Jennie Snyder Urman is working on another show for The CW. According to Deadline, the “Jane the Virgin” creator is teaming up with Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (“Sweet/Vicious”) and Jessica Amento (“The Rachel Zoe Project”) for “Obsessed,” a dark one-hour comedy about a young woman coping with OCD that’s in development at the network.
Amento penned the project and serves as co-executive producer. Urman and Robinson are exec producing alongside Urman’s production partner, Joanna Klein.
“Obsessed” sees its seemingly sunny protagonist, millennial Farren Bell, struggling to hide “unwanted dark thoughts under her shiny blonde highlights,” the source details. “As a form of psychologist-approved exposure therapy, she joins forces with a coworker to launch a true crime podcast chronicling an active serial killer in L.A., helping her understand and confront her own fears while simultaneously putting her in imminent danger.”
The show hails from CBS Television Studios, where Urman and her Sutton St. Productions are under a deal.
Also on Urman’s slate are a supernatural drama about ghost-hunting sisters for The CW and a medical series focusing on a rising female surgeon for CBS. She developed The CW’s reboot of “Charmed” alongside Jessica O’Toole and Amy Rardin. The second season of the witch dramedy returns January 17. Urman has written for and produced series such as “90210,” “Lipstick Jungle,” and “Gilmore Girls.” She penned the rom-com “Something Borrowed.”
Amento worked as a fashion editor before pursuing screenwriting. The OCD awareness advocate is currently writing a biopic about fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer.
Robinson’s feature directorial debut, “Someone Great,” stars “Jane the Virgin’s” Gina Rodriguez. The rom-com launched on Netflix in April. She created and exec produced MTV’s “Sweet/Vicious,” the story of young vigilantes taking down abusers and predators on their college campus. It ran for one season, from 2016-2017.