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Prentice Penny’s Onyx Pilot ‘Not Cops’ Not Moving Forward
Onyx is not proceeding with Not Cops, a pilot from former Insecure showrunner Prentice Penny who is under an overall deal at the Disney collective.
Not unlike other projects on the Onyx slate, the half-hour pilot has a provocative premise — it revolves around residents of the Los Angeles neighborhood of Leimert Park who take charge of the safety in their community after defunding the police. In Los Angeles, the Hollywood Basic Crafts below-the-line unions, which include Teamsters Local 399, have been negotiating with the studios a new three-year deal as their current contract is coming to an end July 31. In Atlanta, the teamsters tend to work with production companies on a project-by-project basis, and Local 728 up to the very end tried to “do everything possible” for the Not Cops shoot to happen, a well-positioned union source tells Deadline.
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