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A&E Picks Up Bruckheimer Pilot
12-May-2009
Written by: John Winn
“CSI” producer to produce Hawaii-based “Cooler Kings.”
According to Daily Variety, cable network A&E has purchased a pilot for a new Jerry Bruckheimer detective drama.
Cooler Kings is about a detective who sets out to avenge his girlfriend's death only to fall in league with a group of mysterious detectives in Hawaii.
It is the first project that Bruckheimer is shooting directly for the network, which has done well in the ratings with reruns of his CSI: Miami series.
"Once we got into the scripted business, we started actively looking for the right project with Bruckheimer," A&E's Senior VP of Drama Programming Tana Nugent Jamieson said.
Cooler Kings was originally envisioned for FOX, as Bruckheimer began expanding his presence to cable. But A&E expressed an interest in the script and ordered up a pilot. If picked up as a series, the detective drama will premiere in 2010.
The Bruckheimer pilot is among two other shows being shot for the network as it searches for a new drama to place in its schedule. In addition, sister network Bio announced a slate of new, celebrity-driven shows, including a new eight-episode series, Celebrity Ghost Stories, and Celebrity Close Calls, about celebrities who cheat death. It is also ordering a second season of Shatner's Raw Nerve, featuring the ex-Star Trek star as talk show host.
According to Jamieson, most of A&E's programming centers around mysteries and law enforcement, including reality shows, The First 48 and The Interrogators.
Cooler Kings is not the only pilot in Bruckheimer's shingle. In addition to the Hawaiian mystery, Bruckheimer is also overseeing the TNT drama, Dark Blue as well as Cocaine Cowboys, based on the 2006 documentary of the same name.
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