Media Bites-April 5 2010

TV Pilot Update:

Tiffany (CBS) Network profiles:

Cops. FBI, medical dramas and and a 70's re-dux

ATF
Sony Pictures TV/CBS Studios
Michael Dinner (w, d, ep), Sarah Timberman (ep), Carl Beverly (ep)
An ATF agent hunts down criminals while trying to balance life as a father to his teenage daughter.
Dylan Walsh

Chaos
20th Century Fox TV
Tom Spezialy (w, ep), Brett Ratner (d, ep), Martha Haight (ep)
Rogue CIA operatives combat bureaucratic gridlock, rampant incompetence and political infighting.
Freddy Rodriguez, Eric Close, James Murray, Tim Blake Nelson, Carmen Ejogo

Criminal Minds spinoff (planted spinoff)
ABC Studios/CBS Studios
Chris Mundy (w, ep), Mark Gordon (w, ep), Ed Bernero (exec consultant), Deborah Spera (ep), Richard Shepard (d)
Revolves around profilers who work outside the FBI bureaucracy.
Forest Whitaker, Matt Ryan,
Beau Garrett, Michael Kelly

Defenders
CBS Television Studios
Niels Mueller (w, ep), Kevin Kennedy (w, ep), Carol Mendelsohn (ep), Joe Gantz (ep), Harry Gantz (ep), Davis Guggenheim (d)
Two fiery Las Vegas defense attorneys go to the mat for their clients.
>Jim Belushi, Tanya Fischer, Jurnee Smollett

Hawaii Five-o
CBS Television Studios
Roberto Orci (w, ep), Alex Kurtzman (w, ep), Peter Lenkov (w, ep), Len Wisman (d, ep)
Updated take on the original series revolving around an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police.
Alex O'Loughlin, Daniel Dae Kim , Grace Park, Taryn Manning

I Witness (rollover from last year)
CBS Television Studios
Trey Calloway (w, ep), Pam Veasey (w, ep)
A detective/professor uses her psycho-physiological skills to solve crimes.

The Odds
Warner Bros. TV/Silver Pictures
Jeff Wadlow (w, ep), Joel Silver (ep), Ian Biederman (ep), Ken Fink (d)
Buddy-cop show set in Las Vegas.
Sullivan Stapleton, Donald Faison, Jacob Vargas, Kelly Hu, Emily Swallow

The Quinn-Tuplets (presentation)
CBS Television Studios
Mike Kelley (w, ep), Giyora Yahalom (ep), Oren Jakobi (ep), Yona Wiesenthal (ep), Eilon Ratzkovsky (ep), Arik Kneller (co-ep), Chris Kelley (w, p), Mimi Leder (d)
Follows the personal and professional lives of the Quinn quintuplets -- five adults whose lives were documented and broadcast since birth.
Amber Tamblyn, Kenneth Mitchell, Sam Witwer, David Giuntoli, Juliette Goglia