Drama pilots ordered so far for next season for the five US networks - UPDATED
3 Feb 2012
Pilot ShowsFOX:
DONE ordering Dramas
Untitled medical drama pilot: medical drama about a female doctor working for the mob in Chicago.
ASSET, THE: drama set in the new york office of the CIA, which centers on a female agent
GUILTY: drama about a brilliant, morally questionable defense attorney who, after being falsely convicted of fraud and stripped of his legal license, uses his unorthodox methods to solve the cases he's been prohibited from handling and to ultimately exact revenge on the men who set him up
UNTITLED KARYN USHER PROJECT: drama about the orphaned 17-year-old daughter of a CIA operative who is recruited to become an operative herself
UNTITLED KEVIN WILLIAMSON PROJECT: drama about a diabolical serial killer who uses technology to create a cult of serial killers, and the FBI agent who finds himself in the middle of it
ABC:
ANTICHRIST: drama about a young astrophysics student who learns his destiny lies not in science but somewhere between heaven and hell
Devious Maids: centers on four Latina women who are maids in Beverly Hills
Gotham: centers on a female cop who, after pursuing a seemingly unsolvable case, discovers a magical world that exists within New York City.
Zero Hour: centers on a man who, in a bizarre twist of fate, is pulled into one of the most compelling conspiracies in human history after spending 20 years as the editor of a skeptics magazine.
Penoza: centers on the widow of an assassinated criminal who is forced to adopt her husband’s role in a crime syndicate in order to protect her family.
GILDED LILLYS, THE: drama set in 1895 and revolves around the family who owns new york's first true luxury hotel, the staff who work there and the people who pass through
LAST RESORT: thriller set in the near future when the country is very fractured and revolves around the crew of a U.S. nuclear submarine who become hunted after ignoring an order to shoot nuclear missiles
666 PARK: drama about an innocent couple from the midwest that moves to New York and gets hired to be resident managers of a building on the Upper East Side where unbeknownst to the couple, the residents have all unwittingly made deals with the Devil to have their deepest needs, ambitions and desires fulfilled
BEAUTY & THE BEAST:
fantastical re-imagining of the classic fairy tale set in a mythical, dangerous world wherein a beautiful and tough Princess discovers an unlikely connection with a mysterious beast.
Americana: a soap set around a legendary fashion designer and his family and business.
Nashville : a family soap set against the backdrop of the Nashville music scene that follows one star at her peak and one on the rise.
Scruples: centers around a socialite who, following the death of her husband, seeks to open a fashion forward boutique called Scruples in the heart of Beverly Hills.
*Not completely confirmed but casting calls are online:
EX-COMM: drama about a newly-elected president and his top secret "executive committee," the government's covert team of america's most elite minds who investigate and protect our nation from the strangest occurrences and conspiracy theory truths out there
CBS:
DONE ordering Dramas
BABY BIG SHOT:
drama about a working-class woman who uses her street smarts to compete with her more polished colleagues at a manhattan law firm
ELEMENTARY: a modern take on the cases of the pipe-smoking private eye created by arthur conan doyle
UNTITLED ARON ELI COLEITE PROJECT: drama about a common-sense mother who becomes a new york state trooper
Golden Boy: tracks one cop’s meteoric rise from officer to detective to Police
Commissioner.
Widow Detective: centers on a decorated police detective who, after losing three partners in the line of duty, becomes surrogate husband, lover and father to their families.
untitled Ralph Lamb project: set in the 1960s and is based on the true story of Ralph Lamb – rodeo cowboy turned longtime Sheriff of Las Vegas.
Applebaum: centers on a former public defender who becomes a private investigator to keep from being bored to death as a stay-at-home mom.
Quean: centers on an edgy and independent Millennial hacker girl who teams up with an Oakland police detective to solve crimes..
CW:
The Selection: Based on the forthcoming series of books by Kiera Cass, it is described as an epic romance set 300 years in the future that centers on a poor young woman who is chosen by lottery to participate in a competition to become the next queen of a war-torn nation at a crossroads.
Joey Dakota: centers on a documentary filmmaker who travels back in time to the 1990s, where she meets and falls in love with the rock-star subject of her film. When she unexpectedly returns to present day, she must find her way back to the past to reunite with her love and prevent his untimely death.
Shelter: set at a historic New England summer resort where the new and returning staff attend to the practical, emotional and often comical needs of the guests while navigating friendships, rivalries and romances of their own.
BEAUTY & THE BEAST:
revival of the cult 1987-1990 series that aims to not only modernize and CW-up the love story but also add a procedural twist
CARRIE DIARIES, THE: "sex and the city" prequel series based on candice bushnell's recent book about the high school years of carrie bradshaw
CULT: "silence of the lambs"/"seven"-esque drama that tracks the investigation of a string of mysterious deaths and disappearances surrounding the show-within-a-show entitled "cult"
FIRST CUT : Centers on a brand new doctor who, glad to leave her nerdy past behind for a fresh start in the adult professional world, discovers that, sadly and comically, life at the hospital where she works is no different than high school.
NBC:
DONE
Bad Girls: follows the ins-and-outs of a group of unlikely women in a federal prison: a scandalous female warden, her new protégé and a host of inmates — some mothers, some friends — who struggle with loyalties to people on the inside and the outside.
BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE:
an imaginative and thematically rich ensemble "what if" drama set 10 minutes in the future where families of mechanical human beings exist to service the human population -- that is until some of the mechanicals begin to "awaken."
DO NO HARM: medical drama about a brilliant neurosurgeon who wrestles with his dangerous alter-ego that threatens to wreak havoc on his personal and professional life
FRONTIER, THE: 1840s-set drama about a diverse group of people who set out from missouri on an incredible adventure across an american landscape that is still largely uncharted, following dreams of riches and reinvention in the west
MIDNIGHT SUN: drama which revolves around a police investigation into disappearance of a remote cult that slowly uncovers the darkest secrets of the region and its inhabitants, as well as a grander political conspiracy and environmental disaster from which the cult members are attempting to escape
MUNSTERS, THE: an imaginative reinvention of "The Munsters" as a visually spectacular one-hour drama from Universal Television.
Chicago Fire: an action-driven drama exploring the complex and heroic men and women of the Chicago Fire Department.
County: takes us into the lives of a group of young doctors, nurses, and administrators, in a frenetic underfunded and morally compromising LA County Hospital.
Revolution: a high-octane action drama following a group of characters struggling to survive and reunite with loved ones in a world where all forms of energy have mysteriously ceased to exist. by Eric Kripke and JJ Abrams


none of these sound very interesting to me :/
ReplyDeletenot personally interested in anything CBS or FOX/ NBC, ABC and the CW have some interesting projects
ReplyDeleteneither to me tbh ...
ReplyDeletelast resort, cult and the Kevin Williamson pilot.
ReplyDeleteWell I have to say that there are a lot of dull sounding pilots listed there. Hopefully they are not going to all be as dull as they sound...
ReplyDeleteABC also has Ex-Comm.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.spoilertv.com/2012/01/abc-orders-ex-comm-to-pilot.html
Yeah, there are a few there I will watch an episode or two to give them a chance, but nothing that gets me excited.
ReplyDeleteactually i think Ex-Comm has a put pilot and not ordered to pilot commitment meaning ABC will pay a fine if they dont order it to pilot
ReplyDeleteAhh, thanks.
ReplyDeleteThanks for that, I wondered about Ex Comm too.
ReplyDeletehttp://showbuzzdaily.blogspot.com/2011/08/sked-word-about-put-pilots.html
ReplyDeleteABC looks interesting, Midnight Sun and The untitled Karyn Usher project could be interesting but other than that it looks dull this year.
ReplyDelete>BEAUTY & THE BEAST: revival of the cult 1987-1990 series that aims to not only modernize and CW-up the love story but also add a procedural twistWell, that's just gibberish.
ReplyDeleteIt's just more of the same.
ReplyDeleteRehashed story-lines of what has gone before, twisted around to make it seem different.
I really think the networks should all just jump a year, and the money they invest in these new pilots use it to upgrade the shows already airing.
Some of these pilots will never get picked up, some will, and be axed in their first year without giving them a real chance to shine, and a couple of lucky ones will make it. Same all, same all!
The live tv audience is diminishing and if the networks continue to emit more and more shows onto the market the viewing audience for each show will just get lower and lower as it splits up to try and follow them all.
All of the ABC + Frontier from NBC look interesting, because they well don't involve a Lawyer/Doctor/Crime Investigator-Hero like most of the others seem to do. Aren't there eroungh of those already or are some going to vanish? in either case, one or two new ones like these are quite sufficient...
ReplyDeleteNone of the NBC shows sound like something I would like.
ReplyDeleteI thought Kevin Williamson's project was on CW because when I first heard about it I said guess they need to change CW to KW. Did CW turn it down?
Am hoping Arrow will have Justin Hartley, I wanted a spin off from Smallville of Green Arrow, that would be awesome.
I`m lightly interested in the untitled Karyn Usher project, the Gilded Lillys, Cult and The Frontier , maybe The Sherlock Holmes project as well, but I have to wait and see what they make out of the ideas!
ReplyDeleteExact same thoughts. I like the sound of most of those NBC pilots and ABC has some good stuff. CBS and FOX have dull sounding traditional procedurals.
ReplyDeleteSo many buzzwords, yet such boring summaries.
ReplyDeletesome may workout some may not.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah like the the remake of The Munsters will really do well. Please it will tank, why even bother airing it.
ReplyDeleteFOX-all these sound crap
ReplyDeleteCBS-boring
ABC-
Antichrist reminds me of SPN it sounds like Sam Winchester 2.0
Gilded Lilies-Pan Am 2.0 the potential to be good butnever takes off.
Last Resort-sounds good on paper
CW-
Arrow-yes please
The Carrie Diaries-Gossip Girl 2.0
Cult and B&B-sound like crap
NBC-
Cancel everything and just pick up all new shows, anything goes at this point it really cant be any worse than what you've already got
Can't see NBC turning things around based on this lot. FOX ought to get some federal grant money based on their order. Cult on CW miiiiiight be good.
ReplyDeleteI like all ABC projects, none of Fox's, iffy on CBS, Carrie Diaries for the 80s setting only and if it's not too gossip girl, and The frontier
ReplyDeletenot interested in any of them
ReplyDeleteThanks! :)
ReplyDeleteA few of these have potential to be good honestly, but even the most promising of these pilots have the potential to bomb as well.
ReplyDeleteI think the safest bet of the bunch is Arrow since you know what you will be getting with a CW superhero series for the most part.
All the cult or killer series intrigue me a little bit, but they could go either way easily.
The rest? Yawwwwwwn.
Some of these have potential but a lot of new shows I've ended up loving this year I didn't really know about in advance
ReplyDeleteSome sound promising,but i am not holding my breath,and as for the Munsters.come on haven't you learn by now,ugh!
ReplyDeleteCW has some good shows except the Sex and City Prequel.
ReplyDeleteYou know that the creativity in this industry is dead when the most interesting new series listed above is one from The CW....the only one that sounds even remotely interesting is CULT.
ReplyDeleteYou know that the creativity in this industry is dead when the most interesting new series listed above is one from The CW....the only one that sounds even remotely interesting is CULT.
ReplyDeleteMost shocking thing I've seen in any of these pilots is "add a procedural twist." Seems like an oxymoron to me. Plus, I'd rather just watch the original. Even the Munsters sounds like a better remake and I can't see that one doing well either.
ReplyDeleteNone of these are grabbing me.
ReplyDeleteABC is currently casting for Ex-Comm. So this means it was picked up to pliot. They just havent officially announce it yet.
ReplyDeleteEx comm does have a pilot order. Excellent.
ReplyDeleteThe only interesting ones for me are: Antichrist and Arrow (sadly no Smallville spin-off)
ReplyDeleteEh, some of these could have potential but it all sounds done before. I know it's one sentence and maybe it's not a good one but still. Guilded Lillys sounds like it'll try to copy what Downton Abbey has done in Britain, for one. That being said when the pilots that do get the set to air order, I will lok at the trailer/promo for each out of curiosity.
ReplyDeletePS What is with nearly half of these being about the Devil or cults?!
They all sound awful... Here's hoping something better comes along. I like Kevin Williamson but yikes this all sounds miserable ESPECIALLY when compared to all the fab material on cable.
ReplyDeleteDo No Harm. Brilliant neurosurgeon battles an alterego. Another Lost ripoff?
ReplyDeleteme neither
ReplyDeleteNone sound that great, but some sound really bad. The ones like Kevin Williamson's serial killer show, and the idea behind Midnight Sun might be good... 1800s dramas CAN be good, but not usually on network tv.
ReplyDeleteNo, it's always been tied to FOX.
ReplyDeleteRe:NBC If they cancel everything then I don't get my P&R fix, and then I'm coming FOR YOU.
ReplyDelete:D
FOX has a horrible slate of new shows from these descriptions
ReplyDeleteCBS has a horrible slate of new shows from these descriptions
NBC's Beautiful People sounds interesting
CW's Arrow, Beauty and the Beast and Carrie Diaries sound promising to me (for that network...good variety of shows)
But ABC definitely has the strongest and most diverse slate so far and all them sound interesting, promising and different
I'm intrigued to learn more about Antichrist, I like how Ex-Comm focuses on the committee, The Gilded Lillys sounds really cool (if done right), Last Resort sounds like an interesting idea, and 666 Park Ave. sounds absolutely awesome! They really do pick some of the most interesting scripts
If I find a synopsis that has words: New York, brilliant, advertising executive, lawyer/doctor/cop, I'll shoot someone. Why can't I see something like 'mediocre office supplies salesman from Mobile, Alabama turns out to be a good listener of various stories of people he encounters on his daily job'. No brilliancy, no nuthin', just good old stories of people like us and human relationships. Viewers will get dizzy of all the New York brilliancy
ReplyDeleteThe project by Kevin Williamson sounds like one I might like and I'd also give the Beauty & the Beast a try ... although ... why order a pilot for two shows with the same title on two different networks? Oo That kinda confused me. The ABC version sounds better to me so far, though. (Well. It's a one-sentence-summarya. But still)
ReplyDeleteAll in all, I'm not too impressed with this list.
Oh, and The Carrie Diaries ... please no. Not just because of the stupid title.
Quite fancy "Last Resort."
ReplyDeleteI've always been a fan of submarine stories, plus it seems sort of post- apocalyptic too. Hmm!
I love Sherlock Holmes, and although I don't hold out great hopes for how the CBS will present it, I'd give it try.
NBC Beautiful People" should draw me in but somehow it doesn't. Have to wait and see.
Green Arrow---Maybe!
That's about it.
Absolutely no lawyer/ doctor/ family/teen/hospital/Sex in the City/CSI spin-offs. Enough already!
So far i haven't been wowed with anything that is has been green lighted..I will course try some but boy,between this past year and whats coming upi don't have much faith in anything!
ReplyDeleteI think Beautiful People sounds really good.
ReplyDeleteNBC: Beautiful People sounds really good! I love science fiction & this one has an interesting concept. Midnight Sun has an interesting concept as well.
ReplyDeleteCW: Arrow sounds really good, I love comic book hero/super hero shows. Beauty & Beast sounds good as well, love stories are awesome & it'll be interesting to see how they add a procedural element. Cult sounds amazing & The Carrie Diaries sounds like it could be an awesome teen drama.
ABC: Beauty & the Beast sounds amazing! I love shows (like Once Upon a Time) with fairytale characters!
FOX: Untitled Kevin Williamson project sounds really good! He always has amazing shows, his shows on the air now are really good.
CBS: Not interested in any of the pilots.
It's interesting that ABC has such a fascination with the Devil. After they cancelled Pushing Daisies, I always did suspect the two were in league.
ReplyDeleteAll depends on who is in them. - as of right now, none of them or extremely interesting. wonder whose up for the carrie diaries....
ReplyDeleteJeez, they sound crap! The Frontier sounds OK-ish, but the rest?!
ReplyDeleteelementry sounds awful .. CBS should just pay the bbc for sherlock, then they may have the budget to make more then 3 episode seasons :D
ReplyDeleteNo, they would ruin the show. 3 episodes, though upsetting and too short, is a fantastic amount of episodes for making very tight and well thought out stories. Start diluting that and we'll see the quality decrease :P.
ReplyDeleteI just finished reading 2 of Karin Slaughter's books, Georgia series to be exact, and my oh my .. talk about a book that works as a TV procedural .. some channel should really consider adopting this series to TV audience..
ReplyDeleteSo are ABC and the CW both doing a new Beauty and the Beast show? Some timing if so...
ReplyDeleteShouldn't the post title read "Drama Pilots Ordered By The 3 USA Networks and 2 Netlets?
ReplyDeleteOr are CW and NBC still considered networks??
I kid! I kid!
I like these early production lists, but last year I got excited about too many pilots that never got made or did not get picked up after they were made! I think this year I will try to not pay too much attention so I don't get annoyed when my favorites aree not picked up to series.....
Nashville? Is this not the same show the CW passed on a few seasons a go?
ReplyDeleteThe Frontier also sounds familiar, I'm not sure but I think this one is carried over from last season's potential list for NBC or was it ABC?
2 new ones at ABC (Zero Hour & Gotham) sound a bit more interesting...
ReplyDeleteReally there's no such thing as an original premise anymore, originality comes in the details and the style, which don't show up in these short synopses. About half of these I read and think 'that could be really good if done right,' hopefully at least a few of them will be.
ReplyDeleteNashville? Is this not the same show the CW passed on a few seasons a go?
ReplyDeleteI thought the same.
I'm iffy on a lot of these. There are 9 I'll check out, but expect to only like two or three at most.
ReplyDeleteABC has a lot of dramas and comedies ordered, and almost every single show they ahve is doing well, and some others haven't even premiered yet.
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