NBC Buys 'Apocalipstick' Comedy, 'Masters and Apprentice' Drama from BermanBraun (Exclusive)

NBC scoops up two more projects from former network honchos Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun. The network has purchased scripts for dramaMasters and Apprentice and comedyApocalipstick. The first kind, in the pair's BermanBraun and Universal Television, focuses on a rookie FBI agent who enlists the use of a legendary but mysterious former operative to assist him infiltrate the shadowy group accountable for his parents' dying. The project is going to be written and executive created by Criminal Minds scribesDan Dworkin and Jay Beattie, with Gene Stein(Alphas, The Cape)becoming a professional producer. Berman and Braun are generally attached as non-writing Expanded polystyrene. The second is really a comedy, also from BermanBraun and Universal Television, in regards to a lady's father who eventually ends up dating her senior high school enemy. The project is going to be written and executive created by Julie Klausner (Ugly People in america, Best Week Ever), with Stein, Berman and Braun aboard as executive producers. Karen Spiegel will function as a co-executive producer. Dworkin and Beattle, whose other writing credits range from the Event and Whim, are repped by ICM Klausner is repped by WME. Related Subjects NBC TV Development