This has got to be one of the most surprising moves this season: I’ve learned that CBS has passed on the Beverly Hills Cop reboot from Shawn Ryan and Eddie Murphy. It is likely that the project, which had multiple suitors before landing at CBS in a bidding war last fall, will be shopped elsewhere. Beverly Hills Cop was originally produced by Sony TV. After the project was already picked up to pilot at CBS, Paramount, which is looking to enter the TV business, exercised an option to buy into the show, creating an odd pairing between former corporate siblings Paramount and CBS and toppers Les Moonves and Brad Gray. I hear the pilot will likely be shopped to other networks.
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That's a huge shock!
ReplyDeleteoh dear. this is totally unexpected. maybe for fx, tnt or usa network? i would assume ncis red and backstrom are shoe-ins now (or maybe there's hope for the advocates or the ordained :) )...
ReplyDeleteNot if I get to it first!
ReplyDeleteyou can't cancel something that's not on the air
ReplyDeleteIt takes a true talent to pre-cancel something.
ReplyDeleteThe NCIS spinoff's chances for a pickup just became that much better. Ugh.
ReplyDeleteSadly NCIS RED might get picked up.
ReplyDeleteI know, UGH.
ReplyDeleteI think this is CBS's biggest mistake ever! who really wants to watch another NCIS spinoff?
ReplyDeleteIf it didn't suck I would give it a chance but it doessuck.
ReplyDeletereally? how do you get to see pilot screeners before they are picked up? is it available online?
ReplyDeleteIt was a backdoor pilot. It aired as a 2 episode arc on NCIS: Los Angeles at the end of March. Episodes 4.18 and 4.19.
ReplyDeleteThank God this sounded positively awful... Just kidding, CBS may as well have the plague the way I avoid them.
ReplyDeleteWHOA!!! Okay that one I was actually not expecting....
ReplyDeleteI'm glad this wasn't picked up. I generally hate those reboots, and there's no way I would've checked this pilot.
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