For those of you contending with a “Jane the Virgin”-sized hole in your watchlist, we have some good news for you. “Jane” creator and showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman is working on two new shows: a supernatural drama about ghost-hunting sisters for The CW, and a medical series focusing on a rising female surgeon for CBS. Both projects hail from CBS Television Studios, where Urman and Joanna Klein’s production company, Sutton St., is under an overall deal.
According to Variety, The CW is developing the ghost-hunting show, an adaptation of V.E. Schwab’s “The Archived” books. “Jane the Virgin” scribe Liz Sczudlo is writing and exec producing the project. Urman and Klein are also EPing via Sutton St., and CBS Television Studios is producing.
“The eldest child in a family of ghost hunters, Bex has trained her entire life for the day she’ll take up the mantle of ‘the chosen one,'” the show’s synopsis hints. “But when her dad dies and her local-weather-girl sister wakes up with the familial powers instead, these night-and-day sisters will have to figure out how to work together and save the world.”
Sczudlo produced the final season of “Jane the Virgin,” which wrapped up earlier this summer after five seasons. Her other writing credits include “Switched at Birth,” “Reign,” and “Awkward.”
Deadline reports that Urman’s CBS family medical drama, “Good Sam,” has been put into development at the network. Hailing from another “Jane” writer-producer, Katie Wech, it sees a “talented yet stifled” surgeon stepping up as a leader when her boss falls into a coma. “When he awakens and wants to resume surgery, however, it falls to her to supervise this overbearing blowhard who never acknowledged her talents — and also happens to be her father.”
Urman and CBS Television Studios are producing “Good Sam.”
Wech currently co-exec produces and writes for meta “Beverly Hills 90210” revival “BH90210.” “Rizzoli & Isles,” “Star,” and “The Secret Circle” are also among the titles on her résumé.
Urman developed The CW’s reboot of “Charmed” alongside Jessica O’Toole and Amy Rardin. The tale of three witches — and sisters — returns for Season 2 on October 11. Urman is also exec producing upcoming CBS comedy “Broke,” focusing on wealthy man whose father cuts him off. Urman has written for and produced series such as “90210,” “Lipstick Jungle,” and “Gilmore Girls.” She penned the rom-com “Something Borrowed.”
