ABC Orders Three Drama Pilots and Comedy Pilot from Kevin Hart

Forever, from former Chuck executive producer Matthew Miller, Lin Pictures and Warner Bros. TV, centers on Dr. Henry Morgan, New York City’smillermatt star medical examiner. But what no one knows is Henry studies the dead for a reason—he is immortal. With the help of detective Jo Martinez, we will peel back the layers of Henry’s colorful and long life through their cases. Miller wrote the script and executive produces with Lin Pictures’ Dan Lin and Jennifer Gwartz. Forever draws parallels to the short-lived 2008 Fox drama series New Amsterdam.

Crime thriller Exposed comes from writer Charles Randolph (Love and Other Drugs), Peter randolphTraugott’s TBD Entertainment, Sweden-based Yellow Bird Entertainment and Universal TV, where TBD is based. It is an adaptation of the best-selling novels by Liza Marklund that also were the basis for the hit Swedish drama series Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter, also produced by Yellow Bird. Exposed centers on an investigative journalist who will stop at nothing to uncover the truth including making questionable alliances. Randolph is executive producing with TBD’s Traugott and Rachel Kaplan and Yellow Bird’s Jenny Gilbertsson and Berna Levin.

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Amblin TV is teeing off another alien drama, which just received a pilot order at ABC. Titled The Visitors, the project is based on a Ray Bradbury short story called Zero Hour. Amblin TV is co-producing with Dawn Olmstead’s Grady Girl. Olmstead found the short story and brought it to Amblin TV, which Dawn Parouse Olmsteaddeveloped it with writer Soo Hugh, who has worked on Amblin’s The River and Under The Dome. The Visitors chronicles the race against the clock to defeat an unseen alien enemy out to destroy the world using our most precious resource against us. ABC Studios is producing. Olmstead and Hugh are exec producing along with Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey and Steven Spielberg.

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The network has given a cast-contingent pilot order to a multicamera comedy from hot actor-comedian Kevin Hart and former Community executive producers Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan. The untitled Kevin Hart project, which had a put pilot commitment, is based on Hart’s life and stand-up. Written by Goldman and Donovan, it takes a candid look at the post-divorce life of a couple trying to forge a friendship for the sake of their kids, despite differences. 20th Century Fox TV is producing, with Hart, his manager Dave Becky, Goldman and abc-logo__130925200531Donovan executive producing. If the project goes forward, Hart likely will play a recurring role.

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