Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci Sell Female-Driven Drama To CBS With Penalty

EXCLUSIVE: Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have offered their first project this season, a girl-centered, character-driven drama, which has showed up at CBS getting a script commitment plus penalty. Put together by Anna Fricke, the untitled project is founded on Robyn O’Brien, an author, investigator and mother of four that is an unlikely advocate to clean the foods supply. It concentrates on a congresswoman, wife and mother who fights for your underdog. last century Fox TV and Kurtzman and Orci’s studio-based K/O Paper Products are coming up with, with Fricke, Kurtzman and Orci executive creating. K/O leader Louise Kadin can also be prone to professional produce, with O’Brien aboard as consultant. Along with her husband, fellow TV author Jeremy Carver, UTA-repped Fricke developed Syfy’s adaptation to become Human. The Two are executive creating and running the series, that's been restored for just about any second season. This really is really the 2nd development season for K/O. A year ago, they offered 2 projects that visited pilot at Fox, Locke & Key and Exit Strategy starring Ethan Hawke. Neither made the cut to series, though there's still a slim chance that Locke & Key might be elevated in the dead, with MTV recently showing some interest. Kurtzman and Orci certainly are a little late for the TV pitch season this year because of feature obligations. Kurtzman just completed his feature directorial debut, Thank you for going to People, they and Orci co-written, as well as the two may also be coping with J.J. Abrams round the Star Trek follow-up.