Former “Nashville” scribes are working on bringing another story about a female musician to the small screen. Meredith Lavender and Marcie Ulin’s pitch for a one-hour drama scored a script commitment plus penalty from NBC, Deadline confirms.
Currently untitled, the project follows Madison, a gifted musician whose career is in jeopardy after an on stage breakdown goes viral. “With a new boldness she teams up with her musical prodigy sisters to form a band that might be more than what they bargained for. Thrust into a world that is far more cutthroat and challenging than they ever imagined, they try to balance their individual ambitions, dreams, and secrets while trying to survive the roller coaster that is fame and success,” the source summarizes. Lavender and Ulin are writing the script.
The project hails from Milo Ventimiglia and Russ Cundiff’s DiVide Pictures and 20th Century Fox TV, where Lavender, Ulin, and DiVide are under deals.
Besides Connie Britton-starrer “Nashville,” Lavender and Ulin have also worked together on series including “Covert Affairs,” “Charlie’s Angels,” and “Missing.” The duo met in the early 2000s at MGM Pictures, where Lavender was serving as assistant to MGM Pictures president Michael Nathanson and Ulin worked the desk of executive VP of production Elizabeth Ingold.