TV Pilots |OT| The Season's Dead, But Development Hell is Forever
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twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
It's official, CBS greenlit a pilot for the Beverly Hills Cop series from Sean Ryan, and Eddie Murphy will appear as Axel Foley.
It's been talked about a bit, but it's a go now. Mock if old.
It's been talked about a bit, but it's a go now. Mock if old.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Having read through this thread for the first time, I don't have much faith for next season. I know it's hard to tell from just a synopsis but most of these shows sound horrible.
I'd love it if Eddie Murphy actually was a regular cast member on that BHC show but the chances of that happening are slim to none.
I'd love it if Eddie Murphy actually was a regular cast member on that BHC show but the chances of that happening are slim to none.
Some of that is wrong, so I'll go over it again, but thanks.
ABC did orders too. What a cluster.
Here's what's picked up that's not in the OP. Adding after I post this:
ABC:
Comedy:
-- Pulling: The story of three dysfunctional women in their 30s living their lives the way they want, even if society tells them they should have it all figured out by this point.
Cast:
Written by: Lee Eisenberg (Bad Teacher) & Gene Stupnitsky (Bad Teacher)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: ABC Studios/Kaplan Entertainment
Single-camera
Drama:
-- Betrayal: A beautiful but unhappily married female photographer begins a torrid affair with a lawyer for a powerful family. When he turns out to be defending a murder suspect who is being prosecuted by her husband, the relationship and the case begin a spiraling series of betrayals with cataclysmic results for everyone involved.
Written by: David Zabel (ER)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: ABC Studios
-- The Returned: What happens when the people you have mourned and buried suddenly appear on your doorstep as if not a day's gone by? The lives of the people of Aurora are forever changed when their deceased loved ones return.
Written by: Aaron Zelman (Criminal Minds)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: ABC Studios/Brillstein Entertainment/Plan B
-- Venice: A soap about the haves and the have-not's of California’s most seductive city, Venice. The drama will focus on two rival families and a forbidden and dangerous romance emerging between them as the two families battle for control of Venice.
Written by: Byron Balasco (Without a Trace)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: Warner Bros. Television/Wonderland Sound and Vision
CBS:
Comedy:
-- Friends With Better Lives: A group of thirtysomething friends who each think the other has it better.
Written by: Dana Klein (Friends)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: 20th Television/Kapital Entertainment
Multicamera
Drama:
-- Backstrom: Based on the Swedish book series about an overweight, offensive, irascible detective as he tries, and fails, to change his self-destructive behavior.
Written by: Hart Hanson (Bones)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: 20th Television
-- Beverly Hills Cop: Continuation of the movie franchise, centered around Axel Foley’s police officer son, who takes down the criminal elements of the rich and famous in Beverly Hills.
Written by: Shawn Ryan (The Shield)
Starring: Brandon T. Jackson, Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley
Produced by: Sony Pictures Television/MiddKid Productions
Fox:
Comedy:
-- Friends & Family: Based on the BBC series Gavin & Stacey, friends and family are the best support and the worst nightmare when two very different lovers meet and try to make a long distance relationship work.
Written by: David Rosen (I Just Want My Pants Back)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: Sony Pictures Television/BBC Worldwide Productions/Baby Cow Productions
Single Camera
-- House Rules: Revolves around an introverted, neurotic Wisconsin family that lives in a community of over-sharers.
Written by: Justin Hurwitz (FX's The League) & Andrew Gurland (The Last Exorcism Part II)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: 20th Television/Principato-Young
Single Camera
-- To My Assistant: Based on the blog and upcoming book To My Assistant, by Lydia Whitlock, the comedy revolves around assistants at a big New York law firm who band together as a family to help each other cope with the obnoxious overbearing bosses who challenge their sanity on a daily basis.
Written by: Sherry Bilsing-Graham & Ellen Kreamer (Friends)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: Warner Bros. Television/Lin Pictures
Single Camera
-- Untitled Justin Halpern/Patrick Schumacker Project: Based on Justin Halpern's book I Suck at Girls, it's a story about a boy becoming a man, and a man becoming a father, in a time before coming of age was something you could Google.
Cast:
Written by: Justin Halpern (S#*! My Dad Says) & Patrick Schumacker (S#*! My Dad Says)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: Warner Bros. Television/Doozer Productions
Single Camera
Drama:
-- Delirium: Based on best-selling trilogy about a world where love is deemed illegal and is able to be eradicated with a special procedure. With 95 days to go until her scheduled treatment, Lena Holoway does the unthinkable: she falls in love.
Written by: Karyn Usher (Prison Break, Bones)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: 20th Television/Chernin Entertainment
-- The List: When members of the Federal Witness Security Program start getting killed, U.S. Marshal Dan Shaker leads the hunt for the person who stole “the list” – a file with the identities of every member of the program.
Written by: Paul Zbyszewski (Lost, Hawaii Five-0, Daybreak)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: 20th Television
-- Rake: Greg Kinnear stars as a brilliant but self-destructive criminal defense lawyer named Keegan Joye in a drama based on the Australian series of the same name.
Written by: Peter Duncan (creator of the Australian version)
Director:
Starring: Greg Kinnear as Keegan Joye
Produced by: Sony Pictures Television/Fedora Entertainment/Essential Media & Entertainment
-- Sleepy Hollow: A modern-day supernatural thriller based on the legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Written by: Alex Kurtzman (Fringe), Bob Orci (Fringe) & Phil Iscove
Director: Len Wiseman (Total Recall)
Starring:
Produced by: 20th Television/K/O Paper Products
NBC:
Comedy:
-- Untitled Sean Hayes Project: Centers on Sean (Hayes), a guy who must figure out how to parent his 14-year-old daughter -- who just moved in -- while juggling a temperamental new boss at work.
Written by: Victor Fresco (Better Off Ted)
Director
Starring: Sean Hayes as Sean
Produced by: Universal Television/Hazy Mills
Multi Camera
Drama:
-- Untitled Rand Ravich Project: Washington, D.C.-set drama about an idealistic secret service agent who finds himself at the epicenter of an international crisis on his first day on the job
Written by: Rand Ravich (Life)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: 20th Century Fox Television
And that's it! Updating OP!
ABC:
Comedy:
-- Pulling: The story of three dysfunctional women in their 30s living their lives the way they want, even if society tells them they should have it all figured out by this point.
Cast:
Written by: Lee Eisenberg (Bad Teacher) & Gene Stupnitsky (Bad Teacher)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: ABC Studios/Kaplan Entertainment
Single-camera
Drama:
-- Betrayal: A beautiful but unhappily married female photographer begins a torrid affair with a lawyer for a powerful family. When he turns out to be defending a murder suspect who is being prosecuted by her husband, the relationship and the case begin a spiraling series of betrayals with cataclysmic results for everyone involved.
Written by: David Zabel (ER)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: ABC Studios
-- The Returned: What happens when the people you have mourned and buried suddenly appear on your doorstep as if not a day's gone by? The lives of the people of Aurora are forever changed when their deceased loved ones return.
Written by: Aaron Zelman (Criminal Minds)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: ABC Studios/Brillstein Entertainment/Plan B
-- Venice: A soap about the haves and the have-not's of California’s most seductive city, Venice. The drama will focus on two rival families and a forbidden and dangerous romance emerging between them as the two families battle for control of Venice.
Written by: Byron Balasco (Without a Trace)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: Warner Bros. Television/Wonderland Sound and Vision
CBS:
Comedy:
-- Friends With Better Lives: A group of thirtysomething friends who each think the other has it better.
Written by: Dana Klein (Friends)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: 20th Television/Kapital Entertainment
Multicamera
Drama:
-- Backstrom: Based on the Swedish book series about an overweight, offensive, irascible detective as he tries, and fails, to change his self-destructive behavior.
Written by: Hart Hanson (Bones)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: 20th Television
-- Beverly Hills Cop: Continuation of the movie franchise, centered around Axel Foley’s police officer son, who takes down the criminal elements of the rich and famous in Beverly Hills.
Written by: Shawn Ryan (The Shield)
Starring: Brandon T. Jackson, Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley
Produced by: Sony Pictures Television/MiddKid Productions
Fox:
Comedy:
-- Friends & Family: Based on the BBC series Gavin & Stacey, friends and family are the best support and the worst nightmare when two very different lovers meet and try to make a long distance relationship work.
Written by: David Rosen (I Just Want My Pants Back)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: Sony Pictures Television/BBC Worldwide Productions/Baby Cow Productions
Single Camera
-- House Rules: Revolves around an introverted, neurotic Wisconsin family that lives in a community of over-sharers.
Written by: Justin Hurwitz (FX's The League) & Andrew Gurland (The Last Exorcism Part II)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: 20th Television/Principato-Young
Single Camera
-- To My Assistant: Based on the blog and upcoming book To My Assistant, by Lydia Whitlock, the comedy revolves around assistants at a big New York law firm who band together as a family to help each other cope with the obnoxious overbearing bosses who challenge their sanity on a daily basis.
Written by: Sherry Bilsing-Graham & Ellen Kreamer (Friends)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: Warner Bros. Television/Lin Pictures
Single Camera
-- Untitled Justin Halpern/Patrick Schumacker Project: Based on Justin Halpern's book I Suck at Girls, it's a story about a boy becoming a man, and a man becoming a father, in a time before coming of age was something you could Google.
Cast:
Written by: Justin Halpern (S#*! My Dad Says) & Patrick Schumacker (S#*! My Dad Says)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: Warner Bros. Television/Doozer Productions
Single Camera
Drama:
-- Delirium: Based on best-selling trilogy about a world where love is deemed illegal and is able to be eradicated with a special procedure. With 95 days to go until her scheduled treatment, Lena Holoway does the unthinkable: she falls in love.
Written by: Karyn Usher (Prison Break, Bones)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: 20th Television/Chernin Entertainment
-- The List: When members of the Federal Witness Security Program start getting killed, U.S. Marshal Dan Shaker leads the hunt for the person who stole “the list” – a file with the identities of every member of the program.
Written by: Paul Zbyszewski (Lost, Hawaii Five-0, Daybreak)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: 20th Television
-- Rake: Greg Kinnear stars as a brilliant but self-destructive criminal defense lawyer named Keegan Joye in a drama based on the Australian series of the same name.
Written by: Peter Duncan (creator of the Australian version)
Director:
Starring: Greg Kinnear as Keegan Joye
Produced by: Sony Pictures Television/Fedora Entertainment/Essential Media & Entertainment
-- Sleepy Hollow: A modern-day supernatural thriller based on the legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Written by: Alex Kurtzman (Fringe), Bob Orci (Fringe) & Phil Iscove
Director: Len Wiseman (Total Recall)
Starring:
Produced by: 20th Television/K/O Paper Products
NBC:
Comedy:
-- Untitled Sean Hayes Project: Centers on Sean (Hayes), a guy who must figure out how to parent his 14-year-old daughter -- who just moved in -- while juggling a temperamental new boss at work.
Written by: Victor Fresco (Better Off Ted)
Director
Starring: Sean Hayes as Sean
Produced by: Universal Television/Hazy Mills
Multi Camera
Drama:
-- Untitled Rand Ravich Project: Washington, D.C.-set drama about an idealistic secret service agent who finds himself at the epicenter of an international crisis on his first day on the job
Written by: Rand Ravich (Life)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: 20th Century Fox Television
And that's it! Updating OP!
Jest Chillin
Member
Yeah.. that returning of dead people from Aurora.. bad timing. Name change definitely on the way.
Also.. I get the attempt at being Clever with fighting over Venice.. but there is absolutely nothing seductive about that city. At all.
Also.. I get the attempt at being Clever with fighting over Venice.. but there is absolutely nothing seductive about that city. At all.
To do a TV series on a 20 year old movie franchise is fucking god damn reach Moonves...you so fucking the god damn frightend that 6 Degrees of fucking awesomeness kicked all your "dramaz" to the gutter where it belongs.
As for ABC? Aurora? GTFOWTNS. SERIOUSLY. MOTHEFUCKING BULLSHIT.
As for ABC? Aurora? GTFOWTNS. SERIOUSLY. MOTHEFUCKING BULLSHIT.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
The guy who played Alpa Chino in Tropic Thunder was cast as Axel Foley's son, so the chances for good hijinks are pretty good.
Hours Left
Member
There's not a ton of shows that are jumping out at me, but I'm sure that will change.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
LOL SO FUNNY
That sounds pretty interes- Oh Carlton Cuse is attached never mind.
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Jest Chillin
Member
Yeah but given the name and the premise, I'd think they would want to change it.
Sure. But that's the logline for the book as well. It'll probably be changed.
Yeah, I mean, I didn't think it was an actual reference, just a really unfortunate coincidence.
This is based on a cult British sitcom by Sharon Horgan (star of the original British version of Free Agents) and Dennis Kelly (well respected playwright). It was very, VERY black comedy - all of the characters were utterly hateful. I will be very interested to see how this one turns out.
It's Babylon Fields, literally back from the dead (or pilot season a few years ago!). Also a very similar plot to Revival, a current pretty good comic series that Image are publishing.
Gavin & Stacey is like the opposite of Pulling - it's "cosy", safe comedy. I wonder where they'll pull the different families from for the US version?
VICTOR FRESCO!!!!!!!!
I hope it's good.
New York and rural Pennsylvania iirc.
http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/showtime-neo-nazi-drama-series-4th-reich-robert-de-niro/
Neo-Nazi drama produced by DeNiro in development at Showtime.
More pilot orders today! This morning! This is exciting because it's not at 7pm!
Neo-Nazi drama produced by DeNiro in development at Showtime.
More pilot orders today! This morning! This is exciting because it's not at 7pm!
Mrs. Manky
Banned
NO. NO NO NO. NONONONONONO. Couldn't they at least read the damn book and work from there instead of trying to spring something off the Coppola movie plot? Also, Blacula did the "vampire falls for woman who is seemingly a reincarnation of his dead wife" story first.
Ahem. Anyways, I like that Geena Davis bounty hunter concept, only because I loved Long Kiss Goodnight and Cutthroat Island.
And as much as I like Kal Penn getting work, my first thought about Ex Men was that it was going to be a very insensitive comedy about transwomen.
Jest Chillin
Member
The bastard child of Rob and The George Lopez show?
Oh wow. Yes, indeed.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
THIS I have to see.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Sounds awesome!
Hours Left
Member
Hot.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
This sounds like the greatest thing in the history of the universe.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Oh, DAMN.
im sorry but i hate to burst any entertainment investers bubble but Les Moonves isnt getting Sony/Animax/Aniplex/Pictures any the fuck time soon. ere, the man who would be king got no fucking clothes on and is poor as a fucking church mouse. And Kaz is doing his netflix killer so good luck trying Les, your lovable idiot bastard you...
Hours Left
Member
Man, what isn't J.J. Abrams doing now?
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
I give it half a season.