Michael Dinner (Justified) has been tapped to direct and executive produce CBS drama pilot L.A. Confidential, based on James Ellroy's noir classic novel, from Arnon Milchan, producer of the acclaimed 1997 L.A. Confidential movie, CBS TV Studios, New Regency and Lionsgate TV. Written by Jordan Harper, L.A. Confidential…

Amazon has picked up Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (fka Electric Dreams: The World of Philip K. Dick), a 10-epiosde sci-fi anthology series from Ronald D. Moore, Michael Dinner, Bryan Cranston and Sony Pictures TV, sources say. The show, based on short stories by the award-winning novelist, was originally commission…

TNT has given a pilot green light to Robbers. The network landed the drama in May in a competitive situation with Tim McGraw attached to star. He has since departed the project and won’t be in the pilot. Based on Christopher Cook's 2000 debut novel, Robbers hails from Sony Pictures TV, Sarah Timberman and Carl Bever…

Tim McGraw is set to topline and executive produce Robbers, a drama project, which has landed at TNT in a competitive situation. Based on Christopher Cook’s 2000 debut novel, Robbers hails from Sony Pictures TV, Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly’s Timberman/Beverly and Michael Dinner. Cook and Dinner are writing the…

A drama written by CSI maven Carol Mendelsohn, directed by Michael Dinner and starring Felicity Huffman is close to landing at ABC with a put pilot commitment. The project, produced by Rachel Winter (Dallas Buyers Club), hails from Sony Pictures TV and Mendelsohn’s studio-based Carol Mendelsohn Prods. The untitled…

EXCLUSIVE: Wall Street continues to be a hot TV drama arena following the success of Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf Of Wall Street, with another high profile project coming together. Sony TV has put in development The Buy Side, an hourlong project based on the best-selling autobiographical book by former Galleon Group…

EXCLUSIVE: Famous prohibition agent Eliot Ness wasn’t even 30 years old when hit the pinnacle in his career by taking down Al Capone with his law enforcement team dubbed The Untouchables. The following two decades of his life are the subject of Ness, a drama series in development at WGN America from The Blacklist duo…

Jace Alexander (The Blacklist) is set to direct ABC drama pilot Agatha, while Michael Dinner will helm another ABC drama pilot, Clementine. Both projects hail from ABC Studios and studio-based Mark Gordon Co. Agatha is a character-driven procedural about a former convict-turned-big-city criminologist who is brought in…

Josh Salatin, Will Rothhaar and Alano Miller have been cast in Fox’s drama pilot Wild Blue, written by Taylor Elmore and directed by Michael Dinner. The Sony Pictures TV-produced project is described as an upstairs/downstairs look at pressure-cooker lives in the U.S. Navy. It’s a young ensemble about the working men…

EXCLUSIVE: It looks like Fox brass are determined to get an aircraft carrier drama on the air. Last season, the network put in development The Bridge, from writer Taylor Elmore (Justified), producer Mark Johnson and Sony Pictures TV. The project, described as a high-octane soap with a touch of Upstairs, Downstairs set…

EXCLUSIVE: Director-producer Michael Dinner has inked a new two-year overall deal with Sony Pictures Television. He has been under overall pacts at Sony TV since 2005, developing and directing pilots for network and cable. Dinner executive produces two series for the studio, FX’s Justified and Fox’s upcoming The Mob Do…

NBC has bought Vanish, a mystery drama from Moonlight co-creator Trevor Munson, Sony TV and Sam Raimi and Josh Donen’s studio-based Star Road banner. Michael Dinner, who is under an overall deal at Sony, will direct the potential pilot. Written by Munson, Vanish centers on a man with a mysterious past who protects…