Three More Pitches Find Broadcast Homes

Up-and-coming feature writers Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair, whose film script A Many Splintered Thing was recently named one of the ten Nicholls Fellowship finalists, have sold a comedy project to CBS. Titled Girlfriend Season, it is an observational romantic comedy that follows 6 people, a young married couple and their friends. UTA-repped Shafer and Vicknair are writing, with Generate producing. Fox has bought a drama pitch from Aaron Stockard who co-wrote Ben Affleck’s Gone Baby Gone and The Town. Titled Thick as Thieves, the drama is a blue collar soap set in Boston. Stockard, repped by WME and 3 Arts, is writing, 20th TV and Chernin Entertainment producing. NBC has bought a character-driven procedural drama from veteran Law & Order: SVU writer Judith K. McCreary whose main character is modeled after Tony Ciaglia whose real-life story is told in the upcoming book The Serial Killer Whisperer: How One Mans Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the Worlds Most Terrifying Killers. Universal TV is producing. McCreary is with ICM and manager Darryl Taja.