Development Update: Friday, December 18
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)
LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:
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ALL AMERICAN (The CW) - Lamon Archey and G.G. Townson will recur on the show s third season. Archey will return as Superintendent D Angelo Carter who finished last season with a large-scale proposal to convert South Crenshaw to a Magnet School ; while Townson will play Lil Jewel, a singer working on her upcoming album and another one of JP s artists. (Deadline.com)
NBC is developing Look At Me, a drama series inspired by the life of deaf model, actor and activist Nyle DiMarco. The America’s Next Top Model and Dancing with the Stars winner executive produces the project, which hails from Neil Meron and Zadan/Meron Productions as well as Universal Television where the company is based.
Written by Tom Donnelly and Josh Oppenheimer (Conan the Barbarian), Look At Me is an ensemble drama about a multi-generational deaf family, living under one roof, and their hearing daughter-in-law and granddaughter who move in after a change in their circumstances.
DiMarco, Donnelly and Oppenheimer executive produce with Meron and Mark Nicholson for Zadan/Meron Prods. and Melrose Placed’s Sami Housman.