NBC Buys 2 Drama Projects From Dick Wolf

EXCLUSIVE: Dick Wolf’s Universal TV-based production clients are getting an energetic development season under new scripted development executive Danielle Gelber. Recently, NBC purchased a firemen drama from feature authors Michael Brandt and Derek Haas. Now I’ve found that Wolf Films provides 2 more hourlong projects at NBC — one in the L Word creator Ilene Chaiken and something from former Smallville executive producers Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer — that put a twist on two classic franchises, medical and cop drama. Additionally towards the authors, each show is executive created by Wolf, Wolf Films leader Peter Jankowski and Gelber. The untitled Ilene Chaiken project focuses on a lesbian couple who're doctors in an inner-city Philadelphia hospital. The Slavkin/Swimmer project is really a high-tech character-driven procedural about researchers who enter in the memory banks of murder sufferers to be able to solve the crimes. This is actually the second purchase this development season for Chaiken, who spent yesteryear 8 years at Showtime focusing on her drama The L Word and it is reality offshoot. A personality-driven procedural she's writing and executive creating with Joel Silver arrived at CBS a week ago having a put pilot commitment. Swimmer and Slavkin spent many years on Smallville, rising to executive producers. They most lately done ABC’s No Regular Family.