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It’s officially a go for NBC’s comedy project from the Glee duo of Ryan Murphy and Allison Adler. The network has given a pilot order to The New Normal, a single-camera project co-written by Glee co-creator Murphy and Adler and to be directed by Murphy, which might be the last half-hour to snag a pickup at NBC this season. The Book Of Mormon star Andrew Rannells is set for one of 3 leads in the project, a heartwarming comedy about a blended family of a gay couple and the woman who becomes a surrogate to help them start a family. The comedy had been as close to a sure thing as it could be since NBC landed the pitch in a three-way bidding war with penalty said to be bigger than any other commitment for a half-hour project this season. Murphy and Adler were still writing the first draft when NBC moved on to hire a casting director to explore options for the 3 leads. Rannells was tapped as one of them last week. 20th Century Fox TV is producing, with Murphy, Adler and Ryan Murphy Prods.’ Dante Di Loreto executive producing. The New Normal was one of 2 comedy projects about a gay couple with kids that NBC put in development this season, along with a half-hour written by Peter Tolan starring Sean Hayes. I hear that one is not going forward. Meanwhile, the elementary school comedy from Alan Schoolcraft, Brent Simons and Will Gluck, which had a production commitment, has put preliminary casting on hold and is expected to be revisited in June. The order for The New Normal brings the number of NBC comedy pilots picked up so far to 13. NBC brass had said that they were looking to pick up 10-12 half-hour pilots, so this might be it for the network this year.

Normal i Ryan Murphy ne idu skupa. 

ABC naručio 3 komedije i 2 drame. 

ABC has given out 3 more pilot orders to comedy projects, How to Live With Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life, from Accidentally on Purpose creator Claudia Lonow; untitled buddy comedy from feature writer Adam Sztykiel (Due Date, Made of Honor); and And Only Fools And Horses, from Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley.

How to Live With Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life, a multi-camera/hybrid comedy produced by 20th Century Fox TV and studio-based Imagine Television, is in the mold of another 20th TV comedy, How I Met Your Mother – a multi-camera comedy that is shot without live audience and features more scenes than a regular sitcom — had a put pilot commitment. Based on Lonow’s own life, How to Live With Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life, which can certainly vie for the longest series title crown, is described as an outrageous comedy with lots of heart. It centers on Polly, a recently divorced, single mom, who moves in with her eccentric parents, Elaine and Max, a couple who’s full of life but knows no boundaries.
This is the second pilot order for Lonow, who also has multi-camera comedy Counter Culture at ABC, written and executive produced by writer-actress Stephnie Weir and executive produced by Lonow.

The untitled Adam Sztykiel project, also from 20th TV, has received a showrunner-contingent order. Based on Sztykiel’s own experiences in a long-distance relationship, the show follows a group of 24-year-old guys who move to a new city, one of them choosing to stay in relationship even though his girlfriend is now 2,000 miles away. It is described as a raw, hilarious peek behind the curtain of modern 20-something relationships. In addition to writing, Sztykiel is executive producing with Aaron Kaplan and Sean Perrone of Kaplan-Perrone.

Cragg and Bradley’s multi-camera And Only Fools And Horses, from ABC Studios, is based on the British format. It follows the misadventures of two streetwise brothers who scrape by selling unreliable goods believing that at any moment they could become millionaires.

After picking up 3 comedy pilots this afternoon, ABC just gave the green light to 2 drama pilots, Americana and Nashville, both primetime soaps. The latter pickup is contingent on the project becoming a co-production between Lionsgate TV, which developed it, and ABC Studios.

Americana, from ABC Studios and studio-based Mark Gordon Co., is a soap set around a legendary fashion designer and his family and business. It was written by Michael Seitzman (North Country) who will executive produce with Mark Gordon and Mark Gordon Co.’s Nicholas Pepper. This is the third pilot order so far this season for Gordon’s company, along with the untitled Roland Emmerich drama and comedy White Van Man, both at ABC.

Nashville hails from Oscar-winning writer Callie Khouri and TV producer/documentary filmmaker RJ Cutler. Thelma & Louise scribe Khouri wrote the project, a family soap set against the backdrop of the Nashville music scene that follows one star at her peak and one on the rise. Cutler (The September Issue) is set to direct. The two will executive produce with Nashville-based Gaylord Entertainment, which is being represented by SVP of Media and Entertainment Steve Buchanan. This marks Khouri’s return to ABC where she wrote, directed and executive produced the 2006 pilot Hollis & Rae. It is the second broadcast pilot order this season for leading cable producer Lionsgate TV, which had most active broadcast development season ever under new head of development Chris Selak. The company is also behind NBC’s comedy Next Caller Please. The pickups bring the number of drama pilots at ABC to 7, including supernatural dramas 666 Park Ave., fairytale Beauty and the Beast, the Shonda Rhimes-produced Gilded Lillys, Shawn Ryan’s Last Resort and the untitled Roland Emmerich project. The network is expected to greenlight more drama pilots on Monday.

Ovo je trenutno stanje s naručenim dramskim pilotima po mrežama. 

FOX:
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:
Ordered 9 so far total ordered should be 10->12

ANTICHRIST: drama about a young astrophysics student who learns his destiny lies not in science but somewhere between heaven and hell

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

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

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.

CBS:
Ordered 8 so far total ordered should be 8->9

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:
Ordered 5 so far total ordered should be 6->8

ARROW: new take on the dc comics hero, an archer who dresses like robin hood and invents trick arrows with various special functions

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:
Ordered 7 so far total ordered should be 10->12

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.

Meni tu malo šta zvuči dobro...Prošle godine bilo je mnogo zanimljivijih ideja.

Da li se zna šta je sa sa ova 4 ABC pilota koja su mi zvučala zanimljivo: The Nanny Diaries, Hallelujah, rimejk meksičke La Duena ( ) gde je trebala Eva Longoria da bude glavna i ona naslednica Desperate Housewives o sluškinjama sa Beverly Hillsa?

Ja isto nisam previše uzbuđen oko ove pilot sezone (jedino ABC ima nekoliko zanimljivih projekata), ali bit će još pilota, ne brini.  Ako ništa barem smo ove sezone dobili dosta dobrih serija.

Što se tiče ovih serija, to nisu bili naručeni piloti, samo scenariji, sad oni su pročitali su te scenarije i očito nisu zainteresirani pa neće snimati pilote. A možda ih naruče u zadnji čas jer ABC još traži 2-3 dramska pilota. 

Gorane, evo ipak su naručili Devious Maids. 

Desperate Housewives may be on its way out, but ABC is staying in business with Marc Cherry and his Devious Maids — one of but four drama pilots the network picked up on Tuesday.

Based loosely on the Mexican telenovela The Disorderly Maids Of The Neighborhood, Devious follows four ambitious housekeepers who work for the rich and famous in Beverly Hills. Cherry (pictured) will write and executive-produce the project, along with DH exec producer Sabrina Wind.

ABC’s other new drama pilot orders are:

* Gotham, from Michael Green (Everwood, Heroes), centers on a female cop who discovers that a magical world exists within New York City.

* Penoza follows the widow of an assassinated criminal who has to take over her husband’s role in a crime syndicate as a means of protecting her family. Melissa Rosenberg (Dexter, Twilight) is set to write and executive-produce the project.

* Zero Hour, from Paul Scheuring (Prison Break), tells the story of an editor at a skeptics magazine who is pulled into a bizarre conspiracy.

ABC’s previous pilot orders include a family comedy starring and exec-produced by Judy Greer, and a reimagining of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.

ABC has added two more comedy pilots to it slate — the Reba McEntire starrer Malibu Country and Prairie Dogs. Both are produced by ABC Studios. The orders bring the number of in-cycle ABC comedy pilots so far this season to 9.

Malibu Country is a multicamera comedy starring the country star/actress as Reba who, after her “good ol boy” rock star husband cheats on her and burns through most of their money, divorces him and moves her family from Nashville to the only asset she has left — a little house in Malibu. There she’ll try to reignite her own singing career and keep herself and her three kids from being corrupted by the materialistic and rarefied Malibu world she now calls home. The project, which had a put pilot commitment, reunites McEntire with key auspices of her successful 2001 the WB sitcom Reba. Former Reba showrunner Kevin Abbott wrote Malibu Country and executive produces with McEntire and former Reba executive producers McEntire, Mindy Schultheis & Michael Hanel. Also exec producing the sitcom are McEntire’s manager Narvel Blackstock; Dave Stewart, formerly of the Eurythmics; and Laura Ziskin Prods’ Pam Williams. ABC has been bringing back to the fold veteran TV comedy stars including Tim Allen, who stars in freshman comedy series Last Man Standing, executive produced/showrun by Abbott, and Kirstie Alley, who is toplining off-cycle pilot The Manzanis.

Prairie Dogs, written/executive produced by Jackie Filgo & Jeff Filgo, centers on Neil, an uncool cubicle worker (“prairie dog”) at one of the coolest companies in the world, who becomes the victim of identity theft. When he discovers the thief  has created a much more fulfilling, kick ass life with his identity than he ever has, he engages the charismatic conman to help him change his life.

Prairie Dogs zvuči kao iznenađujuće dobar i potencijalno zabavan koncept

Reba moves to Malibu. Komotno se tak može zvat serija - radnja je skoro identična njenoj prethodnoj seriji Iako bih radije da nju spare s LMS-om nego Kirstie Alley... Živciraju me svi ti koji odu na DWTS da bi revitalizirali karijeru i ne bi pali u zaborav. Ove sezone je to bila Ricki Lake... Sad nju svi uzdišu u nebesa kao da je uskrsnuli isus krist. 

Znači ako i naruče Munsterse, tek u miseasonu bi ih gledali?

TOUCH na Fox Life od 27.03 

Gossip Girl, Melrose Place and Supernatural alumna Katie Cassidy is back at the CW as the female lead in the network’s pilot Arrow. The Warner Bros TV-produced project, a modern retelling of the story of DC Comics character Green Arrow, stars Stephen Amell as the vigilante superhero who fights crime using archery, martial arts and technology under his secret identity as Oliver Queen, a wealthy playboy and billionaire industrialist-turned-outspoken politician in Star City. Cassidy will play Laurel, a young legal clinic attorney who shares a romantic past with Oliver. (In the comics, the character, Dinah “Laurel” Lance, has a superhero alter ego, Black Canary.) In Arrow, Cassidy joins Amell and Susanna Thompson, who was cast yesterday as Oliver’s mother, Moira Queen. David Nutter is directing the pilot, written/executive produced by Andrew Kreisberg, Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim. On the feature side, Cassidy, repped by CAA and Anonymous Content, was most recently seen in Monte Carlo.

 

Michael Urie castan u CBSovom multi-cam sitcom pilotu sa Sophiom Bush, kojeg rade Will & Graceovci

Ovo je vjerojatno prvi multi-cam sitcom kojem se nadam/veselim since... well, forever

Zašto? Mene bi brinulo da je bilo gdje drugdje CBS je jedini koji uspješno uzgaja multi-camove A i priča se da bi mogli proširiti blok četvrtkom na dva sata...

Sophia Bush bi možda mogla privući mlađu OTH ekipu.. vjerojatnost je možda mala, al eto.. možda se to i dogodi

Love her.  Marisol. 

Melrose Place alum Michael Rady is headed back to The CW in the medical-themed drama pilot First Cut, TVLine has learned exclusively.

The project, from former Gilmore Girls co-producer Jennie Snyder Urman, follows Emily, a newly-minted doctor as she discovers that life at the hospital where she works is no different than high school.

Rady, whose credits also include recurring gigs on Greek and (more recently) The Mentalist, will play a fellow doctor.

Also joining the cast is Kelly McCreary (White Collar) in the role of Tyra.

Urman penned the script and serves as an exec producer along with Dan Jinks (Pushing Daisies, Traveler).

Troje bivših Melrosovaca su castani u CW pilotima ove sezone. Plus još hrpa drugih glumaca iz otkazanih serija. CW stvarno voli reciklirati iste glumce.