Snake said:

1995: Steven Bochco creates the television series "Murder One."
2013: Steven Bochco creates the television series "Murder In The First".

I wonder what the year 2031 will bring.

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TNT has greenlighted a pilot for an untitled quirky bounty hunter drama starring Geena Davis. The show is inspired by the real-life story of bounty hunter Mackenzie Green (watch a short film about her below). It will star the Oscar winner as an unconventional bail bondswoman and bounty hunter whose eccentric personality and unusual tactics give her an advantage in a tough and unpredictable business. Devlin is set to direct the pilot, produced by his independent company Electric Entertainment, Ternion Productions and 3 Arts. It was written by Scott Prendergast and Amy Berg who will serve as showrunners and will executive produce with Devlin, Ternion’s John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky and 3 Arts’ Tom Lassally and Michael Rotenberg. Davis serves as co-executive producer.

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CBS has given a pilot pickup to Hostages, a drama from writer-director Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Warner Bros. TV, which has set Toni Collette as the lead.

Based on an Israeli format, the project, which had a pilot production commitment, centers on a family caught in the middle of a grand political conspiracy that will change their lives forever. Emmy winner Collette will play Ellen, a successful surgeon living in Washington, D.C. who is selected to operate on the President of the United States. She is thrust into the middle of a political conspiracy when her family is taken hostage, and it is up to her to save the lives of her husband and children.

Hostages was originally developed for Israel’s Channel 10 by Alon Aranya, Omri Givon and Rotem Shamir. The show has not been produced in Israel, but an U.S. adaptation written by Aranya found its way to Bruckheimer TV, which bought the rights and then brought in Nachmanoff (Traitor). Nachmanoff wrote the script and and will direct the pilot. He will also executive produce it with Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, Givon, Rotem Shamir and Chayim Sharir. Aranya and KristieAnne Reed serve as co-executive producers. Collette won an Emmy for her starring role on the dark Showtime comedy United States of Tara.

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ivysaur12 said:

I've updated the OP with my favorite pilot infographic.

-- TNT picks up a TNT pilot staring Geena Davis:



-- CBS picks up something not-so CBS starring Toni Collette:

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ivysaur12 said:

Jessica De Gouw (Arrow's Huntress) will co-star in NBC's Dracula as Mina, the only woman at the London College of Science (or something like that) who reminds Dracula of his dead wife.

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@franklinavenue: NBC pilots: Greg Daniels/Robert Padnick dating comedy; work sitcom ASSISTANCE (Leslye Headland); family comedy DONOR PARTY (Alex Schemmer)

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DONOR PARTY -
EP/W: Alex Schemmer
EP: Geyer Kosinski.
Lionsgate/Media Talent Group/Universal Television
Logline: Single camera. In "New Normal" fashion, this ensemble comedy is focused on an irresponsible man forced to grow up when he discovers he has children resulting from his days as a sperm donor. A new family unit develops when a single mom contacts him and he begins to have a relationship with her and the son he never knew he had.

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Synopsis

An ill-equipped bachelor discovers his foray into sperm donation has resulted in kids (lots of kids!) and finds himself entangled in the lives of his new-found children and their less-than-thrilled families.

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UNTITLED GREG DANIELS/ROBERT PADNICK COMEDY -
EP/W: Robert Padnick.
EP: Greg Daniels, Tracy Katsky, Howard Klein.
Deedle Dee Productions, 3 Arts Entertainment, Universal Television
Logline: Single camera. A look at the trials and tribulations of dating in your twenties as explored through a group of friends. The pilot focuses on bright eyed and vulnerable Matthew being pushed by his three best friends to get back on the dating horse.

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twinturbo2 said:

Super Clyde sounds like the dumbest thing ever.

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ivysaur12 said:

-- The McCarthys: About an Irish-Catholic, sports-crazed Boston clan and the gay son whose greatest sin is not his sexuality but his desire to spend less time with his family.
Written by: Brian Gallivan (Happy Endings)
Director:
Starring:
Produced by: Olive Bridge Entertainment/Sony Pictures Television
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ivysaur12 said:

-- The Ordained: About the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated.

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Meier said:

BKV might get a new show?! Yes!

p.s. It'd be nice if the network was underlined or something.. the presentation of the OP is kind of a mess for easily glancing through it.

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Snake said:

So, what, is he going to file an injunction against the bullet?

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katsubento said:

Waiting for Fox to cancel all their new shows after 2 eps this year.

Super Clyde sounds interesting.

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RatskyWatsky said:

That one sounds sort of interesting.

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Clevinger said:

Nah. The Ordained sounds like the dumbest thing ever.

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Pilot pickup season finally got in full swing on Friday with seven orders, four at CBS and three at NBC. That is as many as the broadcast networks had ordered since the first of the year combined as network executives are lamenting the fact that scripts are coming in late this season, delaying pilot orders. Pilot casting, on the other hand, has already started. Part frustration over late scripts, part desire to get a jump on talent led to active pilot casting on a half dozen projects last month, before any had been ordered to pilot. The number expanded further in the first two weeks of January. CBS, for instance, did not formally greenlight the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced drama Hostages to pilot last week until Toni Collette was locked in as the lead.

With the fall producing only two three series that can qualify as hits, NBC’s Revolution, the CW’s Arrow and CBS’ Elementary, the networks are back to the drawing board and appear on track to order a number of pilots that will be on par with last year’s haul of 89 (including presentations). That could mean dozens of offers for Damages star Rose Byrne who has emerged as the hottest commodity this pilot casting season, attracting virtually every female lead offer. (She appears more inclined to do comedy but has not ruled out headlining drama if the right project presents itself.)

As networks brass take a breather for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday before what is expected to be an avalanche of pickups tomorrow, here is where each stands.

One of the biggest surprises this year is how aggressive CBS has been. By this time last year, the network had only ordered one pilot, Jon Favreau’s single-camera spec Tweaked, which was never made. This year, the network already has 9 pilots in contention for next season, including the NCIS: LA planted spinoff.

As six comedy pilots have been already greenlighted, the network is almost done with its half-hour orders, with a couple of more scripts probably getting a pickup. I hear among the hopefuls are David E. Kelley’s single-camera comedy starring Robin Williams, Hilary Winston’s Bad Teacher, Kari Lizer’s multi-camera project, Tad Quill’s firefighter single-camera comedy starring David Walton and another single-camera vehicle, Jason Winer, Tami Sagher and Kourtney Kang’s Nerds In Love.

With the network’s orders skewing heavily towards single-camera (four out of six pilots ordered so far), it appears certain that next season CBS will launch its first single-camera comedy series since 2008′s Worst Week. Competition on the comedy side will be fierce as Chuck Lorre’s latest comedy Mom, starring Amma Faris is likely to get on the schedule, along with a new series from Raising Hope and My Name Is Earl creator Greg Garcia after, in an unusual move, the network gave pilot orders to both of his scripts. This past season, the network picked up only two new comedy series, the now-defunct Partners and Friend Me. With How I Met Your Mother secured to come back and CBS working on extending veteran Two And A Half Men, the network may not have many comedy needs unless it decides to expand its Thursday comedy block to two hours.

On the drama side, given CBS’ track record with ordering every planted spinoff from its successful procedural franchises to series (CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, NCIS: LA and Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior), the proposed NCIS: LA spinoff is all but assured a spot on the schedule. With Elementary certain to be renewedafter a high-profile outing after the Super Bowl, shelf space will once again be tight for next season, with CSI: NY as the only obvious target for cancellation. The older-skewing Vegas also is on shaky ground but may find refuge on Fridays. CBS will likely pick up 3-4 more drama pilots in addition to Hostages, The Ordained and the NCIS: LA spinoff. The strongest candidate among the rest is the Beverly Hills Cop sequel series from Shawn Ryan and Eddie Murphy, which has Brandon T. Jackson cast as the lead and $10 million on the line for the network in penalty/license fees. Green light for the project is expected to come as early as tomorrow. Other potential hourlong candidates include Howard Gordon/Alex Gansa’s Anatomy Of Violence, David Mamet’s Have Gun Will Travel reboot, Hart Hanson’s Backstrom, Michael Seitzman’s Intelligence, Dana Stevens’ Reckless, Barbara Hall’s Difficult Women, Craig Turk’s Legacy, Sam Baum’s Surgeon General project and David Magee’s legal drama.

NBC has been as aggressive as usual with 10 pilots + one presentation (comedy starring Jessica Simpson) already ordered, almost half of what its haul is expected to be (10-12 comedy pilots, 10 dramas). NBC also is the only network to have a new fall 2013 series already picked up, the family/workplace comedy starring Michael J. Fox. Its needs are not as great this year as The Voice successfully expanded to two cycles a season, and the network is likely to bring back at least three first-year series, drama Revolution and comedies Go On and The New Normal, joined by the new Michael J. Fox comedy. Two of NBC’s four drama pilots, medical drama After Hours and mystery The Secret Lives Of Husbands And Wives, were off-cycle orders. After Hours had been garnering some heat for a potential early series order but NBC may wait to see all of its pilots before making any series decisions.

A new drama from Revolution executive producer JJ Abrams, an untitled Alfonso Cuarón project, has been already looking to cast its young lead. Also rumored to be in contention for pilot orders at the network are Anthony Zuiker’s take on Alice In Wonderland, two other ABC Studios projects based on popular character(s), Cleopatra, from Producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and writer Michael Seitzman, which I hear may turn into a two-hour movie/backdoor pilot, and a contemporary Hatfields & McCoys from writer John Glenn and producer Charlize Theron. Also in the running are Rand Ravich’s Washington DC thriller, the Carlton Cuse-produced adaptation of comic Sixth Gun and Ben Ripley’s Vanishing Point, which has Angela Bassett attached to star.

NBC’s 6 comedy picks to date skew heavily towards single-camera (6 to 1). They include one project from Greg Daniels, written by Robert Padnick. That may not be it for The Office boss, who has been very prolific this development season. His Owen Ellickson-penned project starring The Office‘s Craig Robinson is among those talked about. Another Universal TV-produced comedy with talent attached, Matt Hubbard’s half-hour starring Community‘s Donald Glover is also hot, with a pickup likely to raise questions about Community‘s future. Other projects in the NBC rumor mill include Liz Tucillo and Bill Lawrence’s Ali In Wonderland, J.J. Philbin’s The High Life, Hilary Winston’s Girls On Film, Mike Sikowitz’s Chuey & Dan and Matt Tarses’ Threesome. SNL honcho Lorne Michaels has a couple of multi-camera contenders, including one penned by SNL writer John Mulaney and one starring the show’s Keenan Thompson.

Fox and ABC have been surprisingly slow out of the gate this year. Fox, in particular, has only ordered one pilot so far, the Untitled Dan Goor/Mike Schur comedy starring Andy Samberg, vs. 5 pilots on deck at this time last year. The network is in dire need of hits as none of its fall shows broke through. (Fox’s last and best hope for a successful debut is midseason drama The Following, which premieres tonight.) Fox is looking to pick up about 6 drama pilots and 7-8 comedy pilots. Expected to get the green light as soon as tomorrow is legal drama Rake after star Greg Kinnear signed off on the pilot script, supervised by showrunner Peter Tolan. Also hot at Fox are Karyn Usher’s Delirium, Ruben Fleischer US Marshal drama from writer Paul Zbyszewski, Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci’s Sleepy Hollow, Chris Morgan’s Gang Related, Graham Yost’s The Bridge and maybe one of Jason Katims’ two hourlong projects.

On the comedy side, Bill Lawrence’s I Suck At Girls, Alec Sulkin/Wellesley Wild/Seth MacFarlane’s Dads and the untitled Andrew Gurland/Justin Hurwitz scripts are hot. Also getting attention ate David Rosen’s Gavin And Stacey, Sherry Bilsing & Ellen Plummer’s To My Future Assistant, Allyn Rachel & Patrick Carlyle’s Couple Time, Steve Dildarian’s The Commuters, Michael Showalter & Christina Lee’s My Boss Is My Roommate, Jon Zack & Chris Spain’s Sands Of Time, Kay Cannon’s Wrecking Crew and Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith’s live comedy Live From Our Living Room.

ABC got off to a fast start — greenlighting Adam F. Goldberg’s How the Hell Am I Normal? just before the holiday break in December. But since then, the network has only picked up one more pilot, comedy Mixology. They join three off-cycle pilots, the first Marvel project to get to a pilot stage, Joss Whedon’s S.H.I.E.L.D, which ABC topper Paul Lee recently hinted is likely to go to series, and comedies Trophy Wife, starring Malin Akerman; and Rebel Wilson’s Super Fun Night, a single-camera redo of the multi-camera CBS pilot from last season. ABC, which traditionally orders the most pilots, likely will claim the most volume again, with 10-13 comedy and 10-12 drama pilots. On the comedy side, the Cullen Brothers’ Safe At Homehas already been making firm casting offers.

Other talked about projects include Jeff Astroff’s Fat, Forty And Fired, Bill Lawrence’s Feel The Force, Lee Eisenberg & Gene Stupnitsky’s adaptation of the Britis comedy Pulling, Scott Marder’s Big Children, Abby Gewanter’s Now What?, Casey Wilson & June Raphael’s The Housewives and Robert Horn’s Smotherhood.

Drama-wise, David Shore’s legal drama Doubt is looking at casting choices for the lead. Other hopefuls include Hannah Shakespeare’s Killer Women, Kyle Killen’s Influence, David Zabel’s Betrayal, Byron Balasco’s Venice, Noah Hawley’s End Game, Gretchen Berg and Aaron Harberts’ No Rest For the Wicked, Matt Lopez’s The Royals, Sera Gamble/Greg Berlanti’s medial drama, Ron Moore’s A Knight’s Tale and Steve Maeda’s See Of Fire.

The CW is yet to get on the board with traditional pilot orders, though the network already has a frontrunner for the fall schedule in The Originals, a Vampire Diaries planted spinoff. Last year, the network picked up six pilots and two presentations and is once again eying to greenlight about 6 hourlong pilots (no comedies). The hopefuls include the Wonder Woman origin story Amazon, which is already casting the lead, Jason Rothenberg’s The Hundred, Trey Callaway/Sean Hoodsick’s Sick, The Selection, whose new script the CW resident Mark Pedowitz a week ago said was “very well done,” Rob Thomas’ adaptation of Metropolis, and CW’s own Sleepy Hollow project.

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David E. Kelley's single-camera comedy starring Robin Williams

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Trophy Wife, starring Malin Akerman

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Bill Lawrence's Feel The Force

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beat said:

Sweet, CBS will have something to pair with MPK's 2 Broke Girls.

Spoiler

if I could light a couple of shows on fire...

Akerman's great in Childrens Hospital, but then again nearly everyone is awesome on that show.


Cautiously optimistic since I've liked a bunch of his other shows.

And the stuff you've bolded mostly sounds good too.

Why doesn't the CW do more comedies, BTW?

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Jest Chillin said:

Cautiously looking forward to Bill Lawrence's project. I've enjoyed pretty much everything he's put out, including Cougar Town.

I'm hot and cold on Donald Glover being attached to something else. I'm a big fan of his but I'm also a big fan of Community as well and I feel even in the best case scenario (his character leaving while Community continues on) I'm losing a part of something I really enjoy. I realize Community is on the cusp anyways but a man can hope right?

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beat said:

If Community is renewed, it would have first claim on him anyways. But since it's NBC that picked up his new pilot, odds are probably good that they would cancel Community just to free him up... =(

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TripOpt55 said:

Hard for me to make much of that big post from Deadline other than that I liked a lot of the people making those shows, so hopefully they turn out well. I also really like Rose Byrne, so looking forward to see what she ends up in.

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-- Ex Men: Centers on a newly single guy who is taken under the wing of a group of more experienced guys.
Written by: Rob Greenberg (How I Met Your Mother)
Director: Rob Greenberg (How I Met Your Mother)
Starring: Christopher Nicholas Smith as Carter Thomas, Jerry O'Connell as Stuart Stegeman, Kal Penn as Gil Brooks, Rebecca Breeds as Julie Bober, Tony Shalhoub as Frank Bober
Produced by: CBS Television Studios/The Tannenbaum Company
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ivysaur12 said:

Today should be the first truly busy day of the season, if trends hold. I'll update this thread throughout/when I get in front of a computer.

DONOR PARTY -
EP/W: Alex Schemmer
EP: Geyer Kosinski.
Lionsgate/Media Talent Group/Universal Television
Logline: Single camera. In “New Normal” fashion, this ensemble comedy is focused on an irresponsible man forced to grow up when he discovers he has children resulting from his days as a sperm donor. A new family unit develops when a single mom contacts him and he begins to have a relationship with her and the son he never knew he had.

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Stumpokapow said:

This is an absolutely terrible premise for a show.

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Stumpokapow said:

This is an absolutely terrible premise for a show.

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ivysaur12 said:

-- Sally Pressman cast as the lead in Joe, Joe & Jane

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The multi-came project, written by Joe Port and Joe Weissman (The Office, Just Shoot Me), focuses on an author caught in an ongoing war between two needy, flawed people -- his wife (played by Pressman) and his co-author/BFF.

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NBC has greenlighted another drama pilot, The Blacklist. Written by Jon Bokenkamp, the project is centered around an international, Kaiser Soze-like criminal who mysteriously surrenders himself to the Feds and offers to help hunt down the very men he’s spent his entire life protecting. Davis Entertainment’s John Davis and John Fox executive produce with John Eisendrath for Sony Pictures TV. Bokenkamp and Eisendrath are with ICM Partners; Bokenkamp is managed by Brian Lutz.

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@franklinavenue
NBC comedy pilot: GIRLFRIEND IN A COMA. 34-year-old woman wakes up from coma, discovers she has teen daughter. EPs Liz Brixius, Dick Wolf.

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@franklinavenue
NBC comedy pilot: UNTITLED DJ NASH PROJECT. Son sees family get closer after mom and blind dad divorce. EP/writer DJ Nash. Uni TV.

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NBC comedy pilot: HOLDING PATTERNS. Ensemble comedy about group of friends that survive plane crash. EP/writer Justin Spitzer. Uni TV.

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@franklinavenue
NBC drama pilot order: THE SIXTH GUN. Based on the supernatural western graphic novel. @CarltonCuse EP; Ryan Conda writer. Uni TV.

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NBC comedy pilot: HOLDING PATTERNS. Ensemble comedy about group of friends that survive plane crash. EP/writer Justin Spitzer. Uni TV.

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ivy said:

@franklinavenue
NBC comedy pilot: GIRLFRIEND IN A COMA. 34-year-old woman wakes up from coma, discovers she has teen daughter. EPs Liz Brixius, Dick Wolf.

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The untitled Sulkin/Wild project already had a put pilot commitment that had a series penalty behind it. The comedy, from 20th Century Fox TV where MacFarlane is under a rich overall deal, centers on two successful guys in their 30s who have their lives turned upside down when their nightmare dads unexpectedly move in with them.

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Dan said:

Take a shot every time a pilot is picked up that's premised in someone moving in with someone else.

You're already dead.

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Purkake4 said:

I've been out of the loop for a few years now. Has anything good come (and gone) a la Journeyman or Moonlight?

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saunderez said:

Yeah I'm over "wacky people living together" shows. Why do they even have to live together, why can't they just always be around like on Seinfeld?

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@franklinavenue
Fox comedy pilot order: FRIENDS & FAMILY. Relationship comedy based on the BBC's GAVIN & STACEY. David Rosen writer. Sony TV.

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Fox comedy pilot: HOUSE RULES. Neurotic Wisconsin family. Writers Justin Hurwitz and Andrew Gurland. 20th TV/Principato-Young.

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Fox comedy pilot: TO MY ASSISTANT. Based on the blog about assistants at NY law firm. Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer writers.

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@TVMoJoe
Also picked up at Fox: @vdoozer's I SUCK AT GIRLS w/Justin Halpern. Ironic, given that Mr. Lawrence clearly doesn't suck at girls.

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@Variety_Cynthia
Kurtzman/Oric's "Sleepy Hollow" among those getting an order from Fox...

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@franklinavenue
NBC drama pilot order: Untitled D.C. project from Rand Ravich (#Life) about intl. conspiracy that threatens to take everyone down. 20th TV

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The untitled multi-camera comedy, from Universal TV and Hayes and Todd Milliner’s Hazy Mills, centers on Sean (Hayes), who must figure out how to parent his 14-year-old daughter, who just moved in, while navigating a temperamental new boss at work. Fresco, Hayes and Milliner executive produce.

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Stumpokapow said:

RE: To my assistants

girls wins awards

greenlight pilot based on millennials, quick

how will this attract a network audience

*throws dart, which hits "lawyers" instead of "doctors" or "cops"*

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