Latest in Ben Queen

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired rights to a pitch from Ben Queen that is loosely based on the novel A Note of Explanation, to be adapted by Queen into a feature film. A Note of Explanation, a previously unknown work by famed writer Vita Sackville-West and written in 1922, was recently rediscovered as a miniature book…

EXCLUSIVE: Verve has signed Powerless and A to Z creator producer Ben Queen for representation. Queen’s hourlong Heart of Life, inspired by the John Mayer song, was picked up to pilot by ABC during the 2018-19 season and currently is being redeveloped at the network. Written by Queen, Heart of Life follows two sets of…

Glee alum Harry Shum Jr. and former Man Seeking Woman co-star Katie Findlay are set as leads in ABC’s Heart of Life drama pilot from Ben Queen, Paul Weitz, Melvin Mar, 20th Century Fox TV and ABC Studios. Inspired by the John Mayer song of the same name, Heart of Life is written by Queen and directed by Anne Fletcher…

ABC has nabbed Heart of Life, a drama from Powerless and A to Z creator Ben Queen, director Paul Weitz, Fresh Off the Boat executive producer Melvin Mar and 20th Century Fox TV. The project, inspired by singer-songwriter John Mayer’s song of the same name, had been developed internally at 20th TV for the past several…

There has been a change at the helm of the new DC Comics-themed NBC comedy series Powerless. The show’s creator/executive producer and showrunner Ben Queen is exiting. Start of production on the midseason series, which had been slated to begin in two weeks, is being postponed as a search is underway for a new…

NBC has bought a single camera half-hour family comedy project from The Good Dinosaur writer Meg LeFauve, and A To Z creator Ben Queen. Titled Poog, the ensemble comedy centers on a working mom who tries to get over her obsession with being the "perfect parent" by banding together with her friends to admit — and even…

Masi Oka knows a thing or two about learning English as a second language having been born in Tokyo and moving to the U.S. at age 6. The Heroes and Hawaii Five-0 star would be able to share his and his family’s experience in ESL, a comedy project that has been set up at Fox with Oka and A To Z creator Ben Queen…

The primetime DC Comics universe is expanding in a comedy direction. In a competitive situation, Powerless, a half-hour single-camera comedy from A To Z creator Ben Queen and Warner Bros. TV, has landed at NBC with a pilot production commitment. The project evokes NBC’s signature comedy series The Office, but with…

Ben Queen, the creator, executive producer and showrunner of A To Z, has signed an overall deal with Warner Bros. TV, the studio behind the freshman comedy series, which aired on NBC earlier this season. The two-year deal is for development only, with Queen developing his own scripts and supervising projects from…

Faced with a series title like A to Z, it's no surprise TV journalists were like dogs chewing a bone at today's TCA panel on the show, demanding that producers and cast of the new NBC comedy series reveal whether the show will be done in one season. No, EPs Rashida Jones, Ben Queen and Will McCormack explained…

EXCLUSIVE: There are a lot of overachieving writers and producers scoring multiple big commitments this buying season. Writer Ben Queen (Cars 2) and Rashida Jones and Will McCormack‘s Le Train Train — each already behind a put pilot commitment — have teamed up for A To Z, a single-camera romantic comedy, which has…

Unthinkable, a drama series project based on the BOOM! Studios comic book series created and written by Mark Sable and drawn by Julian Totino Tedesco, has received a put pilot commitment by Fox as the network continues to be aggressive this buying season. Unthinkable hails from Homeland and 24 executive producer Howard…