Spy centers on a well intentioned father of a highly intelligent and verbal son, who also happens to be his complete opposite, who inadvertently takes a job at the Secret Service in order to prove himself a worthy father.
Safe At Home centers on Terry Gannon, a recently divorced single mother who temporarily moves in with her estranged father (Caan), a beer-swilling former baseball player. She reluctantly starts coaching her son’s underdog Little League team and is drawn back into the world of sports she vowed to leave behind.
Source: Deadline
NBC:
NBC has ordered a drama pilot from the Star Wars VII helmer about an unlikely relationship between a gifted young girl and a man sprung from prison who has been tasked with protecting her from the evil elements that hunt her power.
Alfonso Cuaron penned the script and will serve as an EP alongside Abrams and Bryan Burk.
In other Peacock pilot news, the network has ordered the multi-camera pilot Undateable from Scrubs and Cougar Town boss Bill Lawrence.
The project centers on a group of young friends dubbed the “Undateables” whose lives are altered when a more confident character enters their world.
Source: TVLine
ooh Bill Lawrence comedy !!! :)
ReplyDeleteThe one from JJ sounds pretty good, tbh, but meh on the others.
ReplyDeleteSo is Spy kind of a Get Smart comedy instead of an actual spy drama?
ReplyDeleteMulti-camera shows are the stereotypical sitcoms. Laugh-track, very few sets, lots of characters sitting around those few sets and talking... Single-camera are the ones that tend not to use the laugh track, are often more dynamic in setting, movement, etc, and have a more "realistic" look to them (that's the best way I can think to describe it).
ReplyDeleteKind of, except there's very little spy-ing done in Spy (or at least in the British version). You can watch the British version of the show on Hulu for free, if I'm not mistaken. It's where I saw the first season of the show. (I enjoyed it, but I got sick of the kid... way too unlikable and it made the father's motivations questionable. Funny and entertaining whenever the show was just focused on the father though.)
ReplyDeleteAgreed. I want to give the Bill Lawrence show a chance since I haven't yet seen a show of his that I dislike, but the premise doesn't sound as interesting as I would like. (Though neither did Cougar Town's starting out, so I'll give it the benefit of the doubt.)
ReplyDeleteThanks. I will check it out over the summer.
ReplyDeleteGlad for "Believe"! -Plus the third Harry Potter was my favorite of the Harry Potter films (and books). So I think this could be a good collaboration.
ReplyDeleteAhh lovely. You learn something new every day.
ReplyDeleteWhy does NBC always get the shows with awesome premises and then fucks them up... always...
ReplyDeleteSome interesting stuff in there....
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