A multigenerational female drama may be headed our way. TNT is developing “East of Jingletown,” a drama series from Pam Veasey (“CSI:NY,” “In Living Color”). The project follows “four women who have formed an incredible friendship through their sons and sports,” Deadline reports. “We meet them at a crossroads, and the series explores their friendship and their individual lives, and all the amazing warmth of these women’s complicated relationships through the ups and downs of it all.”
Veasey penned the pilot and is among the project’s executive producers. Makeready is the studio.
“I graduated with a degree in Political Science and Journalism. And my first job was at the Democratic Convention in San Francisco working as an intern for CBS News,” Veasey has said. “I was planning to pursue a career in news broadcasting and/or politics. Not until I was exposed to the numerous possibilities in television, while working as an intern at a TV production company, did I know there were other options. That’s when I first considered being a writer in entertainment television.”
Other TNT series in the works include Margaret Cho-starrer “Highland,” a comedic drama about two extended, dysfunctional Korean-American families, “One Day She’ll Darken,” a limited drama based on the true story of Fauna Hodel, who was given away by her teenage birth mother to a black restroom attendant in a casino in 1949, and “Deadlier Than the Male,” a mystery drama toplined by Amy Brenneman that follows a trio of characters with troubled and mysterious pasts. All three projects have women directors attached to helm their pilots: Nisha Ganatra (“Better Things”), Houda Benyamina (“Divines”), and Patty Jenkins (“Wonder Woman”), respectively.
