The Hollywood Reporters Cynthia Littleton has a nifty Thursday-morning roundup of all the sci-fi pilots that may or may not become series for the 2005-2006 season.
Her list includes:
* "Briar & Graves" (Fox), from screenwriter Paul Scheuring (A Man Apart), about a hard-living priest and a female doctor who investigate unexplained spiritual phenomena, according to the story.
* "Fathom" (NBC), from writer-directors Josh and Jonas Pate (GvsE, L.A. Dragnet), about humans dealing with deep-sea lifeforms.
* "Kolchak: The Night Stalker (ABC), from writer-producer Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen, Robbery Homicide Division), a remake of the Darrin McGavin one-season wonder about a journalist who liked to track down werewolves, demons, robots and the like. (Herc worshipped this show like no other when he was a tot in Texas.) Spotnitzs involvement is especially interesting because Kolchak was said to have been a key inspiration for The X-Files.
* "Threshold" (CBS), from screenwriter David Goyer (Blade: Trinity), about a female government contingency analyst who finds herself recruited to deal with a a mysterious extraterrestrial threat.
* "Supernatural" (The WB), from writer-producer Erik Kripke (the WBs Tarzan), about estranged brothers who encounter ghosts and other agents of the uncanny during a road trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
* Untitled (ABC), from writer-producer Shaun Cassidy (American Gothic, The Mountain), about weirdness in a post-hurricane Florida town.
* Untitled (CBS), from somebody named John Gray, was inspired by psychic James Van Praagh.
