EXCLUSIVE: Prolific writing-producing duo Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit have signed a multi-year overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV. Under the pact, Hernandez and Samit will develop, write and produce animated and live-action series for network, cable and streaming platforms. The deal brings Hernandez and Samit…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount has set Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit to write The Villas. The project, produced by Atlas Entertainment, is loosely inspired by Neil Simon’s play and 1971 film Plaza Suite. Similarly, the film revolves around several relationship stories all taking place in a hotel, but this time, the location is…

ABC is developing a single-camera comedy from writers Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit (One Day at a Time) and Will Gluck’s Olive Bridge Entertainment. Sony Pictures TV, where Olive Bridge is based, is the studio. Written by Hernandez and Samit, the untitled project (aka All Together Now), is inspired by Hernandez’s own…

Writers Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit (Super Fun Night) have sold a comedy project to NBC from Sony TV and Will Gluck’s studio-based Olive Bridge Entertainment. The untitled half-hour (aka Sickos), is based on Hernandez’s first few years of marriage. It follows a group of new ER residents, who not only work together…

FX has put in development Daedalus 6, a science fiction comedy set in the distant future written by Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit (1600 Penn). The two are executive producing with Michael Showalter, with whom they worked together on ABC’s Super Fun Night, and Jonathan Stern of Abominable Pictures. Hernandez and Samit…