CBS Buys Dramas From Niels Mueller, Krista Vernoff Shuts Deal For Jon Favreau Pilot

CBS has bought two drama projects with spiritual elements: a procedural within the Defenders co-creator Niels Mueller and producer Aaron Kaplan and possibly Angels, the best drama getting a supernatural twist from former Grey’s Anatomy executive producer Krista Vernoff and producers Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly. Both projects hail from CBS TV Art galleries. In addition, CBS has closed the pilot order deal for Tweaked, half-hour, single-camera spec put together by Iron Guy director Favreau. Favreau is executive creating and pointing the pilot, which tales existence and dating among single parents in Santa Monica. The pilot, from CBS TV Art galleries, was already casting. The untitled Niels Mueller project concentrates on an regular guy making an amazing impact on peoples lives. CBS features a tradition of feel-good spiritual shows with Touched By An Angel. But, unlike Angel and also the other popular series about angels, NBC’s Highway To Paradise, the completely new project does not have religious overtones. WME-repped Mueller (The Murder Of Richard Nixon) is executive creating with Kaplan and Laura McCorkindale. Because the lead in Mueller’s project does amazing things however isn't an angel, the leads in Vernoff’s drama are merely that. Maybe Angels can be a legal show about two angels who help their former partners. CAA-repped Vernoff, who created ABC’s drama pilot Sophistication last season, is writing additionally to executive creating with Timberman, Beverly, Mark Waters and Jessica Tuchnisky. Both Kaplan as well as the duo of Timberman & Beverly have 3 series round the air – two on broadcast then one on cable. Kaplan is behind Fox’s Terra Nova and ABC’s Good Christian Belles and MTV’s The Inbetweeners. Timberman/Berverly is creating CBS’ Memorable together with a Gifted Guy and Foreign exchange’s Justified. Furthermore to Tweaked, Favreau has Ex-Comm, a sci-fi drama with humor, which received a put pilot commitment from ABC. Favreau is writing the script with Roberto Orci, Seth Eco-friendly and Michael Dougherty which is aboard to direct that project too whether or not this visits pilot.