NBC - Full drama development slate for next season - almost all Fantasy/Sci-Fi
27 Oct 2010
Pilot ShowsDramas: 87TH PRECINCT: Swift, silent, and deadly -- someone is knocking off the 87th Precinct's finest, one by one. The how of the killings is obvious: three .45 shots from the dark add up to one, two, three very dead detectives. The why and the who are the Precinct's headaches now. When Detective Reardon is found dead, motive is a big question mark. But when his partner becomes victim number two, it looks like open-and-shut grudge killings. That is, until a third detective buys it. With one meager clue, Detective Steve Carella begins his grim search for the killer, a search that takes him into the city's underworld to a notorious brothel, to the apartment of a beautiful and dangerous widow, and finally to a .45 automatic aimed straight at his head....
DARK TOWER, THE: Eerie, dreamlike, set in a world that is weirdly related to our own, The Gunslinger introduces Roland Deschain of Gilead, of In-World that was, as he pursues his enigmatic antagonist to the mountains that separate the desert from the Western Sea. Roland is a solitary figure, perhaps accursed, who with a strange singlemindedness traverses an exhausted, almost timeless landscape. The people he encounters are left behind, or worse—left dead. At a way station, however, he meets Jake, a boy from a particular time (1977) and a particular place (New York City), and soon the two are joined—khef, ka, and ka-tet. The mountains lie before them. So does the man in black and, somewhere far beyond...the Dark Tower.
DIRTY GIRLS SOCIAL CLUB, THE Meet the six unforgettable women who make up The Dirty Girls Social Club: Lauren, the "caliente" columnist for the local Boston paper whose love life is making headlines... Sara, the perfect wife and mother who's got it all but pays a high price... Elizabeth, the stunning black Latina whose TV anchor job conflicts with her intensely private personal life... Amber, the Valley girl who doesn't speak Spanish but is fast becoming a huge rock star en Espanol... Rebecca, hyper-in-command in her glossy magazine world but clueless when it comes to men...and Usnavys, fabulous, larger than life, and at risk of falling head over five-inch Manolos in love.... No matter what happens to each of them, the Girls dish, dine, whine, and compare notes as they try to sort out the bumpy course of life and love. And what a wild ride it is
ECHELON drama about a team who investigates paranormal data captured by the controversial electronic eavesdropping apparatus
EULOGIST, THE drama about a woman in her 20s who moonlights as a eulogist
GHOST ANGELES : dramedy about a young woman in los angeles who can talk to the dead, helping the spirits as much as they are helping her
LEGENDS:
drama about a CIA operative with an uncanny gift for "legends" - aka false identities - who is sent on a variety of missions, while simultaneously coping with the possibility that his own identity may be a "legend" itself
MARS DIRECT
drama about a mission to the red planet
MUNSTERS, THE
revival of the 1960s-series-turned-movie franchise billed as "modern family" meets "true blood"
ODD JOBS
drama featuring the former "lost" co-stars as former special ops agents
SAND MEN
drama that revolves around members of an elite squad, sleep and nightmare division, who enter peoples' dreams to confront their nightmares
UNTITLED JENNIFER SALT PROJECT
drama set in the tumultuous world of celebrity chefs
UNTITLED RONALD MOORE PROJECT
drama billed as an adult harry potter set in a world ruled not by science but by magic
WEEKENDS AT BELLEVUE
Julie Holland thought she knew what crazy was. Then she came to Bellevue. New York City's Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the United States, has a tradition of "serving the underserved" that dates back to 1736. For nine eventful years, Dr. Holland was the weekend physician in charge of Bellevue's psychiatric emergency room, a one-woman front line charged with assessing and treating some of the city's most vulnerable and troubled citizens, its forgotten and forsaken - and its criminally insane. Deciding who gets locked up and who gets talked down would be an awesome responsibility for most people. For Julie Holland, it was just another day at the office."
YOUNG TURKS
drama about the personal and professional lives of a group of new yorkers in their 20s who find themselves in the high-powered worlds of finance, politics and media
ZOMBIES VS VAMPIRES
series about two cops - one of which is secretly a vampire - assigned to a squad specifically formed to deal with "zombie crime"
Which interest you?
Source : FutonCritic


NBC should just cancel everything this season and rebuild with these shows most of them show great!
ReplyDeleteUNTITLED RONALD MOORE PROJECT and SAND MEN are the two that interest me the most but I agree with
ReplyDeletetariqq NBC should just cancel all their shows and start again, they have done it before.
I'm kind of interested how The Dark Tower turns out. I simply loved the books, but I'm not sure it's material made for TV or cinema. There's a reason so far everyone backed out from the idea of adapting this stuff.
ReplyDeleteYep, agreed about The Dark Tower. Can't imagine how some of the key
ReplyDeletescenes will translate to screen. Would love to see Blaine the demented
Mono :)
The Dark Tower for sure, having read the books
ReplyDeleteThe Dark Tower for sure, having read the books
ReplyDelete87th Precinct - Not something that interests me
ReplyDeleteDark Tower - Sounds interesting, but I'm not sure how well it'll translate into a tv show.
Dirty Girls Social Club - Desperate Housewives anyone?
Echelon - Sounds interesting, my type of show
Ghost Angeles - Ghost Whisperer anyone? Also, that title (hope it changes) it just abominal
Legends - Not into procedurals, but this sounds as good as a procedural would get
Mars Direct - Maybe, sounds like Battlestar without the threat of cylons I guess
The Munsters - Modern Family meets True Blood simply won't work in my mind, but if anyone can do it, Bryan Fuller can
Sand Men - Sounds really interesting, sorta like Inception, one that I'll hopefully watch
Jennifer Salt Project - No, just no
Ronald Moore Project - Don't like the idea, but if its Ronald Moore it will be awesome
Weekends at Belluve - Sounds pretty awesome, criminal minds-esque
Young Turks - Not really something I'd like
Zombies Vs Vampires - Not something that would interest me, because it sounds rubbish
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Sounds like they've actually got a few awesome scripts here, which is good, because this years pilots have been lackluster at best, however, this is NBC, which makes me think all of these will underwhelm me.
There's some big stuff there, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward for The Dark Tower, Sand Men and Odd Jobs.
This season really didn't have anything 'new'. I'm only excited for 'Walking Dead', the rest of the pilots was either a reboot, remake or rather boring.
ReplyDeleteThe summary of Ghost Angels sounds soooo familar! Lol Sorry, but at least Ghost whisperer had the better title. :D
ReplyDeleteThe Dark tower sounds interesting. Sandman will depend on how their dreamworld will loke like, the concept is interesting but it will depend on the executation if it's toxic waste or an awesome show.
Yeah, the Walking Dead is set to be awesome, I hope it lives up to all the hype though, the Walking Dead graphic novels are awesome, so I hope the Walking Dead is too. I'm not excited by anything else, I mean, Broadwalk Empire is epic, but it's no Sopranos.
ReplyDeleteThe Event is really the saving grace of this year I guess, even Julie Benz in No Ordinary Family hasn't turned anything around for me.
ReplyDeleteyep this year sucked only non - remakes - reboots i liked were Lost Girl (#1) , The Walking Dead and The Event (plus Mike & Molly on the comedy side)
ReplyDeleteThe Event isn't bad but after Flashforward I'm very careful to not get attached to any new mystery show too soon. I liked it but the sometimes useless and meaningless time jumps are not my thing. If you use time jumps, they should add to the story, not be a flashy gimmick.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read the comics but I loved the Comic Con trailer of Walking dead. Broadwalk Empire is really good but it's not a must for me. I love to watch shows like that on dvd later.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I think it'd be better watching it back to back than once a week, after waiting so long the storyline starts to get more confusing each episode, well for me anyway.
ReplyDeleteThis is not from FutonCritic.
ReplyDeleteThe "Dark Tower"-text is taken from the novel's blurb.
There is no news whatsoever in this "article".
Did that first drama really have a character that was named STEVE CARELLA?
ReplyDeleteO.M.G.
Uhm...hack much?
ReplyDeleteOH and Ghost Angeles? SERIOUSLY? Why didn't you just keep Medium? FAIL.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure it's just a placeholder, I mean... it HAS TO be. XD
ReplyDeleteMost of the shows sound really intriguing. Too bad it's the NBC and thus most of them will flop. NBC damaged its brand way too much.
ReplyDeleteIt's not confusing but I don't know how to explain it. Certain shows are so rich that a break in between takes me out of the storyline. I don't have any problems of remembering the plot but I get more hooked to a show like Boardwalk Empire or the Pacific if I watch it like a movie in one go. Do you know what I mean?
ReplyDeleteyeah but then they criticize Flashforward for not having "character development", the flashbacks are a gateway for that because the characters are already involve in some big mess and they don't have time to say "Me and my girlfriend met in a pool, and it was kinda cute" :D
ReplyDeleteWriters don't even try to be original now with procedurals, seriously how did they do to make it to NBC with an idea like this? It's been done a million times :/
ReplyDeleteFirst off, just let me say this: THEY'RE ADAPTING THE DARK TOWER BOOKS?!!!!!??? It better be good; if they ruin it, I will boycott all NBC shows.
ReplyDeleteWhich one interests me? Odd Jobs, no contest. Put Terri O' Quinn, Michael Emerson and J.J. Abrams into the equation and I'm there; I wont even read the plot description.
The other series that interested me was UNTITLED RONALD MOORE PROJECT.
Sand Men seems like an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of Inception, but I'm willing to watch it although I'm sure it wont last.
87th Precinct - The write-up sounds like old school film noir. This means I'll like it and it will last 3 episodes if it makes it to air.
ReplyDeleteThe Dark Tower - This show is a lock to make it to air.
Dirty Girls Social Club - For the last time, Sex and the City doesn't work on network TV.
Echelon - Reminds me of Threshold. It's doomed.
Eulogist & Ghost Angeles - No. Just no.
Mars Direct - See "Eulogist & Ghost Angeles"
Legends - Seems like a lo-fi version of Human Target. I'd rather watch HT.
Untitled Ronald Moore Project - It could potentially be unintentionally hilarious
Zombies V. Vampires - Absolutely ridiculous. I'd watch it. :)