SPT lines up five broadcast series

LA SCREENINGS: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) will have five new broadcast series to screen to buyers next week, plus new dramas for Hulu and Crackle and a UK threesome.

Comedy

Imaginary Friend Hazy Mills Productions, Sony Pictures Television, ABC Studios. Single-camera comedy about an intelligent but unmotivated woman who uncovers an unusual way to get more out of life. From the team behind The Goldbergs, the comedy will air mid-season on ABC.

Kevin Can Wait CBS TV Studios, Hey Eddie Productions, Sony Pictures TV. Multi-camera comedy about a retired cop who finds life at home is tougher than on the streets. Ordered straight to series. It will air Mondays at 20.30 from this fall, moving to 20.00 in October.

The Blacklist: Redemption stars Ryan Eggold and
Famke Janssen

Drama

The Blacklist: Redemption John Eisendrath Productions, Flatwater Scribe, Davis Entertainment, Sony Pictures TV. An undercover operative is recruited into a secret military organization that takes the impossible assignments governments and corporations must otherwise disavow. Then show is for a mid-season slot on NBC.

Timeless Sony Pictures TV, Davis Entertainment, MiddKid Productions, Kripke Enterprises. An unlikely trio travel through time to stop a master criminal changing history. The show fills the Monday 22.00 hour on NBC from this fall.

Notorious ABC Studios, The Firm, Osprey Productions, Sony Pictures TV. Based on a true-life story about an attorney and TV producer who join forces to control the media and the justice system. The show will air in the Thursday 21.00 slot on ABC from this fall.

The studio will also be screening StartUp, a Miami-set drama series produced by Critical Content and Hollywood Gang Productions for SPT-owned VoD service Crackle that it is distributing internationally. The show was ordered in January.

SPT will also be giving buyers a first look at previously announced projects Shut Eye (Hulu) and Satan’s Sister (VH1), plus three series being produced in the UK: Morning Has Broken (Channel 4), The Halcyon (ITV) and Electric Dreams: The World of Philip K Dick (Channel 4).

The studio’s good crop of new series from the Upfronts this week means it now has a total of 34 shows on 17 networks in the US.