Two Comedy Projects Land At NBC, ABC

Two players from NBC's Thursday comedy block, Parks & Recreation co-star Adam Scott and Community co-executive producer Hilary Winston, have teamed to produce My Son Gomez, a new single-camera comedy project for the network. Meanwhile, actor-turned-writer Ryan Raddatz (This Might Hurt) has sold Change of Plans, a multi-camera comedy to ABC with veteran Marsh McCall as showrunner.

My Son Gomez is in the vein of About a Boy and focuses on a slick womanizing bachelor who takes in a kid with no place to go. The project was created and is being written by Winston through her overall deal at Sony TV and set up at NBC through the blind script deal Scott and his wife Naomi Scott have there. All three will executive produce the project, to which Adam Scott is not attached to star as he is committed to Parks & Rec. The comedy's 3rd season kicks off on Jan. 20. On the feature side, Adam Scott is negotiations to join Ted, Seth MacFarlane's comedy for Universal, while Winston is writing an adaptation of her upcoming book for Lorne Michaels and Paramount. The book, My Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me: And Other Stories I Shouldn't Share with Acquaintances, Co-workers, Taxi Drivers, Assistants, Job Interviewers, Bikini ... and Ex/ Current/ Future Boyfriends But Have, comes out next spring. Adam and Naomi Scott are with CAA and Untitled; Wintson is with ICM.

Change of Plans, from ABC Studios and Mandeville, is about a Midwestern family running a small business out of their living room. Raddatz is with ICM and the Gotham Group, McCall is with CAA.

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Eva Longoria And Kathryn Morris Team For Soap At ABC, One of 3 Projects For Longoria

Two TV leading ladies, Desperate Housewives' Eva Longoria and former Cold Case star Kathryn Morris are behind Sendera, a Texas border town soap that is in the works at ABC. Additionally, Longoria and her Unbelievable Entertainment are producing two other projects, Parenting by Committee, a single-camera comedy at ABC and Aztec, a potential mini-series for Starz executive produced by Alfonso Arau.

Sendera, from Unbelievable, Morris' Hotplate Prods. and ABC Studios, is described as a modern day Shakespearean drama about two wealthy families, one from Texas the other from Mexico, locked in a struggle for power, land, sex and legacy. Morris developed the project with Alan Barnette, Josh Gold and Sally Robinson, with Robinson set to write the script. Morris, Barnette and Robinson are executive producing with Texas born-and-raised Parker and Unbelievable's Virginia Trinkle.

Parenting by Committee, from writers Alyssa Embree and Jessica Koosed, Unbelievable and ABC Studios,?is about four single women who find their lives completely changed when one discovers she is having a baby. The four proceed to raise the boy without a man via parenting by committee.

On Aztec, which is being eyed as a 8-part mini-series for Starz, Longoria joins original executive producers Arau and Grant Turck. Based on the best-selling book by?Gary Jennings, it is set in Tenochtitlan during its empirical height just prior to its fall to Spanish invaders.?Nicholas Meyer (The Odyssey) is writing the script.?Longoria is with CAA and Management 360. Morris, who recently wrapped Moneyball, is with Gersh and Mosaic.

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"Family Guy Alex Borstein signs a Deal With TV's 20th for live-action and animation projects."

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday 24 October 2010 @ 8: 00 pm PDT

20Th Century Fox TV has big plans for Alex Borstein, which expresses the hit animated comedy Studio Family Guy acts. Actor-writer has signed an agreement with the studio for developing, writing and executive produced two projects would potentially star comedy-animation and live action. In addition, 20th TV has signed a talent which deal with Borstein other writers would too develop for it, and it may be expressed in an existing project.Borstein was the Fox family for 13 years - as a songwriter on late-night comedy sketches the Mad TV network where she created such memorable characters as Ms. Swan and a cast member on 20 key / comedy Family Guy, on which she has also served as a writer-producer of Fox.Elle also made a spectacle of varieties with Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, broadcast on Fox as an extraordinary.

20Th TV President Gary Newman noted that studios are missing some time that they have in their backyard while looking for the closing of the proverbial greener grass gems, but he and his colleague Dana Walden President wanted to happen with Borstein which he called 'a remarkably talented person'. ""What I like about it is it brings a persona and attitude" something that distinguishes great comedy these past 20 years as Roseanne, Seinfeld, Home Improvement, officials said Newman. "Alex is a funny little nerve how dark and witty surprisingly, something we want his new show to catch."

Borstein is already strong working on its development."I would like to do a lively show directed at female that does not really exist on Fox; I think it would be really cool to have a lively show he has some power of ovary," she said, adding that it is the first step in a larger female domination plan: "first show animated with an advance of female), then the House white." ""As for its live-action project "I love together show mostly because I'm lazy and do not have to work on camera," she famous disait.Borstein WME-repped is currently expanding in another domain with his drama first writing gig of ShowTime next adaptation of the series British engineer.

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