Cancelled shows of Tomorrow: The War on Chuck Lorre - Part 7

[X-Ray]

In The Flesh - Cancelled

well that sucks. especially with the cliffhanger ending from the last season.

 

[Shifty]

I'd complain about Benched being cancelled because it means losing another Eliza Coupe show, but I didn't even bother to watch that one, so...

Hope she lands something that sounds good AND has potential for success this pilot season, though.

It was just too inconsistent and there was nothing to like, it was hard to like Coupe's character. Damn you USA! You were supposed to pick up Happy Endings! We should be getting ready to watch season five right now and not see Marry Me make a Happy Endings/Buzzfeed reference.

 

[Jason Kane]

Empire Renewed 2 Episodes In

 

[Prison Mike]

Empire Renewed 2 Episodes In

I'm happy about this. This is the first FOX show I've really enjoyed since Lone Star.

 

[Sawyer]

Gotham and Brooklyn Nine-Nine too.

 

[Sawyer]

And apparently the Netflix/BBC issue is no more...

http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/netflix-keeping-doctor-who-luther-more-bbc-series-1201407630/

 

[Specter313]

Not surprised about Empire, considering all the ratings records its making, and that it grew in its second ep. It was pretty much a given after that.

In The Flesh - Cancelled

Honestly, I just couldn't get into this. The story was ok, but alot of the acting to me, especially by the adults of all people, was just atrocious. Just took me out of it when I'd start getting back into it.

 

[Marvolo]

And apparently the Netflix/BBC issue is no more...

http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/netflix-keeping-doctor-who-luther-more-bbc-series-1201407630/

Nice!

 

[terry78]

Empire has the added bonus of having two leads that are pretty well known.

 

[Sawyer]

http://deadline.com/2015/01/goldbergs-blackish-swap-empire-abc-1201353452/

That would be the smart thing to do, but considering how long it took ABC to figure out that they should stop putting new series in the Thursday at 8 slot, who knows if they'll ever do it?

 

[Primal Slayer]

It would be a smart move, though I doubt it will happen. Not to mention it would help my viewing habits since Arrow is the only show I watch at 8 as opposed to the 4 shows I watch at 9.

 

[kane9321]

benched - cancelled

damn it

 

[Sawyer]

NBC Orders People Are Talking and Take It From Us Comedy Pilots

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/luther-frankenstein-fox-pilot-orders-765570

'Luther,' 'Frankenstein' Among Fox Pilot Orders
6:00 PM PST 1/20/2015 by Lesley Goldberg

The network also picks up a comedy from 'The Mindy Project's' Charlie Grandy and drama 'Rosewood.'

Fox threw its hat into the pilot ring Tuesday night, picking up three dramas including adaptations of Luther and Frankenstein as well as a comedy from The Mindy Project's Charlie Grandy.

The network has ordered dramas Frankenstein, Luther and Rosewood as well as half-hour 48 Hours 'Til Monday, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Frankenstein hails from Crisis creator Rand Ravich and Homeland's Howard Gordon. The drama centers on Ray Pritchard, a morally corrupt retired cop, who is given a second chance at life when he is brought back from the dead. Now younger and stronger, Pritchard will have to choose between his old temptations and his new sense of purpose.

Ravich will pen the script and executive produce alongside Gordon and his 20th Century Fox Television-based Teakwood Lane banner. The drama landed at the network with a hefty put-pilot commitment. Teakwood's Hugh Fitzpatrick will co-exec produce.

The pilot order for Luther, meanwhile, is contingent on finding a cast. It hails from Luther creator Neil Cross and counts star Idris Elba among its exec producers. Cross will pen the Fox take, which is based on the BBC Worldwide Productions entry of the same name. The Fox take again centers on John Luther, a near-genius murder detective whose brilliant mind can’t always save him from the dangerous violence of his passions. Elba is not attached for an on-screen role.

The drama, which came with another hefty put-pilot commitment, will be exec produced by Cherin Entertainment's Peter Chernin and Katherine Pope as well as BBC's Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner.

For its part, drama Rosewood is described as a close-ended, investigative series that centers on the brilliant Dr. Beaumont Rosewood Jr., the top private pathologist in all of Miami. As owner of one of the most sophisticated, state-of-the-art independent labs in the country, he finds the secrets in bodies that others usually miss. Despite being constantly surrounded by death Rosewood is obsessed with life and savors every moment. His eternal optimism will frustrate the cynical female detective he often works with, but she can’t argue with the results that his unique perspective provides.

Psych's Todd Harthan will pen the script and exec produce the 20th Century Fox Television drama alongside Temple Hill Entertainment's Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen.

Rounding out the four orders is comedy 48 Hours 'Til Monday, a comedy about one husband's desperate struggle to not let every weekend go completely to hell. The Mindy Project exec producer Grandy will pen the script and executive produce the Universal Television comedy. The single-camera comedy landed at the network with a script plus penalty commitment in October. Grandy will exec produce alongside Peter Traugott and Rachel Kaplan's studio-based TBD Productions banner.

The four pilots join previously announced drama Minority Report and cast-contingent effort Runner at the network. On the comedy side, 48 Hours joins straight-to-series pickup Scream Queens, from Ryan Murphy, at Fox.

I'd much prefer Rosewood to be based on Judge Reinhold's Beverly Hills Cop character.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Rosewood will live or die on the casting of the two leads. As for Luther, they should just get Elba to reprise his role like they did with the Gracepoint guy.

 

[Jordacar]

Damnit Fox, get your own unhinged super-genius cop!

 

[terry78]

Rosewood sounds pretty interesting. Basically an inversion of the typical cynical sardonic lead being actually pretty cheerful.

 

[Sawyer]

http://deadline.com/2015/01/tommy-johnagin-comedy-pilot-legal-drama-cbs-1201355113/

CBS Orders Family Comedy Pilot Starring Tommy Johnagin, Legal Drama Pilot
by Nellie Andreeva

CBS sprung into action today with its first traditional pilot orders, which went to two projects with big commitments: a comedy starring stand-up Tommy Johnagin and executive produced by Bill Lawrence and a drama from longtime Grey’s Anatomy executive producers Tony Phelan & Joan Rater and Elementary executive producers Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly. (CBS also has in the works a Criminal Minds planted spinoff.)

The comedy, which hails from Warner Bros. TV, had a pilot production commitment, while the drama, from CBS’ sister studio, had a put pilot commitment.

The untitled Tommy Johnagin project was written by Johnagin and Surviving Jack and S#*! My Dad Says creators Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker. It stars Johnagin as a stand-up comic raising a family in a small Midwestern town. Until he moved to Los Angeles four years ago, Illinois-born Johnagin lived in southern Illinois and St. Louis, launching and building his career from there. Halpern, Schumacker and Doozer’s Lawrence and Jeff Ingold executive produce, with Johnagin co-executive producing for WBTV and Lawrence’s studio-based Doozer banner.

The pickup of the untitled Tommy Johnagin project is a nod to the storied TV tradition of comedians headlining comedy series inspired by their stand-up, which has produced such mega hits as Cosby, Roseanne, Home Improvement, Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond. CBS has been consistent in looking to launch another comedy fronted by a stand-up, ordering a Jim Gaffigan pilot the last two seasons.

Halpern and Schumacker also have a pilot production commitment from ABC for multi-camera family comedy Astronaut’s Guide To Life On Earth, and Doozer has multiple other projects in play.

This marks the first pilot order for Johnagin who had a semi-autobiographical starring vehicle in the works at NBC in 2012, and last year he developed a comedy at USA Network.

Phelan and Rater wrote and executive produce their untitled drama project, from CBS TV Studios and studio-based Timberman-Beverly Prods. It centers on a smart, chic, successful defense lawyer at a boutique firm who shockingly gets involved romantically with one of her clients who may or may not be guilty of a brutal crime. Timberman and Beverly also executive produce.

Phelan and Rater are currently consulting producers on CBS/CBS Studios’ Madam Secretary as part of their overall deal at the studio, which they inked last year. The pair served as executive producers on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy for 10 seasons. Previously, Phelan and Rater co-produced NBC’s Law & Order: Trial By Jury.

CBS is looking to pick up 8-9 pilots each on the comedy and drama side. The network joins NBC and Fox in ordering pilots, while ABC and the CW are yet to make a move.

http://deadline.com/2015/01/game-of-silence-drama-pilot-nbc-carol-mendelsohn-1201352616/

NBC Orders ‘Game Of Silence’ Drama Pilot
by Nellie Andreeva

NBC continues to forge ahead with pilot orders, greenlighting drama Game Of Silence, from CSI maven Carol Mendelsohn, Parenthood executive producer David Hudgins and Sony TV. This marks the first pilot order by an U.S. network for a scripted Turkish format.

Game of Silence, based on the Turkish drama Suskunlar, was among the biggest sales of pitch season, landing a pilot production commitment that had series penalty attached to it. In anticipation of a pilot order, I hear NBC and Sony TV set up a writers room with a couple of writers joining Hudgins and Mendelsohn to work on breaking the show’s first 13 episodes while Hudgins was writing the pilot script.

Game of Silence is about a rising attorney on the brink of success could lose his perfectly crafted life when his long lost childhood friends threaten to expose a dark secret from their violent past. Hudgins is executive producing with Carol Mendelsonhn Prods’ Mendelsohn and Julie Weitz. Timur Savci, of TIMS Prods, which was behind the original series, also executive produces along with Intrigue’s Tariq Jalil.

Game of Silence was one of two Sony-produced drama projects to receive a pilot production commitment this season. The other, Endgame, also is heating up for a pilot order. NBC, which is looking to pick up about 12 comedy pilots and 8 drama ones, has already greenlighted 6 comedies and 4 dramas.

Mendelsohn, who is in the first year of her overall deal at Sony TV, also co-created and executive produces upcoming CSI spinoff series CSI: Cyber.

Suskunlar, which draws parallels to Sleepers, aired in 2012 and was hailed as the first Turkish series to become a social media phenomenon. It also won several best Turkish dramas awards that year.

That CBS comedy has Bill Lawrence going for it, but it also has the fact that it's a multicam comedy on CBS working against it. Game of Silence could be good. He's one of Jason Katims' people, he knows how to write a show.

 

[Sawyer]

FOX Orders Pilots For John Stamos Comedy, John Wells' Studio City Dramedy

CBS Orders Life In Pieces Comedy Pilot

John Leguizamo Starring in CBS Comedy Pilot Taxi-22

 

[Sawyer]

http://deadline.com/2015/01/endgame-thriller-pilot-john-rogers-blacklist-nbc-1201355012/

Thriller ‘Endgame’ From John Rogers, ‘Blacklist’ Producers Gets NBC Pilot Order
by Nellie Andreeva

As NBC is pinning its hopes for a Thursday ratings turnaround on The Blacklist, which is getting ready to move to the competitive night, the network is betting on another conspiracy thriller from the producers of its flagship drama, Sony Pictures and Davis Entertainment. But did NBC make a last-minute change on the project’s lead character?

The network has given a pilot order to drama Endgame, written by Leverage co-creator John Rogers, creator of TNT’s breakout new drama The Librarians. The project, which already had a pilot production commitment, is described as a high-octane thriller set in the high stakes world of Las Vegas. It centers on a former sniper turned security expert who is drawn into a mysterious conspiracy that forces him to complete a series of heroic challenges in order to save innocent lives. Rogers executive produces with Davis Entertainment’s John Davis and John Fox.

There appears to be a new twist in the logline for Endgame. In the original description of the project when it was sold to NBC in September, the lead was a former intelligence officer. That was a background the character had throughout the development process until he was listed today by NBC as a former sniper. This year, NBC already tweaked the lead characters on another drama project, Love Is A Four Letter Word, just before the pilot order, making the central couple black, likely influenced by one pop culture phenomenon, Fox’s breakout hit Empire. Now the network may have done the same on Endgame in light of the blockbuster success of the feature American Sniper. I hear the creative auspices of the project may have been unaware of the change.

This marks the second Sony-produced drama with a pilot production commitment to get a pilot order at NBC, joining Game Of Silence, from Carol Mendelsohn and David Hudgins.

It should be a good couple of weeks for Rogers, whose TNT drama series The Librarians, based on the network’s hit Librarian movie franchise, is expected to get a second season renewal shortly.

Meh.

 

[Sawyer]

http://deadline.com/2015/01/blindspot-drama-pilot-greg-berlanti-martin-gero-nbc-1201356819/

‘Blindspot’ Conspiracy Drama From Greg Berlanti, Martin Gero Gets NBC Pilot Order
by Nellie Andreeva

NBC is getting close to the finish line in its drama pilot orders with a second pickup today to Blindspot, from Greg Berlanti Prods. and Warner Bros TV, which had a script commitment with hefty penalty.

Written by L.A. Complex creator Martin Gero, Blindspot kicks off with a beautiful woman, with no memories of her past, who is found naked in Times Square with her body fully covered in intricate tattoos. Her discovery sets off a vast and complex mystery that immediately ignites the attention of the FBI who begin to follow the road map on her body to reveal a larger conspiracy of crime while bringing her closer to discovering the truth about her identity.

Gero is executive producing with Berlanti Prods.’ Berlanti and Sarah Schechter. At NBC, Berlanti also has freshman drama series The Mysteries of Laura.

The Blindspot pickup brings NBC’s drama pilot orders to six. NBC had been aiming at doing about 8 drama pilots since the network already has a lot of hourlong series on the schedule. It is worth mentioning that of the six, only one drama pilot comes from sibling Universal TV, with the rest of the drama pilots produced by WBTV (2), Sony TV (2) and 20th TV (1).

Potentially more interesting...

 

[wiegeabo]

Someone watched John Doe and Prison Break

 

[Sawyer]

http://tvline.com/2015/01/23/abc-pilots-2015-bible-saga-1980s-crime-drama/

Pilot News: ABC Orders Biblical Saga, 1980s Crime Drama and 3 Others
By Andy Swift

ABC on Friday gave pilot orders to five drama projects, including a Biblical epic about kings and prophets, and a true-crime procedural set in 1980s Los Angeles.

First up, chronologically speaking, is Of Kings and Prophets, which spins a Biblical tale about a king, a prophet and a shepherd, all of whom are “on a collision course with destiny.”

Adam Cooper and Bill Collage will pen the script, with Jason Reed, Reza Aslan and Mahyad Tousi aboard as executive producers.

In addition, ABC ordered:

* L.A. Crime, a true-crime procedural set in 1980s Los Angeles. The potential first season would follow two officers on the hunt for a team of serial killers. Steven Baigelman will write and Mandeville Television will executive-produce.

* Quantico, which follows young FBI recruits as they complete their training at the Quantico base in Virginia. Written by Josh Safran (Gossip Girl) and executive-produced by the Mark Gordon Company, Quantico employs flashbacks and flash-forwards to reveal which of the recruits is actually a sleeper terrorist “responsible for the most devastating terror attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.”

* Runner, the story of a woman whose perfect life is destroyed by a “simple twist of fate.” Her attempt to expose the truth will send her on a journey through the illegal gun trade between the United States and Mexico. Writer Michael Cooney will executive-produce alongside Ian Sander, Kim Moses, Peter Horton and showrunner Jon Cowan

* Mix, an hour-long dramedy about several modern families — including “multi-cultural, multi-generational and those built through divorces, affairs and adoptions” — set against a family restaurant “at a crossroads.” Rashida Jones will executive-produce with Will McCormack, Le Train Train and writer Jennifer Cecil.

LA Crime sounds like it could be good. Of Kings and Prophets sounds different for ABC. I'm interested.

 

[Prison Mike]

Quantico sounds good

 

[Teelie]

Someone watched John Doe and Prison Break

Too bad they didn't get Dominic Purcell to play the role.