Online film and TV service Netflix will produce 13 episodes of a new comedy series based on Piper Kerman's memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, Bloomberg reported, noting that the show is from Jenji Kohan (Weeds).
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Michael Sucsy (The Vow) will direct ABC’s drama pilot Scruples, based on the 1978 bestseller by Judith Krantz. Deadline.com reported that the project, which has Natalie Portman and Tony Krantz on board as executive producers, "marks the pilot debut for Sucsy, who co-wrote, directed and executive produced the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning HBO movie Grey Gardens."
