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ABC has accustomed a put pilot charge to Heartland, a one-hour ancestors ball accounting by Kat Likkel, John Hoberg and Jeremy Hall, who ahead formed calm on ABC’s Galavant. The activity hails from Jon Harmon Feldman and Jennifer Gwartz’s Random Hill, one of three sales at ABC for the afresh launched company, forth with Acquired and New World. ABC Studios, area Random Hill is beneath an all-embracing deal, is the flat on all three, with Feldman and Gwartz controlling producing.
Heartland is declared as an anarchistic ancestors ball about a brace who accept a new babyish — and the baby’s boyish bearing mother. Likkel and Hoberg controlling produce, with Hall co-exec producing.
Acquired, written/executive produced by Robby Hull and Feldman, centers on an angry, acerbic widower who had aloof from the apple afterwards the afterlife of his wife years ago. As a aftereffect of a aberration accident, he now finds himself with a genius-level ability which he will semi-willingly use to advice a assassination detective break San Francisco’s best abstract murders.
New World, written/executive produced by Daniel Thomsen, revolves about two conflicting brothers who, afterwards the afterlife of their father, try to reconnect by demography their families on a cruise together. But back their baiter crashes, the two families acquisition themselves trapped on a bare island and charge action the elements (and their secrets) to not alone survive but to body a activity for themselves in this new home.
Additionally, Random Hill has optioned Alice Berman’s accessible book Absent Boys and Technicolor Girls via ABC Signature to advance as a cable series. In it, ultra-privileged accouchement of the Upper East Side accept their lives chaotic back one of their best accompany disappears after a trace. Over the abutting seven years, the chase to bare what happened to him reveals old secrets and alike earlier betrayals. What absolutely happened to that boy, absent so continued ago?
At Random Hill, Feldman, who afresh served as showrunner on ABC’s Designated Survivor, and above Lin Pictures TV exec Gwartz, who continues as controlling ambassador on Fox’s Lethal Weapon, will attend the activity forth with VP Michael Greenwald.
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Likkel and Hoberg accept continued history at ABC and ABC Studios. They served as showrunners on the additional division of Galavant, Dan Fogelman’s arbitrary medieval musical ball for ABC/ABC Studios, as able-bodied as on Downward Dog aftermost season’s ABC ball from Legendary TV & ABC Studios, which lasted six episodes this accomplished division afore it was canceled. The brace additionally were co-executive producers on ABC/ABC Studios’ Black-ish as able-bodied as My Name Is Earl and Better Off Ted. Hall was a biographer on both Fogelman ABC/ABC Studios series, Galavant and The Neighbors.
Likkel and Hoberg are repped by UTA, Industry Entertainment and Jackoway Tyerman. Hall is repped by Paradigm and Myman Greenspan. Feldman and Gwartz are repped by WME. Thomsen is repped by WME and 3 Arts.
