There have been a number of Pilots recently approved in the US.
They are as follows:
FOX
-Traffic Light from The Wedding Crashers co-writer Bob Fisher (Married with Children, The Trouble with Normal) revolves around three male friends in different stages of relationships.
- Breakout Kings from writers/executive producers Matt Olmstead and Nick Santora (Prison Break), a closed-ended procedural about a team of marshals and ex-cons who work together to apprehend criminals who break out of prison.
- Strange Brew, from Will & Grace creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick is set at a family-owned brewery.
- Nevermind Nirvana is described as Everybody Loves Raymond with Indian Americans. It is an ensemble multicamera comedy about two grown-up sons, their Indian immigrant parents and their friends, including one of the son’s Caucasian girlfriend.
- The Odds is a buddy cop show set in Las Vegas where the cops are just as outrageous as the crimes they solve.
- Happy Endings centres on a couple that breaks up at the altar, forcing them and their group of friends to figure out how to maintain their friendships after the split.
-Midland is a soap set against the backdrop of an oil business that centers on a polygamist living a double life.
- (Untitled) An Adam Goldberg single-camera comedy, from Sony Pictures TV / Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison, revolves around twentysomething geniuses who crack computer security systems.
ABC
- Matadors from Sony TV and writer/executive producer Jack Orman (ER), centres on two feuding families, one in the Chicago district attorney’s office and the other opposing them in the city’s most influential private law firm.
- True Blue is a soap described as The Big Chill set in a homicide squad. It centers on a group of San Francisco homicide detectives who reunite to solve the murder of one of their own and, in the process, revive old passions, rivalries and friendships.
- The Whole Truth from producer Jerry Bruckheimer chronicles the building of a case from the perspective of both the defense and prosecution.
- Cutthroat is a dramedy about an ambitious single mother who finds running her own international drug cartel is perfect training for navigating the cutthroat world of Beverly Hills high society.
- Generation Y is a documentary style drama that follows a group of people in the present with flashbacks to 10 years ago when they were in their senior year of high school.
- Off the Map is executive produced by Shonda Rhimes (Grey’s Anatomy) and revolves around three doctors, each anxious for a fresh start. They leave the comfort of the States to work at an isolated tropical clinic, where they face both exotic and unusual medical challenges as well as personal ones.
- Body of Evidence is a procedural that centers on Megan Hunt, a former neurosurgeon-turned-medical examiner who brings a unique and crime-solving perspective to the ME’s office that often puts her at odds with her superiors.
NBC
- The Strip, from Reno 911 co-creators/stars Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, centres on a former child star (Lennon) who now owns a Hooters-type restaurant in a strip mall on the outskirts of Vegas.
AMC
- Walking Dead, chronicles the months and years following a zombie apocalypse and focuses on a group of survivors, led by policeman Rick Grimes, who travels in search of a secure home. Frank Darabont is writer, director and executive producer of the project.
- The Killing, based on the Danish series Forbrydelsen, chronicles the investigation of a young girl’s murder through the perspective of the police, the victim’s family and the mayor’s office.
WARNER BROS
- Edgar Floats centres on a police psychologist who becomes a bounty hunter.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Wow what a bucket of cr@p, our networks should want all of these!
I want to see Walking Dead so so so much =D
@ Justin. Networks generally pick up a lot of pilots, but they usually develop less than half into full series that make it to air.
Hmm plenty of pilots you can tell aren’t going to be picked up.
Speaking of which what’s happening with Romantically Challenged with Alyssa Milano and… Josh Lawson *yuck* haha
There are always other pilots approved…. the last week or so was particularly prolific.
Can’t say I’m too enthused about any of those.
There was also word that the Criminal Minds spin off was a goer, due to begin production in February.
why have fox asked for so many pilots? They have no room in their schedule!
Wasn’t ‘Traffic light’ made a few years ago and titled ‘Rules of Engagement’?
david there is also “This Little Piggy” and “Nathan vs. Nurture” from NBC
i thought the titles were too appealing to look past
variety.com/article/VR1118014181.html?categoryid=1300&cs=1
None of those really sound very good, they will probably do well.
Walking Dead! Coolness!
I wonder if it will be in black and white. Probably not.
Wow Out of 19 pilots only 2 sound remotely interesting being “The Strip” from NBC – which could easily suck IMO. And AMC’s Walking Dead sounds promising especially with Frant Darbont behind it.
ABC’s cutthroat sound likes a Weeds rip-off but won’t be as good with network restrictions in place and Off The Map is Greys Anatomy in a different setting.
Fox has nothing of interest in that list.