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TITLE: AS I AM
FORMAT: 1/2 hour Coming of Race Comedy
LOGLINE: When a car accident sends a Korean adoptee back home to her big Italian family in her small white town, she sticks out like a yellow thumb - forcing her to open the eyes she hates, to love the Asian she refuses to be.
COMPS: Asian Fleabag stuck in The Sopranos family - where being Italian = who you are.
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"Maybe it’s because I’ve read so many scripts over the past 20 years, but I don’t often laugh out loud while reading. This script was a riot to read…and I loved every second of it. Not only is the comedy sharp, and the timing even sharper, but the script dapples the story with little pieces of emotion and heart and genuine care. This is a half-hour comedy that exemplifies how and where half-hour comedy can go in the future. A must-read script from a must-read writer."
- Max Timm, ISA
"There would absolutely be an audience for this show. Even viewers with no relationship to either of Lucia's cultural or ethnic identities will be able to relate to some aspect of deracination or not belonging, a theme the show beautifully intensifies thanks to the acting element. The series could be brought to the screen on a very modest budget, and while the concept may be (unfairly) deemed too niche or specific for a mainstream treatment, it's not difficult to imagine AS I AM finding a home in the streaming world. Even in a contracting, post-strike industry, this kind of wildly unique comedy could stand out from the pack. Lucia promises to be a breakout vehicle for the right performer, and the supporting cast offers some solid opportunities for bigger name talent and cameos."
- Blacklist Review
TITLE: WASH YOUR BIRDIE: 101 THINGS THAT CAN CRAWL UP YOUR VAGINA AND KILL YOU
FORMAT: 1/2 hour Coming of Age Comedy
LOGLINE: A Catholic school virgin promises to please her mother and God, but when she leaves home for college she's taunted into her long-overdue sexual awakening by her own vagina - a cartoon bird named Birdie.
COMPS: PEN15 with a spurt of BIG MOUTH
TITLE: FRANKENFAMILY
FORMAT: 1/2 hour Comedy
LOGLINE: Lucia's 100% Italian, except that she's Asian - a little fact she denies until a bumpy road to pregnancy holds a mirror to her adopted face. Can she finally accept and love the Korean she never wanted to be? Ew.
COMPS: MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING meets TRYING
TITLE: WUNDER GIRLS
FORMAT: 1/2 hour Scared of Age Comedy
LOGLINE: When a stubbornly young 55-year-old fashion magazine exec is fired for being too old, she faces unemployment and menopause just as her brainy and pubescent daughter starts middle school in a comedic battle of the same-sexes.
COMPS: GIRLMORE GIRLS meets BETTER THINGS
TITLE: SERVANT WOMAN
FORMAT: 1 hour Dramedy
LOGLINE: When a masterful doula, celebrated for her extraordinary gift to heal and bring life into the world, is abandoned by her husband for her best friend, she must learn how to heal her own fractured family while continuing to help others create theirs.
COMPS: VIRGIN RIVER meets BIG LITTLE LIES
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TITLE: SKYDANCER
FORMAT: 1 hour Dramedy
LOGLINE: A pill-popping paramedic desperate to free her family of their father’s death posts a cryptic ad to “remove your burden and set you free”, inadvertently becoming a savior for all of Van Nuys.
COMPS: BEEF meets SIX FEET UNDER