Cancelled shows of Tomorrow: The War on Chuck Lorre - Part 8

[wiegeabo]

They're going to ignore the direct to video finale.

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

Ryan Phillippe to star in the TV adaptation of Shooter (Point of Impact) for USA Network.

the name Bob Lee Swagger sounds like some militia nutjob that the FBI or Homeland Security apprehended for an act of domestic terrorism...

So regarding the Prison Break series... I guess Michael didn't die after all?

guess not...

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/1...c?hootPostID=6fd8c8a9644143612739402defa9af39

NBC orders comedies from Tina Fey, Mike Schur
BY NATALIE ABRAMS

NBC has ordered new comedies from 30 Rock’s Tina Fey and Robert Carlock as well as Parks and Recreation’s Mike Schur, NBC Chairman Robert Greenblatt announced at the Television Critics Associations’ semi-annual press tour.

Fey and Carlock, the creative minds also behind Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, will produce an untitled comedy from Emmy-winning writer Tracey Wigfield (30 Rock). “Tracey has created a lightly autobiographical, very relatable comedy about an up-and-coming millennial woman working at a cable news network where her mother happens to get a job after going back into the work place,” Greenblatt said. “The combination of Tina, Robert, and Tracey, we think, is about as good as it gets.”

Calling Schur “one of the most gifted comedy writers in our business,” Greenblatt gave a few details about his other new comedy, A Good Place. “He came in recently and laid out the whole season for us and we loved it so much that it was just ordered it in the room,” Greenblatt said. “The guy who brought Amy Poehler to primetime is going to be bringing us another strong and very complicated lead female character. This is a high-concept comedy like nothing seen before about a woman wrestling with what it means to be good.”

Where the Fey-Carlock project has been ordered to pilot production, A Good Place has been given a 13-episode series commitment order.

Stay tuned for more NBC news from TCA.

Projects from Fey and Schur?! I guess NBC still has taste after all.

 

[Quasar]

Welcome to Sweden aired 4 eps, and now they've added the remaining 6 eps of season 2 to On Demand. The 4 eps that aired expire July 2016. The next 6 expire 9/20/15. Go figure.

 

[Sawyer]

http://deadline.com/2015/08/bumbleberry-lane-puppet-show-comedy-gary-janetti-nbc-1201499460/

Puppet Show Comedy From Gary Janetti Gets NBC Put Pilot Commitment
by Nellie Andreeva

An irreverent, single-camera workplace comedy from Vicious co-creator Gary Janetti has landed at NBC with a put pilot commitment. Tentatively titled Bumbleberry Lane, the project, from Warner Bros. TV where Janetti is under an overall deal, is set behind the scenes of a racially diverse, politically correct children’s puppet program where everyone and everything is incredibly, politically incorrect. (The puppet show’s description and name, Bumbleberry Lane, sounds like a take on PBS’ venerable Sesame Street)

In the vein of The Larry Sanders Show (but with puppets), Bumbleberry Lane is described as a big ensemble comedy in which a group of misfits working at a public television children’s show try to prevent their messy personal lives from spilling over into their jobs, sometimes resulting in puppets behaving badly. The R-rated show behind the G-rated show.

Foul-mouthed puppets have been a hit on Broadway the last few years with Avenue Q — which also draws parallels to Sesame Street and was actually originally conceived as a TV series — and Hand To God. Puppets also are making a return to primetime with ABC’s upcoming The Muppet Show, which also is set behind-the-scenes of a TV show though it is an 8 PM family-friendly comedy that follows the wise-cracking puppet characters, not the people who handle them.

In addition to co-creating British comedy Vicious, starring Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi as a bickering long-time gay couple, comedy veteran Janetti worked on Will & Grace and Family Guy. He is repped by UTA.

NBC, which retreated from comedy in the past year, has been aggressive on the half-hour front early into the 2015-16 development season. The network yesterday announced a straight-to-series order to a project from Mike Schur and a pilot order to a comedy produced by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, both from Universal TV, as well as pilot orders to two projects submitted through the NBC Playground initiative. NBC also has given big commitments to two high-concept comedies from WBTV, a pilot production commitment to the DC Comics-themed Powerless and a put pilot to Bumbleberry Lane.

“Comedy is very important to us,” NBC entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt said at TCA yesterday.

 

[Primal Slayer]

This is why we cant have nice things.

 

[Sawyer]

Use your words, Primal.

 

[Primal Slayer]

 

[Sawyer]

 

[Primal Slayer]

 

[Sawyer]

 

[Sawyer]

NBC Developing RED Series With Film's Writers

A TV series based around older actors doing badass s***? If Terry O'Quinn isn't a part of it, I'll protest.

 

[Marvolo]

This "Let's turn every movie into a tv series" fad is getting old already.

 

[Sawyer]

No one's putting a gun to your head.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Tvline asks producers/actors what tv shows they would reboot/revive. Sadly most of the answers were just one liners "loved the show"

Andrew Kreisberg (Executive producer, Arrow, The Flash, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl)
"One of the most amazing series finales of all time was Angel [because] it ended mid-battle. The whole point of that show was that the battle always goes on. There isn't always a happy ending. It's more about the fight than the victory. So I think it would be really interesting to check in and see what happened to Gunn and Angel and Illyria and Spike. I would definitely tune in for that."

Michael Narducci (Executive producer, The Originals)
"The show that I always really wanted to work on that I would love to reboot is Friday Night Lights. I loved Friday Night Lights with every fiber of my being. It's the kind of show where you pick up with Coach Taylor and he's got a new team and anything could happen. I loved the portrayal of that couple, and I loved just how good and wholesome that show was and about the kind of values I love to see on TV. Season 4 of that show just made me cry every episode."

Laura Vandervoort (Bitten)
"It'd be nice if V came back to tie up all the loose ends from our show. We did one season and left it as a cliffhanger. We got cancelled before we got to really tie up everything.

https://tvline.com/gallery/tv-show-revival-reboot-2015-wish-list/#!1/reboots-revivals-angel/

 

[Parker Wayne]

No one's putting a gun to your head.

This and also I couldn't care less what network television is doing. They're losing viewers every year to cable, premium cable, and Netflix, hence why NBC is desperately reboot crazy.

 

[Sawyer]

NBC gave me Hannibal and cable/streaming didn't, so both those formats can eat s***.

 

[Mace Dolex]

They need to have Steve, Marcy and Jefferson.

I'm actually surprised that there wasn't a mini reunion via Modern Family. Christina Applegate could have played a childhood friend of Claire, which meant an interaction with Jay.

David Faustino did do a guest spot on MF before but no interaction with Ed O'Neill so the writers missed the boat on that one.

 

[Primal Slayer]

I don't know how they missed casting Katey as his ex wife.

 

[Sawyer]

Because they valued believably over stunt casting.

Katey as Mitch and Claire's mom? Nah.
Shelley Long as Mitch and Claire's mom? Oh yeah. Especially Claire.

 

[Primal Slayer]

They totally could've put a blonde wig on her and made her look a certain way. The character has only showed up like 3 times?

 

[Sawyer]

TV Personality Most People Are Tired of Will Guest Star on TV Show No One Cares About

 

[Teelie]

It didn't take much of a guess to figure out who that might have been.

 

[Sawyer]

CBS Readying CIA Drama Inspired By Lives of 'Mythbusters' Duo (Exclusive)

The untitled drama, which has received a script commitment from the network, revolves around two Hollywood special effects artists who are recruited by the CIA to complete seemingly impossible covert ops missions by creatively using the most basic tools from their craft.

Definitely sounds like something CBS would do.

 

[Jason Kane]

This is why we cant have nice things.

Mother******s!