Fox Buys Teen Spy Drama With Penalty

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has bought a CIA drama from Karyn Usher (The Playboy Club) in the script deal with a significant penalty installed on it. The project, a procedural thriller devoted towards the orphaned 17-year-old daughter from the CIA operative who's employed becoming an operative herself, continues to be produced by last century Fox TV and Mary Adelstein and Shawn Levy’s studio-based 21 Laps/Adelstein Prods. Usher, Adelstein, Levy and Becky Clements are executive creating. Adelstein approached Usher, who's also within general deal at 20th TV, while using idea for your project to uncover they have been thinking about the same idea. This really is really the duo’s third project together. Adelstein first met Usher round the Fox/20th TV drama Prison Break, which Adelstein executive produced and also on which WME-repped Usher started off just like a co-producer andeventually roseto co-executive producer. The Two later produced a U.S. version in the British format Daylight Robbery. 21 Laps/Adelstein, which has the Tim Allen ABC comedy Last Guy Standing beginning the next month, has offered a slew of projects this season. They includea Romancing the Stone adaptation composed by Mark Friedman to NBC, a medical dramedy put together by Jessica Queller, ensemble comedy Gorilla Time composed by Stacy Traub & Hayes Jackson and family comedy Threepete put together by Carter Covington to Fox.