Loglines & Screenplays by Casey Costello

GENRES: Comedy, Biography

Substance abuse "Seinfeld" with equal opportunity assholes. The GOAT of fuck-ups.

A half-hour comedy about four underachieving "adult" friends who live together, party together, and can’t seem to get their lives together… together… even if they wanted to. 

("It's Always Sunny in Philly" meets "Loudermilk" meets "The League" meets Will these morons make it to tomorrow?)

GENRES: Comedy, Animation

A half-hour cartoon comedy about four idiot friends in their tweens who live together, party together, and can’t seem to get their lives together… together… even if they wanted to.
"Sir Lancelot Link" meets "Good Boys" meets "South Park."

GENRES: Drama, Comedy

Seven recovering addicts try to change their lives in a wild, co-ed, California sober living home.

GENRES: Drama, Comedy

When experienced LA sugar baby Laila's roommates Alyssa and Courtney both lose their sources of income, they decide to join Laila in becoming members of "Seeking Sugar," a website that pairs women with rich, successful, sugar daddies who are looking for companionship - and usually more - in order to pay their rent, live luxuriously and have a good time. Along the way, they learn that not all sugar is sweet and the lavish life comes at a cost.
(Sex and the City in today's LA)

GENRES: Comedy

Alex Trebek, Bob Barker, Clint Wolf - the TV game show host Hall of Fame. Wolf is a washed up, floundering, but legendary TV game show host who fights to keep his show on the air, stay relevant, and go out on his own terms as he battles the New Young Guard scheming to take over his show, replace him and send him out to pasture.

GENRES: Comedy, Biography

A behind-the scenes comedy about the cast and crew of a ridiculous, troubled, and sometimes dangerous reality TV show.

(30 ROCK in the reality TV world)

(This is influenced by a similar experience I had as a producer on a reality TV show like this.)

GENRES: Comedy, Music

A half-hour comedy about two twenty-something best friends, and aspiring singers/actresses, navigating love and friendship, but most importantly, the chase for fame and fortune in Hollywood, CA. Tinseltown is not for the faint of heart as our girls compete against tens of thousands of star chasing hustlers, dreamers, scammers and scumbags... and sometimes even each other.
(Girls5eva meets ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS meets BROAD CITY meets FLORIDA GIRLS meets the road to fame or rehab)

GENRES: Drama, Comedy

A recently homeless alcoholic, adjusts to his new and unlikely life on the streets of LA, and struggles with whether to sober up and get his life back on course; or give up, go full-bore hobo and ride this crazy train until it's out of track.

GENRES: Drama, Comedy

STONEY McMANUS - an addict formerly known as the best college athlete of all time - completes a ten-year prison stint and enters a sober living home determined to get his life back on track, temptation be damned. Or more determined.

GENRES: Comedy, Biography

Substance abuse "Seinfeld."

A half-hour comedy about four idiot friends in their thirties who live together, party together, and can’t seem to get their lives together… together… even if they wanted to.
("It's Always Sunny in Philly" meets "Loudermilk" meets "The League" meets Will these morons make it to 40?)

GENRES: Sports, Comedy

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the fight in the dog.

A down on his luck, grizzled ex-GOAT lacrosse player is persuaded to coach an underdog little league lacrosse team in an obnoxiously competitive East Coast town and tries to turn this team of misfits into champs in America's oldest team sport and fastest growing youth sport.
(BAD NEWS BEARS set in the lacrosse world)

GENRES: Action, Thriller

In Iraq, everyone wants to kill American soldiers. Even the CIA.

(Based on the book "The Contractor" by R. Sainte Hilaire)

Follows a Private Security Contractor assigned to protect a CIA Interrogator during "Operation Iraqi Freedom," who turns out to be a traitor sabotaging American missions and killing U.S. soldiers. Now the contractor must hunt down and kill the traitor before more Americans die.

GENRES: Drama, Romance

An emergency room saves those who are trying to stay out of Hell. A detox saves those who have already been there.

GENRES: Comedy, Crime

QUITTERS is a comedy about a loser making all the wrong life choices who decides to hide out from his mobbed up bookies in a drug and alcohol rehab, where he uncovers a sinister insurance scam by the rehab director to rip off and potentially harm his fellow patients.
(Animal House meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest set in a drug and alcohol rehab facility.)

GENRES: Romance, Comedy

A freewheeling 40-something-year old bachelor and a career-driven 20-something-year old recent college graduate navigate dating each other at different points in their lives and struggle with the significant age difference.