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Anthony Zuiker

NBC’s pilot spree continues with Anthony Zuiker’s Alice in Wonderland sequel.

The network has ordered the drama, simply titled Wonderland, which is set in the world of Lewis Carroll’s fairytale. The hourlong entry will explore Clara’s life, which took an unexplained turn for the worse seven years earlier. A mysterious stranger tells her there may be an explanation after all… an explanation that lies in the fantastical world of Wonderland. Determined to revive her dreams and get her life back on track, Clara agrees to wage war against the reigning but malevolent Queen, the woman we once knew as Alice.

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The effort hails from CSI creator Zuiker, who will executive produce the project, which is being produced by Universal TV, Zuiker’s Dare to Pass and Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Feature scribe Whit Anderson is on board to pen the pilot with Matt Weinberg, Brillstein’s JoAnn Alfano and Margaret Riley joining Zuiker as EPs.

The Zuiker project was one of two Alice in Wonderland-themed entries this development season, a move that follows the success of fairytale dramas Once Upon a Time and Grimm at ABC and NBC, respectively. The Playboy Club’s Chad Hodge also had a young-skewing procedural with McG set up at the CW. Zuiker, who jumped from longtime home CBS Television Studios to ABC Studios in 2011, has Taboo, a sexy soap about a stay-at-home-mom-turned-psychological profiler for the FBI in development at ABC as well.

Wonderland marks NBC’s 10th drama pilot order this season, joining a modern-day Hatfields & McCoys produced by Charlize Theron, J.J. Abrams‘ Believe, Jerry Bruckheimer‘s The Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives and CarltonCuse‘s The Sixth Gun, among others. Additionally, the network has 16 comedies, including the already order Michael J. Fox effort, in contention.

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Greg Berlanti & Julie Plec

The CW continued with its pilot orders Monday with orders out to projects from Greg Berlanti and Julie Plec as well as Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly.

The new orders — for Tomorrow People and Blink, respectively — join six other efforts already in contention at the CW, including a Plec-produced Vampire Diaries spinoff, The Originals.

Tomorrow People, based on a U.K. drama of the same name, tells the story of young people around the world who represent the next stage in human evolution who possess special powers, including the ability to teleport and communicate with one another telepathically. Together, they work to defeat the forces of evil.

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The drama entry will prove a reunion for executive producers Berlanti (Arrow) and Plec (Vampire Diaries), who have long shared a passion for the 1970s U.K. series, which re-ran on Nickelodeon in the mid-1990s. The pair, who worked together on the WB’s Dawson’s Creek, brought aboard Political Animals writer-producer Phil Klemmer to pen the pilot. Berlanti Productions’ Melissa Kellner Berman will co-executive produce the effort, which hails from FremantleMedia and Warner Bros. Television, where Berlanti is under an overall deal.

For its part, Blink is being billed as a warm, quirky, humorous drama about a family whose lives are forever changed, for better and worse, when the patriarch has a car accident resulting in a coma like syndrome where he cannot speak or move, but can see and hear all. His narration and fantasy sequences emanating from his mind provide context and a wry counterpoint to the stories and conflicts of the family and his own situation. 

Awkward’s Vera Harbert will pen the pilot and serve as a supervising producer, with Smash’s David Marshall Grant executive producing alongside Timberman and Beverly. The hour-long effort is set up at CBS TV Studios, where Timberman-Beverly has a deal.

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Berlanti is repped by WME and Felker Toczik; Plec is repped by WME; Klemmer is repped by Sloane Offer; Harbert is repped by Gersh; Grant is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment.

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Alloy’s Leslie Morgenstein

The CW is venturing into post-apocalyptic territory with a pair of dramas as well as an hour about Mary Queen of Scots. 

The younger-skewing network has ordered to pilot The Hundred, which is based upon the forthcoming The Hundred book series. The hour-long entry is set 97 years after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization. A spaceship housing the lone human survivors sends 100 juvenile delinquents back to Earth to investigate the possibility of re-colonizing the planet.

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Body Politic’s Jason Rothenberg is attached to write and executive produce, with Alloy Entertainment’s Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo (Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries) on board as EP on the Warner Bros. TV pilot. The effort is based upon the forthcoming The Hundred book series written by Kass Morgan and published by Little Brown.

For its part, the District 9-themed Oxygen continues the CW president Mark Pedowitz’s love affair with science fiction. The drama from Meredith Averill (The Good Wife) revolves around an epic romance that ignites between a human girl and an alien boy when he and eight others of his kind (The Orion 9) are integrated into a suburban high school 10 years after they and hundreds of others land on Earth and were immediately consigned to an interment camp where they’ve been imprisoned ever since.

Averill will write and executive produce the CBS Television Studios, Ole Productions, Isla de Babel SL and 360 Powwow production. Exec producers include Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol), Scott Rosenberg (Happy Town, Life on Mars), Richard Shepard (Ringer, Girls), Bryan Furst and Sean Furst (Daybreakers) as well as Daniel Gutman. 

With Reign, the network is taking a big swing. The fantastical drama centers on the previously unknown and untold story of Mary Queen of Scots’ rise to power when she arrives in France as a 15-year-old, betrothed to Prince Francis, and with her three best friends as ladies-in-waiting. The hour-long effort will touch on the secret history of survival at French Court amidst fierce foes, dark forces, and a world of sexual intrigue.

Stephanie Sengupta (Outlaw) and Laurie McCarthy (CSI: Miami) are attached to write and executive produce the pilot, which is set up at CBS TV Studios. The pair met while working together on CBS’ The Ghost Whisperer.

Sengupta and McCarthy are both repped by UTA.

The pickups bring to six the number of pilots at the CW so far this season. They join Vampire Diaries spinoff, The Originals as well as Taylor Hackford’s Company Town and The Selection.

Rothenberg is repped by WME.