Milo Ventimiglia To Star In & Produce ‘The Company You Keep’ Drama Pilot At ABC
deadline.comMilo Ventimiglia has potentially found his next starring vehicle.The This Is Us actor is to star in and exec produce The Company You Keep, a con artist drama that has landed a pilot order at ABC.The series, which is based on Korean format My Fellow Citizens that ran for over 30 episodes on KBS2, follows con-man Charlie and undercover CIA officer Emma.
A night of passion leads to love between the pair, who are unknowingly on a collision course professionally. While Charlie ramps up the “family business” so he can get out for good, Emma’s closing in on the vengeful criminal who holds Charlie’s family debts in-hand – forcing them to reckon with the lies they’ve told so they can save themselves and their families from disastrous consequences.It is being written and exec produced by Julia Cohen (left), who has recently been co-creating HBO Max’s new Degrassi series.
Cohen has worked on series including TNT’s Dallas, E!’s The Royals, FX’s Legion, The CW’s Riverdale and was a co-exec producer on ABC’s Quantico and A Million Little Things.Ventimiglia will exec produce via his DiVide Pictures banner alongside Russ Cundiff with Deanna Harris as producer.Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M.
Chu will also exec produce via his Electric Somewhere label with his partner Caitlin Foito. The Resident showrunner Todd Harthan and The Good Doctor co-exec producer Lindsay Goffman are also exec producing the project, which comes from studio 20th Television, where Ventimiglia’s DiVide Pictures is based.The script for The Company You Keep has been buzzed about for the last couple of months, as Deadline revealed in its Pilot Season 2022 rundown.It is the latest broadcast sale for DiVide and Ventimiglia, whose hit drama series This Is Us is ending
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