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DARK HORIZONSAn FBI Agent wakes up with no memories in a post-apocalyptic New York City to find that an unknown catastrophe has annihilated all life on earth. Or has it? |
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SolAfter a shocking assassination, citizen and soldier alike plunge into a sinister interplanetary civil war between a corrupt Earth government and a Martian colony that has earned its independence. Script Excerpt |
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BluebirdsA young, female pilot, tasked with delivering warplanes to the RAF during World War Two, battles to prove herself against friend and foe alike in the skies above war-torn England. |
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EVOLUTIONThe crew of EVOLUTION comes out of hyper sleep after one hundred years from launch and the first thing the crew wants is to take over the ship from the original crew, all robots. |
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AsomniaA trauma surgeon discovers that an alertness drug taken by nearly all American adults – including her and her family – has irreversible side effects that will gradually destroy the sanity of all its long-term users by making them unable to sleep. |
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BEYOND HOLLYWOODTrue story of movie star-turned-inventor Jon Hall and the infamous Howard Hughes who together secretly build a revolutionary auto engine that runs on water. A tale of a tempestuous friendship between two remarkable dreamers, risking the wrath of an automobile and oil industry that unleashes all its power to stop them. One man a legend, the other an unsung hero who aspired to go "beyond Hollywood". Script Excerpt |
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FabricationsEpisode: A recovered addict hitching rides to track down her abducted six-year-old son joins forces with a mistrustful independent trucker to combat the first wave of an alien invasion hidden in his sealed cargo. "Night Haul" Series logline: Resourceful ordinary people exploit diverse survival talents and the ability to stay mobile to defeat an alien conspiracy that has compromised the forces of law and order – if they can solve their mutual distrust. Script Excerpt |
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CadicleWhen a teenage girl from Earth begins training as an elite officer in the galactic military, her instant connection to a gifted young man places her at the center of a secret interdimensional war. |
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CaravaggioCaravaggio, an unrepentant rogue with a penchant for violence, becomes the most famous religious painter in Rome until forced to flee across Italy to escape Vatican assassins, leaving a trail of broken lives and beautiful paintings in his wake. |
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MASONWhen a kind-hearted but mentally unstable boy transfers to a tough inner city school, a devoted school counselor must bring out the best in him before he reaches his breaking point and puts the other children in grave danger. Script Excerpt |
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The ProtégéAn esteemed Psychology Professor uses her expertise to help authorities solve her clients’ murders. However, as evidence emerges, it appears that the professor is not who she seems to be. |
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Free Sports RadioTwo brothers purchase a radio station in a small city, dreaming of commercial free sports talk. Script Excerpt |
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The Third TierAmidst the lush illusions of the Gilded Age, THE THIRD TIER follows a young woman from the New York City slums who avoids execution by becoming the sexual pawn of a politically ambitious judge, but she soon discovers that death may have been the better choice. |
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The ConsultantsIn 1920s Hollywood, two amateur forensic scientists -- a buttoned up Midwestern do-gooder and a fast-talking Angeleno who's one step away from being a criminal himself -- open a consulting detective agency with the help of a disgraced cop, a flapper and a morbid nurse fresh from the front lines of World War I. Think CSI without all that pesky technology. |
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Wait A Minute Mr. PostmanA recently widowed baby boomer who happens to be a postal worker, is forced to learn how to navigate through life without his wife. |
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The Daffodil FieldA young Irish patriot returns wounded from the First World War at Easter 1916. When his little brother joins The Rising, the patriot must decide where his loyalties truly lie. |
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On the Bright Side"On The Bright Side" is a series about three best friends who know how to look for the silver lining in any situation (no matter how grim). |
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Stumptown RecordsFresh out of high school, a Portland youth promises his dying mother that he will remain a virgin until he finds a pure Christian girl to marry, but he’s a musician working in Oregon’s largest, hippest record store with a ragtag group of musician friends that aren’t making it very easy for him to keep his promise. |
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Pilot The Calvary IncidentGreen Berets and Marines time-jump to save history by killing a rogue SEAL team bent on rescuing Jesus from the Cross inadvertently leaving the 21st century a frozen, unrecognizable wasteland. Script Excerpt |
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The Chain - Francisco PizarroA West Indies Native and a Franciscan Friar embark on an Amazon expedition with legendary conquistador Francisco Pizarro in search of a city of gold. But instead of finding riches, they unleash a curse that affects centuries of historic leaders and trailblazers. |
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See Ya TomorrowDesperate to stop a tragic event in her past, a quick-witted security expert travels back to her first day of work at a low-rent time travel agency, and attempts to hijack her younger self’s life. Script Excerpt |
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The Pursuit"To help ease the burden of their financial problems, four blue-collared friends pursue a new, dangerous, and reckless lifestyle of robbing banks to provide for their families." Script Excerpt |
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The Strange Reality of Sally ParkerPILOT: Benevolent aliens risk their lives to rescue one of their own and ensure the safety of a beloved teenage cyborg, engineered for a future mission. SERIES: A teen cyborg engineered to help perfect a mind-altering computer game, battles a psychopathic CIA operative and a gang of alien marauders, intent on enslaving Earth. Script Excerpt |
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On the BoulevardRecently deputized U.S. ICE agent, Stella Arroyo, a first generation Mexican-American is getting closer to the American dream that her immigrant parents wanted for her, but to fulfill their wishes she must expose a corrupt system and keep others from obtaining their own American dream. |
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Sunflower CareSunflower Care is a comedy television pilot about a cantankerous eighty-five year-old nursing home resident who battles wits with the grim reaper in an attempt to stay alive. |
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Mephisto's ProtegeWhen your guardian angel may be the Devil’s agent and you’re a nice guy wrongly accused and imprisoned for life; revenge is a compelling game plan. Script Excerpt |
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New BunkervilleAfter a woman awakens in a post-apocalyptic bunker society, her happy, robot-filled existence starts to unravel when she discovers she's actually a very dead zombie. |
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NEVERMOREEdgar Allan Poe, poet, author and detective, investigates a series of mysterious murders - including that of his own wife - in an alt-history 1847 Baltimore. Script Excerpt |
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GOOD GRIEF: NewbornA woman - recently released from a mental institution - relocates to an idyllic town, only to move next door to the woman who stole her child a decade before. |
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Promises, PromisesLife crisis. Mid-life crisis. And, after life crisis. A middle-aged newlywed couple handles their careers while dealing with his annoying ex-wife, her eccentric thirteen year old love child, and the frighteningly obnoxious, very dead ex-husband. Script Excerpt |
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DEEP BLUE: NYC Transit PoliceTV Series treatment and pilot script featuring the legendary NYC Transit Police Department, which patrolled New York's vast subway system and was credited with maintaining record low subway crime statistics in the early 1990s. *Series creator, Ben Fiore, is a former NYC Transit Police Officer. |
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Go To HealthSix lovable, diverse characters working in a West LA health club endure day-to-day zany antics as they aspire to get anywhere in life. |
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KINGDOM OF GAMALOS AND RAGS BETTER BE UNITED OR THE DEEP FORCE WILL ANNIHILATE THEM BOTH Script Excerpt |
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Never a Dull MomentA view of the modern world of real estate, where like a dysfunctional family, the agents interact with each other and their clients. The agents face each day ready for anything…and get it.. Sometimes comedic, sometimes pure drama, sometimes bordering on tragedy and, yes, danger. An ensemble cast with lots of stories yet untold, this Real Estate team is ready to entertain you. |
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Second Chance InnThe Second Chance inn exists only for those who are expected. Run by two angels, one an uncontrollable meddler, and the custodians of the Inn, former guests who received their second chance, and who stay until it’s time to pass the custodianship on to others, and until they in turn pass it on…and on….and on. |
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S.I.N. Service Industry NetworkQuality's a town that facilitates DNA testing unbeknownst to the populous. The truth begins to unveil as townsfolk begin to die and a search for a missing youth ensues. They must be stopped before it’s too late but who’s in on it, what secrets do they share and who are the clones? Script Excerpt |
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The Flower Shop (1-hour teen fantasy / dramady version)After a 19-year-old girl learns that she's half-human and half-witch, her life takes a complicated turn, more so now that her step-brother's selling their father's only memory: The Flower Shop, and an evil warlock is after her magical powers. Script Excerpt |
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OsceolaWhen treaties are broken and the Seminole chiefs are coerced into signing away their land, Osceola takes the lead in urging the Seminoles ad their black allies to fight for freedom and justice. Script Excerpt |
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TinaThriller based in California Shy meets Love Crazy— A modern day drama set in the suburbs. Tina is a young girl who can’t take rejection she is determined to get what she wants no matter what. Tina’s father left her mother at a young age and never was involved in Tina’s life. Tina hides the pain through dressing up as anime characters and sinister games. Jaques likes Tina as a friend, but to Tina that is more than enough. While everyone is at the bonfire, Jaques arrives home early because he has to housesit. He thinks he is alone but Tina has been waiting for him and she has a game she likes to play. |
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RuthlessWhile investigating a missing child case, a female detective realizes the case is closer to home than she thinks, which leads her on an emotional, soul-searching journey. Script Excerpt |
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Harold ‘n’ GeorgeHarold and George are two old men living in a care home. When Harold discovers that George has a glass eye they decide to get up to lots of mischief. Spying on their neighbour Mrs Huddersfield |
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$ecret$Ongoing series – Psychological Thriller / Financial-Legal Drama Concept Based on the Career of Dan Gallagher MBA, CLU, ChFC, CFP®, CBI TV Series Pilot Narrative, Teleplay & Episodes by Dan Gallagher Script Excerpt |
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Ancient of GenesA geneticist’s regeneration of Ice Age animals & humans is stolen and becomes the basis for genetic warfare weapons – and the prophesied Resurrection of the Dead. Script Excerpt |
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Within The FamilyA soap opera set in two fictional Texas towns centered around two different families. |
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Labor PainsLabor Pains is a situation comedy that concerns itself with the day to day conflicts between Management and Labor in the Human Resources office of a manufacturing plant. |
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Bleeding LiesA washed up detective is forced into retirement until he finds out his neglected daughter is missing and the police have no clues. |
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The Casey PrincipleLogline: A down and out Private Eye's supposedly simple surveillance case leads to the murder of a “trust fund kid” and a search for the elusive client that vanished after the crime. As Duncan pursues the truth, old adversaries and a lead to her missing son challenge her physical and mental health, pushing her closer to the edge. Script Excerpt |
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Harlem Hell FIghtersThe story of the 369th U.S. Infantry Regiment and the African American volunteers from New York who formed this "first of its kind" unit which was transferred to the French Army where they never lost a man captured, an inch of ground or a trench taken during World War I. |
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ConundrumBLUE, a 5 year old child, develops a form of mutism after an event occurring during a school-trip to a farm. None of the people close to her - family, teachers - will ever know what has happened, but the lives of all of them will be tragically affected by that event. |
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Starving Writers GuildThree impoverished writers abandoned and living on minnimum wage decide to team up and take the entertainment industry on togther. They pick up other talented impovershed people to complete their new talent agency along the way, becoming " The Starving Writer's Guild" Called SWG (pronounced "swag" in the show) |
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Labor PainsLabor Pains is a situation comedy that concerns itself with the day to day conflicts between Management and Labor in the Human Resources office of a manufacturing plant. Script Excerpt |
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Don't forget to be dopeTrying to understand why he’s not further along in his career, the self-described "world’s most okayest dj" recaps his career/life up to this point, and answers every question you did not know you had about djing. Script Excerpt |
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Lane BeachA gangster destroys all of his rival gangsters and his fellow gangsters for revenge and takes over as an another don. |
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Your Local LibraryGlenn Eastwick begins his life anew working at a quirky library branch nestled in the tropics of Southwest Florida. |
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I AM SAMA space alien is abandoned on earth by her comrades and must pretend to become a boy, in order to satisfy her new roommate situation. Sam, the alien, befriends a young boy and his older brother, his friends and roommates. |
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The Keys to EarthWhen a lesbian psychic detective goes from saving dogs to saving Earth. |
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DuquesneThis is the story of ambitious Frederick Joubert Duquesne, leader of the biggest spy ring of America during the 20th century. |
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COMING OF AGEIt's 1965 and Charlotte, a 13 yr old, English, parochial school girl confronts her sexuality when her stage-manager mother, finding her husband in their bed with the au père girl, yanks Charlotte away from him and plunges her into the capsizing world of a live theatre tour. |
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The AfflictionConsumed by desire and pain, victims are offered an opportunity by a private organization at violent revenge to the ones who wronged them. However, it comes with a price. Script Excerpt |
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The Brothers BoudinotDistressed by PTSD nightmares from the war in Afghanistan, an American soldier searches for Confederate gold buried by his Cherokee ancestor General Stand Watie. |
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CrossroadsFour high tech criminals are given an opportunity to get out of prison and help the government solve its biggest cyber terror cases. After the Democratic National Convention is hacked by Russians again, the FBI recruits a group of convicted hackers to find and stop them. |
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MOW Not About MoneyAfter receiving a long overdue promotion, a women’s career is soon undermined by her male counterparts and she is forced to fight back. |
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Emerald Green EyesThe top world governments will stop at nothing to destroy the reincarnated emerald green-eyed superheroes and their elixir that stops, cures and prevents all diseases known to mankind. |
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ALIEN SOLDIERA young trapper tastes the blue blood of a Sky Warrior and becomes a Star Blue soldier. Now immortal and able to mutate into any human form he soldiers in America’s wars, for one-hundred years. |
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In The CutIn The Cut follows two street smart, dysfunctional best friends turned business partners, Nita James and Will Durado, she's fiery and unpredictable, he's driven and neurotic, as they kiss the corporate music world goodbye to start their own indie label. Now Will & Nita run the show, call the shots and occasionally let their ego and pride sidetrack their dreams as they struggle to achieve success … on their own terms. |
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SKIN"Skin” is a half-hour scripted comedy about 2 families at the cross roads of their lives, each searching for a new beginning … in the adult entertainment industry. |
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GALERIJAs an art authenticator collects twelve 17th century Dutch Brohm family portraits, she learns the dangers of reuniting the portraits—the Galerij—when an art expert warns her the collection will revive the Brohm family and unleash them into present day society, where they'll resume control over and castrate European trade. |
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Saving Keylan MillarPilot: When Victor spirals out of control from grief, head firefighter, Keylan Millar, does his best to bring his closest friend and ‘2-IC’ back from the brink of despair. Mini-Series: Head firefighter and vigilante, Keylan Millar, determined to expose a web of corruption and violence, presents his nemesis the opportunity to bury him when taking the rap for the death of a friend. |
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RUN! RUN! RUN! - THE LIVES OF ABBIE HOFFMAN (Revised Pilot - May/'19)When he "punks" the NY Stock Exchange, highjacks the Democratic National Convention, saves Woodstock and "levitates" the Pentagon - '60s-'70s political/cultural zeitgeist Abbie. Hoffman barely survives a brutal-secret U.S. Government Vendetta to annihilate him only to face his most dangerous adversary: HIMSELF! |
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UNDER OLYMPUSA disgraced security expert who lost his family wanders the Caribbean islands on his boat as a criminal fixer for the underworld, until he's given a job as head of security at an isolated luxury resort on Olympus Island. He discovers an underground medical clinic, a cover for a criminal operation making illegal designer babies for wealthy guests. He's forced to escape the island, protecting the lives of two women and and an unborn child -- his own. Script Excerpt |
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Happy New YearFelicia hosts a New Year's Eve party only to have everyone leave to go to patient, Edna Stowell's, house which gets robbed. Script Excerpt |
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StarwatchIn the year 2075, the Starwatch court jurisdiction is created in the Asteroid Belt to ensure the survival of humanities new societies. To get a taste of the show, please go to www.starwatchthemovie.com and look at the trailer of the film on which the series is based. Script Excerpt |
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Enchanted GirlAn intern, a single mother, brings her 7 year old daughter to work with her in a county hospital. The daughter turns out to be surprisingly helpful. |
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Where Did Brent Come From?This episode reveals where the intern, Brent, came from. Script Excerpt |
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Class ReunionSandy pushes Al to go to his class reunion to face the demons of the four guys who tormented him in high school. Script Excerpt |
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Callie: Mob DarlingAmid a surprise divorce, a meek early 40s homemaker becomes a housekeeper to a mob family and starts emulating them to deal with her problems. |
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THE RANGERWhen an Army Ranger team is ambushed by the cartel, the surviving Ranger is joined by an Apache woman in his quest for vengeance. |
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Al CalenderRetired man takes job at a hospital because his wife refuses to retire only to discover his new boss is insane. Script Excerpt |
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The Flower Shop (half-hour teen fantasy / dramady version)A vibrant, positive girl who can converse with flowers and saplings learns that the beloved flower shop she works at is about to be shut down. While she tries to keep her spirits high, a mysterious customer eyes her for all the wrong reasons. Script Excerpt |
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DEAD STATESA group of resilient small town teens struggle to carve out a new future after a series of TEOTWAWKI events crush the U.S. power grid, destroying most of the population and forcing them to live by their wits, without adult interaction. Script Excerpt |
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Adult Sitcom Mini-Series:Nothing Sacred: Fate vs DestinyThe family must contend with severe water restrictions, fending off a desperate neighbor, while using son Bobby's position as a DWP stormtrooper to turn the situation to their advantage. Script Excerpt |
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The Divine SquadThree no-nonsense Nuns and a former Israeli Commando turned Rabbi inadvertently foil a crime and disband a known mob that leads them to become crime-solving experts. |
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NOT ANOTHER VAMPIRE STORY: Stripping by the PoolThirteen year old Sylvia meets Julia's new boyfriend Terry during a wardrobe malfunction; over dinner, Sylvia suspects there's something dark and maybe sinister in Terry's nature -- something best kept in the dark of night. With fangs. |
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Show Me The BargainREALITY TV PILOT LOGLINE: The HOST, two sidekicks, and camera crew scout the US in search of bargains on groceries, restaurants/eateries, clothing, amusements, and nightly entertainment. (30 minutes) |
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Louis A. Runs AlongLouis has been sober for years until he hops a bus for vacation where he meets a woman who steals his heart, and eventually his sobriety. Note: This script is the first episode in what will be a series. It is based on my short story that was awarded honorable mention in the Oregon Writers Colony Competition and a semi-finalist in the New Millennium Competition. |
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THE MISSING BIRDSEEDWhen Mr. Sandhill hires Cat Holmes and Bunny Watson to investigate why his daily birdseed vanishes too quickly, the animal detectives interview the locals to find a gluttonous villain. For the children's TV mystery series THE CAT HOLMES AND BUNNY WATSON MYSTERIES. |
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THE ANIMAL PAL SHOWA Game Warden hosts a quiz show for animals from different species to find out their compatibility with video clips of the animals in their natural environment. |
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DEATH CRUSHWhen two women cycle to a new winery, the find of a body in the grape crusher puts suspicion on one and later confinement on another. For the TV mystery series WINE CRIMES. |
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THE CUREThe Institute, a holistic healing retreat run by a charismatic doctor, claims a high success rate of recovery from addictions and mental illness with mind-altering drug therapy. A young woman hired on the staff of the Institute’s “Village” on a remote coastal island, begins to suspect something sinister going on. She investigates the doctor's cryptic medical practices, with chilling results. The more she uncovers, the more she imperils her life and her sanity. A New Age horror-thriller series, inspired by “The Stepford Wives”, the 1966 film “Seconds” and the true crime case of Dr. Linda Hazzard, the medical madwoman of Starvation Heights. Script Excerpt |
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S.O.B.A Texas police dispatcher adverse to guns and violence suspects his runaway teenage daughter has been kidnapped by human traffickers. He transfers as a cop to El Paso’s vice squad on a relentless mission to find her. The series follows a religious man’s journey into the heart of darkness, the world of “sexually oriented businesses”, and his sinister evolution into a criminal mind, in the style of Breaking Bad. Script Excerpt |
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Cherry HillIn 1870s Kansas, a pretty young widow falls into prostitution after her husband dies in a blizzard. She is soon drawn into the intrigues and passions of the region’s most powerful men. Script Excerpt |
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CITY DWELLERS (The Millennials)A Veteran FBI Agent outsmarts a cult of young cyber crooks. The crafty FBI Agent with the help of a New York Company that specializes in security services and equipment, tracks down, hunts and arrests a syndicate of interns working in these cities. It's MAD MEN meets CRIMINAL MINDS. Script Excerpt |
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Sandwich GenerationA white woman and her longtime Korean boyfriend have to take in their fathers, hers because he’s a broke compulsive gambler and his because his fifth wife just threw him out while a third generation gets added when they decide to foster an at-risk African American boy who keeps breaking into their garage to raid a box of porn magazines. Script Excerpt |
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THE WILD TRIBERaucous things are happening at Sunny Haven senior living! Growing weed in the basement to help supplement residents' Medicare is just one of them! |
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SunnysideQuirky young woman gets drunk on the job at a Silicon Valley company and ends up in a strange rehab. Script Excerpt |
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FUNERALS IN FERRAGAMOSMelanie Hutchison knows nothing about running the funeral business she inherited from her father. She follows the advice of his cross- dressing partner to produce outrageous, over-the-top send offs in the deep south with crazy outcomes! |
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San FranciscoA serio-comic soap (AKA- "Dramedy") with diverse and colorful characters and their "issues." |
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Post Your Script Here!AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A 14 year old preacher renounces his faith in God in the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter.
Tree of Hope
1928 Small town Police Chief searches for his missing six-year-old son among bootleggers, an outside investigator and false tips.
THE SOCIAL POLICE
Twenty years from now, an FBI agent patrols the social media This pilot streamer has it all.
LOTUS OPERANDI
This one is pure Fun.!It's a genre buster, Fosse/Verdon meets James Bond, meets All That Jazz and Cabaret! Asian American Black Belt goes undercover for the CIA, to help track down terrorists.
CURIOUS BUDDIES
It's not your mother's buddy movie.
CIRQUE D' ETOILES
*** Russian astronaut, thrown out of the space program, hijacks a space taxi going to the International Space Station.
NOCTUME'S RAINBOW
Kids and their dogs, find the rainbow bridge in a snowstorm.
Daughter of Job
Jemimah's comfortable family life attracts the devil's curse as was the case for Job in the Old Testament but this time mouthed by a local jealous gossip.
Blood of the Manor
An orphaned teen discovers the ancestral Gothic manor she inherits is her only protection from a deranged familial spirit out to kill her.
Formosus
A loyal Papal Guard Captain sets out to stop a megalomaniacal Countess from putting a dead pope on trial and seizing control of the Rome, the Senate and the Church.
