ABC Orders Mark Gordon-Produced Pilot ‘Clementine’

Drama project revolves around a habitual criminal who’s hounded by zealots who fear that she possesses supernatural abilities

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ABC is getting deeper into the Mark Gordon business.

The network has ordered a pilot for the drama “Clementine,” which “Grey’s Anatomy” producer Gordon is executive producing.

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The pilot, from 2004 “The Manchurian Candidate” writer Dean Georgaris, revolves around a  habitual criminal who digs into the mystery of her origins after she becomes the target of a group of zealots who fear she possesses latent supernatural abilities that she will one day harness for either profound good or monstrous evil.

The Mark Gordon Co. is attached to executive produce. Nicholas Pepper and Ilene Staple are also executive producing.

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Earlier Thursday, the network ordered a pilot for the comedy project “Black-Ish,” starring comedian and actor Anthony Anderson. That project is about “an upper-middle class black man who struggles to raise his children with a sense of cultural identity despite constant contradictions and obstacles coming from his liberal wife, old school father and his own assimilated, color-blind kids.”

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