Ashton Kutcher & Topher Grace Developing TV Series For FOX & CBS

[Brian Damage]

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Anthem is a half-hour based on an original idea and focuses on four guys from suburban Indiana who get a second chance at their dream when they reunite the cover band they had as teenagers but find themselves juggling small town fame with their domestic responsibilities. Fleming Jr. is writing and executive producing with Grace and Gordon Kaywin. Grace and Kaywin's Sargent Hall sold the project through its first deal with the Fox network and will co-produce with 20th TV. In addition to Anthem, Grace and Kaywin are developing a comedy at Warner Bros. TV with writer Bill Kunstler. Grace and Kaywin are with WME and BEP, Fleming Jr. with UTA.

Yet another Twitter feed is taking the sitcom route via CBS. The network is developing a comedy series based on Charlie McDowell's feed and Web site Dear Girls Above Me, about a single man who gains insight into the female mind by eavesdropping on his upstairs neighbors. The Girls feed, which has more than 34,000 followers, consists of imaginary 140-character letters McDowell writes to the party girls who live in the apartment above him in reaction to conversations he overhears.