USA orders 3 new pilots
3 Nov 2010
Cancelled Shows Necessary Roughness Pilot Shows SuitsUSA has given cast-contingent pilot orders to three new shows -- Eden, Wild Card and Over/Under.
With these pickups, the network's order for the year climbs to six, USA's largest ever in one year.
Eden is from UCP and is about a young hotel worker who, with the help of his escaped con artist cousin Eddie, gets a job as the concierge at an elite NYC hotel. Together they manage to provide the hotel guests with whatever they desire, at whatever the cost. Written by Ken and Mary Hanes (Til Death Do Us Part).
Over/Under from Fox TV Studios in association with UCP, is about a day trader with a gambling problem who's fired from his job six months after a bad trade costs his firm millions. Shut out of the job market, he and his wife retreat to a neighborhood on the cusp of gentrification. He finds an unlikely partner and starts to turn his life around in an unexpected way. Written by Sheila Callaghan (United States of Tara) and executive produced by Dan Halsted (Garden State).
Wild Card, from Fox TV Studios, is a Las Vegas-set procedural about people behaving badly, and two very different lawyers. Executive produced and written by Stephen Godchaux (Spin City).
The pilots join the previously announced titles, A Legal Mind, Necessary Roughness and Common Law.
Source: Hollywood Reporter


Except for Wild Card, these don't seem to fit the standard USA mold.
ReplyDeleteEden is actually drawing my interest. I might bother to check that one out.
ReplyDeleteActually Over/Under sounds like Royal Pains except with a day trader instead of a doctor.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what to think of Eden.
So...are they getting rid of some shows, or what?
Except for Law & Order: CI going into its last, abbreviated season I don't see any shows being dropped. Keep in mind these are just pilots and only a scant few of them have a shot at a series order.
ReplyDeleteHmm, Eden sounds like it might be okay... I don't know about the others.
ReplyDeleteOn a side note: Common Law = lamest title ever.