“Scripted Television”
“Willie Cabel”
Willie Cabel was a Los Angeles psychologist, but no longer. She was the psychiatrist to the stars. Her patients were Hollywood A-Listers whom she treated and sometimes slept with.
When she is outed by several former patients, she loses her California license to practice and is forced to relocate to the only place that will take her, a prison in Kentucky.
Willie is now in the belly of the beast, working as a shrink to some of the most dangerous people on the planet. The horrible conditions in the prison are made worse by the warden, a corrupt, connected civil servant who doesn't want anything or anyone interfering with his behind-the-scenes operation, especially an "outsider" like Willie.
We also follow the parallel stories of Willie's husband and daughter. Her husband lands a job at a small local newspaper. A far cry from his days at the L.A. Times, but he discovers that there is much corruption going on in the state of Kentucky, corruption within the state's three major enterprises: coal, bourbon, and horse racing. He's a good reporter who knows a good story, and so we follow him into this world where he will face his own dangers and conflict.
Willie's daughter has the hardest time adjusting. She's left behind all her friends at the upscale Santa Monica high school she attended, and is now in a small, rural high school, with kids unlike any she's known growing up in Southern California. She feels like she's in a time warp. Kentucky will never be mistaken for L.A. An ensemble cast, both inside and outside the prison, rounds out this compelling drama.
“Dr, Joe”
Television has never met anyone like Joe Nakamura. He's an emergency room doctor, a sworn police officer, and a SWAT Operator. He lives in the disparate worlds of medicine and law enforcement; sometimes armed with a stethoscope, at other times with an M-4. Implausible? Perhaps. Except that Joe Nakamura is not a fictional character. He is very, very real.
The real Dr. Joe is a full-time emergency room doctor at Torrance Memorial Hospital, as well as a sworn police officer and SWAT operator for the Hawthorne Police Department. The stories told in this series are his stories. They run the gamut from harrowing to life-affirming. No need to fictionalize the life of Dr. Joe.
“Hooper”
They work for unfriendly governments that attempt to penetrate our cybersecurity firewalls. They're members of cartels that use the Internet to extort millions of dollars from major corporations. They're also the zit-faced kid that lives next door, sitting alone in the dark of his parents' basement, coding away at his computer to bring down the power grid of a small city just because he can.
Fortunately, there is an opposing army of cybersecurity specialists who also operate on a 24/7 basis. Their mission is to thwart the bandits, control the damage, plug the leaks, and bring the evildoers to justice.
Among this daring group of cyber heroes is the star of our series, Hooper.
"Hooper" is a one-hour dramedy set on the beautiful, lush Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. Our protagonist is Hooper, a cybersecurity expert who works for a Boston-based firm, tasked with keeping secure the secrets of their corporate clients.
“4 Corners”
Dr. Oliver Caldwell is a renowned Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, known as the “plastic surgeon.” Early in his career, he was considered one of the most promising general surgeons around, blessed with brilliance, skill, and gifted hands. But he was seduced by the money and celebrity of high-profile plastic surgery and abandoned his earlier career path to focus on boob jobs and belly lifts for fading celebrities.
Following a night of partying, drugs, and alcohol, he performs what should have been a routine breast enhancement on a young Asian-American actress. But the procedure goes wrong. There are complications, and the young actress dies on his table.
The tragic story leads the nightly local news for weeks. His patients quickly abandon him, and his once-famous Beverly Hills clinic closes for good. Caldwell has lost everything.
He drowns himself in self-pity, booze, and pills and comes close to accidentally killing himself. He is visited by a friend and former mentor, Dr. Leon Sherman, who convinces Caldwell to find redemption by using his incredible skills to help those who live at the other end of Wilshire Blvd., in an area of East L.A. called Four Corners. There, Caldwell will open and operate a free clinic.
The Four Corners neighborhood was so named because four separate ethnic enclaves collide in this one area. Thus, it is a nexus for ethnic strife, gang violence, poverty and ignorance. And Caldwell is in the middle of it all.
Four Corners is both an urban and medical drama. It moves the medical genre out of the hospital and into the mean streets of East L.A., where Caldwell is the ultimate fish out of water, an outsider with a lot to prove to the residents of Four Corners and to himself.
“Eye in the Sky”
Pete Keller is a helicopter pilot and traffic reporter for a Los Angeles television station. However, that simple job description is the only thing Keller has in common with every other helicopter reporter working in local news.
Keller was a former Army combat helicopter pilot with experience in a number of war zones. He was awarded a commendation when, under intense enemy fire, he landed his chopper in a hot spot to recover the body of a fellow pilot who had been shot down.
The father of that pilot, Frederick David Rothman, aka F.D.R., is the owner of the t.v. station that hired Keller, in gratitude for bringing home his son's body.
Keller is an adrenaline junkie who isn't content to be merely a traffic reporter; thus, he constantly inserts himself and his chopper into breaking crime stories throughout L.A., much to the chagrin of station management and the LAPD.
Keller should have been fired years ago, but F.D.R., the station owner, protects him out of gratitude, although that gratitude runs thin at times. This puts him in constant conflict with the station's news director, who is young, talented, female, and beautiful.
She and Keller have a mutual attraction, which they attempt to hide from each other. Their foreplay manifests itself in the daily arguments over Keller's aerial antics.
Eye in the Sky also features an eclectic ensemble cast, from those working at the station to Keller's archenemy, Benny Quillan, an LAPD helicopter pilot.
It is a comedy/drama full of intense action, stunning visuals, romance, and conflict.
“Uncaged”
Tommy Cafferty is a newly minted doctor, working the graveyard shift at an L.A. Hospital, when a young patient, Katherine Allen, is drugged and raped in her hospital bed.
All the evidence is pointing to Cafferty. He is arrested, tried, convicted, and sent to prison. Years later, a former janitor at the hospital dies, and when police go through his apartment, they uncover evidence pointing to the janitor as the rapist.
Cafferty asks for a new trial and is represented by twin brothers, former hippies, who, by their dress and manner, think the 60s are still alive. They operate a legal clinic called "The Open Cell Project", which specializes in freeing individuals who were wrongfully convicted.
However, Katherine Allen, the girl who was raped years earlier in the hospital, is now an L.A. Assistant District Attorney, and thus there is much pushback from her office.
Despite that, Cafferty is freed when the twins uncover withheld evidence that had been preserved by a now-retired police detective. The former doctor is now a free man but has few prospects. He doesn't want to go back to medicine because he had been a doctor for only a few months, and that didn't work out so well.
The twins ask Cafferty to come work for them as an investigator. His medical training could come in handy, and his time behind bars will become invaluable in helping determine the guilt or innocence of those asking for the law clinic's help.
He reluctantly agrees to try it for a time, and the first case he is given is a request for a new trial by his former prison cellmate with whom he had become friends. Not a trained investigator, he seeks help wherever he can find it, including asking for some inside help from D.A. Katherine Allen, the woman he was once accused of raping.
This will be a most uneasy start to a personal and professional relationship that will build throughout the series.
“The Interventionalist”
This series is based on the true stories of Heather Hayes, who for the last twenty years has been the interventionist to top celebrities, professional athletes, and corporate CEOs.
What makes the series so compelling is that the privileged are not like others who are fighting addiction. They have money and power, and their backstories, as well as their travels through the rehab process, run the gamut from the tragic to the wildly comical.
Our protagonist is Annie Cort, who is based on Heather Hayes. Like Heather, Annie is a former addict who got clean, went to school, and became a leading therapist. She is sought after by celebs because none of her clients have ever been outed, unless they do so themselves.
Annie tries to maintain a long-distance relationship with another therapist, and like Heather, works as a hostage negotiator and criminal profiler for local police. And if that isn't enough, she must also deal with her boozy, comically suicidal mother; a former Southern belle who feels betrayed by her ex-husband and daughter.
Because the stories are all true and based on the lives of real celebs (of course, we don't give away identities), it will be intriguing for the viewers to try and figure out who these individuals are in real life.
