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A&E has put in development Overload, a female detective drama from writer John E. Pogue and film producer Irwin Winkler (the Rocky franchise). This marks the first TV sale for Winkler Films under the first-look TV deal the company signed with Sony Pictures TV last summer. Overload centers on a female detective blessed and cursed with hyper-acute senses who balances her work and personal life in Boston. Pogue is executive producing with Irwin Winkler, his son David Winkler and Winkler Films  president Jill Cutler. On the film side, Irwin Winkler most recently served as a producer on The Mechanic. All of A&E's scripted series since the network re-entered the scripted arena 3 years ago have been male-centered: The Cleaner, The Beast, The Glades and the upcoming Breakout Kings. Its two current pilots, Longmire and Big Mike, which are now casting, also have male leads. But the network has ordered...

• Call this a post-Oscars afterthought, but I think the inaugural 2005 blacklist for un-produced screenplays is working out to be a fairly good predictor/barometer in discriminating the output of quality films and misfires. The 2005 list (get the full view by scrolling down) had slotted Diablo Cody's Juno as the number two and Nancy Oliver's Lars and the Real Girl as the number three favorites - both were nominated for Best Original Screenplay and we know who won this year. Peter Morgan's The Queen who also happens to be on this list won the previous year. Curiously, filtering through this lengthy list there are a slew of titles that have already hit DVD shelves, or are weeks away from getting a release in theaters and then you have a few that are in various production stages. I was curious in researching some of the top titles, updating those that are familiar,

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