WB Net enrolls in hour drama from Fontana
Fontana, WB team
Jan 10, 2005
The WB Network has added Emmy winner Tom Fontana to the roster of A-list producers set to deliver pilots to the network this development season.
The WB has given the green light to an untitled one-hour project from Fontana and fellow "Homicide: Life on the Street" alum Julie Martin that hails from HBO Independent Prods.
Set at a small liberal-arts college in Manhattan, the project is a youthful ensemble drama about the lives of resident and commuter students from all kinds of social and economic backgrounds and their teachers.
"The show specifically centers on a human behavior seminar where (the students) openly talk about their sexual lives or the lack of sexual lives and come to understand themselves and the world they live in better," Fontana said.
In developing the project, Fontana and Martin got a hand from a friend of Fontana's, a professor at Columbia University, who shared with them some behind-the-scenes stories.
It was another old friend of Fontana's, the WB Network's recently appointed entertainment president David Janollari, who invited Fontana and Martin to develop for the network neither of them had worked with before.
"When somebody like David takes over a network, you want to go and work for him because you know he knows quality, you know he is smart and you know he won't take the easy way out," Fontana said.
Martin and Fontana penned the script together. The two also are executive producing.
Fontana, a multiple-Emmy winner for his work on "Homicide" and "St. Elsewhere," most recently executive produced Fox's short-lived drama "The Jury," on which Martin served as a writer.
Fontana and Martin are repped by UTA.
In other WB news, the curtain has fallen on the network's freshman drama "The Mountain." After commissioning four more scripts in October, the WB has opted not to pick up additional episodes from the Warner Bros. TV series beyond the additional 13-episode order.
The WB has given the green light to an untitled one-hour project from Fontana and fellow "Homicide: Life on the Street" alum Julie Martin that hails from HBO Independent Prods.
Set at a small liberal-arts college in Manhattan, the project is a youthful ensemble drama about the lives of resident and commuter students from all kinds of social and economic backgrounds and their teachers.
"The show specifically centers on a human behavior seminar where (the students) openly talk about their sexual lives or the lack of sexual lives and come to understand themselves and the world they live in better," Fontana said.
In developing the project, Fontana and Martin got a hand from a friend of Fontana's, a professor at Columbia University, who shared with them some behind-the-scenes stories.
It was another old friend of Fontana's, the WB Network's recently appointed entertainment president David Janollari, who invited Fontana and Martin to develop for the network neither of them had worked with before.
"When somebody like David takes over a network, you want to go and work for him because you know he knows quality, you know he is smart and you know he won't take the easy way out," Fontana said.
Martin and Fontana penned the script together. The two also are executive producing.
Fontana, a multiple-Emmy winner for his work on "Homicide" and "St. Elsewhere," most recently executive produced Fox's short-lived drama "The Jury," on which Martin served as a writer.
Fontana and Martin are repped by UTA.
In other WB news, the curtain has fallen on the network's freshman drama "The Mountain." After commissioning four more scripts in October, the WB has opted not to pick up additional episodes from the Warner Bros. TV series beyond the additional 13-episode order.
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