Keshet Studios Lands Pilot Pickups from U.S. Networks

LOS ANGELES: Keshet Studios is set to produce a trio of new pilots for three separate U.S. networks.

Among the pilots, For God & Country explores the complex world of military heroes who make personal sacrifices while carrying out dangerous missions behind enemy lines. Dean Georgaris (The Manchurian Candidate) is attached as writer. Keshet Studios will be producing alongside Universal Television for NBC.

Salamander is based on the 2012 Belgian series created by Ward Hulselmans, Frank Van Mechelen and Eric Wirix. It follows a brilliant but misanthropic engineer who recruits a skeptical Homeland Security agent to help him track a mysterious bank robber entangled in blackmail and perhaps a larger conspiracy. Keshet Studios, ABC Studios and Beta Film are working on the pilot for ABC.

For CBS, Wisdom of the Crowd is based on the Keshet project of the same name created by Dror Mishani and Shira Hadad. It tells the story of a tech innovator who creates a cutting-edge crowdsourcing hub to solve his daughter’s murder. The project is being produced by Keshet Studios with CBS Television Studios and Universal Television.

Keshet Studios is also working on a pilot for HBO, Stray Weeds (working title). The series is based on actual events, dramatizing the violence that followed the disappearance of and search for three Israeli teens during the summer of 2014. It comes from Hagai Levi (In Treatment, The Affair) and Noah Stollman.