Mandeville Films en Modern-Day 'Houdini' Procedural in the Works
at ABC, Mandeville (Exclusive) Lesley Goldberg Placeholder for
Bug Laurie Zaks The production company best known for "Monk" has
set up five new projects at the Disney-owned network, including
a high-tech thriller from hot writer Stefan Jaworski.  Five
months after being tapped to lead Mandeville's TV division,
Laurie Zaks is wasting little time in getting started.  Todd
Lieberman and David Hoberman's company has set up five new
projects at ABC -- four dramas and a comedy -- joining the
previously announced limited/event series based on The Hunchback
of Notre Dame, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.  Among the
sales for the ABC Studios-based production company are a modern
take on Houdini and a high-tech thriller from hot Danish writer
Stefan Jaworski as well as a military hospital drama and a
mother-daughter crime-solving duo procedural from Castle's David
Grae.  "David, Todd and I agreed that we would only develop
projects that we were passion