The CW Teams With J.J. Abrams & OTH Creator Mark Schwahn For Hotel Drama

EXCLUSIVE: J.J. Abrams is headed for the CW. Within the first stint within the 5-year-old network, the most effective author-producer-director has joined with Mark Schwahn, creator/executive producer/showrunner in the CW’s extended-running drama One Tree Hill. The power pair has offered costly hotels drama for the CW, which will instantly become one of the the network’s finest-profile projects this development season. Schwahn will write the show, tentatively titled Maine, that's occur an motel in Maine and involves employees as well as the motel’s site visitors. Abrams and Schwahn will executive produce with Bryan Burk for Warner Bros. TV, Abrams’ studio-based Bad Robot and Schwahn’s Mastermind Labs. In scope, the level of smoothness-based drama, which has received a script commitment, harks to Schwahn’s OTH, which will finish its nine-year run early next season, and Abrams’ Felicity. This marks a homecoming of sorts for Abrams who started his TV career round the CW predecessor the WB with Felicity. For Schwahn, the project develops from a script deal with WBTV. The sale reunites Abrams while using CW leader Mark Pedowitz and EVP development Thom Sherman who labored with Abrams at ABC and ABC Art galleries. Most recently, Pedowitz was leader of ABC Art galleries where Abrams was within general deal before moving to WBTV in 2006, and Sherman went Abrams’ production company Bad Robot for two main years before joining the CW, also in 2006. Once the project visits series, every time they visit for just about any seamless transition for WME-repped Schwahn, who's wrapping the ninth and final season of just one Tree Hill. He's the second creator from the extended-running, hit CW series being writing a greater-profile new work with the network, along with Supernatural creator Eric Kripke, who's adapting Electricity Comic Deadman. Coincidentally, both Schwahn and Kripke have projects with Abrams this year. Close to the CW hotel drama, Bad Robot’s other project in contention for next fall is Revolution, popular adventure thriller at NBC composed by Kripke, having a pilot production commitment.