2020 Paramount Network Pilots & Series Orders

EMILY IN PARIS (Ordered straight to series)

Emily is a driven twentysomething woman from the Midwest who moves to Paris for an unexpected job opportunity, tasked with bringing an American point of view to a venerable French marketing firm. Cultures clash as she adjusts to the challenges of life in a foreign city, while juggling her career, new friendships and love life.

COYOTE (Ordered straight to series)

The story of Ben Clemens, who, after 32 years as a border patrol agent, is forced to work for the very people he spent his career trying to keep out of America. Now exposed to life on the other side of the wall, Ben will start to question his black-and-white views of the world, challenging his ideology and his loyalties.

MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN (Ordered straight to series)

Set in a small Michigan town where the only industry remaining is federal, state and private prisons, the story follows the McClusky family, the power brokers between the police, criminals, inmates, prison guards and politicians, in a city completely dependent on prisons and the prisoners they contain. It is a stark and brutal look at the business of incarceration.

SEXY BEAST (Ordered straight to series)

Tells the origin story of Gal Dove, a brilliant thief who finds himself descending into the seductive madness of the London criminal world during the vibrant and volatile 1990s. The series will explore the early days of Gal’s complicated relationship with Don Logan, a vicious gangster with whom Gal forms a partnership; the beginnings of his association with criminal mastermind Teddy Bass; and how Gal met and fell in love with DeeDee, an adult film star who would become his wife.

PARADISE LOST (Ordered straight to series; working title)

FKA Heaven of Hell

A psychiatrist who moves with her family from California to her husband’s hometown in Mississippi only to uncover shameful secrets that irrevocably change the lives of everyone involved.