The Canceled Shows of Tomorrow: Pilot Season - Part 2

[superion]

Playboy Club has the honor of being the first to go down this year.

2. Charlies Angels will be next.

3. Free Agents.

4. How to be a Gentleman

5. Prime Suspect.

 

[BlackLantern]

I mean I don't like the Whitney series either, but Cummings did also work on 2 Broke Girls which is a big hit now so apparently doesn't she deserve some credit for that?

sure....she seems to work much better as a writer/producer than star of her own show

I like 2 Broke Girls a lot more than expected.....love Chestnut

 

[Sawyer]

I don't particularly care for the show's foreign characters. Somebody call immigration that Swedish(?) chef.

 

[Dark Raven]

Playboy Club has the honor of being the first to go down this year.

2. Charlies Angels will be next.

3. Free Agents.

4. How to be a Gentleman

5. Prime Suspect.

Hopefully it will be after Charlie's Angels' third episode as well.

 

[Sawyer]

No way. Free Agents must go first.

 

[kane9321]

a full season for Whitney....OK which one of you short bus halfwits is responsible for that travesty?? huh? huh?

This is what I'm saying....halfwits

 

[Assassin]

i don't like it but i watch it on hulu because it's there

 

[kane9321]

Have not seen one minute of Whitney. That bad huh?

Its just disgusting and vile

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2011/10/sci...reen-michael-dougherty-gets-put-pilot-at-abc/

Sci-Fi White House Drama Written By Jon Favreau, Roberto Orci, Seth Green & Michael Dougherty Gets Put Pilot At ABC
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

EXCLUSIVE: This is a writing team configuration that is sure to get people’s attention: Jon Favreau, Roberto Orci, Seth Green and Michael Dougherty. It certainly got ABC’s — the network has handed out a put pilot commitment to Ex-Comm, a sci-fi drama with humor, which will be written by the quartet. Iron Man helmer Favreau is set to direct the potential pilot, with 20th Century Fox TV and Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci’s studio-based K/O Paper Products producing. Ex-Comm is described as a present-day “presidential procedural” and a cross between the paranormal suspense of The X-Files and the political intrigue of The West Wing. It follows a newly-elected President and his top secret “Executive Committee” (a.k.a. Ex-Comm), the government’s covert team of America’s most elite minds who investigate and protect our nation from the strangest occurrences and “conspiracy theory truths” out there. Tonally, the show aims to be fun but grounded, with everything in it operating within the realm of possibility. Favreau, Orci, Green and Dougherty are executive producing with Kurtzman, K/O’s Heather Kadin and Green’s producing partner at Stoopid Monkey Matthew Senreich.

How did the writing team on Ex-Comm get assembled? Robot Chicken co-creator Green and Superman Returns/X Men 2 co-writer Dougherty hatched the idea and took it to Kurtzman and Orci’s company. Meanwhile, Kurtzman and Orci co-wrote this past summer’s Cowboys & Aliens movie, which Favreau directed. While abroad doing press for the film with the rest of the cast and crew, Orci was working on the Ex-Comm pitch, and that’s how Favreau heard about it and came on board. Ex-Comm brings Favreau back to ABC where he directed and executive produced the pilot for the network’s well-received but short-lived single-camera comedy series In Case Of Emergency. It also marks Kurtzman and Orci’s return to the network where they got their big break working on J.J. Abrams’ drama Alias. This is the second sale within the past 24 hours for Favreau, who also has comedy spec Tweaked, which he wrote and is set to executive produce and direct, heading to CBS where it is expected to get a pilot order. Because that one is a spec sale, it should be a quicker production turnaround, allowing Favreau to direct both Tweaked and Ex-Comm should the latter go to pilot early next year.

Favreau has been pursuing television recently as the actor-writer-director has been looking to spend more time in Los Angeles with his wife and 3 young kids. On TV, he previously created, executive produced and hosted the IFC talk show Dinner For Five. On the feature side, CAA-repped Favreau, who rose to prominence with the 1996 indie Swingers, which he wrote and starred in, is now working on the script for the 2013 Disney tentpole Magic Kingdom, which he will also direct. This is the third sale for K/O Paper Products this season. The company also has a Western about Wyatt Earp at Fox with writer John Hlavin and a drama about a Congresswoman advocate at CBS penned by Anna Fricke. UTA-repped Green and Senreich won a Best Short-Format Animated Program Emmy for Robot Chicken last year. Dougherty is with WME.

This could be rather fantastic.

 

[twylight]

Playboy Club has the honor of being the first to go down this year.

2. Charlies Angels will be next.

3. Free Agents.

4. How to be a Gentleman

5. Prime Suspect.

Thank goodness for the first. I compare Playboy Club and Pan Am because they're both period pieces from the same period, they both deal with an establishment that was *big* back then and they're both 'girlfriend' driven.
However Pan Am has a really cool Cold War plot going on and I enjoy how in Pan Am the purpose of the girls isn't to be cheesecake. I'm not saying the show does a lot by way of women's rights, but at least they're not parading around in swimsuits with an old man narrating how women are in power and can do anything they want. Pan Am also has a fun cast.

I don't watch any of the others. I saw the first Free Agent and turned it off 5 minutes in. The British version is so much better and currently playing on BBCA, so guess which station is getting my viewing.

 

[Donut]

http://www.deadline.com/2011/10/sci...reen-michael-dougherty-gets-put-pilot-at-abc/

This could be rather fantastic.

That sounds like a Fringe & The X-Files type show. Only with a different part of the Government

 

[Sawyer]

Snoop Dogg to star in NBC sitcom pilot

Oh, well that's-- wait, what?!

 

[TheVileOne]

Two Broke Girls also got the full season pick up. Will probably get renewed as well I imagine.

 

[Holiday]

I'm about done with Broke Girls. Found myself flipping the channel often watching the last episode.

I just watched Suburgatory for the first time and that was legit. Really great cast, the lead especially. Never seen her before that I can recall. Definitely will continue to watch.

 

[dsfjr1190]

Suburgatory has been excellent both episodes. It's definitely the best new show, in my opinion.

 

[TheVileOne]

Free Agents has now been axed says Variety.

I like the cast but the show didn't work for me. I mean I like Hank Azaria and Anthony Head but the show came off really vapid.

 

[Dark Raven]

Now we just need to wait for the news of Charlie's Angels. That should be next. Maybe tonight there won't be a promo for next week.

 

[Sawyer]

Free Agents has now been axed says Variety.

I like the cast but the show didn't work for me. I mean I like Hank Azaria and Anthony Head but the show came off really vapid.

Vapid can be fun, but that show just looked ****ing boring.

I really think Azaria would be better in a supporting role. I just don't think he can cut it as a lead.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Free Agents has now been axed says Variety.

I like the cast but the show didn't work for me. I mean I like Hank Azaria and Anthony Head but the show came off really vapid.

Now Azaria may have no choice but to take a paycut that Fox has been offering him.

 

[TheVileOne]

That's another thing, we might be talking about THE SIMPSONS of all shows in this thead soon .

 

[superion]

Suburgatory has been excellent both episodes. It's definitely the best new show, in my opinion.

I agree. Definitely better than either of the two comedies with girl in the title.

 

[Sawyer]

The CW cancels H8R, fills timeslot with reruns of Ringer

Good move, CW. Show support to a series that actually is actually promising, while flushing the other turd down the drain.

 

[wiegeabo]

I'm actually partway through episode 3 of Ringer. I'm surprised a CW show has kept my attention that long.

 

[wiegeabo]

And next season is officially the last season of The Simpsons.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/the-simpsons-next-season-last_n_998418.html

 

[dsfjr1190]

Any chance Comedy Central will pick it up? Like they did with Futurama?