Emily Owens, MD creator
Jennie Snyder Urman has sold
three projects under her
overall deal at CBS Television
Studios — two dramas to the
CW and a comedy to Fox as
CBS Studios this year is
branching out from supplying
only siblings CBS and the CW to also selling to the
other broadcast networks.
The CW’s Cross, written by Urman, is set in the 19th Century and centers on 22-year old Eliza who secretly assumes her recently deceased twin brother Thomas’ identity and takes his job working in a Boston hospital as a doctor’s apprentice. The drama explores gender politics, race relations and the birth of modern medicine during an explosive time in American history. At the CW, Cross joins Urman’s Jane The Virgin , a drama based on the Venezuelan telenovela Juana La Virgen. The project, which Urman exec produces with Gary Pearl, Jorge Granier and Ben Silverman, was one of the first buys for this development cycle . It centers on Jane, a hard- working, religious girl who, due to a series of outrageous events, is accidentally artificially inseminated. Fox’s Sober Companion, which Urman is writing/exec producing with David Rosenthal, is an odd couple-esque comedy in which an out of control lawyer is forced to enlist a sober companion in order to get his life back on track.
Source: deadline
The CW’s Cross, written by Urman, is set in the 19th Century and centers on 22-year old Eliza who secretly assumes her recently deceased twin brother Thomas’ identity and takes his job working in a Boston hospital as a doctor’s apprentice. The drama explores gender politics, race relations and the birth of modern medicine during an explosive time in American history. At the CW, Cross joins Urman’s Jane The Virgin , a drama based on the Venezuelan telenovela Juana La Virgen. The project, which Urman exec produces with Gary Pearl, Jorge Granier and Ben Silverman, was one of the first buys for this development cycle . It centers on Jane, a hard- working, religious girl who, due to a series of outrageous events, is accidentally artificially inseminated. Fox’s Sober Companion, which Urman is writing/exec producing with David Rosenthal, is an odd couple-esque comedy in which an out of control lawyer is forced to enlist a sober companion in order to get his life back on track.
Source: deadline
Yep, Jane the Virgin still sounds ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteSo Urman attempts a medical drama, which are notoriously difficult to keep on air, and decides to follow that up with a 19th century medical drama at the same network? Brilliant.
ReplyDeleteOMFG i just gasp at "Juana La Vigen" that was one the most Sucesfull Telenovelas here in my country (im Venezuelan btw) it was incredibly good i still remember the finale.. great Memories btw :D .. I`ll definetly gonna watch that but they need to Rename it.. Jane The Virgin just does not work just leave with "Virgin" and let everyone go crazy for the title
ReplyDeleteDo they want to add some more twists to that medical drama? I don't know... The girl could be a vampire...
ReplyDeleteHow does someone get "accidentally artificially
ReplyDeleteinseminated"?
It sounds like one of those bad jokes about people accidentally going through gender-exchange surgery.
ReplyDeleteNot a fan of her work personally
ReplyDeleteEmily Owens was a slow burner but I grew to love it so much (still bitter about cancellation) so I have hope for these.
ReplyDeletefall into a bucket of semen
ReplyDeleteKay so if Reign survives (big "IF") I can see Cross being considered as a companion show for that. Having said that: meh....
ReplyDeleteJane the Virgin sounds ridiculous, and I really hope it actually never makes it on the air....
Sober Companion might be fun, but that will all be reliant on execution....
So high on the list of 'not my cuppa'
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