Royals & Social Circle - Josh Safran sets up two series at ABC and FOX

Following a brief run atop NBC's Smash, Josh Safran has set up two projects in development one at ABC and the other at FOX.

At ABC, Safran has reunited with former Gossip Girl showrunners Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz's Fake Empire for Social Circle.

"Social Circle" is described as a high-concept thriller about how well people really know their friends. In the age of incessant texting, tweets, status updates and Instagram photos, people have become their own publicists, massaging their images. The drama will follow a group of friends from college, now in their late 20s, as they regroup and discover that they don't really know each other well at all.

Second, Safran has Royal set up at Fox via 20th Century Fox Television and Chernin Entertainment. The drama is a sexy and sophisticated soap about a K ate Middleton-type who, after she's caught having an affair, is thrown out of the royal family and forced to take the only job she can get: an assistant and minder to the temperamental, suicidal, drug- and sex-addicted up-and-coming designer Thomas King, who is also running from his own past.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter