Cancelled shows of Tomorrow: The War on Chuck Lorre

[Marvolo]

Lets withhold those judgements until we even see what the ratings actually are, since they got ahead of themselves in such typical Starz fashion.

They wouldn't dare provoke the wrath of Bay. He'll unleash bayhem on them.

 

[Sawyer]

This generation's cartoons suck. Bring back Animaniacs.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Avatar the Last Airbender would like to have a word with you.

 

[Primal Slayer]

http://www.deadline.com/2013/08/networks-eying-cia-drama-starring-kathrine-heigl/

She thought she was a George Clooney. Turns out she's a Mischa Barton.

Mischa Barton wishes her career was still half of Heigls.

 

[DyeLorean]

The thing I don't get is how the hell, with all the tecnhology they have, they can't make a cartoon with realistic proportions, like, I don't know, 90's Spider-Man and X-Men.
The look of the current animated characters are all weird and ugly.

Ugh...!!

Look at this, beautiful!

 

[Primal Slayer]

Because it's artistic interpretation? If they wanted them to look realistic they would have.

 

[DrDoom]

Timm's art style is GREAT, didnt think it was possible to not like it

 

[Shifty]

They wouldn't dare provoke the wrath of Bay. He'll unleash bayhem on them.

Given the track record of the current and past regime the chances are great it will get only 2 seasons. Da Vinci's Demons is going to have to find 500,000 more viewers if it wants a shot at a 3rd season.

Starz has nothing to help launch the series except for the low rated Da Vinci's Demons. They had Spartacus to lead into Camelot and Da Vinci but not enough people watched those two shows. Now they'll have to rely solely on marketing which hasn't worked for any of the network's shows except for Spartacus which grew through word of mouth.

 

[Sawyer]

Mischa Barton wishes her career was still half of Heigls.

True. In hindsight, trying to figure out exactly what she was leaving for is hilarious. Heigl at least kicked off a movie career, even if the movies often aren't any good. Almost all Barton's movies, I've never even heard of. Or was she just leaving The OC to party with Paris Hilton some more?

 

[DyeLorean]

Because it's artistic interpretation? If they wanted them to look realistic they would have.

I know it's an artistic approach, but why does it have to look so 'cartoony'? You know what I mean? I don't want to sound like an old guy *****ing about the new stuff, but is just ugly to look at.
I see the stuff my cousin watches on tv, and the drawings and the designs are just... not good. At least there are reruns of old cartoons, like Scooby Doo and Tom & Jerry.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I know it's an artistic approach, but why does it have to look so 'cartoony'? You know what I mean? I don't want to sound like an old guy *****ing about the new stuff, but is just ugly to look at.
I see the stuff my cousin watches on tv, and the drawings and the designs are just... not good. At least there are reruns of old cartoons, like Scooby Doo and Tom & Jerry.

Do I even have to answer why?

 

[DyeLorean]

You don't understand my point. Nevermind.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2013/08/fox...ital-entertainment-with-put-pilot-commitment/

Fox Buys Comedy From John Hamburg, Dan Kopelman & Kapital Entertainment With Put Pilot Commitment
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

EXCLUSIVE: A high-concept comedy, which drew interest from all major broadcast networks, has landed at Fox with a put pilot commitment. Titled The Henchman, the single-camera comedy project was written on spec by Dan Kopelman (Rules Of Engagement, Malcolm In The Middle), with feature writer-director John Hamburg (Meet The Parents franchise, I Love You, Man) set to direct and Aaron Kaplan of Kapital Entertainment executive producing. Described as a live-action, grounded comedy in the vein of Despicable Me, The Henchman centers on a henchman to the world’s worst super-villain who deals with single parenthood and impending middle age. The project is yet to be laid off at a studio, with Fox sibling 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. TV considered strong possibilities. Kopelman penned The Henchman on spec, which he further developed with Kaplan. The two also are developing a comedy at Nickelodeon loosely based on actress Tia Mowry-Hardrict‘s upbringing. Kaplan and Kopelman gave The Henchman script to Hamburg who loved it and came on board. The trio are executive producing. As a producer, Kaplan has solid track record with specs, getting pilot orders for HR at Lifetime, and Isabel and Daddy’s Girls at NBC. He has six series on the air, ABC’s The Neighbors and Nick’s Wendell & Vinnie and the upcoming Back In The Game on ABC, Friends With Better Lives on CBS, Instant Mom on NickMom and Chasing Life on ABC Family. The sale continues comedy projects’ hot streak this development season with a slew of pilot production and put pilot commitments. Kopelman is with UTA and Jared Levine, Hamburg with WME.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/08/cbs...erg-gene-stupnitsky-abc-studios-as-put-pilot/

CBS Nabs Comedy From Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky, Danny Chun And ABC Studios With Put Pilot Commitment
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

EXCLUSIVE: In a very competitive situation, CBS has landed Gorgeous Morons, a multi-camera comedy project from prolific writer-producers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky and ABC Studios, with a big put pilot commitment. Co-created by Eisenberg, Stupnitsky and frequent collaborator/former Office head writer Danny Chun, all under overall deals at ABCS, Gorgeous Morons centers on two stunningly handsome but dumb brothers, a model and a personal trainer, who find their lives rocked by their new roommate, a female literature PhD. who is merely very attractive.

This is the biggest commitment from an outside network to a comedy project from ABC Studios in many years as the studio is stepping up its efforts to sell everywhere under new boss Patrick Moran. Both Moran and ABC Studios’ head of comedy Amy Hartwick came from 20th Century Fox TV, which, while aligned with Fox, supplies all major broadcast networks, so the goal was to not let vertical integration stand in the way of giving their projects the best chance of success. “Not everything is going to work at the studio’s sister network and therefore we want ABCS to afford our show creators enough options to find the right home for their material,” Hartwick said.

Eisenberg and Stupnitsky first came up with the idea for Gorgeous Morons last season when they ended up writing an adaptation of the British series Pulling for ABC Studios in addition to executive producing Trophy Wife. It has been a busy year for the duo who landed four pilots, Trophy Wife and Pulling at ABC, Bad Teacher at CBS (based on the hit feature written by them) and Hello Ladies at HBO, three of which — Trophy Wife, Bad Teacher and Hello Ladies — went to series. Heading into this development season, Eisenberg and Stupnitsky revisited the Gorgeous Morons idea but, with three shows on the air, they couldn’t write it by themselves and reached out to one of their go-to writers, Chun, with whom they worked on The Office and have since recruited for Hello Ladies and Trophy Wife. Chun, who will take lead in writing the script, is well liked at ABC Studios where he developed two projects last season, one for ABC and one for Fox. Deemed not a good fit for ABC, Gorgeous Morons was taken to the other major broadcast networks who I hear all bought it in the room as there is a very strong interest among the networks in multi-camera comedy at the moment, especially fresh takes on the classic half-hour format. CBS, the dominant player in the multi-camera genre, was particularly aggressive and ultimately nabbed the pitch. Gorgeous Morons would be a suitable companion for CBS’ Chuck Lorre series and has a vibe of a reversed Big Bang Theory of sorts. Eisenberg and Stupnitsky, repped by WME, Mosaic and Robert Offer, are executive producing through their Quantity production company headed by Emily Brecht. Exec producer Chun is repped by WME, Price Management and Ziffren Brittenham.

It's like a reverse gender Big Bang Theory. Lets hope it's got a reverse sense of humor, and therefore is actually funny.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2013/08/nbc...mith-greg-berlanti-with-put-pilot-commitment/

NBC Nabs Futuristic Prison Drama From Seth Grahame-Smith & Greg Berlanti With Put Pilot Commitment
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Paradise, a prison drama from hot novelist/feature writer Seth Grahame-Smith (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) and producer Greg Berlanti, has landed at NBC with a put pilot commitment. Written by Grahame-Smith, Paradise is set in the late 21st century in the city of Las Vegas which is now the world’s largest maximum-security prison, known as Paradise. Matthew Turner, M.D., is its newest inmate, convicted of a murder he didn’t commit. Desperate to get back to his family and prove his innocence, Matthew will have to find a strength he never knew he had, and stay alive long enough to do the one thing no inmate has ever done: escape. Paradise hails from Warner Bros. TV and studio-based Berlanti Prods., with Berlanti Prods.’ Greg Berlanti and Melissa Kellner Berman and KatzSmith Prods.’ Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg executive producing. Like Berlanti, Grahame-Smith has a feature deal at Warner Bros. (with partner Katzenberg) and he too is straddling film and television. The two were put together by WME, which reps both. At NBC, Paradise would join another drama about U.S. in the future from Warner Bros. TV and one of the studio’s top producers, J.J. Abrams’ Revolution. Prison dramas have a long history on TV, recently with HBO’s Oz, Fox’s Prison Break and Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black.

Grahame-Smith became a household name with his 2009 bestselling novel Pride And Prejudice and Zombies, which launched the “mash-up” literature craze. He followed up with another best seller, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which he also adapted for Tim Burton, a feature script that landed on the Black List in 2011. Grahame-Smith then penned Dark Shadows for Burton and is currently writing a sequel to Burton’s 1988 cult classic, Beetlejuice, which he and Katzenberg are producing. Grahame-Smith also is adapting his latest bestseller, Unholy Night, which Warner Bros. acquired in a record-setting deal. On the TV side, Grahame-Smith and Katzenberg created and executive produced MTV’s first scripted live-action comedy, The Hard Times Of RJ Berger, which ran for two seasons. Berlanti is behind one of the highest-profile projects for fall 2014, the CW’s The Flash, which will be spun off from the network’s breakout Arrow, also co-created and executive produced by Berlanti. He also has upcoming CW series The Tomorrow People, and his USA drama Political Animals is nominated for best miniseries Emmy. In addition to WME, Grahame-Smith and Katzenberg are repped by attorney Gregg Gellman. This marks the third major commitment for a drama project this selling season, along with the put pilot at Fox for Michael Green’s A League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the series order at CBS to Mickey Fisher/Amblin TV’s spec Extant.

 

[Hunter Rider]

^^^ Cool premise.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Soooo...escape from New York. Only in Las Vegas.

 

[terry78]

Every story has already been told.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2013/08/dav...ilot-greenlight-with-brendan-gleeson-as-star/

David Milch’s ‘The Money’ Gets HBO Pilot Greenlight With Brendan Gleeson As Star
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

Brendan Gleeson is set as the lead in The Money, David Milch‘s latest drama project for HBO. With Gleeson on board, it has received a formal pilot order. Written by Milch, The Money is about wealth and corruption among the super elite, focusing on American mogul and patriarch James Castman (Gleeson), who wields power and influence to expand his media empire and control his family.

Milch is executive producing with Art & John Linson (Sons Of Anarchy). Frank Rich, who has a deal at HBO, also is exec producing. Justin Chadwick is set to direct the pilot and co-executive produce with Eric Roth and Sarah Caplan. Gleeson, repped by Principal Entertainment and Ireland’s The Agency, has won an Emmy for an HBO project, the 2009 movie Into the Storm. This would mark the veteran actor’s first U.S. TV series. For Milch, who has been under a deal at HBO for a decade, The Money marks his fifth pilot at the pay cable network. Three of the other four — Deadwood, John From Cincinnati and Luck — went to series.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/08/nbc-nabs-comedy-produced-by-30-rocks-tina-fey-robert-carlock/

NBC Nabs Comedy Produced By ’30 Rock’s Tina Fey & Robert Carlock
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

EXCLUSIVE: 30 Rock creator/co-showrunner Tina Fey and co-showrunner Robert Carlock are back in business together and with NBC, backing another female-centered workplace project by a young female comedy writer. NBC has bought an untitled comedy from 30 Rock writer-producer Colleen McGuinness, which is being executive produced by Fey and Carlock through Universal Television where both are based. Written and executive produced by McGuinness, the project, said to be in the vein of Cheers, is a character-driven workplace comedy where a young woman in search of reconnecting with her father finds a new home and family on Fire Island. This marks the first project from Fey’s Little Stranger production company under the four-year deal she inked with Uni TV last fall. WME-repped McGuinness joined 30 Rock during Season 6 and shared in the series’ WGA nomination earlier this year. Before that, she worked on NBC drama Mercy. In its last hurrah at the Emmys, 30 Rock, which wrapped its seven-year run in January, received 13 nominations, more than any other comedy, including for best comedy series.

I need to know how hands-on Fey will be with the writing before I get too excited.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2013/08/nah...y-with-jake-kasdan-lands-at-abc-as-put-pilot/

Nahnatchka Khan Immigrant Family Comedy With Jake Kasdan Lands At ABC As Put Pilot
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

EXCLUSIVE: Don’t Trust The B—- creator Nahnatchka Khan is back at ABC with a new single-camera comedy. The network has handed a put pilot commitment to Fresh Off The Boat, which Khan is writing/executive producing. Jake Kasdan also is exec producing the project, which hails from 20th Century Fox TV where both Khan and Kasdan are based. Based on Eddie Huang’s memoir, Fresh Off The Boat is set in the 90s and centers around a Chinese family that moves to Orlando, FL. This is a setup Khan can relate to as she too is a first-generation American whose parents were “fresh off the boat.” Kasdan’s producing partner Melvin Mar also exec produces the project, while restauranteur/TV personality Huang serves as producer.

The deal comes 10 days after another half-hour project from Khan, which has Nat Faxon and Jim Rash attached to direct/exec produce, was bought pre-emptively by Fox with a pilot production commitment. That created a competitive situation for Fresh off The Boat among the other broadcast networks, which wanted to be in business with Khan. ABC programming chief Paul Lee has been a vocal supporter Don’t Trust The B—, calling the decision to cancel the show a particularly difficult one. Before creating Don’t Trust The B—, WME-repped Khan worked on American Dad! for seven years. Like Khan, WME-repped Kasdan too has another single-camera comedy with a pilot production commitment at Fox that also isbased on a memoir, Cindy Chupack’s adaptation of her book The Longest Date.

I can't wait for the accusations of racism when/if this thing hits the air.

 

[enterthemadness]

Oh ****, tick tock....

http://daytimeconfidential.zap2it.c...c-affiliate-boots-days-of-our-lives-to-the-cw

Las Vegas NBC Affiliate gives Days of our Lives the heave ho...sending it to The CW Las Vegas Station.


Oh ****...didn't think that could happen. This is also happening to--Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tina-fey-matt-hubbard-comedy-606647

Tina Fey-Matt Hubbard Comedy Sparks Network Bidding War
6:19 PM PDT 8/14/2013 by Lesley Goldberg

The comedy is set at a former women's college that begins accepting men for the first time.

Tina Fey and Matt Hubbard are at the top of multiple networks' wish lists.

A comedy from the 30 Rock duo has ignited a highly competitive bidding war among the broadcast nets, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The untitled comedy takes place at a former all-girls college which has just opened its doors to men for the first time, with NBC, Fox and other networks interested in making the project their own.

Fey and Hubbard are on board to executive produce the project under Fey's four-year overall deal with Universal Television. Fey has no plans to star in the project.

The project marks the second for the former 30 Rock star this development season. Fey reteamed with co-showrunner Robert Carlock for an untitled comedy from 30 Rock writer-producer Colleen McGuinness, which sold this week to NBC. That project, also from Universal TV, is a workplace comedy in which a woman reconnects with her estranged father and finds a new home and family on Fire Island.

Both comedies hail from Fey's Little Stranger banner.

Fey is repped by WME, 3 Arts and Ziffren Brittenham; Hubbard is with UTA and Hansen Jacobson.

Moar Tina Fey! MOAR!

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2013/08/hig...att-miller-dan-lin-lands-at-abc-as-put-pilot/

High-Concept Crime Drama From Matt Miller & Dan Lin Lands At ABC As Put Pilot
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation with multiple networks bidding, ABC has nabbed a drama project from former Chuck executive producer Matthew Miller and Lin Pictures with a put pilot commitment. Titled Forever, the drama hails from Warner Bros. TV where Miller and Lin Pictures are under overall deals. It centers on Dr. Henry Morgan, the most over-qualified pathology associate in the world who has experienced it all — wars, love, even smallpox and malaria — but there is one feat that he can’t seem to accomplish: dying. Morgan is a 200-year-old man who spends his days working in the New York City Morgue trying to find a key to unlock the curse of his immortality. His investigative work with hard-nosed NYPD detective Jo Martinez will reveal elements of Morgan’s colorful life. Miller will be writing the script and will executive produce with Lin Pictures’ Dan Lin and Jennifer Gwartz. Forever draws some parallels to the short-lived 2008 Fox drama series New Amsterdam, which starred Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as a 400-year-old NYPD homicide detective with a female partner, Eva Marquez (Zuleikha Robinson).

This marks Miller’s return to ABC where last season he served as executive producer/showrunner on supernatural drama 666 Park Ave, also from WBTV. He is with WME and McKuin, Frankel, Whitehead. Lin Pictures, repped by WME and Myman Abell Fineman, has comedy pilot Assistants still in contention at Fox, which is eyeing a new pilot.

New Amsterdam?

But the title is more clear/obvious, so who knows how it would be received...

 

[redmarvel]

Well, I called it correctly (October 2nd, 2012).

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?p=24408853&highlight=#post24408853

Alphas was cancelled Jan 16th.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/01/16/alphas-cancelled/

 

[Sawyer]

That's.... nice.

But I'm pretty sure it was cancelled due to its ratings, not the death of a supporting character.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Pretty random, too.