Cancelled shows of Tomorrow: The War on Chuck Lorre - Part 6

[TheNextNolan22]

I'm forgetting about it already.

 

[wiegeabo]

It was just an 8 episode mini-series anyway. So they'll probably still run through all the episodes.

 

[Wolfwood]

Killer Women or the Assets? Cause The Assets was a miniseries and they dropped that like a bad habit after 2 episodes.

Fox is giving up on the traditional confines of the pilot season:

Fox chairman Kevin Reilly opened his executive session with a RIP sign “Fox Pilot Season 1986-2013″ and stated that Fox will not adhere to the traditional pilot season starting this year. “We are going to be bypassing pilot season,” he said. “The broadcast development system was built in differnet era and is highly inefficient. It is nothing short of a miracle talent can still produce anything of quality in that environment.”

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/tca-foxs-kevin-reilly-declares-network-is-abandoning-pilot-season/

 

[Rowsdower!]

Sounds like The Mindy Project is in trouble. But fear not, fans of that unwatchable show... even though Kevin Reilly admitted that the ratings are not what they want them to be, he's still determined to ram it down your throat.

http://tvline.com/2014/01/13/bones-season-10-renewal/

Look, I'll admit that I enjoy Mindy Kaling on some level, maybe just because she reminds me of this girl I used to go out with. But that show is just... awful.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

There is still hope!!!

 

[Teelie]

Killer Women or the Assets? Cause The Assets was a miniseries and they dropped that like a bad habit after 2 episodes.

Fox is giving up on the traditional confines of the pilot season:



http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/tca-foxs-kevin-reilly-declares-network-is-abandoning-pilot-season/

Fox always was seen as the "upstart" network so it's fitting that they reprise the role in dropping the old pilot season format.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Mindy is a great show imo. Glad that FOX is changing things up, cant wait to see how this turns out for them.

 

[Sawyer]

As long as I get more Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

I wish they hadn't ****ed Enlisted over with that timeslot, though... that **** was hilar.

 

[wiegeabo]

Hopefully this is just one more step towards the old tv business model collapsing.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/constantine-nbc-tv-pilot-dc-comics-david-goyer-daniel-serone/

UPDATE: NBC also has picked up to pilot Warner Brios. TV-produced drama The Mysteries Of Laura, from writer Jeff Rake, Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Prods. and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. The project, based on the popular Spanish series Los Misterios De Laura, had a production commitment. It follows the life and relationships of a female homicide detective who can handle murderous criminals — but not her evil twins. Warner Bros. TV, where Berlanti Prods. is based, is producing. Rake wrote the adaptation and will executive produce with Berlanti and Kaplan, while Berlanti Prods.’ Melissa Kellner Berman co-execute produces.

 

[Hunter Rider]

^^^ Her boobs are possessed?

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/fox-no-pilot-season-how-will-it-work/

Fox’s Abolishment Of Pilot Season: Practical Guide To How Will It Work
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

Fox is switching to the cable development model. That is the takeaway from today’s announcement by Fox Chairman Kevin Reilly that the network will be bypassing pilot season this year and going forward. I sat down with Reilly to discuss how the changes will be implemented and what it means for writers, actors and agents.

First, “we are abandoning pilot season, not pilots,” Reilly stressed. “Pilots still are a helpful tool, especially on the comedy side where the alchemy is fragile, and you really need the casting to inform your decision on the project.” But going forward, “we will be ordering pilots geared towards series,” he said. That means picking up fewer pilots, which is the cable model. “Instead of making 10 pilots hoping to get one series on the air, I’d like to make it more 1-to-1 ratio,” Reilly said. That means fewer pilot roles for actors but a better chance for those who get pilots to get on the air. The switch also means likely buying fewer scripts, Reilly said.

This will be a transitional year as Fox has a stockpile of scripts, some of them with big commitments. “There will be a few more drama pilots ordered in the next month or so, with another half dozen pushed forward for the next cycle with further investment or a straight order,” Reilly said. On the comedy side, “we’ll have a leaner slate, we will order a few more pilots.” There is no mandate for any of those to be ready in May for fall consideration, though, if magic strikes and a pilot comes quickly and knocks it out of the park, it could make it on the 2014-15 schedule. Expected to be on the schedule are Fox’s current pilots, drama Gotham and comedies Fatrick and Cabot College (Matt Hubbard), with Reilly expected to formalize their series orders next month. With those three, plus comedy series Mulaney and drama series Hieroglyph and Ben Affleck’s The Middle Man, there will be no much shelf space for new series anyway, especially as Reilly said he wanted to bring back most of the network’s current series and only has 15 hours of primetime versus 22 for the other major nets.

Going forward, Fox will not make series pickups based on one episode, as has been the pilot season tradition. Also like cable, Fox plans to commission backup scripts, even fund the setup of a small writers room while work on the pilot is going on — as it is currently doing with Gotham — to get a detailed road map for the series before proceeding with an episodic order. That is not a ploy to make creators do more for the pilot fee and wait longer, Reilly said. “Fox wants to do more work in order to get their projects on the air.” He feels that message will attract talent under the new model, which is being widely used in cable. Fox also is adapting the straight-to-series template based off multiple scripts and a bible, which it used on adventure drama Hieroglyph.

As pilots will shoot throughout the year, with summer and fall as busy as the traditional winter-spring window, Fox also will try to be buying scripts year-round the way cable networks do. However, if the other broadcast networks don’t follow Fox’s lead and remain constrained by the traditional pilot season, Reilly anticipates more active buying during the so-called pitch season in summer and fall. He also plays to continue doing event series alongside traditional drama series.

The move away from pilot season had been years in the making, ever since Reilly returned to what he calls an “antiquated broadcast system” after a stint at FX. “The success ratio on broadcast is not great, so we can’t do any worse,” he said.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/fx-...ng-zach-galifianakis-co-written-by-louis-c-k/

FX Orders Comedy Pilot Created By, Starring Zach Galifianakis & Co-Written By Louis C.K.
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

When Louis C.K., creator/star of FX‘s acclaimed comedy series Louie, signed an overall deal with FX Productions last month, one of his main goals was to guide other creators as they get their projects off the ground. “I can’t wait to see who he brings through our door,” FX Networks CEO John Landgraf said at the time. Well, he brought another A-list comedian, Zach Galifianakis. FX has ordered a comedy pilot created by and starring Galifianakis and co-written by Louis C.K. There is no concept yet for the project, the first to come out of Louis C.K. and his company’s Pig Newton’s overall pact at FX Productions. Galifianakis will executive produce alongside Louis C.K., Blair Breard, Dave Becky, Andrea Pett-Joseph and Marc Gurvitz. This marks the 12th (!) greenlighted comedy pilot for FX Productions as the company is ramping up comedy production to supply both FX and sibling FXX. Galifianakis is with Brillstein; C.K. is with 3 Arts Entertainment; Breard is repped by UTA.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/joh...-to-star-in-charlie-kaufmans-fx-comedy-pilot/

John Hawkes & Michael Cera To Star In Charlie Kaufman’s FX Comedy Pilot
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

After lengthy negotiations, John Hawkes and Michael Cera have signed on to topline How And Why, FX Networks‘ half-hour comedy pilot from Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. How And Why tells the story of Goodman Hesselman (Hawkes), who can explain how and why a nuclear reactor works but is clueless about life. After losing his gig hosting children’s science show How And Why, he tries to start over with a new show in a little TV market in the middle of nowhere when he encounters the supernatural world. Cera plays Mendelson, Goodman’s new boss at the studio. Even though they legally cannot use any part of How And Why, Mendelson is confident they will replicate the show. Produced by FX Productions, the pilot will film this spring in North Carolina. Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind) wrote the script and will direct the pilot, which he is executive producing with Anthony Bregman. Cera, repped by ICM Partners, Thruline and Lichter, Grossman, most recently wasseen in Netflix’s revival of Arrested Development. Oscar nominee Hawkes, repped by Innovative, Thruline and Morris Yorn, starred in HBO’s Deadwood.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Huh.

I love Hawkes and FX, so that could be interesting.

 

[Sawyer]

http://tvline.com/2014/01/14/fatrick-fox-zach-cregger-comedy-pilot-fox-cast/

Exclusive: Guys With Kids' Zach Cregger Set for Title Role in Fox Comedy Pilot Fatrick

Fox has found its Fatrick.

Zach Cregger (Guys With Kids) has snagged the title role in the network’s buzzy comedy pilot from Don’t Trust The B—-’s Nahnatchka Khan and Corey Nickerson, TVLine has learned exclusively.

The single-camera project — to be directed by Ben and Kate‘s Nat Faxon and Community‘s Jim Rash (aka the Oscar-winning scribes behind The Descendants — follows Cregger’s thirtysomething Patrick, a formerly fat kid who is compelled to face the damage caused by years of being “Fatrick,” with scenes set in both the present day and his school years.

As we previously reported, Desperate Housewives‘ Marcia Cross is set to co-star as Patrick’s mother Arlene, a fit, energetic nutritionist who is rigid and intense when it comes to her family’s eating habits.

Guys With Kids sucked, but I loved him on Whitest Kids U Know.

 

[Man in the Suit]

Guys With Kids? WHITEST KIDS U KNOW! Stupid industry people.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/james-gandolfini-cbs-taxi-22-pilot-order/

James Gandolfini’s Passion Project ‘Taxi-22′ Gets Pilot Order At CBS
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

CBS kicked off its pilot pickup season today with a order to Taxi-22, a single-camera comedy that had been shepherded by the late James Gandolfini. CBS bought the project, with Gandolfini on board to executive produce, in early June, just two weeks before the Emmy-winning actor’s tragic death. Taxi-22, an adaptation of the hit French Canadian single-camera comedy, had been a passion project for Gandolfini, who first developed it at HBO where his Attaboy banner had a deal. The project went through three incarnations at the pay cable network with different writers and Gandolfini loosely attached to play the lead at one point. When the project, about a misanthropic and politically incorrect NYC cab driver in the vein of Archie Bunker, was sold to CBS in June, there was no writer attached, with Gandolfini executive producing alongside Dennis Erdman and Clark Peterson, the original series’ creator/star, top Canadian comedian Patrick Huard, his producing partner François Flamand, as well as Gandolfini’s managers, Nancy Sanders and Mark Armstrong. (Erdman and Peterson had licensed the format rights from Huard and Flamand and brought the project to Gandolfini.) When Gandolfini died, the project’s team was “devastated” but decided to carry on, Peterson told me back then. “I can confirm that the development of Taxi-22 will continue, but we’ll always be flying in the missing-man formation,” he said. Gandolfini’s executive producer spot on the show has remained empty, with everyone else on board for the pilot, along with veteran comedy writer Tad Quill who was brought in over the summer as writer/executive producer. CBS TV Studios, where Quill is under an overall deal, is producing. One of the other TV projects Gandolfini left behind, HBO limited series Criminal Justice, also is going forward with Robert De Niro stepping in to play Gandolfini’s role. At CBS, Taxi-22 joins comedy pilots The McCarthys and untitled Jim Gaffigan, both redeveloped from last season, and the How I Met Your Mother spinoff How I Met Your Dad.

 

[Shifty]

So The Newsroom (S3), Sons of Anarchy (S7) and Boardwalk Empire (S5) will end this year followed by Justified (S6) next year. All creative decisions for the most part, just like Breaking Bad (S5). I hope this trend continues but it is a hard thing to balance. At what point can you say, now is a good time to end it so we don't overstay our welcome.

I think The Newsroom could've done five seasons and ended there. Whereas Mad Men, while still incredible, could've ended after five seasons and their final season may feel dragged out.

The Office should've packed it in after six, just like The X-Files should've and carried on as a film series. The writers on 24 considered ending the show after season five, going out on top (they won the Emmy a few months later) and in retrospect that probably would've been the best move.

Successful shows are extended past their prime to make up for the loses from cancelled shows. It tarnishes the show and we all know it sucks when a favourite show becomes unwatchable after many seasons of enjoyment.

With Fox's new development process maybe they'll have more successful shows and can then let the showrunner decide when to end it and not just crank out season ten of Bone$.

 

[Sawyer]

I'd have allowed The Office seven seasons, rather than six. Looking back on that season on my DVDs, it really wasn't too bad, but they should've wrapped things up with Michael, rather than believing they could still do it without him.

 

[Docker2.0]

Sounds like The Mindy Project is in trouble. But fear not, fans of that unwatchable show... even though Kevin Reilly admitted that the ratings are not what they want them to be, he's still determined to ram it down your throat.

http://tvline.com/2014/01/13/bones-season-10-renewal/

Look, I'll admit that I enjoy Mindy Kaling on some level, maybe just because she reminds me of this girl I used to go out with. But that show is just... awful.

How. The. Freak. Is. That. Show. Still. On. TV?!?!?!? It should have been cancelled years ago. I don't know who she banged to get that show but whoever she did is embarrassing themselves. It sucks.

 

[Sawyer]

Your hatred of that show can only be matched by that of a nerd who's been turned down by the girl of his dreams.

And I find it DELICIOUS.

 

[HighFivingMF]

Every time Docker posts I picture his avatar at prom, watching Mindy dance with the school's quarterback. Stewing in anger.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/john-ridley-12-years-a-slave-writer-american-crime-abc-pilot/

Murder Drama From ‘12 Years A Slave’ Writer John Ridley Gets ABC Pilot Order
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

ABC has given a pilot green light to American Crime, a drama from John Ridley, writer of the slavery feature 12 Years A Slave. The TV project, which also tackles racial issues, is set in California’s Central Valley. It centers on a racially charged murder and the subsequent trial, which are examined through the personal lives of the players involved. The case takes on greater meaning in the community, bringing to the forefront America’s hardened views on race, class and gender politics. Ridley wrote the script and is executive producing with former ABC Studios head of drama-turned-producer Michael McDonald through ABC Studios. 12 Years A Slave has emerged as a leading Oscar contender following its Golden Globes win on Sunday. Ridley started in television before focusing primarily on features for the past few years. American Crime joins other ABC drama pilots How To Get Away With Murder, Sea Of Fire as well as series Secrets & Lies.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/eve...ntic-comedy-for-abc-produced-by-aaron-kaplan/

Eve To Topline Interracial Romantic Comedy For ABC Produced By Aaron Kaplan
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

ABC has closed a deal for a multi-camera comedy project to star actress-rapper Eve, from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and ABC Studios. The project, which is eyed for the 2014-15 development season, is looking for a writer. I hear Kaplan approached Eve (full name Eve Jeffers) with the idea for a multi-camera interracial romantic comedy. The two pitched it to ABC, which bought the project with penalty. Eve and Kaplan (ABC’s The Neighbors) executive produce. ICM Partners-repped Eve previously toplined her eponymous sitcom on UPN and starred in the Barbershop movie franchise.

This is the second high-profile talent-driven comedy project that Kaplan has set up at ABC for next development season, along with a single-camera comedy starring Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo as a couple forced to raise their grandchildren. Kaplan also has ABC drama Secrets & Lies, which has a 10-episode commitment and is casting. He just received a pilot order from NBC for drama Mysteries Of Laura. At ABC, the Eve project joins an interracial comedy the network has in development this season with Whoopi Goldberg and Ben Silverman producing.

 

[Docker2.0]

Your hatred of that show can only be matched by that of a nerd who's been turned down by the girl of his dreams.

And I find it DELICIOUS.

#Twoandahalfmenbestshowontv

Every time Docker posts I picture his avatar at prom, watching Mindy dance with the school's quarterback. Stewing in anger.

You know what, the show isn't cancelled today, maybe not even tomorrow, but it will be soon. There's no way it can go on with ratings that low on Fox. And when it does

 

[HighFivingMF]

I can't stand Mindy either. But damn.