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Exclusive: CBS has put in development Arranged, a romantic comedy from Man With A Plan co-producer Farhan Arshad, Jane The Virgin creator Jennie Snyder Urman, The Nacelle Company and CBS Television Studios, where Urman and Joanna Klein’s Sutton Street Productions is based.

Written by Arshad, Arranged is a romantic comedy about the messy but ultimately hopeful relationship between Sabrina and Samir, two polar opposites, who get set up by their families after they have trouble finding true love on their own.

Arshad executive produces with Urman and Klein for Sutton Street, along with Michael Pelmont for Nacelle, which co-produces with Sutton Street. CBS TV Studios is the studio.

Arshad has been with CBS’ Man With A Plan starring Matt LeBlanc since the series’ launch, starting as a staff writer and rising to his current role as co-producer. He has also written for Dr. Ken and Kirby Buckets, and is...

Exclusive: The CW has put in development Infamous, an action-drama from writers George Northy (Charmed) and Darren Stein (Jawbreaker), and Mike Tollin and his Tollin Productions.

Written by Northy and Stein, Infamous is a take on the thrilling spy drama with a modern, satirical celebrity twist. It is inspired by the true stories of world-famous actors, models and musicians who also happened to moonlight as spies for the Allied Forces in WWII, such as Greta Garbo, Hedy Lamarr and Josephine Baker just to name a few. In Infamous, celebrities who’ve experienced a devastating fall from grace are recruited by a top-secret arm of the CIA, with the promise to rehab their careers in exchange for using their global access (and eccentric reputations) to perform high-risk missions across the globe.

Tollin Productions’ VP Scripted Programming Maia Glikman is executive producing the project along with Mike Tollin.

Northy and Stein first...

Exclusive: The CW has put in development Obsessed, a one-hour dark comedy from writer Jessica Amento, Sweet/Vicious creator Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, Jane the Virgin creator Jennie Snyder Urman and her Sutton Street Productions, and CBS Television Studios, where Urman is under a deal.

Written by Amento, Obsessed centers on Farren Bell, an outwardly optimistic millennial who struggles to conceal unwanted dark thoughts under her shiny blonde highlights. As a form of psychologist-approved exposure therapy, she joins forces with a coworker to launch a true crime podcast chronicling an active serial killer in L.A., helping her understand and confront her own fears while simultaneously putting her in imminent danger.

Robinson executive produces and directs with Urman and Joanna Klein for Sutton Street Prods. Amento is co-executive producer. CBS Television Studios is the studio.

Amento is a fashion editor turned screenwriter from the Midwest. She...

Hot on the heels of word that Paramount is reworking its planned sequel to the fantasy film "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters" into a TV series, ABC is reportedly looking at doing a TV series sequel to the popular Julia Roberts romantic comedy "My Best Friend's Wedding".

ABC has signed on for a script commitment plus penalty for the project which would pick up right where the events of the 1997 movie left off. Roberts' character Julianne will be in New York City living life and still getting advice from her gay pal George.

Ron Bass and Jessica Amento are writing the script for the follow-up while original producers Jerry and Janet Zucker will be back to executive produce alongside Bass and Mike Menchel. Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Rupert Everett and Cameron Diaz are not expected to reprise their roles.

This continues a hot trend this past season which saw both TV...

The Julia Roberts rom-com classic My Best Friend's Wedding is getting the old TV reboot. THR reports that ABC is developing an adaptation with the movie's original writer and producer: Ron Bass is writing the script with Jessica Amento, and Jerry Zucker will serve as executive producer alongside Janet Zucker and Mike Menchel. The show will take place right after the film's titular wedding, following a bruised Julianne Potter (played by Julia, duh) as she returns to New York with her gay best friend George (played by Rupert Everett). We're already casting young Julia Robertses and Rupert Everetts in our heads — Karen Gillan and Matthew Lewis, get your agents on the phone.

If you’ve said a little prayer for My Best Friend’s Wedding to live on in some form, that prayer has been answered.

ABC is developing a single-camera, half-hour comedy that will serve as a sequel to the 1997 Julia Roberts film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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In the big screen rom-com, Julianne (played by Roberts) secretly tries to sabotage the wedding of her old friend/longtime crush Michael (Dermot Mulroney) to a woman (Cameron Diaz) Julianne thinks is wrong for him.

Ron Bass, who wrote the movie, will pen...

ABC has put in development a half-hour comedy series that would serve as a sequel to the 1997 feature My Best Friend’s Wedding, starring Julia Roberts. Oscar-winning scribe Ron Bass (Rain Man), who wrote the feature screenplay, will co-write the pilot with Jessica Amento. Bass also will executive produce with Happy Madison’s Doug Robinson, Mike Menchel and the film’s producer Jerry Zucker and Janet Zucker. Amento will serve as co-producer. ABC’s My Best Friend’s Wedding…...