ABC Orders Five Drama Pilots - L.A. CRIME, MIX, 'KINGS & PROPHETS', RUNNER & QUANTICO

ABC has announced five new drama pilot pickups tonight, Deadline writes, including L.A. CRIME, MIX, OF KINGS & PROPHETS, RUNNER and QUANTICO.

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Steven Baigelman pens L.A. CRIME for executive producers Baigelman, David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Laurie Zaks. This procedural "explores sex, politics and popular culture across various noteworthy eras in L.A. history," starting with a Bonnie & Clyde-esque criminal duo in the '80s.

MIX, from Rashida Jones and Will McCormack's Le Train Train and written by Jennifer Cecil (Private Practice), "explores the realities of modern-day families - multi-cultural, multi-generational, built through divorces, affairs and adoptions - set against the backdrop of a revered family restaurant at a crossroads."

Adam Cooper and Bill Collage's OF KINGS & PROPHETS, "is an epic Biblical saga of faith, ambition and betrayal as told through the eyes of a battle-weary king, a powerful and resentful prophet and a resourceful young shepherd on a collision course with destiny." Jason Reed, Reza Aslan and Mahyad Tousi produce.

20th Century Television's RUNNER is written by Michael Cooney based on the Turkish series SON. It follows "Lauren Marks, whose seemingly perfect life is ripped apart by one simple twist of fate. To uncover the truth she must follow a trail of lies that take her into the world of cartels and the illegal gun trade between the US and Mexico." Jon Cowan is show runner, with Cooney, Peter Horton, Ian Sander and Kim Moses executive producing.

Finally, QUANTICO follows "a group of young FBI recruits, all with specific reasons for joining, who battle their way through training at the Quantico base in Virginia. As we intercut between their hidden pasts and their present training, we also flash-forward to the near future, where one of the recruits will turn out to be a sleeper terrorist responsible for the most devastating terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11." SMASH's Josh Safran penned the script and produces with Mark Gordon and Nick Pepper.

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