It's that time of the year again, GAF... pilot season! Where your new favorite shows are made, picked up, and then canceled after three episodes. I'll try to post more details this year, including those involved, and I will post and try to update cable development as well (though that will be significantly tougher).
Have any shows been picked up so far that might be script to series?
Yes!
CBS:
Drama:
-- Under the Dome: Based on King’s bestselling novel, Under the Dome is the story of a small New England town that’s suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an enormous transparent dome. The town’s residents need to survive the deteriorating post-apocalyptic conditions while searching for answers to what this barrier is, where it came from, and how to make it go away.
Written by: Brian K. Vaughn (LOST)
Showrunner: Neal Baer (A Gifted Man)
Director: Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
Starring: Colin Ford as Joe, Natalie Martinez as Linda, Alex Koch as Junior
Order: 13 episodes
NBC:
Drama:
-- Dracula: Dracula comes to London, posing as an American entrepreneur that wants to bring modern science to the Victorian city. However, in reality Dracula actually wishes to seek revenge on those who did him wrong centuries earlier. When Dracula finally thinks everything is in place, he falls hopelessly in love with a woman who is seemingly a reincarnation of his deceased wife.
Written by: Cole Haddon
Showrunner: Dan Knauf (Carnivale)
Director:
Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jessica De Gouw
Order: 10 episodes
-- Crossbones: A fictional adaptation of the life of the notorious pirate Edward Teach (aka Blackbeard) in and around the island of New Providence in The Bahamas.
Written by: Neil Cross (Luther)
Director:
Starring:
Order: 10 episodes
Comedy:
-- Untitled Michael J. Fox Project: It features Fox as a husband and father of three from New York City dealing with family, career, and challenges -- including Parkinson's -- all loosely drawn from Fox's real life.
Written by: Sam Laybourne (Cougar Town, Arrested Development)
Director: Will Gluck (Friends with Benefits, Easy A)
Starring: Michael J. Fox as Mike, Wendell Pierce as Harris, Katie Finneran, Betsy Brandt, Conor Romero, Jack Gore, Juliette Goglia
Order: 22 episodes
Single Camera
Fox:
Comedy:
-- Dads: Centers on two successful guys in their 30s who have their lives turned upside down when their nightmare dads unexpectedly move in with them.
Written by: Alec Sulkin (Ted) & Wellesley Wild (Ted)
Director:
Starring:
Order: 6 episodes
Multi Camera
That's all well and good, ivy, but what about shows that have gone through normal development? Has anything been ordered to pilot?
ABC:
Drama:
-- S.H.I.E.L.D.: Drama set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, following the small screen adventures of the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division, better known as S.H.I.E.L.D.
Written by: Joss Whedon (Joss), Jed Whedon (Dollhouse, Spartacus), & Maurissa Tancharoen (Dollhouse, Spartacus)
Director: Joss Whedon (Joss)
Starring: Brett Dalton as Grant Ward, Chloe Bennet as Skye, Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson, Elizabeth Henstridge as Gemma Simmons, Iain De Caestecker as Leo Fitz, Ming-Na Wen as Melinda May
-- 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:
-- 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:
-- 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:
-- Influence: A provocative workplace ensemble centered on the complicated relationship between two brothers — a bipolar genius in human psychology and a slick ex-con — who head a unique agency designed to solve their clients’ problems using the real science of human motivation and manipulation.
Written by: Kyle Killen (Awake, Lone Star)
Director:
Starring:
-- Killer Women: It centers on Molly Parker, the only woman in the notoriously male Texas Rangers — a ballsy, beautiful badass who knows how to get to the truth and isn’t afraid to ruffle a few feathers on her way there.
Written by: Hannah Shakespeare (The Raven)
Director:
Starring:
-- Doubt: Centers on a former cop who’s now a cunning, but charming low-rent lawyer who uses his street smarts to work the system for his clients while battling his own demons and wooing his ex-wife.
Written by: David Shore (House)
Director:
Starring:
Comedy:
-- How the Hell Am I Normal: About growing up in the 1980s with a highly screwed up but loving family.
Written by: Adam F. Goldberg (Breaking In)
Director: Seth Gordon (Breaking In)
Starring:
Single Camera
-- Super Fun Night: Single-camera take on Rebel Wilson's multi-camera comedy for CBS this past development cycle about three nerdy female friends on a quest to have super fun every Friday night.
Written by: Rebel Wilson
Showrunner: John Riggi (30 Rock)
Director: John Riggi (30 Rock)
Starring: Kelen Coleman as Felicity, Kevin Bishop as Richard, Lauren Ash as Marika, Liza Lapira as Helen-Alice, Rebel Wilson as Kimmie
Single Camera
-- Trophy Wife: About a reformed party girl who finds herself with an insta-family when she falls in love with a man with three manipulative kids and two judgmental ex-wives.
Written by: Emily Halpern (Private Practice) & Sarah Haskins
Director: Jason Moore (Pitch Perfect)
Starring: Bradley Whitford as Brad, Malin Akerman as Kate, Marcia Gay Harden as Diane, Michaela Watkins as Jackie, Natalie Morales as Meg, Ryan Lee
Single Camera
-- Mixology: Comedy which follows five guys and five girls trying to find love at a trendy Manhattan bar across the course of one night.
Written by: Jon Lucas (The Hangover) & Scott Moore (The Hangover)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
-- 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.
Written by: Lee Eisenberg (Bad Teacher) & Gene Stupnitsky (Bad Teacher)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
-- Spy: To impress his smart son, man inadvertently takes a job with Secret Service.
Written by: Simeon Goulden (Spy)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
-- Untitled Cullen Project: About a single mom who moves back in with her ex-pro baseball player dad.
Written by: Mark & Robb Cullen (Work It)
Director:
Starring: James Caan
Single Camera
CBS:
Drama:
-- Untitled NCIS: Los Angeles Spin-Off: Planted spin-off of the "NCIS" franchise which will follow a small mobile team of agents, who are forced to live and work together, as they crisscross the country solving crimes. Note: NCIS: Los Angeles is a spin-off of NCIS, which is a spin-off of JAG. This is a spin-off of a spin-off of a spin-off.
Written by: Shane Brennan (NCIS)
Director:
Starring:
-- Hostages: Based on an Israeli format, the project centers on a family caught in the middle of a grand political conspiracy that will change their lives forever.
Written by: Jeffrey Nachmanoff (The Day After Tomorrow)
Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Starring: Toni Collette as Ellen
-- The Ordained: About the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated.
Written by: Lisa Takeuchi Cullen
Director:
Starring:
-- 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:
-- 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)
Director:
Starring: Brandon T. Jackson, Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley
-- The Advocates: Female lawyer and male ex-con are "victim advocates."
Written by: Bruno Heller (The Mentalist)
Director: David Nutter (Arrow)
Comedy:
-- Ex Men: Centers on a newly single guy who is taken under the wing of a group of more experienced guys.
Written by: Rob Greenberg (How I Met Your Mother)
Director: Rob Greenberg (How I Met Your Mother)
Starring: Christopher Nicholas Smith as Carter Thomas, Jerry O'Connell as Stuart Stegeman, Kal Penn as Gil Brooks, Rebecca Breeds as Julie Bober, Tony Shalhoub as Frank Bober
Single Camera
-- Mom: About a newly sober single mom who tries to pull her life together in Napa Valley.
Written by: Gemma Baker (Two and a Half Men), Eddie Gorodetsky (Two and a Half Men), & Chuck Lorre (Chuck Lorre)
Director:
Starring: Anna Faris
Multi Camera
-- Untitled Jim Gaffigan Project: Semi-autobiographical comedy revolves around Gaffigan as a happily married and harried New York City father of five -- as he is in real life.
Written by: Jim Gaffigan & Peter Tolan (Rescue Me)
Director:
Starring: Jim Gaffigan
Single Camera
-- Super Clyde: Centers on a meek, unassuming fast food worker who decides to become a super hero.
Written by: Greg Garcia (Raising Hope)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
-- Untitled Greg Garcia Project: About a recently divorced man whose life is complicated when his parents decide to move in with him.
Written by: Greg Garcia (Raising Hope)
Director:
Starring:
Multi Camera
-- The McCarthys: About an Irish-Catholic, sports-crazed Boston clan and the gay son whose greatest sin is not his sexuality but his desire to spend less time with his family.
Written by: Brian Gallivan (Happy Endings)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
-- Friends With Better Lives: A group of thirtysomething friends who each think the other has it better.
Written by: Dana Klein (Friends)
Director:
Starring:
Multi Camera
-- Bad Teacher: Based on the film about a foul-mouthed, gold-digging junior high school teacher.
Written by: Hilary Winston (Happy Endings)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
Fox:
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:
-- 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:
-- 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
-- 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:
-- Boomerang: Centers on a family of assassins.
Written by: Davey Holmes (Shameless, Awake)
Director:
Starring:
-- Untitled JJ Abrams/JH Wyman Project: Buddy cop show set in future, when LAPD officers are partnered with androids.
Written by: JH Wyman (Fringe)
Director:
Starring:
Comedy:
-- Lifestyle Lemonaid: Based on Nikki Joel's tell-all blog about her marriage to top WME talent agent brandt joel of the same name.
Written by: Jordan Nardino (GCB)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
Note: This is a 7-10 minute pilot presentation
-- Untitled Goor & Schur Project: About a diverse group of detectives in a precinct at the very edge of New York City.
Written by: Dan Goor (Parks & Recreation) & Michael Schur (Parks & Recreation)
Director:
Starring: Andy Samberg, Terry Crews
Single Camera
-- 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:
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:
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:
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:
Single Camera
NBC:
Drama:
-- Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives: About a murder in suburban california and the secrets exposed in its aftermath.
Written by: Sascha Penn
Director: Mark Pellington (Arlington Road)
Starring: James Tupper as Richard Deaver, Jesse L. Martin as Greg Cooke, Laura Allen as Alison Dunn, Martin Henderson as Kyle Dunn, Nicole Ari Parker as Paula Cooke, Olivia Luccardi as India Deaver, Perrey Reeves as Danielle Deaver
-- After Hours: About a group of army doctors who return to work the night shift together at a hospital in San Antonio.
Written by: Gabe Sachs (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) & Jeff Judah (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)
Director: Pierre Morel (Taken)
Starring: Brigid Brannagh as Althea, Eoin Macken as T.C., Freddy Rodriguez as Ragosa, Jeananne Goossen as Krista, Jill Flint as Jordan, Ken Leung as Topher, Robert Bailey, Jr. as Paul
-- Bloodline: About a young woman abandoned at birth by an ancient line of mercenaries, brigands and killers who must learn to defeat her own mother in armed combat if she ever wants to lead a normal life.
Written by: David Graziano (Awake)
Director:
Starring:
-- I Am Victor: Described as "House" as a divorce attorney.
Written by: Mark Goffman (White Collar)
Director:
Starring:
-- The Blacklist: Centered around an international, Kaiser Soze-like criminal who mysteriously surrenders himself to the Feds and offers to help hunt down the very men he’s spent his entire life protecting.
Written by: Jon Bokenkamp (Perfect Stranger)
Director:
Starring:
-- The Sixth Gun: Based on the Oni Press graphic novel, The Sixth Gun is the story of six mythical guns in the Old West. When the Sixth Gun, the most powerful and dangerous of the group, resurfaces in the hands of an innocent girl named Becky Montcrief, dark forces reawaken. Vile men thought long dead set their sights on retrieving the gun and killing Becky. Only Drake Sinclair, a self-serving gunfighter, stands in evil’s way.
Written by: Ryan Condal
Director:
Starring:
-- 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:
-- Believe: Man out of prison protects a young girl with a powerful gift.
Written by: Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men) & Mark Friedman (the forgotten)
Director:
Starring:
Comedy:
-- About a Boy: Based on the feature which follows the relationship between a bachelor man-child and the young boy who moves in next-door with his kooky single mother.
Written by: Jason Katims (Parenthood, Friday Night Lights)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
-- The Gates: Based on the U.K. series about the hijinks that ensue when parents drop off and pick up their kids at school each day.
Written by: Cathy Yuspa ('Til Death) & Josh Goldsmith ('Til Death)
Director: Marc Buckland (My Name is Earl)
Starring: Diana Maria Riva as Lindsay, John Grisetti as Nat, Justin Chon as TBA, Kathleen Rose Perkins as Helen, Christina Kirk as Sarah, Ken Marino, Aasif Mandvi
Single Camera
-- Joe & Joe & Jane: About a conflict-avoidant children's book author caught in an ongoing tug of war between two needy, flawed people: his wife and his co-author/best friend.
Written by: Joe Port (Community) & Joe Wiseman (New Girl)
Director: Sally Pressman as Jane
Starring:
Multi Camera
-- Untitled Jessica Simpson Project: A semi-autobiographical comedy starring Jessica Simpson.
Written by: Robin Bakay & Nick Bakay ('Til Death)
Director:
Starring: Jessica Simpson
Single Camera
Note: This is a 7-10 minute pilot presentation
-- Untitled Greg Daniels/Robert Padnick Project:A look at the trials and tribulations of dating in your twenties as explored through a group of friends. The pilot focuses on bright eyed and vulnerable Matthew being pushed by his three best friends to get back on the dating horse.
Written by: Robert Padnick (The Office)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
-- Assistance: Fast-moving comedy centered on an idealistic “working girl” assistant who is pulled between her colleague (“work husband”
and her real life fiance while trying to manage a demanding (translation: crazy) boss.
Written by: Leslye Headland (Bachelorette)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
-- Donor Party: In “New Normal” fashion, this ensemble comedy is focused on an irresponsible man forced to grow up when he discovers he has children resulting from his days as a sperm donor. A new family unit develops when a single mom contacts him and he begins to have a relationship with her and the son he never knew he had.
Written by: Alex Schemmer (Argo)
Director:
Starring:
Single camera.
-- Untitled DJ Nash Project: Set in the 1980s and loosely based on Nash’s life. It is about a family that finally comes together when the parents divorce. Told through voice-over from the adult son’s perspective, the series examines how, at 13, the son would have changed just about everything that was happening, but as an adult looking back, he wouldn’t change a thing.
Written by: DJ Nash (Up All Night)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
-- My Girlfriend in a Coma: About a 34-year-old woman who, after almost two decades , wakes up from a coma to find out she has a 17-year-old daughter from a pregnancy she was unaware of when her life was put on hold.
Written by: Lix Brixius (Nurse Jackie)
Starring:
Director:
Single Camera
-- Holding Patterns: An ensemble multi-camera comedy about a group of friends whose lives completely change after they survive a plane crash.
Written by: Justin Spitzer (The Office)
Starring:
Director:
-- 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
Multi Camera
-- Welcome to the Family: White and Latino families bond after their kids elope.
Written by: Mike Sikowitz (Rules of Engagement)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
-- Untitled John Mulaney Project: Untitled show based on stand-up John Mulaney's life. Multi-cam ensemble comedy.
Written by: John Mulaney
Director:
Starring:
Multi Camera
-- Undateable: Multi-cam about friends who befriend someone more confident.
Written by: Sex God Adam Sztykiel (Project X)
Director:
Starring:
Multi Camera
the CW:
Drama:
-- The Originals: The Originals centers on the Original family of vampires, as Klaus returns to the supernatural melting pot that is the French Quarter of New Orleans — a town he helped build centuries ago — and is reunited with his diabolical former protégé Marcel.
Written by: Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries)
Starring: Joseph Morgan as Klaus, Phoebe Tonkin as Hayley, Daniel Gillies as Elijah
Note: This is a backdoor pilot that will air April 25th as an episode of The Vampire Diaries on the CW.
-- Company Town: About the lives and loves of the young people at the Norfolk Naval Station.
Written by: Sera Gamble (Supernatural)
Director: Taylor Hackford (Ray)
Starring:
-- The Selection: Set 300 years in the future about a poor woman who is chosen by lottery to compete to become the next queen of a war-torn nation.
Written by: Sarah Fain (The Shield, Angel) & Elizabeth Fain (The Shield, Angel)
Director:
Starring:
-- Reign: Mary Queen of Scots' rise to power when she arrives in France at age 15.
Written by: Stephanie Sengupta (Hawaii Five-0) & Laurie McCarthy (Ghost Whisperer)
Director:
Starring:
-- Oxygen: Alien kids integrated into high school 10 years after they land. Human, alien fall in love.
Written by: Meredith Averill (The Good Wife, Happy Town)
Director:
Starring:
-- The Hundred: Based on books about 100 juvenile delinquents re-colonizing earth 97 years after nuke war.
Written by: Jason Rothenberg
Director:
Starring:
-- Blink: Family drama told from POV of father in a coma, can't speak or move but can see and hear all.
Written by: Vera Herbert (the former writers' assistant and then exec assistant on Awkward. Good job, Vera)
Director:
Starring:
-- The Tomorrow People: Based on UK series about humans with special powers.
Written by: Phil Klemmer (Chuck)
Director:
Starring:
I will update this thread as more information comes out over the next 2-3 weeks. If you see any mistakes, please let me know.
Have any shows been picked up so far that might be script to series?
Yes!
CBS:
Drama:
-- Under the Dome: Based on King’s bestselling novel, Under the Dome is the story of a small New England town that’s suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an enormous transparent dome. The town’s residents need to survive the deteriorating post-apocalyptic conditions while searching for answers to what this barrier is, where it came from, and how to make it go away.
Written by: Brian K. Vaughn (LOST)
Showrunner: Neal Baer (A Gifted Man)
Director: Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
Starring: Colin Ford as Joe, Natalie Martinez as Linda, Alex Koch as Junior
Order: 13 episodes
NBC:
Drama:
-- Dracula: Dracula comes to London, posing as an American entrepreneur that wants to bring modern science to the Victorian city. However, in reality Dracula actually wishes to seek revenge on those who did him wrong centuries earlier. When Dracula finally thinks everything is in place, he falls hopelessly in love with a woman who is seemingly a reincarnation of his deceased wife.
Written by: Cole Haddon
Showrunner: Dan Knauf (Carnivale)
Director:
Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jessica De Gouw
Order: 10 episodes
-- Crossbones: A fictional adaptation of the life of the notorious pirate Edward Teach (aka Blackbeard) in and around the island of New Providence in The Bahamas.
Written by: Neil Cross (Luther)
Director:
Starring:
Order: 10 episodes
Comedy:
-- Untitled Michael J. Fox Project: It features Fox as a husband and father of three from New York City dealing with family, career, and challenges -- including Parkinson's -- all loosely drawn from Fox's real life.
Written by: Sam Laybourne (Cougar Town, Arrested Development)
Director: Will Gluck (Friends with Benefits, Easy A)
Starring: Michael J. Fox as Mike, Wendell Pierce as Harris, Katie Finneran, Betsy Brandt, Conor Romero, Jack Gore, Juliette Goglia
Order: 22 episodes
Single Camera
Fox:
Comedy:
-- Dads: Centers on two successful guys in their 30s who have their lives turned upside down when their nightmare dads unexpectedly move in with them.
Written by: Alec Sulkin (Ted) & Wellesley Wild (Ted)
Director:
Starring:
Order: 6 episodes
Multi Camera
That's all well and good, ivy, but what about shows that have gone through normal development? Has anything been ordered to pilot?
ABC:
Drama:
-- S.H.I.E.L.D.: Drama set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, following the small screen adventures of the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division, better known as S.H.I.E.L.D.
Written by: Joss Whedon (Joss), Jed Whedon (Dollhouse, Spartacus), & Maurissa Tancharoen (Dollhouse, Spartacus)
Director: Joss Whedon (Joss)
Starring: Brett Dalton as Grant Ward, Chloe Bennet as Skye, Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson, Elizabeth Henstridge as Gemma Simmons, Iain De Caestecker as Leo Fitz, Ming-Na Wen as Melinda May
-- 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:
-- 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:
-- 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:
-- Influence: A provocative workplace ensemble centered on the complicated relationship between two brothers — a bipolar genius in human psychology and a slick ex-con — who head a unique agency designed to solve their clients’ problems using the real science of human motivation and manipulation.
Written by: Kyle Killen (Awake, Lone Star)
Director:
Starring:
-- Killer Women: It centers on Molly Parker, the only woman in the notoriously male Texas Rangers — a ballsy, beautiful badass who knows how to get to the truth and isn’t afraid to ruffle a few feathers on her way there.
Written by: Hannah Shakespeare (The Raven)
Director:
Starring:
-- Doubt: Centers on a former cop who’s now a cunning, but charming low-rent lawyer who uses his street smarts to work the system for his clients while battling his own demons and wooing his ex-wife.
Written by: David Shore (House)
Director:
Starring:
Comedy:
-- How the Hell Am I Normal: About growing up in the 1980s with a highly screwed up but loving family.
Written by: Adam F. Goldberg (Breaking In)
Director: Seth Gordon (Breaking In)
Starring:
Single Camera
-- Super Fun Night: Single-camera take on Rebel Wilson's multi-camera comedy for CBS this past development cycle about three nerdy female friends on a quest to have super fun every Friday night.
Written by: Rebel Wilson
Showrunner: John Riggi (30 Rock)
Director: John Riggi (30 Rock)
Starring: Kelen Coleman as Felicity, Kevin Bishop as Richard, Lauren Ash as Marika, Liza Lapira as Helen-Alice, Rebel Wilson as Kimmie
Single Camera
-- Trophy Wife: About a reformed party girl who finds herself with an insta-family when she falls in love with a man with three manipulative kids and two judgmental ex-wives.
Written by: Emily Halpern (Private Practice) & Sarah Haskins
Director: Jason Moore (Pitch Perfect)
Starring: Bradley Whitford as Brad, Malin Akerman as Kate, Marcia Gay Harden as Diane, Michaela Watkins as Jackie, Natalie Morales as Meg, Ryan Lee
Single Camera
-- Mixology: Comedy which follows five guys and five girls trying to find love at a trendy Manhattan bar across the course of one night.
Written by: Jon Lucas (The Hangover) & Scott Moore (The Hangover)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
-- 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.
Written by: Lee Eisenberg (Bad Teacher) & Gene Stupnitsky (Bad Teacher)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
-- Spy: To impress his smart son, man inadvertently takes a job with Secret Service.
Written by: Simeon Goulden (Spy)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
-- Untitled Cullen Project: About a single mom who moves back in with her ex-pro baseball player dad.
Written by: Mark & Robb Cullen (Work It)
Director:
Starring: James Caan
Single Camera
CBS:
Drama:
-- Untitled NCIS: Los Angeles Spin-Off: Planted spin-off of the "NCIS" franchise which will follow a small mobile team of agents, who are forced to live and work together, as they crisscross the country solving crimes. Note: NCIS: Los Angeles is a spin-off of NCIS, which is a spin-off of JAG. This is a spin-off of a spin-off of a spin-off.
Written by: Shane Brennan (NCIS)
Director:
Starring:
-- Hostages: Based on an Israeli format, the project centers on a family caught in the middle of a grand political conspiracy that will change their lives forever.
Written by: Jeffrey Nachmanoff (The Day After Tomorrow)
Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Starring: Toni Collette as Ellen
-- The Ordained: About the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated.
Written by: Lisa Takeuchi Cullen
Director:
Starring:
-- 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:
-- 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)
Director:
Starring: Brandon T. Jackson, Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley
-- The Advocates: Female lawyer and male ex-con are "victim advocates."
Written by: Bruno Heller (The Mentalist)
Director: David Nutter (Arrow)
Comedy:
-- Ex Men: Centers on a newly single guy who is taken under the wing of a group of more experienced guys.
Written by: Rob Greenberg (How I Met Your Mother)
Director: Rob Greenberg (How I Met Your Mother)
Starring: Christopher Nicholas Smith as Carter Thomas, Jerry O'Connell as Stuart Stegeman, Kal Penn as Gil Brooks, Rebecca Breeds as Julie Bober, Tony Shalhoub as Frank Bober
Single Camera
-- Mom: About a newly sober single mom who tries to pull her life together in Napa Valley.
Written by: Gemma Baker (Two and a Half Men), Eddie Gorodetsky (Two and a Half Men), & Chuck Lorre (Chuck Lorre)
Director:
Starring: Anna Faris
Multi Camera
-- Untitled Jim Gaffigan Project: Semi-autobiographical comedy revolves around Gaffigan as a happily married and harried New York City father of five -- as he is in real life.
Written by: Jim Gaffigan & Peter Tolan (Rescue Me)
Director:
Starring: Jim Gaffigan
Single Camera
-- Super Clyde: Centers on a meek, unassuming fast food worker who decides to become a super hero.
Written by: Greg Garcia (Raising Hope)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
-- Untitled Greg Garcia Project: About a recently divorced man whose life is complicated when his parents decide to move in with him.
Written by: Greg Garcia (Raising Hope)
Director:
Starring:
Multi Camera
-- The McCarthys: About an Irish-Catholic, sports-crazed Boston clan and the gay son whose greatest sin is not his sexuality but his desire to spend less time with his family.
Written by: Brian Gallivan (Happy Endings)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
-- Friends With Better Lives: A group of thirtysomething friends who each think the other has it better.
Written by: Dana Klein (Friends)
Director:
Starring:
Multi Camera
-- Bad Teacher: Based on the film about a foul-mouthed, gold-digging junior high school teacher.
Written by: Hilary Winston (Happy Endings)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
Fox:
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:
-- 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:
-- 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
-- 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:
-- Boomerang: Centers on a family of assassins.
Written by: Davey Holmes (Shameless, Awake)
Director:
Starring:
-- Untitled JJ Abrams/JH Wyman Project: Buddy cop show set in future, when LAPD officers are partnered with androids.
Written by: JH Wyman (Fringe)
Director:
Starring:
Comedy:
-- Lifestyle Lemonaid: Based on Nikki Joel's tell-all blog about her marriage to top WME talent agent brandt joel of the same name.
Written by: Jordan Nardino (GCB)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
Note: This is a 7-10 minute pilot presentation
-- Untitled Goor & Schur Project: About a diverse group of detectives in a precinct at the very edge of New York City.
Written by: Dan Goor (Parks & Recreation) & Michael Schur (Parks & Recreation)
Director:
Starring: Andy Samberg, Terry Crews
Single Camera
-- 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:
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:
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:
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:
Single Camera
NBC:
Drama:
-- Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives: About a murder in suburban california and the secrets exposed in its aftermath.
Written by: Sascha Penn
Director: Mark Pellington (Arlington Road)
Starring: James Tupper as Richard Deaver, Jesse L. Martin as Greg Cooke, Laura Allen as Alison Dunn, Martin Henderson as Kyle Dunn, Nicole Ari Parker as Paula Cooke, Olivia Luccardi as India Deaver, Perrey Reeves as Danielle Deaver
-- After Hours: About a group of army doctors who return to work the night shift together at a hospital in San Antonio.
Written by: Gabe Sachs (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) & Jeff Judah (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)
Director: Pierre Morel (Taken)
Starring: Brigid Brannagh as Althea, Eoin Macken as T.C., Freddy Rodriguez as Ragosa, Jeananne Goossen as Krista, Jill Flint as Jordan, Ken Leung as Topher, Robert Bailey, Jr. as Paul
-- Bloodline: About a young woman abandoned at birth by an ancient line of mercenaries, brigands and killers who must learn to defeat her own mother in armed combat if she ever wants to lead a normal life.
Written by: David Graziano (Awake)
Director:
Starring:
-- I Am Victor: Described as "House" as a divorce attorney.
Written by: Mark Goffman (White Collar)
Director:
Starring:
-- The Blacklist: Centered around an international, Kaiser Soze-like criminal who mysteriously surrenders himself to the Feds and offers to help hunt down the very men he’s spent his entire life protecting.
Written by: Jon Bokenkamp (Perfect Stranger)
Director:
Starring:
-- The Sixth Gun: Based on the Oni Press graphic novel, The Sixth Gun is the story of six mythical guns in the Old West. When the Sixth Gun, the most powerful and dangerous of the group, resurfaces in the hands of an innocent girl named Becky Montcrief, dark forces reawaken. Vile men thought long dead set their sights on retrieving the gun and killing Becky. Only Drake Sinclair, a self-serving gunfighter, stands in evil’s way.
Written by: Ryan Condal
Director:
Starring:
-- 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:
-- Believe: Man out of prison protects a young girl with a powerful gift.
Written by: Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men) & Mark Friedman (the forgotten)
Director:
Starring:
Comedy:
-- About a Boy: Based on the feature which follows the relationship between a bachelor man-child and the young boy who moves in next-door with his kooky single mother.
Written by: Jason Katims (Parenthood, Friday Night Lights)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
-- The Gates: Based on the U.K. series about the hijinks that ensue when parents drop off and pick up their kids at school each day.
Written by: Cathy Yuspa ('Til Death) & Josh Goldsmith ('Til Death)
Director: Marc Buckland (My Name is Earl)
Starring: Diana Maria Riva as Lindsay, John Grisetti as Nat, Justin Chon as TBA, Kathleen Rose Perkins as Helen, Christina Kirk as Sarah, Ken Marino, Aasif Mandvi
Single Camera
-- Joe & Joe & Jane: About a conflict-avoidant children's book author caught in an ongoing tug of war between two needy, flawed people: his wife and his co-author/best friend.
Written by: Joe Port (Community) & Joe Wiseman (New Girl)
Director: Sally Pressman as Jane
Starring:
Multi Camera
-- Untitled Jessica Simpson Project: A semi-autobiographical comedy starring Jessica Simpson.
Written by: Robin Bakay & Nick Bakay ('Til Death)
Director:
Starring: Jessica Simpson
Single Camera
Note: This is a 7-10 minute pilot presentation
-- Untitled Greg Daniels/Robert Padnick Project:A look at the trials and tribulations of dating in your twenties as explored through a group of friends. The pilot focuses on bright eyed and vulnerable Matthew being pushed by his three best friends to get back on the dating horse.
Written by: Robert Padnick (The Office)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
-- Assistance: Fast-moving comedy centered on an idealistic “working girl” assistant who is pulled between her colleague (“work husband”
and her real life fiance while trying to manage a demanding (translation: crazy) boss.Written by: Leslye Headland (Bachelorette)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
-- Donor Party: In “New Normal” fashion, this ensemble comedy is focused on an irresponsible man forced to grow up when he discovers he has children resulting from his days as a sperm donor. A new family unit develops when a single mom contacts him and he begins to have a relationship with her and the son he never knew he had.
Written by: Alex Schemmer (Argo)
Director:
Starring:
Single camera.
-- Untitled DJ Nash Project: Set in the 1980s and loosely based on Nash’s life. It is about a family that finally comes together when the parents divorce. Told through voice-over from the adult son’s perspective, the series examines how, at 13, the son would have changed just about everything that was happening, but as an adult looking back, he wouldn’t change a thing.
Written by: DJ Nash (Up All Night)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
-- My Girlfriend in a Coma: About a 34-year-old woman who, after almost two decades , wakes up from a coma to find out she has a 17-year-old daughter from a pregnancy she was unaware of when her life was put on hold.
Written by: Lix Brixius (Nurse Jackie)
Starring:
Director:
Single Camera
-- Holding Patterns: An ensemble multi-camera comedy about a group of friends whose lives completely change after they survive a plane crash.
Written by: Justin Spitzer (The Office)
Starring:
Director:
-- 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
Multi Camera
-- Welcome to the Family: White and Latino families bond after their kids elope.
Written by: Mike Sikowitz (Rules of Engagement)
Director:
Starring:
Single Camera
-- Untitled John Mulaney Project: Untitled show based on stand-up John Mulaney's life. Multi-cam ensemble comedy.
Written by: John Mulaney
Director:
Starring:
Multi Camera
-- Undateable: Multi-cam about friends who befriend someone more confident.
Written by: Sex God Adam Sztykiel (Project X)
Director:
Starring:
Multi Camera
the CW:
Drama:
-- The Originals: The Originals centers on the Original family of vampires, as Klaus returns to the supernatural melting pot that is the French Quarter of New Orleans — a town he helped build centuries ago — and is reunited with his diabolical former protégé Marcel.
Written by: Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries)
Starring: Joseph Morgan as Klaus, Phoebe Tonkin as Hayley, Daniel Gillies as Elijah
Note: This is a backdoor pilot that will air April 25th as an episode of The Vampire Diaries on the CW.
-- Company Town: About the lives and loves of the young people at the Norfolk Naval Station.
Written by: Sera Gamble (Supernatural)
Director: Taylor Hackford (Ray)
Starring:
-- The Selection: Set 300 years in the future about a poor woman who is chosen by lottery to compete to become the next queen of a war-torn nation.
Written by: Sarah Fain (The Shield, Angel) & Elizabeth Fain (The Shield, Angel)
Director:
Starring:
-- Reign: Mary Queen of Scots' rise to power when she arrives in France at age 15.
Written by: Stephanie Sengupta (Hawaii Five-0) & Laurie McCarthy (Ghost Whisperer)
Director:
Starring:
-- Oxygen: Alien kids integrated into high school 10 years after they land. Human, alien fall in love.
Written by: Meredith Averill (The Good Wife, Happy Town)
Director:
Starring:
-- The Hundred: Based on books about 100 juvenile delinquents re-colonizing earth 97 years after nuke war.
Written by: Jason Rothenberg
Director:
Starring:
-- Blink: Family drama told from POV of father in a coma, can't speak or move but can see and hear all.
Written by: Vera Herbert (the former writers' assistant and then exec assistant on Awkward. Good job, Vera)
Director:
Starring:
-- The Tomorrow People: Based on UK series about humans with special powers.
Written by: Phil Klemmer (Chuck)
Director:
Starring:
I will update this thread as more information comes out over the next 2-3 weeks. If you see any mistakes, please let me know.
