W.G. Snuffy Walden has recently scored a couple of new pilots for the upcoming TV season. The crime drama Hail Mary centers on a suburban single mom living in Atlanta who teams up with a hustler to solve crimes. The pilot stars Minnie Driver, Brandon T. Jackson, Stephen Tobolowsky and Enrique Murciano. The project is created by Jeff Wadlow (Cry Wolf, Never Back Down) and the pilot is directed by Brad Silberling (Casper, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events). Joel Silver and Ilene Chaiken serve as executive producers on the project. CBS is expected to announce next week if the show gets picked up.
The Emmy Award-winning composer has also scored the pilot for ABC dramedy Good Christian Belles (originally entitled Good Christian Bitches). The show centers on a recently divorced mother of two who moves back to the affluent Dallas neighborhood where she grew up to find herself in the whirling midst of salacious gossip, Botox, and fraud. The pilot’s cast includes Leslie Bibb (Iron Man, Popular), Kristin Chenoweth (Pushing Daisies) and Marisol Nichols (24). The show is created by writer Robert Harling (Steel Magnolia, The First Wives Club) and produced by Darren Starr (Sex and the City). The pilot was directed by Alan Poul (Six Feet Under, The Back-up Plan). ABC has already picked up the show and it is expected to premiere this fall.
Another pilot that the prolific TV composer scored is the half-hour comedy Other People’s Kids, which has not been picked up by ABC. The pilot stars Jesse Bradford, Tom Arnold, Bonnie Somerville and Judith Light. The project centers on a 32-year-old guy who has no responsibilities and falls in love with an older woman, and finds himself thrust into her family that includes two children, an ex-husband and ex-in-law. Michael Fresco (My Name is Earl, Raising Hope) directed the pilot and Hunter Covington wrote the pilot’s script.
