JANE THE VIRGIN and RIVERDALE Spinoffs in the Works at CW

The CW has greenlit four pilots that are all based on well known titles, including two spinoffs of existing CW series, Riverdale and Jane the Virgin, and a Nancy Drew drama and The Lost Boys reboot, according to Deadline.

Katy Keene, the RIVERDALE spinoff, which follows four Archie Comics characters, and Jane the Novela, the telenovela anthology series, come from the creative teams behind the original series: Jane creator/executive producer Jennie Snyder Urman, star Gina Rodriguez, exec producers Ben Silverman and director Brad Silberling. and studio CBS TV Studios, and Riverdale creator/executive producer Robert Aguirre-Sacasa, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. TV.

The untitled Nancy Drew drama is inspired by the classic mysteries and it comes from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage's Fake EMPIRE and CBS TV Studios. The Lost Boys hails from Rob Thomas's Spondoodle, Gulfstream TV and Warner Bros TV.

Here are details about the newly picked up CW pilots:

THE LOST BOYS

• WBTV

• Logline: Welcome to sunny seaside Santa Carla, home to a beautiful boardwalk, all the cotton candy you can eat...and a secret underworld of vampires. After the sudden death of their father, two brothers move to Santa Carla with their mother, who hopes to start anew in the town where she grew up. But the brothers find themselves drawn deeper and deeper into the seductive world of Santa Carla's eternally beautiful and youthful undead.

• Executive Producer/Writer: Heather Mitchell
  Executive Producers: Rob Thomas, Dan Etheridge (Spondoolie); Mike Karz, Bill Bindley (Gulfstream)
  Producer: Rebecca Franko (Spondoolie)
• Based on the feature film from Warner Bros. Pictures
• Auspices: Spondoolie Productions and Gulfstream Television in association with Warner Bros. Television

KATY KEENE

Logline: A RIVERDALE spinoff, KATY KEENE follows the lives and loves of four iconic Archie Comics characters - including fashion legend-to-be Katy Keene - as they chase their twenty-something dreams in New York City. This musical dramedy chronicles the origins and struggles of four aspiring artists trying to make it on Broadway, on the runway and in the recording studio.

• Based on the Archie Comics characters
• Executive Producers/Writers: Robert Aguirre-Sacasa, Michael Grassi
• Executive Producers: Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Jon Goldwater
• Auspices: Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television

JANE THE NOVELA

Logline: A telenovela anthology series in the tradition of JANE THE VIRGIN, where each season is based on a different fictional novel "written by" Jane Villanueva and narrated by the author herself. The first installment takes place at a Napa Valley Vineyard, where family SECRETS (and family members) don't stay buried for long.

• Executive Producer/Writer: Valentina Garza
  Executive Producers: Gina Rodriguez, Jennie Snyder Urman, Ben Silverman, Joanna Klein, Emily Gipson, Jorge Granier and Gary Pearl
  Executive Producer/Director: Brad Silberling
• Auspices: CBS Television Studios/Sutton Street Prods. /I Can and I Will Prods/ Propagate

UNTITLED NANCY DREW PROJECT

• Logline: Set in the summer after her high school graduation,18-year-old Nancy Drew thought she'd be leaving her hometown for college, but when a family tragedy holds her back another year, she finds herself embroiled in a ghostly murder investigation - and along the way, uncovers SECRETS that run deeper than she ever imagined.
• Writers / Executive Producers: Noga Landau, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage
  Co-Executive Producer: Lis Rowinski
• Auspices: CBS Television Studios / Fake Empire

Read the original article on Deadline.

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