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

NBC has made the purchase-hour drama pitch The Meadows from husband & wife Memphis Beat designers Liz Garcia and Joshua Harto, while Jamie Tarses’ The new sony TV-based company has offered 2 more comedy pitches, Teresa Strasser’s Mother Teresa to ABC as well as an untitled David Lampson/Andrew Leeds project to Fox. Referred to like a complex, high stakes, character-driven drama that happens in the sixties and also the present, The Meadows is going to be executive created by Scott Stuber and the development executive Quan Phung through Universal Television where Stuber Pictures comes with an overall deal. The result is 2 parallel story lines: Within the 60s, Lucia ‘Lucy’ Cortes, a Mexican-American lady who’s fled an abusive marriage together with her 12 year-old boy Tommy, begins her existence in Vegas. In current day, Tommy is really a effective, enigmatic casino owner poised being the King of Las vegas. The show stories the way the outsider in the wrong side from the tracks could rise into the top and explores the dark mystery that intends to consider everything away from him. Garcia and Harto, repped by CAA and Madhouse Entertainment, would be the designers/executive producers of TNT Memphis Beat, that is around the bubble after finishing its second season. Furthermore, Garcia is writing the feature French Women Don’t Eat Body fat for Hillary Swank to create for Alcon Entertainment. ABC’s single-camera Mother Teresa is going to be compiled by Teresa Strasser according to her book Taking advantage of My Baby: Since It’s Taking advantage of Me. It focuses on a functional mother whose slightly estranged, hippy mother returns to reside together to consider proper care of the brand new baby. The Lampson/Leeds comedy at Fox is all about a bigger-than-existence family guy who constantly finds themself excessively active in the lives of individuals around him to assist them to achieve their full potential.