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New Zadan and
Meron series inspired by Diane Warren songs

New Zadan and
Meron series inspired by Diane Warren songs

ABC has bought a one-hour dramedy script inspired by the music of songwriter Diane Warren from Touchstone Television and Craig Zadan and Neil Meron's Storyline Entertainment. In addition, Storyline has renewed its overall deal with Touchstone for another two years to cover series and TV movies.

The project, a romantic comedy, will center on a fictional female songwriter who is just finding success in her career as a prolific writer of love songs but whose own love life is amiss. The project will follow her as she reenters the dating world while trying to maintain her career. Zadan pointed out that it's not going to be a biographical take on Warren's life, nor will it aim to be an inside look at showbiz.

He added the show will feature music from Warren's catalog--which includes such songs as LeAnn Rimes's "How Do I Live," Celine Dion's "Because You Loved Me," Toni Braxton's "Unbreak My Heart," and Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"--as well as new songs written by her for the show. "We thought, Wouldn't it be great to figure out a way that music is not obtrusive but part of the show?" Zadan said. "Music is organic to this show. It's not shoehorned in at all."

Zadan and Meron worked with Warren on the 1999 ABC musical Double Platinum--she wrote a song for stars Brandy and Diana Ross titled "Love Is All That Matters"--and Zadan said that they had been interested in collaborating again. For her part, Warren said she's looking forward to working with Zadan and Meron as well as writers Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, who created the project and are writing the pilot. "I've wanted to find the right place for my music in the television world, and joining forces with a team of their caliber is a blessing," she said. "To top it off, Touchstone and ABC have shown such excitement and energy behind this that it feels like the perfect fit."

Zadan and Meron, whose credits include the Oscar-winning feature Chicago, also are working on the drama pilot Filthy Gorgeous for Showtime, and they're preparing to shoot the film version of the musical Hairspray next summer. (Cynthia Littleton and Kimberly Speight, via Reuters)

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