Administrator Toups Posted January 26, 2011 Author Administrator Share Posted January 26, 2011 NBC: Brave New World The single-camera Brave New World, from Sony Pictures TV and Peter Tolan's Fedora Entertainment, is a workplace comedy that follows a group of unusual characters at Pilgrim Village, a theme park that specializes in recreations of New England in 1637. Tolan wrote the script and is exec producing with producing partner Michael Wimer. This is the second pilot order in as many days for Tolan whose comedy The Council of Dads got the green light at Fox yesterday. Word is that neither of them is in first position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted January 26, 2011 Author Administrator Share Posted January 26, 2011 NBC: Whitney The multi-camera Whitney Cummings project, from UMS and Scott Stuber Prods. will star Cummings. It focuses on a young couple and the ups and downs of a committed relationship in today’s complicated world. Cummings wrote the script and is co-executive produing, with Stuber, Quan Phung and Barry Katz exec producing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JackPeyton Posted January 27, 2011 Members Share Posted January 27, 2011 I doubt they would keep bitch in the title, but its a good name and sounds like it could be a good show based on casting and tone. I am so down for Charlies Angels and Pan Am! Sounds interesting. I would check this out, and i am not a fan of SMG... I think in the past 10 years I have watched about 5 shows on FOX, yet i would try all of these. The three dramas especially sound good. So, NBC should cancel just about everything and pick up everything. It really can not get MUCH worse than it is, and these all sound interesting to me. Could be cute; but this CW so i am sure it will be awful... and I will watch, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted January 27, 2011 Author Administrator Share Posted January 27, 2011 CBS: Untitled Peter Knight project CBS capped a busy pickup day at the broadcast networks with an order to a multicamera comedy from writer Peter Knight and Happy Madison. The project, produced by Sony Pictures TV, is a workplace ensemble featuring a group of assistants and junior executives as they juggle love, friendship, and the corporate ladder. Knight, who previously created Krod Mandooon and the Flaming Sword of Fire and co-created Big Wolf on Campus, is executive producing with Happy Madison's Doug Robinson. The ensemble comedy was originally set up at CBS last season. In October, Knight landed another multicamera comedy project, a family sitcom about a suburban dad, at CBS with a put pilot commitment. That project also hailed from Happy Madison and Sony TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted January 28, 2011 Author Administrator Share Posted January 28, 2011 ABC: My Frickin' Family Modern Family, meet Frickin' Family. ABC has handed out a pilot order to My Frickin' Family (previously Cowboys and Indians), a single-camera comedy from writer Erica Rivinoja who has worked on Grounded for Life and South Park. The project, from ABC Studios and Brillstein Entertainment Partners, centers on two young parents whose lives change after they have a baby and the four grandparents with very different cultural backgrounds descend upon their lives to fight for the soul of their grandchild. Brillstein's Peter Traugott is executive producing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OLTL_fan Posted January 28, 2011 Members Share Posted January 28, 2011 Wow, this would go perfect with Modern Family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted January 28, 2011 Author Administrator Share Posted January 28, 2011 CBS: How To Be a Gentleman CBS just snatched one from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia writer/co-executive producer/recurring guest star David Hornsby, which has been greenlighted to pilot. Hornsby wrote the project, How To Be a Gentleman, and is attached to star. Loosely based on John Bridges' book How To Be a Gentleman: A Contemporary Guide to Common Courtesy, the show is described as a buddy comedy about an uptight guy learning to live his life with the help of his old high school classmate. Hornsby will play one of the two leads in the project, whose format (multi- vs. single-camera) is yet to be determined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted January 28, 2011 Author Administrator Share Posted January 28, 2011 ABC: Bad Mom Additionally, the network has handed a pilot order to another single-camera family comedy, Bad Mom, from British writer-actress-comedienne Sharon Horgan and producer Aaron Kaplan. Bad Mom, from ABC Studios and Kapital Entertainment, centers on Julia, a single mom whose two kids had been raised largely by her mom. When her mom decides to get her life back, Julia has to do it alone. Horgan, co-creator/star of the BBC comedy series Pulling, is executive producing with Aaron Kaplan. She is also expected to have a supporting role on the show. This marks the fifth pilot order for Kaplan's 19-month old Kapital Entertainment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted January 28, 2011 Author Administrator Share Posted January 28, 2011 NBC: Grimm New broadcast entertainment chiefs Bob Greenblatt and Paul Lee are shaking things up this pilot season with some out-of-the-box pilot pickup choices. The latest is an order just made by Greenblatt at NBC for Grimm, described as a dark but fantastical cop drama about a world in which characters inspired by Grimm’s Fairy Tales exist. It comes from Angel co-creator David Greenwalt and the show's writer Jim Kouf. Greenblatt previously picked up to pilot Ron Moore's drama pilot 17th Precinct, a cop drama set in a town where magic rules over science, 1960s drama Playboy and the Broadway show-themed Smash, among others. Meanwhile, Lee has Poe, a crime procedural with Edgar Allan Poe set in 1840s Boston and 1960s drama pilot Pan Am. Grimm is being produced by UMS and Sean Hayes' Hazy Mills. Greenwalt and Kouf are executive producing with Hayes and his producing partner Todd Milliner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted January 29, 2011 Author Administrator Share Posted January 29, 2011 CBS: Untitled Colin Cowherd project CBS brass had sports on their minds today, with pilot orders to two sports-themed multicamera comedies - an untitled sitcom inspired by ESPN personality Colin Cowherd’s outspoken sports talk show, The Herd with Colin Cowherd....The untitled sports radio show was written by comedy veterans Bill Martin and Mike Schiff (Grounded for Life) who are executive producing, with Cowherd serving as producer. Also executive producing are Eric and Kim Tannenbaum, whose company co-produces the project with CBS TV Studios. This marks Eric and Kim Tannenbaum's first pilot order since they relaunched their Tannenbaum Co. banner last summer and set up shop at CBS TV Studios. They were previously partnered with Mitch Hurwitz at Sony Pictures TV for 3.5 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted January 29, 2011 Author Administrator Share Posted January 29, 2011 CBS: Home Game Home Game, a family show about a retired NFL player inspired by former NFL star Mark Schlereth and his family and executive produced by Mark Wahlberg. Home Game, from CBS TV Studios and Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson's Leverage, is about a retired NFL player who returns home to his wife and daughters. Warren Bell and Chris Nowak wrote the script. Bell, Wahlberg and Levinson executive produce, with Nowak serving as a co-executive producer and Peter Sussman as producer. Also serving as producers are NFL player-turned-sportscaster Mark Schlereth, his wife Lisa and his daughter, actress Alexandria Schlereth. Mark Schlereth is one of only 35 players to win a Super Bowl with two different teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted February 1, 2011 Author Administrator Share Posted February 1, 2011 ABC: Hallelujah ABC programming chief Paul Lee received [Marc] Cherry's script, the Desperate Housewives creator's first since the hit ABC dramedy, over the weekend and quickly moved with a pilot order. Hallelujah is set in the town of Hallelujah, Tenn., which is being torn apart by the forces of good and evil. Its fortunes change when a stranger comes to town, bringing justice, peace and possibly restoring faith. There is a music twist: the episodes of Hallelujah will be punctuated by songs sung by the gospel choir, which serves as a sort of Greek chorus. In addition to writing, Cherry is exec producing with Sabrina Wind. This marks the first production order for Cherry and Wind's new production banner Wind Prods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted February 1, 2011 Author Administrator Share Posted February 1, 2011 ABC: Identity Identity, written by Eagle Eye scribe John Glenn, is based on an ITV/ITV Studio format and is an action procedural centered on an elite police unit formed to combat the explosion of identity-related crime. Glenn and [Mark] Gordon are executive producing with Deb Spera and ITV's Paul Buccieri. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted February 1, 2011 Author Administrator Share Posted February 1, 2011 ABC: Once Upon a Time Once Upon a Time centers on a woman with a troubled past who is drawn into a small town in Maine where the magic and mystery of Fairy Tales just may be real. Lost co-creator/exec producer Damon Lindelof, who was involved in the development of the project alongside creators/executive producers [Edward] Kitsis & [Adam] Horowitz, is not attached to the pilot at this time. Kitsis & Horowitz recently wrote TRON: Legacy for Disney, supervised the TRON animated series for Disney XD and are awaiting green light at Universal for their Ouija script. Magical/fairy tale pilots are hot this season with Once Upon a Time joining NBC's Grimm and 17th Precinct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted February 1, 2011 Author Administrator Share Posted February 1, 2011 ABC: The River After a bidding war, The River, a horror drama in the mold of Paranormal Activity about a family who travels to the deep Amazon to locate and rescue their missing father, landed at ABC in September with a big put pilot commitment. Paranormal Activity writer-director Oren Peli co-wrote the first draft with Paranormal Activity 2 scribe Michael Perry. After ABC was not quite happy with the script, Heroes veteran and Kings creator Michael Green did a p.1 rewrite, which the network now greenlighted. Peli is executive producing with his producing partner Jason Blum and DreamWorks TV's Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey. This is the third pilot for DreamWorks TV this season, along with Smash at NBC and Locke & Key at Fox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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