Cancelled shows of Tomorrow: No Soap Operas Allowed

[Sawyer]

Whitney's dead. As it should be.

 

[Destructus86]

Netflix is looking to revive another show....Jericho.

I thought the series had lots of potential....but it didn't get good until near the end when they finally started to go out of town more.

 

[Shifty]

TNT Picks Up David E. Kelley/Sanjay Gupta Medical Pilot ‘Monday Mornings’ To Series
By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 8, 2012 @ 10:34am PDT

TNT has given a series order to Monday Mornings (formerly Chelsea General), a medical drama pilot from Emmy-winning writer-producer David E. Kelley and practicing neurosurgeon/CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, on whose book the project is based. The cable network has picked up 10 episodes for a premiere in summer 2013. The series, starring Ving Rhames and Alfred Molina, will air on TNT and Turner networks around the world. Monday Mornings was one of three pilots in contention for a series pickup heading into TNT’s upfront presentation next week. TNT yesterday passed on one, Western Tin Star, while the other, search-and-rescue procedural Scent Of The Missing, remains in contention. Word is TNT plans to shoot a few more procedural pilots and will make a decision after seeing all of them. The network applied similar strategy to Tin Star, which was shot last fall but held back to screen with the other two pilots.

Meanwhile, Frank Darabont’s period pilot L.A. Noir is still filming. It will be evaluated on its own as a potential Sunday genre show for the network, which airs sci-fi drama Falling Skies on the night, and not with Scent and the group of procedural pilots TNT plans to order.

Monday Mornings, produced by TNT Originals and David E. Kelley Prods, stars Rhames, Molina, Jamie Bamber, Jennifer Finnigan, Bill Irwin, Keong Sim, Sarayu Rao, and Emily Swallow. “Monday Mornings is a superb drama brought to life with passion by a gifted ensemble cast and some of the best creative minds working in television today,” said TNT’s head of programming Michael Wright. “Set at the fictional Chelsea General Hospital in Portland, Ore., Monday Mornings follows the lives of doctors as they push the limits of their abilities and confront their personal and professional failings. The title refers to the hospital’s weekly morbidity and mortality conference, when doctors gather with their peers for a confidential review of complications and errors in patient care. Kelley and Gupta serve as executive producers on the series. Kelley penned the pilot episode, which was directed and executive produced by Bill D’Elia.

 

[wiegeabo]

I thought the series had lots of potential....but it didn't get good until near the end when they finally started to go out of town more.

I thought it was a stupid idea for a show, but watched the fourth episode one night because nothing else was on.

Was instantly hooked.

 

[Sawyer]

Deadline:

NBC Renews ‘Law & Order: SVU’, Picks Up ‘Chicago Fire’, Inks New Deal With Dick Wolf
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

I’ve learned that NBC has closed a deal to renew Dick Wolf‘s veteran procedural Law & Order: SVU for a 14th season. Additionally, the network has given a series order to the Wolf-produced firefighter drama pilot Chicago Fire. And I also hear the producer has signed a new deal with NBC to stay at his long-time home, where he also is producing a new military competition reality series with Mark Burnett.

Chicago Fire, from Universal Television and Wolf Films, stars House‘s Jesse Spencer and is described as a action-driven drama exploring the complex and heroic men and women of the Chicago Fire Department. Derek Haas and Michael Brandt wrote the script and are executive producing with Wolf and his executives Danielle Gelber and Peter Jankowski. Eamonn Walker, Taylor Kinney, Monica Raymund, David Eigenberg, Charlie Barnett, Lauren German, Teri Reeves and Merle Dandridge co-star. Wolf has been based at NBC since the 2004 NBC-Universal merger. Before that, he was based at Universal’s TV studio, where the Law & Order franchise originated. This is his first renewal since NBCUni was taken over by Comcast last year.

That makes two drama pilots NBC has picked up now, not including Hannibal, which was straight to series.

 

[Shifty]

Deadline:

That makes two drama pilots NBC has picked up now, not including Hannibal, which was straight to series.

Hannibal would be a good pairing with Grimm on Fridays and could probably do decent numbers to survive on that night. They just need to get moving because they haven't even found their Hannibal. Plus they have Mockingbird Lane for mid-season.

The race is on for the first pirate drama and despite FX and Fox getting a head start it looks like NBC will win it.

NBC Nears Series Order To Pirate Drama To Be Financed by Reliance,
Written By Neil Cross And Produced By Parkes/MacDonald
By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday May 9, 2012 @ 11:23am PDT

EXCLUSIVE UPDATED: So far, Reliance has been known in Hollywood for its film investments, primarily as financier of Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Studios. Now the Indian media giant is venturing into American television, backing a new 10-episode pirate series for NBC eyed for a March premiere, which will likely be announced at the network’s upfront presentation Monday. I’ve learned that NBC is finalizing a deal for a straight-to-series order to the period drama, which will be produced by Georgeville Television, an independent TV studio formed recently by producer and former Heyday Films executive Marc Rosen (Harry Potter), and Motion Picture Capital, the finance arm of Reliance Entertainment. GVTV has the capability to fully-finance major network and cable scripted series, with Republic Of Pirates being its first project.

The project, tentatively titled Republic of Pirates, was originally set up at NBC last June under Parkes/MacDonald Prods.’ first-look deal with the network. It became the first drama buy for then-new NBC chief Bob Greenblatt and his team last summer, with Jim Hart and Amanda Wells brought in to write it. Cross will now write the project under his recently inked overall deal with Universal TV.

The series is based on the book The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard. Set during the 10-year “Golden Age of Piracy” from 1715 to 1725, it follows some of the world’s most notorious pirates as they forge their own rogue nation, called New Providence, which became the first democracy in the Americas.

NBC’s pending green light to Republic of Pirates comes on the heels of Starz’s straight-to-series order to Black Sails, a pirate adventure drama executive produced by Michael Bay and created by Jon Steinberg and Robert Levine. The eight-episode drama, which is already in pre-production, is set 20 years before the events in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island and chronicles the adventures of Captain Flint and his men.

Additionally, FX is developing Port Royal, produced by Graham King and Gale Anne Hurd. The fourth pirate-themed drama which had been percolating, Ridley and Tony Scott’s limited series Pyrates, is no longer in the running at Fox. When Reublic of Pirates was set up at NBC last June, Parkes/MacDonald’s president of television Ted Gold stressed to me a big distinction between it and the other pirate projects, Gold said. (Black Sails had not been announced at the time.) “The ‘pirates’ of all the other shows we know of — the ones who lived in the time of Ridley’s show and in the time of Port Royal -- were actually ‘privateers,’ private sailors and ships that were authorized by their governments to attack foreign shipping during wartime,” he said. “Our pirates are not ‘privateers’ working on behalf of other governments. They are disenfranchised or unemployed sailors who are completely self-governing and work on behalf or their own pirate nation.”

The Reliance deal would introduce a new production model for the U.S. broadcast networks, which have been looking for ways to add more original series at a lower cost. Besides its partnership with DreamWorks, for which it recently provided a second round of limited financing, Reliance made a splash a few years ago with a slew of announcements of first-look feature deals with star-driven companies headed by the likes of Brett Ratner, Jay Roach, Jim Carrey, Brad Pitt and Nicolas Cage. No major projects have come out of those pacts.

 

[Sawyer]

Deadline:

UPDATE: Fox Picks Up Mindy Kaling, ‘Ned Fox’ & ‘Goodwin Games’ Comedies
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

Fox just kicked off its new series pickup action with three single-camera comedy orders to the Mindy Kaling project, Ned Fox is My Manny and Goodwin Games. The Mindy Kaling single-camera comedy stars her as a Young Bridget-Jones type doctor trying to navigate both her personal and professional lives. The pickup continues Universal TV’s presence on Fox — the studio also produces the network’s departing drama House. However, House was sold by Universal before its merger with NBC, so this marks the first series order for the recently-revamped Universal TV at Fox or any non-NBC network.

Dana Fox’s Ned Fox Is My Manny hails from 20th TV and Chernin Entertainment. The pilot, directed by Jake Kasdan, centers on a free spirited guy (Nat Faxon) who, under the guise of being his niece’s nanny, moves in with his type “A,” tightly wound sister (Dakota Johnson) and in the process will help her re-enter the world.

Goodwin Games, from How I Met Your Mother‘s Carter Bays, Craig Thomas and Chris Harris, is also from 20th TV. It is high-concept family comedy about a father who leaves his fortune to his 3 children only if they agree to his terms. Becki Newton, Scott Foley, Felisha Terrell and Jake Lacey star.

 

[Sawyer]

Fox has picked up two more...

UPDATE 5:30 PM: Here it is — the series pickup of the heavily favored Kevin Williamson drama pilot starring Kevin Bacon. Because Bacon committed to only doing 15 episodes a season, the order to the Kevin Williamson’s project will likely be for midseason. The project, from Warner Bros TV, is a thriller about ex-FBI agent Ryan Hardy (Bacon) who leads the search to catch diabolical serial killer Joe Carroll (James Purefoy) who has created a cult of serial killers.

UPDATE 5:15 PM: Fox started its new drama series pickups with the Josh Berman/Robert Wright drama starring Jordana Spiro as a young female thoracic surgeon with Bridgeport roots who juggles two worlds as she juggles her career and her lifelong debt to the South Chicago mob. The series, now titled The Mob Doctor, is produced by Sony TV and executive produced by Berman, Wright and Michael Dinner who directed the pilot. Still waiting to get the confirmation on the Kevin Williamson powerhouse drama pilot, with Guilty also in strong contention.

 

[Hush]

Kevin Bacon is a win for me.

 

[Sawyer]

I was already all in when I heard the idea for the show and that Williamson was behind it.

Getting Bacon as the lead was just the icing on the cake.

 

[Jordacar]

I guess Williamson will be freed up since "Secret Circle" probably won't be returning.

 

[Sawyer]

I don't think he had a particularly large part to play in TSC's writing process anyway.... probably the reason that the quality has been swiftly falling.

 

[Shifty]

They're will be about 40ish new shows announced next week by the four networks and about 5-10 could survive their first season and be renewed. Few shows that premiered in 2010-11 made it to a second season and Harry's Law probably won't get a third. This year ABC could have one of their best years with 7 new shows returning. They're not big hits but to have a 50% success rate is amazing. They're still likely going to drop to 4th place in terms of overall ratings because NBC had the Super Bowl (all networks do it) added to their totals.

2010-2011 Shows Returning This Fall

ABC
Happy Endings (mid-season)

CBS
Hawaii Five-0
Mike & Molly

NBC
The Voice

Fox
Bob's Burgers
Raising Hope

The CW
not confirmed:
Nikita

2011-2012 Shows Returning

ABC
not confirmed but likely:
Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
GCB
Last Man Standing
Once Upon a Time
Revenge
Scandal
Suburgatory

CBS
2 Broke Girls
Person of Interest
Rob (50/50 if returning)

NBC
confirmed:
Smash
Grimm
still waiting:
Are You There, Chelsea?
Betty White's Off Their Rockers
Escape Routes
Fashion Star
Up All Night
Whitney

Fox
New Girl
The X-Factor
Touch

The CW
not confirmed
Hart Of Dixie
The Secret Circle

 

[Dr. Evil]

Hawaii Five-O has already surpassed the combined episode totals of Steve O'Loughlin's two other shows.

 

[Prison Mike]

You mean Alex O'Loughlin

 

[Wolfwood]

I was hoping the "The Following" would wind up on FX. Fox tends to be a bit shaky.

 

[Jordacar]

You mean Alex O'Loughlin

What he said. "Steve" is the character he plays.

 

[Dr. Evil]

You mean Alex O'Loughlin

Yeah. I was combining the actor with his character.

 

[Sawyer]

TV Line:

Fall TV: NBC Picks Up Jekyll & Hyde-Like Medical Drama and Revengeful Sudser

NBC has added to its new drama roster for the 2012-13 TV season by ordering Do No Harm and Infamous (fka Notorious) to series.

Do No Harm is a high-concept medical drama revolving around a brilliant neurosurgeon (Rescue Me‘s Steven Pasquale) who wrestles with a dangerous Jekyll & Hyde-like alter-ego that threatens to wreak havoc on his personal and professional life. The cast also includes Alana de la Garza (Law & Order), Phylicia Rashad (The Cosby Show) and Mousa Kraish.

Infamous, meanwhile, is described as an opulent soap in which a female detective (Californication‘s Meagan Good) returns undercover to the wealthy family she grew up in – as the maid’s daughter – to solve the murder of the notorious heiress who was once her closest friend. Victor Garber (Alias), Neil Jackson (Make It or Break It), Katherine LaNasa (Big Love) and Laz Alonso (Breakout Kings) round out that cast.

In addition to a slew of new comedy orders, NBC’s previously greenlit for fall Hannibal, based on the Thomas Harris’ novels and starring Hugh Dancy as FBI agent Will Graham, the J.J. Abrams-Eric Kripke thriller Revolution and Chicago Fire.

Among returning series, NBC thus far has officially renewed Smash, Grimm, 30 Rock (for a final season), Parenthood and Law & Order: SVU.

Infamous sounds like a Revenge rip-off, but Do No Harm might be interesting. Particularly seeing Pasquale in a lead role.

That pic, however, looks hilariously alot like Ringer.

 

[MadVillainy]

ANy word on Living Loaded?

 

[Matt]

Ok, so I summarized NBC's orders for next season in another thread and I figured I'd share it here to make sure I didn't miss anything:


- A Jekyll and Hyde adaptation which is basically the same thing that they tried three years ago with My Own Worst Enemy only a lot less intriguing and with much lower quality actors this time around.

- A rip-off of Revenge.

- A fire house drama that makes JAG look exciting.

- An expensive, post-apocalyptic serialized drama which will probably be canceled before sweeps despite the big names behind it.

- A Modern Family rip-off (which if the promo shots are any indication, features pregnant gay men....yep middle America is going to eat that up).

- A sitcom starring Anne Heche who becomes a prophet for God and has wacky adventures trying to convert her stoner daughter and womanizing husband (Sheesh NBC, between this and the Modern Family rip-off, it is like you picked the brains of every person in the fly over states and gave them exactly what they've been asking for)

- Perhaps a bit ironically, a Community rip-off starring Matthew Perry and instead of being set in a community college it is being set in....wait for it..........a community center! Inspired!

- I'm not making this one up....a comedy that is essentially House/Becker meets Dr. Dolittle, complete with a chimpanzee medical assistant.

- A sitcom about the first family (worked so well with DAG and That's My Bush). Oh and to make it even better....it is written by a former White House speech writer. Because they're known for being so damn funny.

- A multi-camera, laugh tracked sitcom about single fathers. It's predictably diverse cast features Anthony Anderson. This one will probably last the longest.

- The Munsters meets Twilight which will be lucky to make it past sweeps.

- A Hannibal Lecter series that NBC is going to have no choice but to keep around until May.

Did I miss anything? Assuming that I did not....bravo NBC. You have out done yourselves with **** this year. You have set a new standard for bad orders. Well done.

 

[Sawyer]

You're in haters gonna hate mode early this year, Matt.

 

[Matt]

It is NBC. No one cares enough to hate.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I didn't watch Revenge so that one that is a rip off sounds interesting to me, and JAG was great to bite me Matthew.

 

[Sawyer]

Still, you're making snap judgements. After this past season of theirs, I can't really blame you, but this new batch seems considerably better than the last, as far as I'm concerned.