ABC Buys Comedy Projects From 'Arrested Development' Producer,
Jennifer Garner; Eyes Courteney Cox-David Arquette Half-Hour
The network bought Barbie Adler’s “Loosely Related” pitch in the room.
by Lesley Goldberg

ABC has picked up a pair of comedy pitches from two very different
voices.

The first project, Loosely Related, hails from Arrested Development
producer Barbie Adler and revolves around a former slut who tries to
change her life and goes in search of her two sons’ baby daddies and
winds up forming an unlikely family. ABC bought the pitch in the room.

Adler, who was a co-executive producer on last season’s Perfect
Couples, was a producer on Arrested Development. Repped by WME, her
credits also include Miss Guided and My Name Is Earl.

The second project, Cartoon Marriage, is a family comedy executive
produced by former Alias star Jennifer Garner and based on the book by
married New Yorker cartoonists Michael Maslin and Liza Donnelly.

Garner and her producing partner Juliana Janes will executive produce
through their Vandalia Films shingle. Less Than Perfect creator Terri
Minsky will adapt the project.

ABC Studios is behind both projects.

Meanwhile, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that the studio is
pitching a comedy series from Coquette Productions’ Courteney Cox and
David Arquette dubbed Ten Years, as first reported by TV Line.

The project, which will be pitched to ABC under Cox’s first-look deal
with the studio, explores the ups and downs of relationships across a
group of friends spanning 10 years.

Ten Years comes three months after the separated couple sold the game
show pilot Identity Crisis to CBS. The concept, from Magical Jade
Productions, revolves around teams of two that must identify the names
of famous people. Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson was being eyed as
a potential host for the project.