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[01/20/09 - 06:31 PM]
Development Update: Tuesday, January 20
Updates include: FOX orders seven pilots, including three dramas and four comedies; while Kurt Fuller is set to go "Legally Mad" for NBC.
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[01/06/09 - 06:50 PM]
Development Update: Tuesday, January 6
Updates include: Christine Lahti and Johnny Sneed added to "Operating Instructions" at USA; and writer/director Richard LaGravenese gets in business with Showtime.
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[12/08/08 - 06:48 PM]
Development Update: Monday, December 8
Updates include: ABC to bring Bill Willingham's comic "Fables" to the small screen; Showtime to look at our "Syns"; and USA pilots add cast members.
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[10/30/08 - 06:31 PM]
Development Update: Thursday, October 30
Updates include: Courteney Cox and Bill Lawrence move into "Cougar Town" at ABC; Emily Rose to topline USA's "Operating Instructions"; and Lennon Parham lands the female lead on FOX's "Boldly Going Nowhere."
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[09/17/08 - 06:46 PM]
Development Update: Wednesday, September 17
Updates include: USA orders "Operating Instructions" to pilot; George Noory returns to Sci Fi; and FOX to revisit the classic Walt Disney tale of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
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[07/20/08 - 01:24 PM]
USA Network Announces New Cast of Characters on Its Development Slate
A slate of three new pilot scripts, COVERT AFFAIRS, OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS and STIFFS, were announced today.
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DEVELOPMENT
HISTORY:
7/20/08
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1/20/09
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STATUS:
previously in development (2009-2010 season) |
DEVELOPMENT STAGE:
ordered to pilot |
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
90 minutes |
DESCRIPTION:
(from USA's press release) A top female trauma surgeon returns home from the horrors of Iraq to take a job at an inner-city hospital. As she immediately sets about saving lives, she quickly realizes that her battlefield exercises hardly prepared her for the ludicrous bureaucratic minefields of today's public health system and the romantic war games she's about to engage. From Conaco and Universal Cable Studios, written and executive produced by Judd Pillot and John Peaslee ("According To Jim," "8 Simple Rules," "Just Shoot Me"). Executive produced by Conan O'Brien ("Andy Barker, P.I."). and David Kissinger ("Andy Barker, P.I."). |
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Assaf Cohen as Eli Funston
· Christine Lahti as Cmdr. Helen Keller
· Diana Maria Riva as Amani
· Emily Rose as Lt. Rachel Scott
· Johnny Sneed as Capt. Will McKay
· Nick Zano as Luke
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CREW INFORMATION:
· Andy Tennant as DIR (Pilot)
· Conan O'Brien as EP
· David Kissinger as EP
· John Peaslee as CRTR/EP
· Judd Pillot as CRTR/EP
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GENRE(S):
· drama
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STUDIO INFORMATION:
· Conaco Productions
· Universal Cable Productions
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