ABC Orders Shondaland Drama, Dan Savage Comedy Pilots

The Hollywood Reporter writes that ABC has ordered several more pilots -- from Shondaland, Fake Empire, Dan Savage and Chevy Chase.

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From Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers (GREY'S ANATOMY, SCANDAL, HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER) comes THE CATCH, a drama written by HANNIBAL's Jennifer Schuur that follows "a gutsy female forensic accountant who exposes fraud for a living and has finally found fulfillment both at work and in love until a case comes along that threatens to turn her world upside down." Julie Anne Robinson is set to produce and direct the pilot. Helen Gregory and Kate Atkinson are also on the producing team.

BROAD SQUAD comes from Fake Empire's Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz and is based on "true stories" of "the first four women to graduate from Boston's Police Academy in 1978." FLIGHTPLAN scribe Bess Wohl is writing the script and producing with Len Goldstein, Aaron Kaplan and Alexandra Lyndon.

With a script from GALAVANT's David Windsor and Casey Johnson, an untitled comedy is inspired by the life of LGBT activist and columnist Dan Savage (behind It Gets Better and more) and follows "a picture-perfect family that is turned upside down when the youngest son comes out of the closet. What seems like the end of their idyllic life turns out to be the beginning of a bright new chapter when everyone stops pretending to be perfect and actually starts being real." Producing are Savage, Brian Pines and Dan McDermott.

CHEV & BEV stars NATIONAL LAMPOON alumni Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo as "two baby boomers who are fun, relevant and living a selfish retirement when their world is turned upside down and they are suddenly left to raise their grandchildren." Brad Copeland (MY NAME IS EARL) is writing the script, with Kaplan on board to produce.

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