TV News: ABC orders pilot for soapy drama with photographer as star

On the television, photographers get a lot of air time in paparazzi terms and snapping away at crime scenes in procedurals, but they don't get as much love featured as the main stars of TV shows.

This may be changing in the Fall 2013 TV season, as ABC has ordered a pilot for a new soapy drama called "Betrayal". It is described as: "The Zabel project, Betrayal, centers on a beautiful but unhappily married female photographer who begins a torrid affair with a lawyer for a powerful family..."

Details at Yahoo TV and TV Line and Cinema Blend. This appears to be based on the Dutch TV show Overspel.

Note that a pilot does not guarantee that a TV show will get more episodes. A number of TV shows don't go beyond the pilot, and doomed pilots are rarely broadcast. Speaking of TV lingo, here is a primer on the various terms at TV Line.