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DEVELOPMENT
HISTORY:
12/11/13
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12/9/16
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STATUS:
previously in development (2017-2018 season) |
DEVELOPMENT STAGE:
script (with penalty) |
DESCRIPTION:
(from Spike TV's press release, December 2013) Spike TV and FremantleMedia North America (FMNA) in association with Random House Television Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, have joined forces to develop a script for a new original series based on the best-selling novel "Basket Case" by prominent author and journalist Carl Hiaasen. The plot of "Basket Case" focuses on a great investigative reporter who has trouble dealing with authority, change, women, success, and most of all, corruption. The family-run newspaper he works for is sold to a giant, international conglomerate and after he savages the new and very powerful owner in a video on the paper's website, he is demoted to the lowest position on the paper, the obituary desk. Obits, however, provide a new perspective into crime-ridden Miami and he soon learns that they are a unique window into suspicious deaths and weird goings on. Using an unusual team of friends, relatives, an ex-wife, newspaper misfits, and his beautiful new boss, he strives to regain his investigative credibility and a saner life. |
CREW INFORMATION:
· Alex Taub as CRTR/EP (Spike TV)
· Carl Hiaasen as BOOK
· Carl Hiaasen as BOOK/EP
· Craig Cegielski as EP (Spike TV)
· Jason Winer as EP
· Jeff Eastin as CRTR/EP
· Jeffrey Levine as EP (Spike TV)
· Liz Glotzer as EP (Spike TV)
· Peter Gethers as EP (Spike TV)
· Rob Reiner as EP/DIR (Spike TV)
· Stefanie Berk as EP (Spike TV)
· Thom Beers as EP (Spike TV)
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GENRE(S):
· drama
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STUDIO INFORMATION:
· 20th Century Fox Television
· Castle Rock Entertainment
· FremantleMedia North America
· Random House Television Productions
· Small Dog Picture Company, The
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