gordon Prods’ Lifetime series Army Wives, teamed up to launch One-Two Punch in June 2011. For the past two seasons, the company was under a deal at Sony TV. Here are details on the five sold One-Two Punch Prods projects: Fox’s Take Down: drama written by Joe Webb,...
- 9/26/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Fox is developing a modern-day take on the story of Bonnie and Clyde. The pilot - from Ryan Tavlin (Without a Trace) - is a contemporary drama inspired by bank-robbing couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, Deadline reports. It will follow two young lovers from East Texas who go on a crime spree, becoming both wanted criminals and worldwide celebrities. The real-life tale of Bonnie and Clyde - who travelled across the United States committing robbery and murder throughout the early 1930s - was popularised by the Oscar-winning 1967 film, which starred Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the couple. Last year, Limitless director Neil Burger signed up to make a new Bonnie and Clyde film starring Hilary Duff and Kevin Zegers, but Duff was later dropped from the project. (more)...
- 10/12/2012
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
Exclusive: Fox is taking a modern-day spin on the story of infamous Depression-era bank-robbing couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. The network has put in development a contemporary drama project inspired by the tale of Bonnie & Clyde, from Sony Pictures TV and Maria Grasso and Deborah Spera’s studio-based One-Two Punch Prods. Written/executive produced by Ryan Tavlin (Without A Trace), the untitled project is described as a serialized drama about two sexy, young lovers from struggling families in East Texas, who use their respective skill sets to pair up and fight back, one crime at at time. As they capture the hearts of a nation facing similar hardships, they become worldwide celebrities, inciting one of the biggest domestic manhunts in U.S. history and inspiring copycats at every turn. Their families, the Parkers and the Barrows, are swept up in the duo’s crime spree and ultimately become divided...
- 10/11/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Desperate Mob Wives? ABC is eying a drama series for next summer produced by Bob Cooper and Anthony Lapaglia. Titled Beautiful Gangsters, the project, now in development, has FremantleMedia Enterprises on board to handel worldwide distribution outside of North America through Cooper’s first-look deal with the company. And in a rare occasion for a network-level project, the script is written by a young newcomer, recent UCLA Film School graduate Ryan Tavlin. “It’s great to be supporting such a talented young writer as Ryan,” Lapaglia said. “Beautiful Gangsters is a stellar piece of writing, as sophisticated as it is juicy.” Beautiful Gangsters revolves around three mafia wives who cut a deal with the FBI to enter Witness Protection together in exchange for their testimony, in the hopes of giving their families a second chance at life. The FBI relocates them to a suburban border town in Canada, where they struggle to fit in,...
- 11/3/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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