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EXCLUSIVE: ABC has put in development Why You Will Marry The Wrong Person, a one-hour dramedy based on Alain de Botton’s article of the same name, from Mad Love and Alex, Inc. creator Matt Tarses, The Good Doctor‘s Freddie Highmore and his Alfresco Pictures, as well as Sony Pictures TV, where Tarses and Highmore’s…

NBC has put in development Whites, a comedy based on the UK format, from Matt Tarses (Scrubs), Will Arnett (BoJack Horseman, Arrested Development) and Sony Pictures TV, where Tarses and Arnett’s Electric Avenue banner are under deals. Written by Tarses, Whites’ U.S. adaptation is set in the fast-paced and hilarious…

From Zach Braff and Matt Tarses–the team that brought you Scrubs–comes a new ABC single-camera comedy Alex, Inc. Inspired by the podcast StartUp, it stars Braff in the role of radio journalist Alex Schuman, who quit his job to start his own company and podcast his way through the experience. "This is inspired by a…

ABC has picked up buzzy single-camera comedy pilot Start Up to series, which is untitled at the moment. (Crackle has a drama series titled StartUp). The Untitled Zach Braff/Matt Tarses Project is toplined and directed by Scrubs star Braff. It joins the other half-hour pilot picked up to series by ABC, ABC Studios’ The…

As I reported in the most recent Pilot Buzz edition, ABC's needs have gone down significantly since it ordered 23 pilots — the most of any broadcast network — earlier this year as the network just closed a deal for a new season of American Idol for next season and is in negotiations for the upcoming revival of the clas…

CBS has given a pilot order to Hannah Royce's Questionable Choices, a single-camera comedy from Mad Love creator Matt Tarses and Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment. Sony Pictures TV, where Tarses is under a deal, is co-producing with CBS TV Studios. This is the second pilot order this season for Tarses, who also has…

EXCLUSIVE: Scrubs star Zach Braff is returning to series television and to ABC as the star of Start Up, a single-camera comedy, which has received a put pilot commitment. Braff, who also is set to direct, is reuniting with Scrubs co-executive producer Matt Tarses on the Sony TV/Davis Entertainment project, which ABC…

Sony Pictures TV is once again off to a fast start in a what has been another sluggish early going in the broadcast selling marketplace. The studio has sold two comedy projects with significant penalties — So Where Were We, from writer Matt Tarses and the Sony TV-based company of Tarses’ sister Jamie, Fanfare, to ABC…