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

[Donut]

Even The Mindy Project ?

 

[Sawyer]

Yes.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/nbcs-sean-saves-the-world-shuts-down-production/

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[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/fam...l-max-winkler-henry-winkler-expected-to-star/

Family Sitcom From Phil Rosenthal, Max Winkler & Rob Reinis Gets ABC Pilot Order; Henry Winkler Expected To Star
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

ABC is looking to bring some Happy Days magic back the network with a new multi-comedy project that would star Happy Days alum Henry Winkler. ABC has given a pilot order to The Winklers, a family comedy from Everybody Loves Raymond creator Phil Rosenthal, Winkler’s son, director Max Winkler, and son-in-law, actor Rob Reinis. The project, which had a pilot production commitment, was conceived as a starring vehicle for Henry Winkler and is based on his relationship with his son-in-law. While Winkler doesn’t have an acting deal in place yet, he is expected to star in the pilot, written by Rosenthal from a story by him, Max Winkler and Reinis and possibly directed by Rosenthal. It centers on an emotionally reserved construction worker who learns about love, life and hugs while unexpectedly living with his in-laws — Henry (Henry Winkler), and Stacey Winkler. (In real life, Henry Winkler has been married to his wife Stacey Winkler for more than 35 years.) The comedy hails from 20th TV and Max Winkler and Jake Johnson’s studio-based Walcott Co., marking the company’s first pilot order in their first year of development.

After coming up with the idea for The Winklers, brothers-in-law Max Winkler and Reinis reached out to Rosenthal, who responded to the premise and came on board. This marks a return to primetime for Rosenthal following Raymond‘s hugely successful 9-season run that included two Emmys for best comedy series. He is exec producing with Max Winkler, Reinis and Johnson.

Tired of multicamera stuff, but got dammit, I love Henry Winkler.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/tea-leoni-secretary-of-state-cbs-drama-pilot/

Tea Leoni To Play U.S. Secretary Of State In CBS Drama Pilot ‘Madam Secretary’
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

This is a big casting coup right off the bat this pilot casting season. CBS has set Tea Leoni as the lead in drama pilot Madam Secretary, from Joan Of Arcadia creator Barbara Hall and Oscar winner Morgan Freeman. The drama, written by Hall, explores the personal and professional life of a maverick female Secretary of State (Leoni) as she drives international diplomacy, wrangles office politics and balances a complex family life. CBS TV Studios is producing with Freeman’s Revelations Entertainment, with the company’s Freeman, Lori McCreary and Tracy Mercer executive producing alongside Hall. Leoni has stayed away from network television since 1998 when her NBC sitcom The Naked Truth ended its run. She has been constantly approached for pilots ever since, but her only TV gig in the past 15 years was the 2011 HBO pilot Spring/Fall. Last year, CBS also started pilot casting season in a big way, tapping Anna Faris for the Chuck Lorre comedy pilot Mom and Oscar winner Halle Berry for the summer sci-fi series Extant.

 

[Sawyer]

http://tvline.com/2014/01/29/pilot-scoop-the-cw-orders-drama-pilots-identity-and-jane-the-virgin/

Pilot Scoop: The CW Orders Drama Pilots Identity and Jane the Virgin

The CW ordered a pair of drama pilots late Wednesday, including a thriller from the producers of Fringe and Sleepy Hollow.

Identity, penned by The Good Wife‘s Corinne Brinkerhoff and exec-produced by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, centers on a young woman in need of a transplant who learns she is related to a powerful family whose son is her only hope for a donor organ. The CIA approaches her to investigate the family’s involvement in domestic terrorism and to infiltrate their rarified world. Her loyalty, morality and ethics are tested as she’s forced to slowly build a case against the family who saved her life.

Additionally, the network ordered Jane the Virgin, an adaptation of the successful Venezuelan telenovela about a hard-working, religious young Latina woman who is accidentally artificially inseminated. 90210′s Jennie Snyder Urman penned the script, which will be produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Electus.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/cw-pilots-jane-the-virgin-remake-identity-kurtzman-orci/

UPDATE 4 PM: One of the most buzzed about projects at the CW this season, Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero’s drama adaptation of DC‘s iZombie, also has received an official pilot green light. This puts the CW, which carried the final season of Veronica Mars, back in business with the series’ creator Thomas in a big way as he also is doing a Veronica Mars spinoff digital series for the network. Written by frequent collaborators Thomas and Ruggiero based on the characters created by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred and published by DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint,. iZombie, from Warner Bros TV and Rob Thomas Prods, is a supernatural crime procedural that centers on a med student-turned-zombie who takes a job in the coroner’s office to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat to maintain her humanity, but with each brain she consumes, she inherits the corpse’s memories. With the help of her medical examiner boss and a police detective, she solves homicide cases in order to quiet the disturbing voices in her head. Thomas and Rugierro, who co-wrote together the upcoming Veronica Mars movie, are executive producing with Danielle Stokdyk and Dan Etheridge. This marks the fourth order for DC/WBTV this season, joining series Gotham at Fox and pilots Constantine at NBC and The Flash at the CW. Zombies are hot TV commodity at the moment with AMC’s mega hit The Walking Dead, NBC pilot Babylon Fields, a remake of the hit French drama The Returned at A&E, and ABC’s midseason series Resurrection.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/tom...hy-yuspa-josh-goldsmith-gets-cbs-pilot-order/

Tom Papa-Starring Comedy From Ben Affleck & Matt Damon, Cathy Yuspa & Josh Goldsmith Gets CBS Pilot Order
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

CBS has given a pilot order to More Time With Family, a multi-camera comedy starring comedian Tom Papa. The project, which had a put pilot commitment, was one of the highest-profile comedy packages this season – with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon as executive producers, Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith as writers/exec producers and Papa as star. 20th Century Fox TV, where Yuspa and Goldsmith are based, is producing.

Based on the stand-up of Papa and the experiences of Damon, More Time With Family centers on a husband and father (Papa) making a career change to spend more time with his family. The project originated with Papa and Damon who had worked together on two movies, The Informant and Behind The Candelabra. They teamed with Damon’s childhood friend and frequent collaborator Affleck, and Yuspa and Goldsmith came on board to write. Affleck will executive produce through his Pearl Street along with Papa, Yuspa, Goldsmith and 3 Arts’ Dave Becky and Josh Lieberman. This marks Pearl Street’s second pilot order this season — the company also has crime drama The Middle Man, which is on a series track at Fox.

 

[Sawyer]

http://tvline.com/2014/01/29/jennifer-carpenter-sea-of-fire-abc-pilot/

Exclusive: Dexter's Jennifer Carpenter Cast as Lead in ABC Drama Pilot Sea of Fire

Dexter‘s Jennifer Carpenter has scored a killer new gig.

The actress, easily one of pilot season’s hottest commodities, has landed a starring role in ABC’s Twin Peaks-esque drama pilot Sea of Fire, TVLine has learned exclusively.

The conceit: When three teenage girls star in a pornographic film, it tears their families apart and leads to a disappearance, a murder and host of other secrets boiling under the surface in a small town.

Based on the Dutch series Vuurzee, the pilot was penned by Scandal‘s Jenna Bans, who will serve as an exec producer alongside Rob Golenberg, Laurie Zaks, Alon Aranya, David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Robert Kievit, and Frank Ketelaar.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/dexters-jennifer-carpenter-star-abcs-675552

Carpenter will play FBI Agent Leah Pierce -- a driven, eccentric and blunt woman with a secret in her past -- who has few people skills compared with her partner, Marty. She's called in by Marty's deputy to investigate the disappearance of a young girl and winds up alienating the town with her raw and uncompromising questions.

 

[Teelie]

iZombie could be interesting but they have got to drop that name.

And how does one accidentally get artificially inseminated?

Jennifer Carpenter's new show sounds too generic and cliched. I hope there's more to it than the boring synopsis gives us.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/abc-pilots-2014-my-fair-lady-selfie-damaged-goods/

ABC Picks Up Comedy Pilots From ‘Awkward’ Creator Lauren Iungerich & ‘Suburgatory’s Emily Kapnek
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

Awkward creator Lauren Iungerich is back on pilot duty with a pickup at ABC for her comedy Damaged Goods, which had a pilot production commitment. It is one of two pilot orders to single-camera comedies from female creators at ABC this morning, along with the My Fair Lady-esque Selfie, by Suburgatory creator Emily Kapnek. With Suburgatory not doing well with its rebooted third season, tying a series low last night, is ABC eyeing a successor in Selfie? Both pilots hail from Warner Bros TV, where Kapnek is under an overall deal through her Piece Of Pie Prods. and Iungerich had a script deal. Damaged Goods is described as a comedy about the sexual politics that have changed between men and women in this post-feminist era.

Inspired by My Fair Lady, Selfie tells the story of a self-obsessed twentysomething woman who is more concerned with “likes” than being liked. After suffering a very public and humiliating breakup, she becomes the subject of a viral video and suddenly has more social media “followers” than she ever imagined — but for all the wrong reasons. She enlists the help of a marketing expert at her company to help repair her tarnished image. This brings the number of ABC comedy pilots to 11.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/cbs...-from-universal-tv-nikki-toscano-kerry-ehrin/

CBS Orders Terrorism Drama Pilot From Universal TV, Nikki Toscano & Kerry Ehrin
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

The breakthrough season for broadcast networks’ in-house production arms selling to rival nets continues with another green light for such a project. CBS has given a pilot order to untitled drama project from Bates Motel writer Nikki Toscano and the A&E/Universal TV series’ executive producer Kerry Ehrin. It hails from Universal TV, which will now co-produce with CBS TV Studios. This marks the 11th (!) pilot or series order this season by ABC, CBS, NBC or Fox to a project from an in-house production division of another network (excluding Fox sibling 20th TV, which has established itself as a major studio selling to everyone.) That is up dramatically from last season’s 3 such pilot orders, two of which — Fox/Uni TV comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine and CBS/ABC Studios drama Intelligence – went to series. This season, after ABC Studios and CBS Studios made a strategic move in that area, ABC Studios has landed 5 outside broadcast orders, Universal TV 4 and CBS TV Studios 2.

Written/executive produced by Toscano with Ehrin supervising the script and consulting on the pilot, the CBS drama centers on a retired CIA operative who, when a terrorist event rocks Washington, D.C., is pulled back into action, forced to investigate closer to home where the next generation of terrorists are being bred. The serialized thriller is reminiscent of this season’s Hostages, which didn’t get traction but CBS appears determined to crack the genre.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/mtvs-picks-up-finding-carter-to-series/

MTV’s Picks Up Coming-Of-Age Drama Pilot ‘Finding Carter’ To Series
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

We have the first new drama series commissioned by MTV‘s new programming team under president Susanne Daniels. The network has picked up hourlong pilot Finding Carter to series with a 12-episode order in the kind of success story that inspires young writers. Up-and-coming scribe Emily Silver, a story editor on Bones, originally penned Finding Carter as a writing sample, which was sent to ABC Family and MTV in 2012. When Mina Lefevre moved from ABC Family to MTV to head scripted development in January 2013, she put the project on a fast track. Veteran Terri Minsky (Sex And The City) was brought in as executive producer and, following a quick rewrite, the script landed a pilot order, which has now been followed by a series green light.

Finding Carter, directed by Scott Speer is about teenage girl Carter (Kathryn Prescott) who seemingly has the perfect life with fun-loving single mom Lori (Milena Govich), until she discovers Lori abducted her as a toddler. Now Carter must return to the family who thought they had lost her. As she navigates brand new parents (Cynthia Watros, Alexis Denisof), a twin sister (Anna Jacoby-Heron), high school and boys, she vows to find Lori before the only mom she’s ever known is gone forever. MTV’s new regime ordered four scripted pilots last year, comedies Faking It and Happyland and dramas Finding Carter and Eye Candy. Both comedy pilots were picked up to series, joined today by Finding Carter. No final decision on cyber thriller Eye Candy but it is a departure for MTV and its prospects are considered so-so.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/fam...tt-silveri-david-mandel-gets-cbs-pilot-order/

Family Comedy From Shana Goldberg-Meehan, Scott Silveri & David Mandel Gets CBS Pilot Order
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

CBS is pulling the trigger on The Mistake, handing out a pilot order to the multi-camera comedy written by Friends alumni Shana Goldberg-Meehan and Scott Silveri and former Seinfeld writer-producer David Mandel, which has veteran multi-camera helmer Andy Ackerman attached to direct. All four executive produce. The project, which had a pilot production commitment, centers on a couple who had just “finished” raising their kids when they discover they are pregnant. Warner Bros. TV is producing with Goldberg-Meehan and Silveri’s Silver and Gold Prods and Mandel’s Woltz International Pictures. This marks the first collaboration of husband-and-wife duo Goldberg-Meehan and Silveri since they created the Friends spinoff Joey. Over the past decade, the two had worked on separate projects, including creating series Perfect Couples and Go On (Silveri) and Better With You (Goldberg-Meehan). Mandel is a frequent collaborator with Seinfeld co-creator Larry David, working as an exec producer on his HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm and film Clear History. This brings the number of CBS comedy pilots to eight.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/drama-pilots-constantine-and-secrets-lies-get-directors/

Drama Pilots ‘Constantine’ And ‘Secrets & Lies’ Get Directors
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

Neil Marshall (The Descent) is set to direct NBC’s drama pilot Constantine, from Warner Bros TV. Based on the characters in DC Comics’ John Constantine stories, Constantine centers on John Constantine, an enigmatic and irreverent con man-turned-reluctant supernatural detective who is thrust into the role of defending us against dark forces from beyond. The project was written by Daniel Cerone from a story by him and David S. Goyer. In TV, Marshall recently helmed the opening as well as the third episode of Michael Bay’s Starz pirate drama Black Sails and an episode from the upcoming fourth season of HBO’s Game Of Thrones.

One of the most sought after pilot directors, Charles McDougall, has been tapped for ABC’s drama pilot Secrets & Lies, which has a series penalty. An adaptation of the Australian crime mystery series. the pilot, from writer/exec producer Barbie Kligman, ABC Studios, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and Australian-based Hoodlum, centers on a family man who finds the body of a young boy and quickly becomes the prime murder suspect. He has no choice but to try to find the real killer as his marriage, his kids, his reputation, and his sanity are all at stake. McDougall, who won an Emmy for directing the pilot for ABC’s Desperate Housewives, is on a streak, with his four most recent pilots going to series: The Good Wife, The Chicago Code, The Mindy Project and ABC’s upcoming drama Resurrection.

Neil Marshall directing Constantine is the best ****ing news.

 

[Donut]

Why is The Mindy Project guy getting jobs ? He should be Hollywood banned

 

[Sawyer]

Oh my God, shut uuuuuuuuuuuuuupppppppppppppppp about that show already.

 

[Donut]

Is it 2 much 2 ask for that cast & crew 2 never be seen again ?

 

[Sawyer]

 

[Donut]

You can hate on The Big Bang Theory & I can hate on The Mindy Project

 

[Sawyer]

I can hate on The Big Bang Theory and you can do the same because I ****ing say so.

 

[Donut]

That is not how things roll. Unless you want me *****ing every time you whine about The Big Bang Theory like you are doing now here

 

[Sawyer]

Dammit, Donut, what part of "I'm the boss" are you not understanding?

 

[Donut]

None of it

 

[Teelie]

I thought it was settled that Mona was the boss?

 

[Hunter Rider]

Madam Secretary kinda sounds like it's going to be like The Good Wife in style.

I thought Sharon Stone was gonna be in it as well?

Identity sounds like a reworking of Deception, that show that bombed with Megan Goode.I'll give Sea of Fire a shot due to Jennifer Carpenter.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/david-wain-to-direct-amy-poehlers-nbc-pilot-old-soul/

David Wain To Direct Amy Poehler’s NBC Pilot ‘Old Soul’
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

Role Models helmer David Wain has signed on to direct NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot Old Soul, co-created by Amy Poehler and starring Natasha Lyonne. The Uni TV-produced project, which Poehler co-created with Josh Bycel and Jonathan Fener, centers on a reformed wild child Nadia (Lyonne) who has a business caring for the elderly and feels she has more in common with her colorful old clients than she does with people her age. Old Soul reunites Wain with Poehler — his Lionsgate feature They Came Together starring Poehler and Paul Rudd just premiered at Sundance. Wain, repped by WME, Principato-Young and attorney Rick Genow, executive produces Adult Swim’s Newsreaders as well as Childrens Hospital, which he also directs.

In another NBC comedy pilot director hire, Robbie Duncan McNeil (Chuck) is set to helm single-camera project Mason Twins, from Casey Wilson, June Rafael, Stacy Traub and ABC Studios. Having been estranged for 15 years, fraternal twins Pender and Lizzie Mason reconnect after Lizzie’s perfect city life has fallen apart and she returns to her suburban town to find that her sister hasn’t matured past her teen queen days. McNeil is with WME.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/abc...s-how-to-get-away-with-murder-find-directors/

ABC Drama Pilots ‘Warriors’ & ‘How To Get Away With Murder’ Find Directors
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

Martin Campbell (Casino Royale) is set to direct ABC’s drama pilot Warriors, from Chris Keyser, Mandeville and ABC Studios. It follows the best and brightest of active duty military doctors and nurses as they practice trailblazing medicine on critically wounded warriors returning home from Afghanistan, on military families and veterans, as well as administering to Washington’s government elite. This is the third consecutive year on ABC drama pilot duty for Campbell who helmed the pilot for the Sony-produced series Last Resort in 2012 and the ABC Studio pilot Reckless last year.

Michael Offer, who directed multiple episodes of Last Resort, will helm the ABC/ABC Studios drama pilot, How To Get Away With Murder, written by Peter Nowalk and produced by Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers. The sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller centers on ambitious law students and their brilliant and mysterious criminal defense professor who become entangled in a murder plot. This marks the US pilot directing debut for the Australian helmer, repped by ICM Partners.

Campbell's sounds boring. Color me disappointed.