>AMC Picks Up Two Scripted Drama Pilots
>By NELLIE ANDREEVA

>AMC has handed pilot orders to Low Winter Sun and the Untitled
>LaGravenese & Goldwyn Project, marking the first time the network has
>greenlit two scripted pilots at the same time. Low Winter Sun and the
>Richard LaGravenese/Tony Goldwyn drama were among six projects
>selected to do presentations at the network’s annual pilot script
>showcase, informally referred to “bake-off,” last month.

>Low Winter Sun, a co-production between Endemol Studios and AMC
>Studios, is based on the 2006 two-part British mini-series written by
>Simon Donald and starring Mark Strong, which was produced by Endemol’s
>Tiger Aspect Prods. Chris Mundy (Criminal Minds) wrote the U.S.
>adaptation, a contemporary story of murder, deception, revenge and
>corruption that starts with the murder of a cop by a fellow Detroit
>detective.  Seemingly the perfect crime, in reality the murder
>activates forces that will forever alter that detective’s life and
>pull him into the heart of the Detroit underworld.  Mundy will serve
>as executive producer/showrunner on the project, repped by CAA. Jeremy
>Gold, head of creative affairs for Endemol Studios, oversees the
>project with Greg Brenman, head of drama for Tiger Aspect. This is
>Endemol’s second AMC pilot following Hell On Wheel, which came out of
>the “bake-off” two years ago and went on to become a series that has
>been renewed for a second season.

>The untitled LaGravenese & Goldwyn Project is a legal thriller
>centered on a District Attorney who uncovers new evidence that prompts
>the reinvestigation of a sensational murder case. It explores personal
>morality and how people struggle with the shades of grey found in the
>absence of a simple, ordered moral universe. LaGravenese wrote the
>script and will executive produce the pilot with Goldwyn who will
>direct. Andrew Sugarman will serve as a co-executive producer.