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ABC has given a put pilot commitment to Romeos & Juliets, a light one-hour from writers Jay Scherick and David Ronn (The Smurfs, Zookeeeper), Julie Anne Robinson and her production company CannyLads Productions. Universal TV, where Robinson inked an overall deal in May, is the studio. Written by Scherick and Ronn and…

ABC has given a pilot order to The Trustee, a comedic one-hour from the Smurfs writers Jay Scherick and David Ronn. The project hails from Warner Bros. TV and Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman’s Brownstone Productions. Warner Bros. TV, where Brownstoen is under an overall deal, is the studio. Written by Scherick and…

EXCLUSIVE: Three decades after Remington Steele launched the career of Pierce Brosnan, the romantic comedy/drama procedural is getting a next-generation reboot, this time as a half-hour comedy. NBC, which aired the original hourlong series for five seasons between 1982-1987, has nabbed the sequel project from 20th…

EXCLUSIVE: Jay Scherick and David Ronn, co-writers of Sony’s Smurfs feature franchise, are writing and executive producing another comedy for the studio, this time on the TV side. CBS has bought an untitled multi-camera comedy produced by Sony Pictures TV where Scherick and Ronn had a blind script deal. It centers on…

BREAKING: Sony Pictures Animation has turned to its The Smurfs scribes, Jay Scherick & David Ronn, to script Popeye, the animated adaptation of the comic book. SPA and Avi Arad are producing Popeye, which will be a 3D stereoscopic effort. “Scherick & Ronn have a remarkable talent in re-energizing beloved characters,&#8221…

EXCLUSIVE: Jay Scherick and David Ronn, co-writers of the summer sleeper The Smurfs, are taking on another group of people in blue, this time live-action humans on television. After heated bidding, ABC has landed a single-camera ensemble workplace comedy from the veteran comedy writers, which is set at a police…

Sony Pictures Entertainment has released a teaser for The Zookeeper, the Kevin James-starrer which will be one of the studio’s 2011 summer tent poles. The film was done as a co-production with MGM, but the early heavy lifting was done by former MGM picture chief Mary Parent, who paid $2 million for the Jay Scherick/Dav…