NBC Orders Demi Lovato Pilot
‘Hungry’ centers on friends from food issues group that look out for each other
NBC has ordered a pilot for a project from Demi Lovato called Hungry. The single-cam comedy looks at friends who belong to a food issues group that help each other as they look for love, success and “the perfect thing in the fridge that’s going to make it all better,” goes the description.
Lovato is a singer and actress.
The project is produced by UTV, Hazy Mills and SB Projects, which is founded by music manager Scooter Braun.
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Lovato executive produces with Suzanne Martin, Sean Hayes, Todd Milliner & Scooter Braun, Scott Manson and James Shin.
SB Projects series include FXX’s Dave, CBS’s Scorpion and YouTube’s Justin Bieber: Seasons.
NBC also ordered a pilot for single-cam romantic comedy Someone Out There. The series is about two set-in-their-ways adults who are challenged by very unexpected strangers to become the best versions of themselves in order to find love and possibly each other. It is based on the format Pequenas Coincidencias, created by Javier Veiga.
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Veiga executive produces with Josh Siegal & Dylan Morgan, Matt Hubbard, Emiliano Calemzuk & Javier Veiga.
Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.