Hitch 'em up: Overbrook dives deep into TV

October 12, 2007 Overbrook Entertainment is making a major push in television with the company's most ambitious development slate to date, which includes a series version of Will Smith's hit feature "Hitch" and a comedy starring OutKast's Big Boi. The slate, overseen by Heather Courtney, also includes "Raw Materials," a relationship comedy for ABC from the Oscar-nominated writing duo Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel; "Almost," a supernatural drama for A&E; a drama for FX about a "straight edge" punk crew; and "Gimmee Twenty," a special starring investment guru Mellody Hobson, at ABC News. Additionally, Overbrook has the half-hour "I Hate Pink," about a plain Jane in high school, in consideration at the N.

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