Richard Willett

DRAMA DEPARTMENT Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama When a gay screenwriter who’s dismissive of the MeToo movement is subpoenaed to testify on behalf of a friend who’s suing their high school drama teacher over an affair he had with her when she was underage, he winds up taking over his teacher’s class and falling for a student himself.

AND CALL ME IN THE MORNING: THE STORY OF THALIDOMIDE Drama In this limited series based on true events, six very different people around the world in the early 1960s – doctors, scientists, mothers, fathers -- are confronted with the birth of deformed babies and struggle to find out why this has happened, eventually pitting them against the pharmaceutical giant whose prescription medication caused the epidemic.

MY BROTHER'S KILLER Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller / Suspense A criminal law student is assisting his profiler professor in a study of serial killers when a local murder spree ramps up and threatens to unearth long-buried memories of his late brother, who was himself a notorious killer.

THE NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME FAMILY Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy Among other myths, homophobic right-wingers say gay parents will inevitably turn their kids gay, right? Well, Bert and Martin are about to go on statewide TV to prove them wrong. The only problem: They're beginning to suspect all four of their kids are gay.

DESIGNATED DRINKER Comedy ⋄ Drama In this hour-long TV pilot, Annie, a tightly wrapped accountant with an empty nest and a husband losing interest, and her new best friend Brian, a gay N.Y. playwright forced back to L.A. to escort his wacko aging parents into oblivion, belly up in a legendary Hollywood bar with a colorful assortment of drinking buddies coping with their own deferred dreams and absurd new realities.