Jon Favreau also migrating to the fertile plains of network television
The great migration of filmmakers to television has now been joined by the wooly Jon Favreau, ever the pack animal, who’s making his way back onto the small screen with two different projects in development at two different broadcast networks. Yesterday it was reported that Favreau had sold the spec comedy script Tweaked to CBS, which concerns single parents learning to date again in Santa Monica, and somehow has nothing to do with amphetamines. Seriously, why? And then today it was announced that Favreau would also make a return to ABC (where he last directed the short-lived In Case Of Emergency) as an executive producer and probable director on the ABC sci-fi dramedy Ex-Comm, a “presidential procedural” about a newly elected president and the top-secret “executive committee” that helps him investigate and contend with various “conspiracy theory truths.” (Basically, The West Wing’s Fringe Warehouse 13 Files.)