USA unveils development slate

March 29, 2007 The network made the announcement during its upfront presentation to advertisers in New York that it has a slate of five new pilot scripts for 2007-08 centering on such characters as the members of an FBI team going undercover as a normal suburban family to solve a national security case; a woman who turns to crime solving after a life-threatening accident renders her fearless; and a top crisis negotiator who becomes a relationship counselor.   "The Negotiator" (working title), from executive producer Donald De Line and writer Stephen Falk, centers on a suddenly out-of-work crisis negotiator who decides to apply his life-and-death problem-solving skills to a new job as relationship counselor in New York.   "Family Values," from writer David Titcher and producer Kevin Brown, focuses on a team of FBI agents on an undercover assignment in the suburbs.

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