Cancelled shows of Tomorrow: No Soap Operas Allowed

[Destructus86]

As I was looking for a new TV show to watch (having caught up on all my shows) I've come to one conclusion...






There are A LOT of crime shows.

 

[Sawyer]

Welcome to television.

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

As I was looking for a new TV show to watch (having caught up on all my shows) I've come to one conclusion...






There are A LOT of crime shows.

and a LOT of stupidly unfunny comedies and assinine reality shows...

 

[wiegeabo]

I believe it's been said that crime and medical shows are the #1 and #2 types of shows in the history of (US) television. And probably always will be.

 

[Lily Adler]

We need more legal dramas. There I said it. That's right America come and get me.

 

[wiegeabo]

We need more legal dramas. There I said it. That's right America come and get me.

*puts a call into David E Kelley*

 

[Lily Adler]

Wonder Woman becomes a lawyer. He shall call it "Amazon Justice" Thursdays on NBC.

 

[wiegeabo]

...I...I'd watch that...

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I want a reality-show with a team of unrealistic forensic detectives facing off against a team of unrealistic criminal lawyers. And it must have an obnoxious laugh-track.

I will call it 'The CSI Private Practice Special Cases Theory: Survivor Edition'

 

[wiegeabo]

...I...I'd watch that...

 

[Lily Adler]

As long as there's screaming and possibility of hair pulling and I'm talking about the men. Then I'm game.

 

[DrDoom]

Wonder Woman becomes a lawyer. He shall call it "Amazon Justice" Thursdays on NBC.

...I...I'd watch that...

 

[wiegeabo]

too bad the costume scenes never showed up in the episode

 

[Sawyer]

A Jessica Simpson sitcom.... Really?

NBC, sometimes you make it really hard to defend you.

 

[wiegeabo]

What's to defend?

There's Grimm, and Community, and...um....um...hmm...football for half a year...and...um...

 

[Sawyer]

Revolution, Parenthood, Parks and Rec and The Office, which has been surprisingly decent after last year's ****show. And 30 Rock for what little time it has left. Go On's alright too.

 

[wiegeabo]

Ok, I did forget Revolution.

 

[Marvolo]

What's to defend?

There's Grimm, and Community, and...um....um...hmm...football for half a year...and...um...

Revolution is the only worthwhile thing I can find on NBC.

 

[wiegeabo]

Revolution is the only worthwhile thing I can find on NBC.

It's just about the only thing.

 

[Sawyer]

Y'all need to watch Parenthood. That **** is golden.

 

[Prison Mike]

I haven't been watching Parenthood this season. I saw only the first 2 or 3 episodes only. I think I will catch up with it once the season is over. I'm starting to prefer watching shows when their seasons are completely done over waiting week after week.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I haven't watch Parenthood either. I kept hearing mixed things about to show.

By the way, remember to vote for the SHH! movie of the year guys in my sig!

 

[Lily Adler]

I lost track of Parenthood about two seasons ago.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/tnt...-pilot-starring-geena-davis-from-dean-devlin/

TNT Orders Bounty Hunter Drama Pilot Starring Geena Davis From Dean Devlin
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

EXCLUSIVE: Only days after TNT opted to end his drama series Leverage after five seasons, Dean Devlin is back at the cable network with a high-profile new drama project. TNT has greenlighted a pilot for an untitled quirky bounty hunter drama starring Geena Davis. The show is inspired by the real-life story of bounty hunter Mackenzie Green (watch a short film about her below). It will star the Oscar winner as an unconventional bail bondswoman and bounty hunter whose eccentric personality and unusual tactics give her an advantage in a tough and unpredictable business. Devlin is set to direct the pilot, produced by his independent company Electric Entertainment, Ternion Productions and 3 Arts. It was written by Scott Prendergast and Amy Berg who will serve as showrunners and will executive produce with Devlin, Ternion’s John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky and 3 Arts’ Tom Lassally and Michael Rotenberg. Davis serves as co-executive producer. In addition to Leverage, Devlin also executive produced TNT’s successful Librarian original movie trilogy. This marks TNT’s second drama pilot order in as many days, following the pickup of Steven Bochco’s Murder In The First yesterday.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/cbs...uced-hostages-to-pilot-toni-collette-to-star/

CBS Orders Jerry Bruckheimer-Produced ‘Hostages’ To Pilot, Toni Collette To Star
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

CBS has given a pilot pickup to Hostages, a drama from writer-director Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Warner Bros. TV, which has set Toni Collette as the lead.

Based on an Israeli format, the project, which had a pilot production commitment, centers on a family caught in the middle of a grand political conspiracy that will change their lives forever. Emmy winner Collette will play Ellen, a successful surgeon living in Washington, D.C. who is selected to operate on the President of the United States. She is thrust into the middle of a political conspiracy when her family is taken hostage, and it is up to her to save the lives of her husband and children.

Hostages was originally developed for Israel’s Channel 10 by Alon Aranya, Omri Givon and Rotem Shamir. The show has not been produced in Israel, but an U.S. adaptation written by Aranya found its way to Bruckheimer TV, which bought the rights and then brought in Nachmanoff (Traitor). Nachmanoff wrote the script and and will direct the pilot. He will also executive produce it with Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, Givon, Rotem Shamir and Chayim Sharir. Aranya and KristieAnne Reed serve as co-executive producers. Collette won an Emmy for her starring role on the dark Showtime comedy United States of Tara.

Hostages is among the slew of projects with big commitments this season that started casting before a formal pilot order. Another hourlong CBS project whose pickup is pending, Beverly Hills Cop, also cast its lead role with Brandan T. Johnson ahead of a pilot greenlight. This marks CBS’ first official drama pilot order. On the comedy side, the network has ordered two single-camera comedies, the Jim Gaffigan/Peter Tolan project starring Gaffigan and the Rob Greenberg project starring Tony Shalhoub, Kal Penn and Jerry O’Connell, as well as Chuck Lorre’s multi-camera Mom starring Anna Faris.

The one with Collette sounds potentially interesting. Pretty non-procedural for CBS.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/cbs-orders-pilots-from-greg-garcia-will-gluck-frank-marshall/

CBS Orders Pilots From Will Gluck, Frank Marshall And Two From Greg Garcia
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

CBS seems determined to get a comedy from My Name Is Earl and Raising Hope creator Greg Garcia on the air next season, handing out pilot orders to both of his scripts, one single- and one multi-camera. They were among four CBS pilots ordered tonight as the network kept its odd pilot season tradition of greenlighting a slew of pilots after hours on a Friday night. The other two pickups went to the Will Gluck-produced comedy The McCarthys, from writer Brian Gallivan; and The Ordained, a drama from a novice TV writer, Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, which is produced by Frank Marshall. These mark the first pilot orders for Garcia and Marshall in the first development cycles under their deals at CBS TV Studios, while The McCarthys hails from Sony TV where Gluck’s Olive Bridge Entertainment is based.

Garcia’s single-camera pilot Super Clyde centers on a meek, unassuming fast food worker who decides to become a super hero. The untitled multi-camera one centers on a recently divorced man whose life is complicated when his parents decide to move in with him. Both projects are written and executive produced by CAA-repped Garcia, who moved from long-time home 20th TV to CBS Studios last May in a very rich four-year overall deal. The double pickup almost assures Emmy winner Garcia’s return to CBS’ primetime seven years after the end of the network’s comedy series Yes, Dear, which he co-created. Garcia’s commitment to Fox’s Raising Hope, now in its third season, concludes at the end of this season. The family comedy has done well enough to earn another renewal but Garcia’s departure would certainly reflect on the show’s chances.

The single-camera The McCarthys landed at CBS in October in a competitive situation with a put pilot commitment. Written by Happy Endings staff writer Gallivan, it is loosely inspired by Gallivan’s life. The big family comedy revolves around an Irish-Catholic, sports-crazed Boston clan and the gay son whose greatest sin is not his sexuality but his desire to spend less time with his family. Gluck executive produces and Gallivan and Olive Bridge’s Richie Schwartz co-executive produce. CAA-repped Gallivan grew up in the Boston are where he taught middle school language arts before embarking on a comedy career at Boston’s Improv Asylum, Chicago’s Second City Chicago and now Upright Citizens Brigade.

The drama pilot, Cullen’s The Ordained, is about the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated. Cullen and Robert Zotnowski co-executive produce, while Marshall, and the Shuman Co.’s Larry Shuman and A.B. Fischer exec produce.

The back story of Cullen’s project is the kind aspiring writers dream of. Cullen, who has no TV credits, lives in New Jersey with her husband, a Broadway composer, and her two young kids. The journalist-turned-author had been pursuing TV writing career but hadn’t been able to get a New York-based staff job, so she had focused on development, landing two blind deals along the way. She originally took out The Ordained as a pitch last season but it didn’t sell. Cullen didn’t give up and wrote it up as a spec, with the essence of the lead character inspired by her late father, a former priest. After developing it with her management company, The Shuman Co, the spec was sent out to TV studios this past summer as a drama for basic cable. But at CBS TV Studios, head of drama Julie McNamara, who oversees both cable development, where the spec first landed, and broadcast, decided to give the script to CBS instead. It was quickly set up at the network, and Marshall was attached as an executive producer. The overall deal the Kennedy/Marshall Co. signed with CBS TV Studios in May included a pilot commitment at CBS, which has now been fulfilled with The Ordained. With Marshall partner Kathleen Kennedy leaving in June to run Lucasfilm, Marshall is spearheading Kennedy/Marshall’s TV efforts alongside the company’s head of TV development Zotnowski. UTA-repped Cullen’s upcoming novel, Pastors’ Wives, also carries the faith theme — it is set in a megachurch.

CBS, traditionally late to the pilot pickup party, has been unusually aggressive this year, especially on the comedy side where it has already ordered six pilots, putting a big emphasis on single-camera comedy. Four of the six pilots are single-camera, Super Clyde, The McCarthys, the Jim Gaffigan/Peter Tolan project starring Gaffigan and the Rob Greenberg project starring Tony Shalhoub, Kal Penn and Jerry O’Connell. On the multi-camera side, the network has Garcia’s untitled comedy as well as Chuck Lorre’s Mom starring Anna Faris. Drama-wise, The Ordained joins Hostages and the NCIS: LA planted spinoff.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/nbc-greenlights-three-comedy-pilots/

NBC Greenlights Three Comedy Pilots
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

NBC today added three more single-camera comedy pilots to its roster, including projects produced by Greg Daniels and the duo of Will Ferrell & Adam McKay. The Office boss Daniels and his Deedle Dee Prods have had a very active development season with a half-dozen projects landing at NBC and Fox. The one that got the nod at NBC today is an untitled half-hour written by The Office‘s Robert Padnick. The other two pilot slots went to Assistance, from writer Leslye Headland and Ferrell and McKay’s Gary Sanchez Prods, and Donor Party, from writer Alex Schemmer and producer Geyer Kosinski.

This marks Gary Sanchez’s first pilot order under the company’s deal with Universal TV where Deedle Dee is also based. All three pilots hail from NBC’s sister studio, with Lionsgate TV co-producing Donor Party. This is Lionsgate’s second consecutive comedy pilot at NBC, following last year’s Next Caller, which went to series but was ultimately shelved. The trio of pilots join recently picked up About A Boy, also single-camera, and multi-camera comedy Joe, Joe & Jane. Here are details about the newly picked up pilots:

UNTITLED GREG DANIELS/ROBERT PADNICK COMEDY

EP/W: Robert Padnick

EP: Greg Daniels, Tracy Katsky, Howard Klein

Deedle Dee Productions, 3 Arts Entertainment, Universal Television

Logline: Single camera. A look at the trials and tribulations of dating in your twenties as explored through a group of friends. The pilot focuses on bright eyed and vulnerable Matthew being pushed by his three best friends to get back on the dating horse.

NBC landed the project in October in a competitive situation with penalty. Padnick is a relatively recent addition to The Office, having joined the comedy developed and executive produced by Daniels in Season 6. The very first episode of the show he wrote, February 2011′s PDA, which was directed by Daniels, earned Padnick a WGA Award nomination earlier this year. He is with UTA and Price Management. Daniels is with WME.

ASSISTANCE

EP/W: Leslye Headland

EP: Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Chris Henchy, Jessica Elbaum, Owen Burke

Gary Sanchez Productions, Universal Television

Logline: Single camera. Fast-moving comedy centered on an idealistic “working girl” assistant who is pulled between her colleague (“work husband&#8221 and her real life fiance while trying to manage a demanding (translation: crazy) boss.

Assistance is based on a play by Headland, who wrote and directed the feature Bachelorette, also produced by Gary Sanchez. The project was an early sell, being set up at NBC shortly after Labor Day. Headland is repped by CAA and Caliber Media.

DONOR PARTY

EP/W: Alex Schemmer

EP: Geyer Kosinski

Lionsgate/Media Talent Group/Universal Television

Logline: Single camera. In “New Normal” fashion, this ensemble comedy is focused on an irresponsible man forced to grow up when he discovers he has children resulting from his days as a sperm donor. A new family unit develops when a single mom contacts him and he begins to have a relationship with her and the son he never knew he had.

CBS really is going after a surprising amount of single camera comedies. I guess they're attempting a bit of diversity next fall.