Lilaena De'Ville
May 11th, 2012, 12:06:00 PM
The networks are looking at pilots and deciding which ones to pick up, or not, as the case may be. I always find it fascinating to read about new shows and who's starring, and which ones get picked up. It's sort of a fun guessing game.
For one, it looks like NBC is going to be doing a Scrabble move, where it turns in all it's tiles for new ones. 30 Rock, Parks N Rec, and Community are all ordered for 13 episode FINAL seasons for next fall. They're picking up a lot of new shows. I think they're just going to be throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks.
I'll edit in the picked up shows to this post in a bit.
NBC
Revolution (Drama)
Logline: In the epic adventure thriller, a family struggles to reunite in a post-apocalyptic American landscape: a world of empty cities, local militias and heroic freedom fighters, where every single piece of technology -- computers, planes, cars, phones, even lights -- has mysteriously blacked out ... forever.
Cast: Billy Burke, David Lyons, Giancarlo Esposito, Tracy Spiradakos, Graham Rogers, Anna Lise Phillips, Tim Guinee, Andrea Roth, JD Pardo, Zak Orth
Team: W/EP Eric Kripke; EP J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk; D Jon Favreau
Studio: Warner Bros. Television, Bad Robot
Location: Atlanta
1600 Penn (Comedy)
Logline: What happens when you're the most ordinary family in the world but your father is the president (Bill Pullman) of the United States? A modern family-type of show set in the White House where all the kids are far from perfect.
Cast: Bill Pullman, Jenna Elfman, Josh Gad, Brittany Snow Martha MacIsaac, Andre Holland, Amara Miller, Benjamin Stockham
Team: W/EP Josh Gad, Jon Lovett; EP/D Jason Winer
Studio: 20th Television
Format: Single-camera
Location: Los Angeles
Animal Kingdom (Comedy)
Logline: An office comedy revolving around a House-like veterinarian (Justin Kirk) who loves animals but typically hates their owners.
Cast: Justin Kirk, Tyler Labine, Bobby Lee, Amy Huberman
Team: EP/W Brian Gatewood, Alessandro Tanaka; EP Scott Armstrong, Ravi Nandan; EP/D Anthony and Joe Russo
Studio: Universal Television, American Work
Format: Single-camera
Location: Los Angeles
Go On (Comedy)
Logline: An irreverent yet charming sportscaster tries to move on from loss and finds solace with the members of his mandatory group therapy sessions.
Cast: Matthew Perry, Laura Benanti, Julie White, Suzy Nakamura, Allison Miller (second position to Terra Nova), Khary Payton, Bill Cobbs (guest star)
Team: EP/W Scott Silveri; EP/D Todd Holland; EP Karey Burke
Studio: Universal Television
Format: Single-camera
Location: Los Angeles
Guys With Kids (Comedy)
Logline: Three thirtysomething guys (Jesse Bradford, Zach Cregger, Anthony Anderson) who enjoy the adventures of parenting despite the fact that they haven't grown up themselves.
Cast: Jesse Bradford, Anthony Anderson, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Tempestt Bledsoe, Zach Cregger, Courtney Henggeler Sara Rue (guest star)
Team: EP/W Charlie Grandy; EP Jimmy Fallon, Amy Ozols, Rick Wiener, Kenny Schwartz; D Scott Ellis
Studio: Universal Television, Holiday Road
Format: Multicamera
Location: Los Angeles
The New Normal (Comedy)
Logline: Revolves around a blended family of a gay couple (Andrew Rannells, Justin Bartha) and the woman (Georgia King) who becomes a surrogate for them as they grow their family.
Cast: Andrew Rannells, Ellen Barkin, Justin Bartha, Georgia King, Bebe Wood, Jayson Blair (guest/recur), Nene Leakes (recur)
Team: W/EP/D Ryan Murphy; W/EP Ali Adler; EP Dante Di Loreto
Studio: 20th Television, Ryan Murphy Productions
Format: Single-camera
Location: Los Angeles
Save Me
Logline: A woman (Anne Heche) who lets herself go in a broken marriage transforms into a version of herself and creates miracles along the way.
Cast: Anne Heche, Alexandra Breckenridge, Michael Landes, Heather Burns, Madison Davenport, Lamman Rucker
Team: W/EP John Scott Shepherd, D/EP Scott Winant; EP Neal Moritz, Vivian Cannon
Studio: Sony Pictures Television, Original Film & Television
Format: Single-camera
Location: Los Angeles
Chicago Fire (Drama)
Logline: Action-driven drama exploring the complex and heroic men and women of the Chicago Fire Department
Cast: Taylor Kinney, Jesse Spencer, Eamonn Walker, Monica Raymund, David Eigenberg, Charlie Barnett, Lauren German, Teri Reeves, Merle Dandridge
Team: W/EP Derek Haas, Michael Brandt; EP Dick Wolf, Danielle Gelber, Peter Jankowski; D Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Studio: Universal Television, Wolf Films
Location: Chicago
Do No Harm
Logline: A brilliant neurosurgeon (Steven Pasquale) wrestles with his dangerous alter-ego that threatens to wreak havoc on his personal and professional life.
Cast: Steven Pasquale, Phylicia Rashad, Alana De La Garza, Mousa Kraish, Michael Esper, Ruta Gedmintas
Team: W/EP David Schulner; EP Peter Traugott, Rachel Kaplan; Co-EP/D Michael Mayer
Studio: Universal Television
Location: Philadelphia
Infamous(Drama)
Logline: An opulent soap in which a female detective (Meagan Good) returns undercover to the wealthy family she grew up in -- as the maid's daughter -- to solve the murder of the notorious heiress who was once her closest friend.
Cast: Meagan Good, Tate Donovan, Victor Garber, Neil Jackson, Katherine LaNasa, Laz Alonso, Ella Rae Peck
Team: W/EP Liz Heldens; EPs Gail Berman, Lloyd Braun, Gene Stein
Studio: Universal Television, BermanBraun
Location:
FOX
Ben and Kate (Comedy)
Logline: A single mother (Dakota Johnson) gets an assist from her brother (Nat Faxon) who moves in with her to help her raise her baby. The title character is a heightened version of Fox's brother, Ben Fox.
Cast: Nat Faxon, Abby Elliott, Dakota Johnson, Lucy Punch, Maggie Jones, Echo Kellum, Austin Stowell (guest/recur)
Team: W/EP Dana Fox; EPs Peter Chernin, Katherine Pope; D Jake Kasdan
Studio: 20th Television, Chernin Entertainment
Format: Single-camera
Location: Los Angeles
It's Messy (Comedy)
Logline: A young Bridget Jones-type doctor (Mindy Kaling) tries to navigate her personal and professional lives.
Cast: Mindy Kaling, Ed Weeks, Chris Messina, Anna Camp, Zoe Jarmon, Dana DeLorenzo, Ed Helms (guest star), Bill Hader (guest star), Richard Schiff (guest star)
Team: W/EP Mindy Kaling; EP Howard Klein
Studio: Universal Television
Format: Single-camera
Location: Los Angeles
The Following (Drama)
Logline: A new thriller about an ex-FBI agent, Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon), who leads the search to catch a diabolical serial killer, Joe Carroll (James Purefoy), who has created a cult of serial killers.
Cast: Kevin Bacon, James Purefoy, Shawn Ashmore, Natalie Zea, Valorie Curry, Jeananne Goossen, Nico Tortorella, Adan Canto, Billy Brown, Kyle Catlett
Team: W/EP Kevin Williamson; EP/D Marcos Siega
Studio: Warner Bros. Television, Outerbanks Entertainment
Location: Atlanta
Mob Doctor (Drama)
Logline: A young female thoracic surgeon (Jordana Spiro) who becomes indebted to the South Chicago mafia is forced to moonlight as a "mob doctor" while also working full-time at Chicago's most prominent hospital.
Cast: Jordana Spiro, Zach Gilford, William Forsythe, James Carpinello, Jesse Lee Soffer, Jamie Lee Kirchner, Floriana Lima, Zeljko Ivanek, Wendy Makkena
Team: W/EP Josh Berman, Robert Wright; D/EP Michael Dinner
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Location: Chicago
The CW
Arrow
Logline: Based on the DC Comics title, published by DC Entertainment, this hourlong drama is a modern retelling of the legendary DC Comics character Green Arrow (Stephen Amell).
Cast: Stephen Amell, Paul Blackthorne (second position to ABC's The River), Jamey Sheridan, David Ramsey, Colin Donnell, Susanna Thompson (guest/recurring), Katie Cassidy, Willa Holland, Colin Salmon (recurring)
Team: EP/W Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg; D David Nutter
Studio: Berlanti Productions, Warner Bros. Television
Location: Vancouver
Beauty and the Beast
Logline: Loosely based on CBS’ Beauty and the Beast series from the 1980s, this is a modern-day romantic love story with a procedural twist. Smallville's Kristin Kreuk is the Beauty to Jay Ryan's Beast.
Cast: Kristin Kreuk, Jay Ryan, Austin Basis, Nicole Gale Anderson, Nina Lisandrello, Max Brown, Brian White
Team: EP/W Jennifer Levin, Sherri Cooper; EP Paul J. Witt, C. Anthony Thomas, Ron Koslow, Bill Haber; D Gary Fleder
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Location: Toronto
The Carrie Diaries
Logline: Based on the novel by Candace Bushnell, a young Carrie Bradshaw (AnnaSophia Robb) comes of age in the 1980s, asking her first questions about love, sex, friendship and family while exploring the worlds of high school and Manhattan.
Cast: AnnaSophia Robb, Austin Butler, Brendan Dooling, Freema Agyeman, Stefania Owen, Katie Findlay, Ellen Wong, Matt Letscher, Chloe Bridges
Team: EP/W Amy Harris; EP Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Len Goldstein, Candace Bushnell; D Miguel Arteta
Studio: Fake Empire in association with Warner Bros. Television
Location: New York
Cult
Logline: An inquisitive young female production assistant (Jessica Lucas) on a wildly popular television show joins a journalist blogger (Matt Davis) in investigating the show's rabid fans. Together, the duo finds the fans might be re-creating crime scenes from the show in their real lives -- behavior that has lead to a rash of disappearances and a likely murder.
Cast: Matt Davis (equal footing with The Vampire Diaries), Jessica Lucas, Alona Tal, Robert Knepper, Andrew Leeds (guest in the pilot w/option to recur)
Team: EP/W Rockne O'Bannon; EP Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Len Goldstein; EP/D Jason Ensler
Studio: Warner Bros. TV, Fake Empire, NS Pictures Inc., CBS Television Studios
Location: Vancouver
First Cut
Logline: Glad to leave her nerdy past behind for a fresh start in the adult professional world, a newly minted doctor (Mamie Gummer) discovers that, sadly and comically, life at the hospital where she works is no different than high school.
Cast: Mamie Gummer, Justin Hartley, Michael Rady, Jack Coleman, Kelly J. McCreary, Aja Naomi King, Necar Zadegan
Team: W/EP Jennie Snyder Urman; EP Dan Jinks; D Bharat Nalluri
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Location: Vancouver
For one, it looks like NBC is going to be doing a Scrabble move, where it turns in all it's tiles for new ones. 30 Rock, Parks N Rec, and Community are all ordered for 13 episode FINAL seasons for next fall. They're picking up a lot of new shows. I think they're just going to be throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks.
I'll edit in the picked up shows to this post in a bit.
NBC
Revolution (Drama)
Logline: In the epic adventure thriller, a family struggles to reunite in a post-apocalyptic American landscape: a world of empty cities, local militias and heroic freedom fighters, where every single piece of technology -- computers, planes, cars, phones, even lights -- has mysteriously blacked out ... forever.
Cast: Billy Burke, David Lyons, Giancarlo Esposito, Tracy Spiradakos, Graham Rogers, Anna Lise Phillips, Tim Guinee, Andrea Roth, JD Pardo, Zak Orth
Team: W/EP Eric Kripke; EP J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk; D Jon Favreau
Studio: Warner Bros. Television, Bad Robot
Location: Atlanta
1600 Penn (Comedy)
Logline: What happens when you're the most ordinary family in the world but your father is the president (Bill Pullman) of the United States? A modern family-type of show set in the White House where all the kids are far from perfect.
Cast: Bill Pullman, Jenna Elfman, Josh Gad, Brittany Snow Martha MacIsaac, Andre Holland, Amara Miller, Benjamin Stockham
Team: W/EP Josh Gad, Jon Lovett; EP/D Jason Winer
Studio: 20th Television
Format: Single-camera
Location: Los Angeles
Animal Kingdom (Comedy)
Logline: An office comedy revolving around a House-like veterinarian (Justin Kirk) who loves animals but typically hates their owners.
Cast: Justin Kirk, Tyler Labine, Bobby Lee, Amy Huberman
Team: EP/W Brian Gatewood, Alessandro Tanaka; EP Scott Armstrong, Ravi Nandan; EP/D Anthony and Joe Russo
Studio: Universal Television, American Work
Format: Single-camera
Location: Los Angeles
Go On (Comedy)
Logline: An irreverent yet charming sportscaster tries to move on from loss and finds solace with the members of his mandatory group therapy sessions.
Cast: Matthew Perry, Laura Benanti, Julie White, Suzy Nakamura, Allison Miller (second position to Terra Nova), Khary Payton, Bill Cobbs (guest star)
Team: EP/W Scott Silveri; EP/D Todd Holland; EP Karey Burke
Studio: Universal Television
Format: Single-camera
Location: Los Angeles
Guys With Kids (Comedy)
Logline: Three thirtysomething guys (Jesse Bradford, Zach Cregger, Anthony Anderson) who enjoy the adventures of parenting despite the fact that they haven't grown up themselves.
Cast: Jesse Bradford, Anthony Anderson, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Tempestt Bledsoe, Zach Cregger, Courtney Henggeler Sara Rue (guest star)
Team: EP/W Charlie Grandy; EP Jimmy Fallon, Amy Ozols, Rick Wiener, Kenny Schwartz; D Scott Ellis
Studio: Universal Television, Holiday Road
Format: Multicamera
Location: Los Angeles
The New Normal (Comedy)
Logline: Revolves around a blended family of a gay couple (Andrew Rannells, Justin Bartha) and the woman (Georgia King) who becomes a surrogate for them as they grow their family.
Cast: Andrew Rannells, Ellen Barkin, Justin Bartha, Georgia King, Bebe Wood, Jayson Blair (guest/recur), Nene Leakes (recur)
Team: W/EP/D Ryan Murphy; W/EP Ali Adler; EP Dante Di Loreto
Studio: 20th Television, Ryan Murphy Productions
Format: Single-camera
Location: Los Angeles
Save Me
Logline: A woman (Anne Heche) who lets herself go in a broken marriage transforms into a version of herself and creates miracles along the way.
Cast: Anne Heche, Alexandra Breckenridge, Michael Landes, Heather Burns, Madison Davenport, Lamman Rucker
Team: W/EP John Scott Shepherd, D/EP Scott Winant; EP Neal Moritz, Vivian Cannon
Studio: Sony Pictures Television, Original Film & Television
Format: Single-camera
Location: Los Angeles
Chicago Fire (Drama)
Logline: Action-driven drama exploring the complex and heroic men and women of the Chicago Fire Department
Cast: Taylor Kinney, Jesse Spencer, Eamonn Walker, Monica Raymund, David Eigenberg, Charlie Barnett, Lauren German, Teri Reeves, Merle Dandridge
Team: W/EP Derek Haas, Michael Brandt; EP Dick Wolf, Danielle Gelber, Peter Jankowski; D Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Studio: Universal Television, Wolf Films
Location: Chicago
Do No Harm
Logline: A brilliant neurosurgeon (Steven Pasquale) wrestles with his dangerous alter-ego that threatens to wreak havoc on his personal and professional life.
Cast: Steven Pasquale, Phylicia Rashad, Alana De La Garza, Mousa Kraish, Michael Esper, Ruta Gedmintas
Team: W/EP David Schulner; EP Peter Traugott, Rachel Kaplan; Co-EP/D Michael Mayer
Studio: Universal Television
Location: Philadelphia
Infamous(Drama)
Logline: An opulent soap in which a female detective (Meagan Good) returns undercover to the wealthy family she grew up in -- as the maid's daughter -- to solve the murder of the notorious heiress who was once her closest friend.
Cast: Meagan Good, Tate Donovan, Victor Garber, Neil Jackson, Katherine LaNasa, Laz Alonso, Ella Rae Peck
Team: W/EP Liz Heldens; EPs Gail Berman, Lloyd Braun, Gene Stein
Studio: Universal Television, BermanBraun
Location:
FOX
Ben and Kate (Comedy)
Logline: A single mother (Dakota Johnson) gets an assist from her brother (Nat Faxon) who moves in with her to help her raise her baby. The title character is a heightened version of Fox's brother, Ben Fox.
Cast: Nat Faxon, Abby Elliott, Dakota Johnson, Lucy Punch, Maggie Jones, Echo Kellum, Austin Stowell (guest/recur)
Team: W/EP Dana Fox; EPs Peter Chernin, Katherine Pope; D Jake Kasdan
Studio: 20th Television, Chernin Entertainment
Format: Single-camera
Location: Los Angeles
It's Messy (Comedy)
Logline: A young Bridget Jones-type doctor (Mindy Kaling) tries to navigate her personal and professional lives.
Cast: Mindy Kaling, Ed Weeks, Chris Messina, Anna Camp, Zoe Jarmon, Dana DeLorenzo, Ed Helms (guest star), Bill Hader (guest star), Richard Schiff (guest star)
Team: W/EP Mindy Kaling; EP Howard Klein
Studio: Universal Television
Format: Single-camera
Location: Los Angeles
The Following (Drama)
Logline: A new thriller about an ex-FBI agent, Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon), who leads the search to catch a diabolical serial killer, Joe Carroll (James Purefoy), who has created a cult of serial killers.
Cast: Kevin Bacon, James Purefoy, Shawn Ashmore, Natalie Zea, Valorie Curry, Jeananne Goossen, Nico Tortorella, Adan Canto, Billy Brown, Kyle Catlett
Team: W/EP Kevin Williamson; EP/D Marcos Siega
Studio: Warner Bros. Television, Outerbanks Entertainment
Location: Atlanta
Mob Doctor (Drama)
Logline: A young female thoracic surgeon (Jordana Spiro) who becomes indebted to the South Chicago mafia is forced to moonlight as a "mob doctor" while also working full-time at Chicago's most prominent hospital.
Cast: Jordana Spiro, Zach Gilford, William Forsythe, James Carpinello, Jesse Lee Soffer, Jamie Lee Kirchner, Floriana Lima, Zeljko Ivanek, Wendy Makkena
Team: W/EP Josh Berman, Robert Wright; D/EP Michael Dinner
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Location: Chicago
The CW
Arrow
Logline: Based on the DC Comics title, published by DC Entertainment, this hourlong drama is a modern retelling of the legendary DC Comics character Green Arrow (Stephen Amell).
Cast: Stephen Amell, Paul Blackthorne (second position to ABC's The River), Jamey Sheridan, David Ramsey, Colin Donnell, Susanna Thompson (guest/recurring), Katie Cassidy, Willa Holland, Colin Salmon (recurring)
Team: EP/W Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg; D David Nutter
Studio: Berlanti Productions, Warner Bros. Television
Location: Vancouver
Beauty and the Beast
Logline: Loosely based on CBS’ Beauty and the Beast series from the 1980s, this is a modern-day romantic love story with a procedural twist. Smallville's Kristin Kreuk is the Beauty to Jay Ryan's Beast.
Cast: Kristin Kreuk, Jay Ryan, Austin Basis, Nicole Gale Anderson, Nina Lisandrello, Max Brown, Brian White
Team: EP/W Jennifer Levin, Sherri Cooper; EP Paul J. Witt, C. Anthony Thomas, Ron Koslow, Bill Haber; D Gary Fleder
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Location: Toronto
The Carrie Diaries
Logline: Based on the novel by Candace Bushnell, a young Carrie Bradshaw (AnnaSophia Robb) comes of age in the 1980s, asking her first questions about love, sex, friendship and family while exploring the worlds of high school and Manhattan.
Cast: AnnaSophia Robb, Austin Butler, Brendan Dooling, Freema Agyeman, Stefania Owen, Katie Findlay, Ellen Wong, Matt Letscher, Chloe Bridges
Team: EP/W Amy Harris; EP Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Len Goldstein, Candace Bushnell; D Miguel Arteta
Studio: Fake Empire in association with Warner Bros. Television
Location: New York
Cult
Logline: An inquisitive young female production assistant (Jessica Lucas) on a wildly popular television show joins a journalist blogger (Matt Davis) in investigating the show's rabid fans. Together, the duo finds the fans might be re-creating crime scenes from the show in their real lives -- behavior that has lead to a rash of disappearances and a likely murder.
Cast: Matt Davis (equal footing with The Vampire Diaries), Jessica Lucas, Alona Tal, Robert Knepper, Andrew Leeds (guest in the pilot w/option to recur)
Team: EP/W Rockne O'Bannon; EP Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Len Goldstein; EP/D Jason Ensler
Studio: Warner Bros. TV, Fake Empire, NS Pictures Inc., CBS Television Studios
Location: Vancouver
First Cut
Logline: Glad to leave her nerdy past behind for a fresh start in the adult professional world, a newly minted doctor (Mamie Gummer) discovers that, sadly and comically, life at the hospital where she works is no different than high school.
Cast: Mamie Gummer, Justin Hartley, Michael Rady, Jack Coleman, Kelly J. McCreary, Aja Naomi King, Necar Zadegan
Team: W/EP Jennie Snyder Urman; EP Dan Jinks; D Bharat Nalluri
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Location: Vancouver