Memphis Beat Designers Sell Drama To NBC, Jamie Tarses Produces Two More Comedies

NBC makes the acquisition-hour drama pitch The Meadows from husband & wife Memphis Beat designers Liz Garcia and Joshua Harto, while Jamie Tarses’ The brand new the new sony TV-based company has offered 2 more comedy pitches, Teresa Strasser’s Mother Teresa to ABC plus an untitled David Lampson/Andrew Leeds project to Fox. Known to love an intricate, high stakes, character-driven drama that occurs within the sixties as well as the present, The Meadows will probably be executive produced by Scott Stuber and also the development executive Quan Phung through Universal Television where Stuber Pictures posseses an overall deal. It makes sense 2 parallel story lines: Inside the 60s, Lucia ‘Lucy’ Cortes, a Mexican-American lady who’s fled an abusive marriage along with her 12 year-old boy Tommy, starts her existence in Las vegas. In present day, Tommy can be a effective, enigmatic casino owner poised being the King of Vegas. The show tales how a outsider within the wrong side in the tracks could rise in to the top and explores the dark mystery that expects to think about everything away from him. Garcia and Harto, repped by CAA and Madhouse Entertainment, will be the designers/executive producers of TNT Memphis Beat, that's round the bubble after finishing its second season. In addition, Garcia is writing the feature French Women Don’t Eat Body body fat for Hillary Swank to produce for Alcon Entertainment. ABC’s single-camera Mother Teresa will probably be put together by Teresa Strasser based on her book Benefiting from My Baby: Because It’s Benefiting from Me. It concentrates on a practical mother whose slightly estranged, hippy mother returns to reside in together to think about proper proper care of the completely new baby. The Lampson/Leeds comedy at Fox is about a larger-than-existence family guy who constantly finds themselves excessively mixed up in lives of people around him to assist them achieve their full potential.