Cancelled shows of Tomorrow: No Soap Operas Allowed

[Sawyer]

Joe Schmoe is coming back. In the land of endlessly ****ty reality TV, this actually pleases me.

 

[Sawyer]

Deadline:

ABC Nabs Sera Gamble/Greg Berlanti Medical Drama With Penalty
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

EXCLUSIVE: In Berlanti Prods.’ first sale this development season, the Warner Bros. TV-based company has set up a medical drama at ABC. The project, written/executive produced by former Supernatural co-showrunner Sera Gamble and executive produced by Greg Berlanti, centers on world-renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Steven Saylor who becomes a medical anomaly himself after suffering a traumatic brain injury. He’s forced to re-specialize as an internist at the hospital where he was once king. The untitled drama, produced by Berlanti Prods. and WBTV, has received a script commitment with penalty. Melissa Kellner Berman co-executive produces.

This marks Berlanti’s first project at ABC since he left sister studio ABC Studios for Warner Bros. in June 2011. During his five-year stint at ABC Studios, Berlanti shepherded a number of series — all for ABC — including Brother & Sisters, Dirty Sexy Money, No Ordinary Family and another drama with a male protagonist who had a brain issue, Eli Stone. I hear Berlanti and ABC had been looking to collaborate again and have now found a project to do it.

In its first development cycle at Warner Bros. TV, Berlanti Prods. last year sold five broadcast projects to CBS, Fox, NBC and the CW, four of which, CBS drama Golden Boy and comedy Oh *****, It’s You, Fox drama Guilty and CW drama Arrow were picked up to pilot. Two, Golden Boy and Arrow, went to series, with Guilty remaining in contention for next fall. (Additionally, WME-repped Berlanti has series Political Animals on USA Network.) UTA-repped Gamble stepped down as executive producer/co-showrunner of Supernatural in April when she opted not to renew her contract in order to focus on development for Supernatural producer Warner Bros. TV.

I was hoping Gamble's post-Supernatural project would sound a bit more thrilling, but as it is, that doesn't sound too bad for a medical drama on ABC. Especially when Grey's Anatomy really is just Dr. Sexy M.D.

 

[Shifty]

Deadline:

AMC Orders Taxidermy & Venice Beach Unscripted Series
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

AMC continues to expand its reality footprint by picking up two new unscripted series — Untitled Taxidermy Series and Venice Beach Freakshow (working title). Both series have been picked up for 8 episodes to premiere in first quarter of 2013. They join Kevin Smith’s Comic Book Men and Talking Dead, which have been renewed for second seasons, and the network’s most recent unscripted series, Small Town Security, now on the air. Additionally, AMC announced that The Pitch, its unscripted series chronicling advertising agencies as they prepare campaigns to try and win a major new account, which recently finished its freshman run, is being picked up for a second cycle. While the focus has been on AMC’s strong scripted lineup, the cable network for the past couple of years has quietly been building a reality roster too and actually has more unscripted than scripted series at its disposal right now.

The Taxidermy Series, from Go Go Luckey Entertainment (Laguna Beach), is a hosted competition featuring different contestants each week who create an ultimate piece of artwork showcasing the craft of taxidermy. Gary Auerbach, Julie Auerbach, Tina Gazzerro, and Henry Capanna executive produce. This marks the fourth taxidermy TV series to get a green light in the past year following such shows on Discovery, History and Animal Planet.

Venice Beach Freakshow is a family drama that centers on former music producer Todd Ray as he pursues his dream to own and operate his own ‘Freakshow’ on the famed boardwalk in Venice Beach, CA. The series is executive produced by Todd Ray from Living Wonders and Greg Johnston from Endemol USA.

Surprised The Pitch is back for a second season, it had low numbers for their Monday night timeslot and then was quickly moved to Sundays after Mad Men. Guess they'll be paired together once again.

AMC is too slow to capitalize on The Walking Dead's gigantic success and has to settle for cheap reality shows. They have two pilots that will film soon but they won't be on the air in time for February and will have one premiere next fall with TWD season four!

The 8 episode order likely means for February

9/8c The Walking Dead
10/9c Talking Dead/Comic Book Men
11/10c Untitled Taxidermy Series/Venice Beach Freakshow
12/11c The Walking Dead encore

 

[Rowsdower!]

They should just call the show Untitled Taxidermy Series. I would watch it just for that.

 

[Sawyer]

Deadline:

Cop Comedy From Michael Schur & Dan Goor Sparks Bidding
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

There is a heatwave in Hollywood these days, and it’s not just the outside temperatures. After a sluggish start of the buying season, comedies are getting red-hot with another bidding war. A pitch from the Parks & Recreation duo of co-creator/exec producer/showrunner Michael Schur and co-executive producer Dan Goor was just taken out to the four major broadcast networks, and all are pursuing it. The untitled project, which Schur and Goor will co-write together, is a single-camera comedy about a diverse group of detectives in a precinct at the very edge of New York City. Schur and Goor are executive producing for Universal Television. I hear the NBC-affiliated studio made a strategic decision to take the pitch out wide. It recently did the same with a Jason Katims/Sarah Watson medical drama, which landed at Fox after fielding interest from multiple networks.

Comedy-wise, the Schur-Goor project joins the Sony TV comedy pitch starring Michael J. Fox and produced by Will Gluck, which also sparked a bidding frenzy. NBC appears to be a frontrunner to land the project with a big commitment but the dust has not yet settled. Sony TV has another comedy with talent attached, a Tad Quill firefighter project starring David Walton, which also in the midst of competitive situation.

So.... Parks and Rec, but with cops?

I'm in.

 

[Shifty]

Deadline:

Cop Comedy From Michael Schur & Dan Goor Sparks Bidding
By NELLIE ANDREEVA
There is a heatwave in Hollywood these days, and it’s not just the outside temperatures. After a sluggish start of the buying season, comedies are getting red-hot with another bidding war. A pitch from the Parks & Recreation duo of co-creator/exec producer/showrunner Michael Schur and co-executive producer Dan Goor was just taken out to the four major broadcast networks, and all are pursuing it. The untitled project, which Schur and Goor will co-write together, is a single-camera comedy about a diverse group of detectives in a precinct at the very edge of New York City. Schur and Goor are executive producing for Universal Television. I hear the NBC-affiliated studio made a strategic decision to take the pitch out wide. It recently did the same with a Jason Katims/Sarah Watson medical drama, which landed at Fox after fielding interest from multiple networks.

Comedy-wise, the Schur-Goor project joins the Sony TV comedy pitch starring Michael J. Fox and produced by Will Gluck, which also sparked a bidding frenzy. NBC appears to be a frontrunner to land the project with a big commitment but the dust has not yet settled. Sony TV has another comedy with talent attached, a Tad Quill firefighter project starring David Walton, which also in the midst of competitive situation.

With comedy the hottest genre in TV right now, why not pitch? Parks & Rec was barely renewed. Its not a mockumentary which Schur excelled at writing for on The Office and Parks.

 

[Prison Mike]

So do you guy just keep clicking the refresh button on the deadline website waiting for tv news to pop up? I've been wondering that for a while now...

 

[Sawyer]

I'm Nikki Finke.

 

[Shifty]

So do you guy just keep clicking the refresh button on the deadline website waiting for tv news to pop up? I've been wondering that for a while now...

I see it pop up on Twitter. I'm on there for most of what Deadline reports, not just TV deals as Deadline/TVLine hired the best from their competitors.

I'm Nikki Finke.

How's your cats?

 

[Sawyer]

How's your cats?

 

[Prison Mike]

I'm Nikki Finke.

 

[kane9321]

If Animal Hospital lasts more than a few episodes I'll eat a hat.

If this lasts more than 6 episodes I'll eat a bar of soap

 

[chaseter]

It may get a whole season like that awful Indian phone show but one is all.

 

[Shifty]

Likely the first casualty of the new TV season.

TVByTheNumbers:

The second season premiere of Boss on Starz drew just 317,000 average viewers at 9pm, less than half the 659,000 that watched the first season premiere in October, 2011. The weekend total viewership for Boss was 950,000 down from 1.1 million for the first season premiere.

Starz is cancelling their biggest hit in Spartacus and they have nothing that comes close to pulling in the ratings it does. Spartacus and Boss had similar numbers when they started out but only Sparacus grew to have more than a million viewers on its initial broadcast.

 

[Sawyer]

Deadline:

Fox Lands Michael Schur/Dan Goor Cop Comedy With Pilot Production Commitment
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

In a very competitive situation that went down to the wire, Fox has nabbed a comedy pitch from the Parks & Recreation duo of co-creator/exec producer/showrunner Michael Schur and co-executive producer Dan Goor with a pilot production commitment. The single-camera comedy, from Universal Television and 3 Arts Entertainment, is about a diverse group of detectives in a precinct at the very edge of New York City. Schur and Goor will co-write the script and executive produce the project with 3 Arts’ David Miner. For Schur, the project falls under the new overall deal he just signed with Universal TV.

From the get go, the NBC-affiliated studio made a strategic decision to take the pitch out wide. The show was pitched to the four major broadcast networks who all pursued it. Uni TV recently used the same strategy with a Jason Katims/Sarah Watson medical drama pitch, which also landed at Fox after fielding interest from multiple networks. In addition to the two projects in development, Universal TV has a high-profile new series on Fox, comedy The Mindy Project. The two companies have a long-standing relationship through veteran Fox drama House, which was produced by Uni TV.

The Schur/Goor project was one of three comedy pitches that sparked bidding wars last week. Sony TV’s family comedy starring Michael J. Fox and co-created/produced by Will Gluck landed at NBC with a whopping 22-episode on-air commitment, while another Sony TV pitch, a Tad Quill firefighter project starring David Walton, went to CBS with a put pilot commitment.

 

[Sawyer]

Deadline:

David Mamet To Reboot ‘Have Gun – Will Travel’ For CBS
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

CBS has put in development Have Gun – Will Travel, a reboot of the 1957 CBS Western drama, to be penned by writer/director/playwright David Mamet. Mamet is set to direct the potential pilot, which will be produced by CBS TV Studios. He is executive producing with agent-turned-producer Elliott Webb.

Have Gun – Will Travel, whose title plays on a line commonly used in personal ads, aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963 and also spawned a successful radio version. Its producers included Frank Pierson, and one of its main writers was Gene Roddenberry who would go on to create Star Trek. Created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow, Have Gun starred Richard Boone as Paladin, a top-notch gunfighter who preferred to settle problems without violence but stood his ground when provoked. (Watch the opening sequence below)

Have Gun – Will Travel brings Oscar-nominated writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Mamet back to CBS where he created his only TV series to date, military drama The Unit, which ran for four seasons. ICM Partners-repped Mamet most recently wrote the upcoming HBO Phil Spector movie starring Al Pacino and Helen Mirren. This is the second classic series CBS is looking to reboot along with The Brady Bunch, whose revamp is produced by Vince Vaughn.

This will be the third season in a row that CBS tries to update an old western. I still wish Ron Moore's Wild Wild West would've happened. Restore a little dignity to it, since the Will Smith movie effectively **** all over it.

 

[Sawyer]

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I think we can all agree... this needs to make a comeback.

 

[Lily Adler]

Only if it was a Seth Rogan parody film version.

 

[Shifty]

ENDING IN 2013 - confirmed to air their last episode next year
Spartacus
Gossip Girl
The Big C
30 Rock
Fringe
The Office
Breaking Bad
Dexter


ON THE BUBBLE - either have low ratings or older show with no renewal past 2013
Private Practice
Whitney
Community
CSI: NY
Rules of Engagement
The Good Wife
Touch
The Cleveland Show
American Dad!
90210
Supernatural
Leverage
Southland
Enlightened
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Futurama
Cougar Town

 

[wiegeabo]

I'll be sad if Leverage doesn't get another season, but it's had a good run. As have a couple of others i watch.

 

[SuperBatman]

I'm really going to miss Breaking Bad it was an awesome show. Oh well have to look for something else to watch on Sundays. I already Converted to Once Upon a Time. Revenge will be on Sundays and I might check out 666 so I guess that will fill the void.

 

[Hellion]

American Dad's been on and off the bubble for a while, its shame if its not renewed past the season...I think its the only decent MacFarlane cartoon...

 

[Rowsdower!]

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is in trouble? WTF?

 

[DrDoom]

Its not in trouble, it's contract just ends this year. They just have to write up another

 

[Dr. Evil]

ENDING IN 2013 - confirmed to air their last episode next year
Spartacus
Gossip Girl
The Big C
30 Rock
Fringe
The Office
Breaking Bad
Dexter


ON THE BUBBLE - either have low ratings or older show with no renewal past 2013
Private Practice
Whitney
Community
CSI: NY
Rules of Engagement
The Good Wife
Touch
The Cleveland Show
American Dad!
90210
Supernatural
Leverage
Southland
Enlightened
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Futurama
Cougar Town

I think that it's been confirmed that this will be the final season of Private Practice.