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| Director/Producer John Wells, whose company will produce the pilot "Hinges" for TNT. |
LOS ANGELES - TNT has ordered a pilot for “Hinges” from John
Wells Productions, which is being produced in association with Warner
Horizon Television and Turner's Studio T. Centering on two middle-class
families of different races living in suburban America, the hour-long
drama pilots is being written by Janine Sherman Barrois (“ER,” “Criminal
Minds”) and is based on her short story “The Boom.”
Sherman Barrois
serves as executive producer along with John Wells (“ER,” “The West
Wing,” “Animal Kingdom,” “Southland”), Anthony Hemingway (“The People v.
O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” “Treme,” “Underground”) and Mark
Taylor (“Underground,” “For the Love of Baltimore”). Hemingway is also
set to direct the pilot.
A series that provocatively and humorously dissects middle-class
suburbia, “Hinges” follows two sets of neighbors whose lives are
dramatically changed in the wake of a scandal that rocks the community.
Shifting focus to a different set of families each season, “Hinges” will
expose the American Dream to be an illusion as it holds up a fun-house
mirror to the cracks beneath a community's seemingly happy surface.
“‘Hinges’ deals with timely, relevant issues, which not only makes
for great storytelling but will also contribute to larger cultural
conversations,” said Sarah Aubrey, executive vice president of original
programming for TNT. “We look forward to expanding TNT's relationship
with John Wells, whose ‘Animal Kingdom’ was one of the summer's biggest
hits, and Janine Sherman Barrois, who is also producing our new dramedy
pilot ‘Claws.’”
