Cancelled shows of Tomorrow: No Soap Operas Allowed

[Colossal Spoons]

ON THE BUBBLE - either have low ratings or older show with no renewal past 2013
Community
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

 

[Hunter Rider]

I just started watching the first season of Community as well.

 

[Shifty]

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

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

They're signed for an 8th and 9th season which would air in 2013. They have an option for a 10th in 2014 so its up to FX and the guys if they want to do a 10th. They may want to do something else and FX may want to make room for Anger Management's remaining 90 episodes they ordered. I just added it to the list because their is a decent chance it could end.

 

[Sawyer]

I still think a 90 episode order for Anger Management is very, very stupid.

 

[DrDoom]

Yeah, Anger Management is just HORRIBLE.

 

[Sawyer]

Deadline:

Lisa Joy To Adapt Her Comic ‘Headache’ As Drama For Fox Produced By Chernin Co.
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

Fox has bought Athena, a drama project from writer Lisa Joy (Pushing Daisies), Chernin Entertainment and 20th Century Fox TV. The project, which has received a script commitment, is based on Joy’s graphic novel, Headache is a coming-of-age drama about a 23 year-old woman who discovers she’s Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare. Each week she must maintain her secret identity while battling a slew of ancient monsters from Greek mythology and searching to uncover which of the other Greek gods is secretly plotting against her to take over the Earth. Joy, repped by UTA and attorney Michael Schenkman, will write the adaptation and will executive produce with Peter Chernin and Kathrine Pope. She most recently was a co-producer on USA’s Burn Notice.

Hopefully, if this goes forward, it ends up being better than the **** Wonder Woman pilot.

 

[Sawyer]

Deadline:

Futuristic Thriller Drama From Howard Gordon & Josh Friedman Lands At NBC
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

EXCLUSIVE: Homeland executive producer Howard Gordon and writer Josh Friedman have teamed for a high-concept drama project, which has landed a rich premium script deal at NBC. The untitled project, from 20th Century Fox TV and Gordon’s studio-based Teakwood Lane, is described as a thriller soap set in a world much like ours, where human-looking robots are commonplace. After a routine homicide explodes into the first robot-on-human murder, the lead detective must solve the case and investigate a growing robot rebellion while dealing with the impact on his own fractured family. This marks the first project to come out of Teakwood Lane, which Gordon launched last month.

Friedman will write the script with Gordon supervising. The two will executive produce with Teakwood Lane’s head of TV Hugh Fitzpatrick. This marks a familiar territory for Friedman who helmed another series of projects about a world where humans and robots co-exist, Fox’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. His pilot scripts the last two years both went to pilot at Fox, Locke & Key and The Asset. UTA-repped Friedman also co-wrote the 2005 alien invasion movie War Of The Worlds. This marks Friedman’s first project at NBC and Gordon’s return to the network where he executive produced Awake last season.

A 25-year veteran Gordon, repped by WME and attorney Michael Gendler, first gained attention for his work on the hit Fox/20th TV series The X-Files and was the showrunner and executive producer of 24 for which he received both the Golden Globe and the Emmy for Best Drama Series. His other credits include Angel, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Beauty And The Beast, Sisters and Spenser: For Hire.

I Robot: The Series?... I'd watch. At least from TSCC, we know that Friedman can handle such material.

 

[Shifty]

Animal Practice - no laughs, but 10 year olds may enjoy it
The Mindy Project - no laughs, skip and maybe try again later in the season
Go On - a few laugh, some potential
The New Normal - some laughs, some potential
Ben and Kate - some laughs, great potential

Comedy pilots are rarely hilarious, they have to setup the premise, introduce characters and don't have a room full of writers to punch it up whereas a drama pilot is usually one of the strongest episodes of a drama's first season. However, if there isn't anything funny there has to be another reason to watch and I didn't get that with The Mindy Project with unlikeable characters. Really disappointed with it due to Mindy's scripts on The Office. Now 30 Rock wasn't the greatest at first maybe it will get better 7 episodes in.

Animal Practice while there is nothing terrible about it, its just not for me. I can see why it was paired with Guys with Kids (but SVU comes right after? smart move NBC lets go with family comedy straight into rape and murder).

Go On is like if Community was on ABC. Created by a longtime Friends writer (and co-creator of Joey) it could turn into something worth watching.

Same goes for The New Normal. This will certainly appeal to more Blue States. It has a great cast and look, will definitely check out the second episode.

Ben and Kate is another comedy from the past couple of years that features a cheating boyfriend getting caught (New Girl, The New Normal, Malibu Country) but it shows the most promise from the pilots I've seen. The two leads are brother and sister so there won't be any will-they-or-won't they shenanigans that are likely to happen in Animal Practice, Go On and The Mindy Project. The show also landed Garrett Donovan and Neil Goldman who were writers/producers on early Family Guy, Scrubs before it went bad and Community (Fat Neil and Garrett were named after them.) The pair will be the showrunners for Ben and Kate, so its worth checking in to the 2nd episode to see what they can do.

 

[Dr. Evil]

The 30 Pilot was shown a few days ago (Syndication). It wasn't really that funny.

 

[Shifty]

The 30 Pilot was shown a few days ago (Syndication). It wasn't really that funny.

I think Always Sunny, Curb and Louie were the only pilots that I thought were funny.

AD, The Office, Community, Parks and Rec weren't that funny.

 

[Sawyer]

My rankings would be:

The New Normal (most funny by a mile, good one-liners, interesting characters)
The Mindy Project/Ben and Kate/Go On (decent, not great. Promising enough)
Animal Practice (laughed once. Barely.)

 

[Sawyer]

I think Always Sunny, Curb and Louie were the only pilots that I thought were funny.

AD, The Office, Community, Parks and Rec weren't that funny.

Whaaaaaaat? I think AD was one of the best comedy pilots in recent years.

But yeah, for the most part, it's amazing that alot of the comedies I grow to love really don't start out that funny.

 

[TheOnlyOmega]

I'll give Animal Practice a shot later in the season. Justin Kirk is great

I'd like to add Flight of the Conchords to the funny pilots list.

 

[Shifty]

Whaaaaaaat? I think AD was one of the best comedy pilots in recent years.

But yeah, for the most part, it's amazing that alot of the comedies I grow to love really don't start out that funny.

I don't know if 2003 is recent. I first saw AD when it aired its 4th episode so maybe by the time I saw the pilot it didn't live up to the episodes I had seen. On further viewings on DVD or reruns I just didn't find it funny.

 

[HighFivingMF]

My rankings would be:

The New Normal (most funny by a mile, good one-liners, interesting characters)
The Mindy Project/Ben and Kate/Go On (decent, not great. Promising enough)
Animal Practice (laughed once. Barely.)

I'd go

Go On. (Looks promising)

The New Normal/The Mindy Project/Ben and Kate/Animal Practice. (Don't give a ****)

 

[Sawyer]

Oh, you are just too cool for school, aren't you?

 

[Drizzle]

I think Always Sunny, Curb and Louie were the only pilots that I thought were funny.

AD, The Office, Community, Parks and Rec weren't that funny.

AD's pilot was awesome. It had one of GOB's best lines in the series.

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And in regards to earlier talk about It's Always Sunny ending after 2013...if that does happen, then it still would have had a really good run. Even if it ended after this upcoming season, I would say the same thing.

 

[DyeLorean]

Saw the pilot for Revolution.
Looks promising enough, but I won't watch it on a weekly basis like I did with Alcatraz. I'm gonna wait until the series gets renewed, I won't get cheated again.

 

[Sawyer]

That..... makes no sense.

 

[HighFivingMF]

Oh, you are just too cool for school, aren't you?

Yup. But really, I'm not big on Ryan Murphy or Mindy (she's a decent writer though). Ben & Kate and Animal Practice just look bad. I'm looking forward to Arrow and The Following though. Maybe that one with David Krumholtz and Brandon Routh too, but I haven't seen anything from that so I'm just going by the fact Krumholtz and Routh are in it.

 

[Sawyer]

Yup. But really, I'm not big on Ryan Murphy or Mindy (she's a decent writer though). Ben & Kate and Animal Practice just look bad. I'm looking forward to Arrow and The Following though. Maybe that one with David Krumholtz and Brandon Routh too, but I haven't seen anything from that so I'm just going by the fact Krumholtz and Routh are in it.

Trailer:
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It actually looks fairly funny for a CBS sitcom. Then again, I thought the same when I watched a trailer for 2 Broke Girls last year, and that ended up being fairly one-note.

 

[Sawyer]

Deadline:

Kyle Killen Drama Lands At ABC As Put Pilot
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

EXCLUSIVE: Influence, a drama project from Lone Star and Awake creator Kyle Killen, has received a put pilot commitment by ABC in a competitive situation involving multiple networks.

The project, from 20th Century Fox TV where Killen is under a deal, is described as a provocative workplace ensemble centered on the complicated relationship between two brothers — a bipolar genius in human psychology and a slick ex-con — who head a unique agency designed to solve their clients’ problems using the real science of human motivation and manipulation. In addition to helping their clients, the agency’s staff sometime turn their powers to pull strings on one another. Killen is the writer/executive producer.

Influence marks a departure from Killen’s previous two series projects, Fox’s Lone Star and NBC’s Awake, which both had very complex, non-linear narratives as they centered on protagonists living dual lives. Still, Killen kept a duality element in his new show too, making one of the main characters bipolar. On the feature side, Killen wrote the Black List script The Beaver, which was directed by Jodie Foster.

THR:

NBC Developing Spy Drama From 'Justified's' Graham Yost (Exclusive)
From Sony Pictures Television, the project revolves around a female spy in 1970s Los Angeles.
6:43 PM PDT 9/4/2012 by Lesley Goldberg

NBC is back in business with Graham Yost.

The network is developing L.A. Woman, a drama from the Justified executive producer. The hourlong project, which is set up at Sony Pictures Television, revolves around a female spy in 1970s Los Angeles. NBC has ordered a script for the effort, which Yost will write and executive produce.

L.A. Woman brings Yost back to NBC, where he served as an executive producer on the network's short-lived Jeff Goldblum crime drama Raines in 2007. Prior to that, Yost had created cop drama Boomtown, which ran for two seasons on NBC.

The project joins the Justified showrunner's growing portfolio, which includes FX's Keri Russell KGB spy drama The Americans. The project was picked up to series in August. TNT recently renewed picked up Falling Skies, on which Yost serves as an EP, for a third season as well. FX picked up Justified for a fourth season in March.

Yost is repped by CAA.

 

[Shifty]

Yost's new project sounds interesting but Killen's? Ehh... quit pitching to broadcast networks. Good for him getting a script deal for the third straight development season but I don't like his chances at having a show grab the ratings it needs to stay on.

 

[Sawyer]

Deadline:

Comedy From ‘Cougar Town’ Co-Creator Kevin Biegel Sells To Fox With Penalty
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

EXCLUSIVE: Cougar Town co-creator Kevin Biegel has set up his first project as a solo creator, a single-camera sibling comedy. The untitled project, which landed at Fox with penalty, is based on Biegel’s relationship with his siblings and follows three very different brothers working together in the Army at a small base in Florida. Biegel is writing/executive producing. 20th Century Fox TV is producing the project, which stems from a blind script deal the studio had with Biegel.

Biegel co-created Cougar Town with Bill Lawrence. He served as a co-executive producer in the first season and executive producer in Seasons 2 and 3. He segued to a consulting role on the show after its move to TBS and Lawrence’s departure as showrunner to focus on development. Before Cougar Town, UTA-repped Biegel worked on Lawrence’s medical comedy Scrubs.

Co-creator of Cougar Town? I'm in.

 

[Jordacar]

Only seven new shows on my slate this season (and a couple of them are big huge maybe's):
Revolution (I'll see if things take off after the pilot)
The Mindy Project (never saw her on The Office, but I'll give this one a chance)
Vegas (they had me the moment I saw the billboard)
Last Resort (This looks like the kinda thing TV was made for)
666 Park Avenue (Terry O'Quinn, I wish I knew how to quit you!)
Nashville (everyone says it's gonna be great. I'll take a look, even though it's definitely not my cup of tea.)
and of course, Arrow (the only one I'm really looking forward to).