Fake Empire Comedy Among Latest Pilot Script Sales

Known mainly due to its hourlong series, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s Fake Empire has offered half-hour comedy pitch to Fox. The only real-camera comedy three childhood pals that are all now fathers with teenage sons, will probably be put together by Craig Schwartz who'll co-executive produce. Fake Empire’s Schwartz, Savage and Len Goldstein will executive produce for Warner Bros. TV. Fake Empire has 3 series round the air this season, NBC’s dramedy Chuck as well as the CW dramas Gossip Girl andHart of Dixie. Round the feature side, Schwartz, repped WME as well as the Gotham Group, soldBromance to Montecito and DreamWorks and Parents Weekend to Kopelson Entertainment. Author-director Nancy Hower and her writing/creating partner, actor John Lehr, have offered half-hour comedy pitch to NBC. Titled Retreat, the project is occur a business retreat. The acquisition is made from different demo Hower and Lehr shot, which Hower directed and Lehr starred in. The demo, produced in colaboration with EUE/Screengems, was probably helpful, since the duo relies on a hybrid scripted/improv style where their scripts are actually detailed but dont feature any dialogue. ABC has bought an untitled time travel drama project from author Scott Veach, with ABC Art galleries and Warren Littlefield creating. This marks a reunion of parties. A year ago, Veach, repped by CAA and Leverage, and Littlefield produced a drama for ABC and ABC Art galleries good book Capital of scotland - Dreams.

Dexter Scoop: Will Dexter Find a New Love This Season?

Dexter, Michael C Hall, Aimee Garcia After Dexter's titular character lost his wife to a devious serial killer and his girlfriend to a happier life without her Dark Passenger, Dexter (Michael C. Hall) is on his own this year as he tries to figure out single fatherhood. Fortunately, he'll have the help of the new nanny, Jaime Batista (Aimee Garcia), who happens to be the younger sister of Sgt. Angel Batista (David Zayas). Dexter Exclusive: In Season 6, Dexter finds... faith? Last season Dexter finally opened up to the possibility of love, so there's hope that a new relationship could blossom between the blood splatter expert and his child's caretaker, even if their dispositions are polar opposites. TVGuide.com chatted with Off the Map's Garcia, who also discusses Jaime's relationship with her brother and the constant danger a nanny to a serial killer faces, especially when she's practically living with him: What can you tell us about your character, Jaime? Aimee Garcia: She's a carefree, smart graduate student. She's studying Child Psychology, so being a nanny is a perfect job for her. She's a very good nanny and absolutely adores Harrison and equally adores Dexter and thinks he's the best dad in the world. She's completely unaware of his extracurricular activities. What is the dynamic like between Batista and his sister? Garcia: She has the typical little sister-older brother relationship where he gets super-protective, so much so it may get him into trouble. They have a good bond and healthy relationship. He's almost like a second father to her, though they didn't grow up in the same household. She's equally as protective of him, and she's realizing he's gone through a lot, with two divorces under his belt, and he loves the ladies, like any Cuban man would. Dexter exclusive: How far will Season 6 jump ahead in time? How does her carefree attitude compare to Dexter's dark side? Garcia: Dexter carries the weight of the world on his shoulders...all of his dark secrets weigh heavily on him. But Jamie has no cares in the world. She's fun, free and doesn't question if she's a good person. That'sthe kind of positive energy Dexter wants around Harrison. Dexter always has a cloud over his head, but she probably just thinks it's because he's stressed out at work and is a single dad. Their chemistry is great and their dynamic is interesting. It's a good mix where he's kind of death and she's almost life, kind of a yin-yang type of thing. Dexter's old nanny pushed Dexter to be more involved in Harrison's life. Will Jamie do the same? Garcia: She's very, very protective of Harrison and she actually doesn't have a beef with Dexter. She has a beef with somebody else who you'll see early on in the season who she goes toe-to-toe with. She doesn't really chastise Dexter. She lets things roll of her back. Because she's a student, she has tons of studying to do and she frequently spends the night in Harrison's apartment. She's also smart and very aware of what's going on with the late nights, but chalks it up to processing a really big loss in Rita [Julie Benz]. They're more buddies than being at loggerheads. Because Dexter was able to open himself up to the possibility of finding love, will a relationship develop between them? Garcia: Maybe. I can't say. I always joke about being on the show, I feel like I work for the CIA and on a need-to-know basis. I do know that they're in close quarters and she's basically the mother of his kid right now in raising him, changing his diapers and feeding him. Harrison means the world to Dexter, so anyone who's helping Harrison live a healthy life in his developmental years, obviously holds a good place in his heart. You only get one true love in every lifetime, so Lumen [Julia Stiles] was probably that for Dexter. Fall Preview: Get scoop on your favorite returning shows How do you think she would feel if she did find out his secret? Garcia: I think it's so out of the realm of possibilities for her. She really is such a beam of positivity and sees the best in people that I don't think it would ever cross her mind. If she ever did discover Dexter's dark secret, I think she would be shocked and mortified and obviously concerned for Harrison. She'd be like, "No, no, no, you've got the wrong guy." Because they're in such close quarters, should we worry about what might happen if she does figure out his secret? Garcia: When you're on a show with a serial killer, your head could roll at any time, which keeps everyone on their toes. Dexter leads a double life, and the underground life is dangerous, not only for him, but for people close to him. She might be in danger, we'll see. The sixth season of Dexter premieres Sunday at 9/8c on Showtime.

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'Dark Knight' cheers LA film prod'n

"The Dark Dark night Increases" ongoing to embellish La film production, because the latest Batpic was probably the most active offlot shoot a week ago for that third week consecutively -- and also the 4th week within the last five. The Batman follow up from director-producer Christopher Nolan -- for auction on permits as "Magnus Rex" -- tallied up 35 allowed days a week ago, based on figures provided Tuesday through the FilmL.A. enabling agency. Warner Bros. has set This summer 20, 2012, because the release date going back installment in Nolan's trilogy, that has done a lot of its shooting in Pittsburgh. Total feature days allowed a week ago were up 47% to 176. Additional features presently shooting in La include "Argo," "Benjamin Troubles," "Gus," "Safe House," The L Lounge," "Water & Energy" and "Tag." Feature activity arrived at its peak this season throughout the final two days in June, when allowed days totaled over 200 both days. Because of the lure of incentives outdoors California, feature production is all about half the amount it had been fifteen years ago, when monitoring started. Total allowed production days rose 16% to 690 a week ago as third quarter production continued to be well in front of the same period this year. TV shooting rejected slightly to 325 days, off 12 in the same week this past year. Sitcoms "Up Through The Night" and "Raising Hope" were probably the most active a week ago with 11 days each. Other television productions presently shooting in La include "Prime Suspect," "Work,Inch "Celebrity Wife Swap," "Face Off," "How Do You Look" and "Shahs of Sunset." Commercial shooting was up 39% to 189 days with Picrow's CCI commercial shot accumulating probably the most days at 40. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Toronto: The Raid Helmer Gareth Evans Signs With Management 360

EXCLUSIVE: While customers were slightly lukewarm about most of the 2011 Toronto Film Festival fare, there's much buzz in regards to the Raid, the Gareth Evans-directed fighting styles film that won the Evening time Madness Award. The distribution rights compared to that movie are actually controlled through the new the new sony, and so the action round the film composed of art galleries competing for remake rights and agents and managers trying to sign Evans, the Welsh filmmaker who lives and makes his movies in Indonesia. Evans has signed with Management 360, and will also be that company that can Evans around to fulfill art galleries that have been screening his movie within the last week. The brand new the new sony Pictures Worldwide Purchases Group smartly bought world rights based on partial footage in Cannes, which supplies the studio this news round the remake rights that are controlled with the film’s producers at Abc Films. While Evans may ultimately sign by getting a company, he doesn’t need a job at this time around as they wants revisit Jakarta and shoot a larger-scale film which includes the heavens and story lines within the Raid. Then he will turn to produce a Hollywood film. Here’s a clip:

Discoverys Boss David Zaslav Urges United kingdom To Help Keep Its Light Discuss Media Regs

A next day of the United kingdom’s Culture Minister sailed the thought of tightening media regulation within the wake of News Corp’s hacking and bribery scandal, Discovery Communications Boss David Zaslav put some cold water about the idea. Zaslav today toldthe Royal Television Society Convention in Cambridge the UKneeds to help keep its “light touch” along with a “level playing area” for foreign gamers. Discovery has reason to stress about changes, because it spends a lot more than $300M annually within the United kingdom, where it broadcasts12channels.Its our biggest market outdoors from the U.S., weve been here since 1989, and were wishing it is not likely to change, Zaslav stated. Discovery had a yearly profit of $1.6B and nearly $4B in revenues this past year. United kingdom congress are speaking harder media rules after accusations the News around the globe reporters compromised the telephone of the killed schoolgirl forced Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.tofold the tabloid and abandon its bid to consider over BSkyB.