Fox Buys Teen Spy Drama With Penalty

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has purchased a CIA drama from Karyn Usher (The Playboy Club) inside a script deal which has a significant penalty mounted on it. The project, a procedural thriller dedicated to the orphaned 17-year-old daughter of the CIA operative who's employed being an operative herself, has been created by twentieth century Fox TV and Mary Adelstein and Shawn Levy’s studio-based 21 Laps/Adelstein Prods. Usher, Adelstein, Levy and Becky Clements are executive creating. Adelstein contacted Usher, who is also under a general deal at 20th TV, using the idea for that project to discover that they have been considering an identical idea. This is actually the duo’s third project together. Adelstein first met Usher around the Fox/20th TV drama Prison Break, which Adelstein executive created as well as on which WME-repped Usher began off like a co-producer andeventually roseto co-executive producer. The 2 later created a U.S. version from the British format Daylight Robbery. 21 Laps/Adelstein, that has the Tim Allen ABC comedy Last Guy Standing starting the following month, has offered a slew of projects this year. They includea Romancing the Stone adaptation composed by Mark Friedman to NBC, a medical dramedy compiled by Jessica Queller, ensemble comedy Gorilla Time composed by Stacy Traub & Hayes Jackson and family comedy Threepete compiled by Carter Covington to Fox.