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Some 778 showrunners and screenwriters have signed a statement saying that they will fire their agents if the WGA fails to reach an agreement with the Association of Talent Agents for a new franchise agreement. Signers include a slew of A-listers, including Greg Berlanti, Alfonso Cuaron, James L. Brooks, Aaron Sorkin, Norman Lear, Shonda Rhimes, Seth MacFarlane, Mike Schur, Tina Fey, Joss Whedon, Kenya Barris, Peter Farrelly, Oliver Stone, John Wells, Matthew Weiner, Noah Hawley, Vince Gilligan, John Singleton, David Chase, Barry Jenkins, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Colin Trevorrow, Eric Roth, David Shore, David Simon, Shawn Ryan, Lena Waithe, Paul Haggis, Mindy Kaling, Drew Goddard, Jenji Kohan, Carlton Cuse, Howard Gordon, Kurt Sutter, Krista Vernoff, Mara Brock Akil, Danny Strong, Rob McElhenney, Jason Katims, Terence Winter, Peter Lenkov, Michelle and Robert King, Al Jean, Robert Towne, Gloria Calderon Kellett, Kevin Williamson, Darren Star, Rashida Jones, Pamela Adlon, WGA West president David A. Goodman...

Nickelodeon has renewed Henry Danger and Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn for second seasons. They've also ordered two new sitcom pilots -- Future Shock and The Dunes Club.

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Nickelodeon Greenlights Two New Live-action Comedy Pilots "The Dunes Club" And "Future Shock"

Network Renews "Henry Danger" And "Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn" For Second Seasons

Los Angeles, Calif., (November 18, 2014) - Nickelodeon, the number-one entertainment brand for kids, continues to cultivate new talent and deliver the laughs for kids with the greenlight of two new live-action comedic pilots The Dunes Club (Working Title) from Heather Flanders (Undateable, Lab Rats) and Future Shock (Working Title), created by Mitchel Katlin and Nat Bernstein (See Dad Run), and the season two renewal of hits Henry Danger and Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn, it was announced today by Russell...

Exclusive: It is the end of the road for Nick at Nite‘s first original scripted comedy series See Dad Run, starring Scott Baio. I have learned that Season 3 of the family sitcom, which is currently filming, will be its last, with production on the series wrapping in May for good. There are five episodes left from See Dad Run‘s 20-episode second season, with the 13-episode Season 3 expected to air later this year — culminating with an hourlong series finale, which has been ordered in addition to the 13 regular episodes. See Dad Run‘s cancellation after 3 seasons and the exit of Nick at Nite’s second original sitcom, Wendell & Vinnie, after one leaves Instant Mom as the network’s only remaining original comedy series. Created by Tina Albanese and Patrick Labyorteaux, See Dad Run centers on actor David Hobbs (Baio) who, after a decade on television, becomes a stay-at-home dad...

Exclusive: Nickelodeon has ordered a 22-episode second season of promising new comedy series Haunted Hathaways. Additionally, the cable network has extended the second season of Nick at Nite‘s See Dad Run with an order for 13 additionally episodes. In its first season, Haunted Hathaways is drawing 2.3 million total viewers and averages a 4.0/1.3M with kids 2-11 and a 5.0/959K with kids 6-11. The series is posting 13% year-over-year gains with kids 2-11 and 6-11 in the Saturday 8:30 Pm slot. In its second season, See Dad Run is averaging 1.2 million total viewers, up 3% among adults 18-49 in the Sunday 8 Pm period. Related: Nickelodeon Orders Two Animated Series, Four Live-Action Pilots Following a much publicized ratings slump, Nickelodeon has been on a rebound, finishing the recent third quarter up 12% vs. 2012. Since May, Nick has successfully launched five new series: Sam & Cat, Haunted Hathaways, Instant Mom (on Nick at Nite), Sanjay & Craig, and Paw Patrol.

Exclusive: Nick at Nite‘s first original scripted comedy series See Dad Run has been renewed for a second season. The family sitcom starring Scott Baio has received a 20-episode order, matching its first-season pickup. Created by Tina Albanese and Patrick Labyorteaux, See Dad Run centers on actor David Hobbs (Baio) who, after a decade on television, becomes a stay-at-home dad so his soap-opera-star wife (Alanna Ubach) can get back in the spotlight. But he quickly realizes that playing a dad on television is much different from the real thing. Albanese and Labyorteaux executive produce with Nat Bernstein and Mitchel Katlin. Upcoming guest stars on the show’s current season include Michele Lee, who plays David’s mom in a Mother’s Day episode, and James Maslow, who will reprise his role as a supporter of Emily’s run for class president. See Dad Run, which debuted October 6, will soon...

Exclusive: Nick At Nite‘s first original scripted comedy pilot, Daddy’s Home, will become the programming block’s first homegrown live-action comedy series. I hear that Nickelodeon has given a 20-episode order to the multicamera project starring Happy Days alum Scott Baio. Daddy’s Home centers on David Hobbs (Baio), an actor who, after 10 years of starring as America’s favorite TV dad, becomes a stay-at-home father to honor the deal he made with his soap-star wife so she can return to the limelight. The project was created by writer-producer Tina Albanese (CSI) and actor Patrick Labyorteaux (Little House On The Prairie), who are executive producing with Baio as well as showrunners Mitchel Katlin and Nat Bernstein, Eric Bischoff and Jason Hervey. Nick is not commenting, but at the time the network picked up Daddy’s Home to pilot in October, Nickelodeon’s president of original programming and development...

Updated, 1/7: Each year, the five broadcast networks develop hundreds of scripted dramas and comedies in hopes they’ll become the next NCIS and Desperate Housewives, or the latest Modern Family and The Big Bang Theory. And like every year, a great deal of them are not worth mentioning here — mostly because they involve the bland types of cops, lawyers, and doctors who you’ve already seen fighting crime or sneaking a kiss on the way to the ER.

But fascinating projects continue to pass the first smell test at the broadcast networks. The key is whether the suits take...

Nickelodeon has picked up new comedy series Bucket & Skinner’s Epic Adventures, a multi-camera buddy comedy about two best friends. It hails from comedy veteran Tom Lynch (The Troop), who is executive producing alongside creators Boyce Bugliari and Jamie McLaughlin (Quintuplets) and Jonathan Stark (According to Jim) through The Tom Lynch Co. The series begins production this month in Los Angeles for a February 2011 launch. Bucket & Skinner’s Epic Adventures is one of five new series joining Nickelodeon's line-up in early 2011, along with Power Rangers Samurai; House of Anubis, a comedy-mystery series adapted from the international TV format; Bubble Guppies, a new interactive CG-animated preschool series; and Supah Ninjas, a comic book-style action comedy series. In Supah Ninjas news, comedy veterans Mitchel Katlin and Nat Bernstein have been tapped as executive producers/showrunners. They are with UTA and Inphenate. Meanwhile, Oxygen has put in development Best Ink, a competition reality series for tattoo artists.

Comedy Central is developing an odd-couple comedy series starring two heavy-set comedians.

The network has made a script deal for "Brothers From Another Mother," a rare multicamera project for the network.

"Brothers" stars Ralphie May and Lavell Crawford. May, who is white, and Crawford, who is black, will play lifelong friends who discover they're brothers when their father passes away and leaves them his barbecue restaurant.

Comedy Central has aired only a few original multi¬camera projects. The network has another multicam project debuting next month, the Will Ferrell-produced "Big Lake."

"Brothers" is executive produced by Ben Feigin of Anonymous Content, who brought in fellow exec producers Eric and Kim Tannenbaum and writer/exec producers Mitchel Katlin and Nat Bernstein. May and Crawford also are exec producers.

May is repped by UTA and Anonymous; Crawford is repped by Icm.

The pilot season keeps moving forward with ABC securing two new comedy pilots. According to The Hollywood Reporter, ABC has picked up two new, untitled comedy pilots, with Carlos Mencia set to star in one and Cedric the Entertainer to topline the other. The Mencia project, written by Mitchel Katlin and Nat Bernstein, will be based on Mencia's own life and his stand-up routines. It was said that the series will have Mencia stuck in the middle of his very large, multi-cultural family. Cedric the Entertainer's was written by Al Higgins and Devon Shepard and features Cedric as a retired baseball player that has become a radio analyst that has to reevaluate his life when he reconnects with his son and granddaughter.

 Pick-up season is in full-swing, with ABC ordering a pair of multicamera pilots from comics Carlos Mencia and Cedric the Entertainer.  According to The Hollywood Reporter, both pilots come from Sony TV and the Tantamount shingle.   The trade paper says that the Mencia pilot will be based on the comic's professional and family life, which means that it'll actually be based on family jokes previously told by Ray Romano. Oh, we kid! Mitchel Katlin and Nat Bernstein will be writing the Mencia pilot, which actually looks at a man in the middle of a multigenerational immigrant family.   In his...

ABC has picked up two multicamera comedy pitches, one from Carlos Mencia and the other by Cedric the Entertainer. The Mencia sitcom is written by Mitchel Katlin and Nat Bernstein and is a family comedy based on Mencia's life and stand-up act. Brillstein Entertainment co-produces. The story focuses on a man in the middle of his very large multigenerational immigrant family. The Cedric the Entertainer comedy penned by Al Higgins (" 'Til Death") and Devon Shepard ("Cedric the Entertainer Presents") apparently features Cedric as a retired baseball player turned-radio host who is forced to re-evaluate the type of father he has been after his son and 6-year-old granddaughter come back into his life once again.

With the broadcast networks already in a pilot-pickup mode, two multicamera comedy pitches fronted by familiar faces scored last-minute sales at ABC.

The projects, one starring Carlos Mencia and the other toplined by Cedric the Entertainer, hail from Sony TV and studio-based Tantamount.

The Mencia sitcom, from veteran comedy writers Mitchel Katlin and Nat Bernstein, is a family comedy based on Mencia's life and stand-up act.

Co-produced by Brillstein Entertainment, it centers on a man in the middle of his very large multigenerational immigrant family.

The Cedric comedy, from Al Higgins (" 'Til Death") and Devon Shepard ("Cedric the Entertainer Presents"), will feature the comedian as a retired baseball player-turned-radio host forced to re-evaluate the type of father he has been when his son and 6-year-old granddaughter re-enter his life.

In their initial comedy pilot orders this season, the networks have shown preference for projects that have talent attached: ABC...

Steven Bochco is taking another swing at a baseball series. Bochco and comedy writers Mitchel Katlin and Nat Bernstein have set up a single-camera half-hour project at Fox Broadcasting Co. revolving around a minor league baseball team. Bochco tackled the minor league milieu in the short-lived 1983 NBC drama Bay City Blues. The project in is the embryonic development stage with a script commitment from Fox. Katlin and Bernstein are tackling the script for the untitled project and will executive produce alongside Bochco.

John Goodman has sealed a deal with CBS and Warner Bros. TV to star in a new comedy series project from writer-producers Mitchel Katlin and Nat Bernstein. Eric Tannenbaum and Kim Tannenbaum will serve as executive producers through their WBTV-based Tannenbaum Co. production banner. CBS has given the project a put pilot commitment, though the premise for the series is still being hammered out. The eye network has been actively pursuing Goodman. This past development season, he was approached to star in the network's untitled comedy pilot based on the life of sportswriter-columnist Tony Kornheiser.