He’ll pen the comedy alongside Peter Warren (MTV’s Happyland) and executive produce with the Tannenbaum Co.’s Eric and Kim Tannenbaum. Overall, Limitless marks CBS’ sixth drama pilot order of the season - off three from a year ago.įor its part, the O’Shannon comedy hails from CBS Television Studios and marks the Modern Family alum’s first pickup via his new overall deal with the studio. Key to the remakes is having the original producers on board, as CBS does with Rush Hourand Fox with Minority Report. Limitless also marks the third feature film-to-TV remake to advance to the pilot stage, following a wave of adaptations this past development season as networks look to cut through the clutter in an increasingly competitive scripted landscape.
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CBS’ Limitless marks the first TV foray for Cooper and Phillips’ newly formed production company.ĬBS’ Limitless also arrives as Kurtzman and Orci already have three series on the air: Fox’s Sleepy Hollow, CBS’ Hawaii Five-0 and rookie Scorpion, the latter of which has been renewed for a second season in 2015-16. Neil Burger, who directed the original feature, is also on board to executive produce and will helm the pilot. Leslie Dixon, who wrote the screenplay for the feature alongside Scott Kroopf, who produced the movie, are attached as producers. The company’s Andrew Marcus and Ray Ricord will co-executive produce. Relativity Television’s Ryan Kavanaugh, Tucker Tooley and Tom Forman will also executive produce. Cooper and Todd Phillips will executive produce through their Yet To Be Named Co. The company’s Heather Kadin will also executive produce.
Read more TV Pilots 2015: The Complete GuideĬraig Sweeny ( Elementary, Medium) will pen the script and executive produce the CBS Television Studios drama alongside Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orcivia their studio-based K/O Paper Products banner.
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