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ABC orders pilots from 'Prison Break' exec, 'Housewives' creator

ABC has ordered four new hour-long drama pilots, including projects from Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry and Prison Break's Paul Scheuring.

Devious Maids - first announced in October - is a loose adaptation of Mexican telenovela The Disorderly Maids Of The Neighborhood and centres on four Latina women who work as maids in Beverly Hills.

Cherry wrote the pilot script, which will now be produced by ABC Studios, according to Deadline.

The network has also picked up fantasy drama Gotham from The River showrunner Michael Green.

Produced by 20th Century Fox TV, the pilot follows a female cop who discovers a magical world that exists within New York City.

Scheuring's project is titled Zero Hour and will focus on a devoted sceptic who finds himself drawn into a global conspiracy. Scheuring will exec produce with Man on a Ledge producer Lorenzo DiBonaventura and Dan McDermott.

The final pick-up is for Penoza, a crime drama based on a Dutch series and adapted by Twilight writer Melissa Rosenberg.

The potential series will focus on the widow of an assassinated crook who is forced to adopt her late husband's criminal ways in order to protect her family.

The original Penoza was created by Pieter Bart Korthuis and is now in its second season on KRO in the Netherlands.

The latest pilot orders are expected to be ABC's last for the 2012-13 television season. The network has already picked up family soap Americana, a remake of UK sitcom Only Fools and Horses and a modern-day Beauty and the Beast update.

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Tuesday 31st January

8:00PM

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Glee

9.02 Million

3.6/10

Switched At Birth

1.93 Million

0.8/2

90210

1.42 Million

0.7/2

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New Girl

7.23 Million

3.5/9

Ringer

1.37 Million

0.6/2

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Raising Hope

4.69 Million

2.1/5

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The Game

3.20 Million

1.6/3

White Collar

3.04 Million

1.0/3

Justified

2.71 Million

1.1/3

Southland

2.10 Million

0.7/2

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Let's Stay Together

2.26 Million

1.1/3

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ABC picks up Judy Greer comedy pilot 'American Judy'

ABC has picked up a new comedy pilot starring Arrested Development's Judy Greer.

American Judy will star the actress as a cosmopolitan city girl who struggles to adapt to family life in the suburbs, according to Deadline.

Greer is currently part of the voice cast on FX animated comedy Archer and has also played recurring roles on Two and a Half Men and Californication.

Her new project has been scripted by Leap Year writers Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont, while David Gardner will serve as executive producer.

ABC has recently ordered a string of comedy pilots for the 2012-13 television season, including a sci-fi comedy from Crazy, Stupid, Love. writer Dan Fogelman, family sitcom How to Live With Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life and a remake of the British series White Van Man.

Scrubs producers Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley are also said to be working on an adaptation of UK sitcom Only Fools and Horses.

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'Bad Girls' remake picked up to pilot by NBC

NBC is developing a remake of UK drama series Bad Girls.

The original show aired on ITV from 1999 to 2006 and followed the inmates and officers in a women's prison.

Debra Stephenson, Jack Ellis and Linda Henry were among the actors to appear on the show, which ended after eight series.

A US adaptation, from Shameless showrunner John Wells, has now been picked up to pilot, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Wells will executive produce alongside Andrew Stearn and Nancy Pimental, as well as a team of British producers from Shed Media.

FX previously developed a US remake of Bad Girls in 2006, but the project was later abandoned. An HBO adaptation, with creative input from True Blood's Alan Ball, was also scrapped in 2008.

In addition to the Bad Girls remake, Wells has also sold a pilot to Fox for the 2012-13 television season.

Prodigy Bully - written by Glee actor Mike O'Malley - focuses on a young boy genius who uses his brains and brawn to manipulate others.

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I am getting fed up now, that is 3 UK Shows that American networks are going to remake, Sherlock Holmes is bad enough, Only Fools And Horses is a joke because they are going to butcher the show and now Bad Girls, lazy American writers cant even think up their own shows.

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Kevin Bacon for 'Vampire Diaries' showrunner's serial killer pilot?

Kevin Bacon is close to being cast in Kevin Williamson's new serial killer pilot.

The Footloose actor is in negotiations to play the "good guy" in the new drama, according to Entertainment Weekly.

Dawson's Creek creator Williamson's project is said to chart the relationship between the killer and the FBI agent who took him down.

The agent is called back into service when the serial killer uses modern technology to create a cult of killers.

It is believed that the show - produced by Warner Bros. - will receive a 15-episode commitment if Fox elects to place a full series order.

The as-yet-untitled show was formally ordered by the network last month, but rumours of a put-pilot committment from Fox first emerged last September.

Other pilots which Fox has ordered with an eye on the new television season include a comedy from Glee star Mike O'Malley, Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence's new project Like Father and a teenage spy pilot from former Bones producer Karyn Usher.

Former ER actor John Stamos was recently linked with Little Brother, a Fox comedy pilot penned by Everybody Loves Raymond writer Mike Royce.

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Reba McEntire, identity theft pilots picked up by ABC

ABC has picked up two new comedy pilots, including one starring Reba McEntire.

Malibu Country will also be executive produced by McEntire, TV Line reports.

She will play a recently divorced mother who has to keep her children down to earth when they move to Malibu.

The project is being penned by Kevin Abbott, who previously worked with McEntire on her sitcom Reba. Abbott's other credits include Golden Girls, Roseanne and My Name Is Earl.

Elsewhere, ABC ordered a pilot for Prairie Dogs, a comedy about a nerd whose identity is stolen. Realising that the thief is much cooler than him, he asks him to help him improve his life.

The show is being developed by Jackie Filgo and Jeff Filgo, who previously worked on That '70s Show, The New Adventures of Old Christine and Hank.

Other comedy pilots that have recently been ordered by ABC include a project starring Judy Greer and remakes of the British series White Van Man and Only Fools and Horses.

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Ghost Whisperer' star David Conrad joins NBC's 'Beautiful People

David Conrad and Tovah Feldshuh have become the latest stars to join NBC drama pilot Beautiful People.

The sci-fi project, from Cougar Town writer Michael McDonald, is set in a future world in which humans co-exist with life-like androids, known as 'Mechanicals'.

Conrad will play Jerry, an entrepreneur and genius who is an expert at designing and marketing the sophisticated Mechanical servants, according to Deadline.

The Ghost Whisperer star has recently appeared in episodes of CSI: Miami and The Good Wife.

Feldshuh will appear as a cop who heads the police department's 'Mechanical Control Division' and wants the androids to remain an oppressed underclass.

The actress played the recurring role of Danielle Melnick on Law & Order from 1991 to 2007. Her recent credits include episodes of Ugly Betty and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

American Horror Story's Frances Conroy, Primeval star James Murray and Royal Pains actor Patrick Heusinger are already attached to the Beautiful People pilot.

Andrea Parker, Jud Tylor, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Madisen Beaty and Cody Christian have also signed up for roles.

House of Lies director Stephen Hopkins will helm the pilot, which will be co-produced by ABC Studios and Universal TV.

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Daniel Lissing joins 'The Shield' creator's ABC pilot 'Last Resort

Daniel Lissing has won a role in ABC drama pilot Last Resort.

The pilot - from The Shield creator Shawn Ryan and Dead Like Me's Karl Gajdusek - will focus on the crew of a US nuclear submarine, who become fugitives when they refuse to fire the craft's missiles.

Australian star Lissing is the first actor cast on the project and will play James King, a lethal Navy SEAL with no ties back in the US, according to Deadline.

He is best known for his role on Australian comedy-drama Crownies and has also filmed roles in forthcoming movies The Cure and John Doe.

Green Lantern and Casino Royale director Martin Campbell has signed up to direct the Last Resort pilot.

In addition to his work on FX's The Shield, Shawn Ryan served as showrunner on Lie to Me and created short-lived Fox drama The Chicago Code.

Other drama pilots currently in the works at ABC include the period-set Gilded Lillys from Shonda Rhimes, Devious Maids from Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry and conspiracy thriller Zero Hour from Prison Break's Paul Scheuring.

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Wednesday 1st February

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Whitney

4.44 Million

1.7/5

One Tree Hill

1.47 Million

0.7/2

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Are You There, Chelsea

4.08 Million

1.7/4

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Royal Pains

4.08 Million

1.1/3

Hot In Cleveland

1.63 Million

0.4/1

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The Exes

N/A

N/A

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ABC fall development 2012: Out to please soap fans?

Like Revenge on ABC? Well you may get a lot more of it.

The lion’s share of the net’s drama pilots in development for fall offer sudsy tales in the vein of the Hamptons-based drama that’s currently tearing up the screen on Wednesdays. (To wit: The drama, which is averaging 8.7 million viewers, leads its hour against old dramas on CBS and NBC among adults 18-34 and key female demos. It’s also the net’s most-watched series in the hour in more than four years, since Lost in 2006-07).

Female-skewing serials fit in best for the home of Grey’s Anatomy and the outgoing Desperate Housewives, so ABC appears to be staying in its wheelhouse with adaptations of the tomes Scruples and 666 Park Avenue and another (with any luck, sexy) update of Beauty and the Beast.

Since no network dares to go into a new season without a legal angle or two, law-dog guru Shawn Ryan (The Shield) has also worked up an action thriller for the Alphabet Network. But even his project promises a serialized (and potentially soapy) take on the formation of a new nuclear nation that threatens our great god-fearing country.

Comedies? Well, the newest crop is a huge (see: smarter) departure from the dreck of 2011-12. Throwaways like Man Up! and Work It have been replaced with British adaptations and the much-needed return of funnywoman Judy Greer. (Remember her in Miss Guided?)

Save for a few more comedies, ABC has just about wrapped up their pilot ordering season. Next step: Make them, screen them, and decide whether they’re good enough to earn a series order for fall.  Here’s what they’ve drummed up.

Dramas

666 Park Ave (David Wilcox): When a young couple accepts an offer to manage one of the most historic apartment buildings in New York City, they unwittingly begin to experience supernatural occurrences, which complicate and endanger the lives of everyone in the building.
Americana (Michael Seitzman): A soap set around a legendary fashion designer and his family and business.

Nashville (Callie Khouri): A family soap set against the backdrop of the Nashville music scene that follows one star at her peak and one on the rise. (Contingent on closing the co-production deal between ABC Studios and Lionsgate.)

Gotham (Michael Green): After pursuing a seemingly unsolvable case, a female cop discovers a magical world that exists within New York City. A world that goes unseen by normal humans, and takes all of the familiar NYC landmarks and reinvents them in a magical otherworldly manner.
Zero Hour (Paul Scheuring): A bizarre twist of fate pulls a man who’s spent 20 years as the editor of a skeptics magazine into one of the most compelling conspiracies in human history.

Devious Maids (Marc Cherry): Based on the Mexican format, this soap follows four maids with ambition and dreams of their own while they work for the rich and famous in Beverly Hills.

Penoza (Melissa Rosenberg): Based on the Dutch format, drama centers on the widow of an assassinated criminal who is forced to adopt her husband’s role in a crime syndicate in order to protect her family.

Scruples (Bob Brush, Mel Harris): Based on 1978 novel Scruples that follows the life of Wilhelmina Hunnewell Winthrop, a.k.a. Billy, a previously plump woman who loses weight, becomes fabulously cool, and survives a very rich (and very old) first husband. She ends up opening up a Beverly Hills clothing boutique called Scruples.

Beauty and the Beast (Jonathan Steinberg): A fantastical reimagining of the classic fairy tale set in a mythical, dangerous world wherein a beautiful and tough princess discovers an unlikely connection with a mysterious beast.

Gilded Lillys (K.J. Steinberg): Set in 1895, this epic love story follows the opening of the first grand luxury hotel in NYC, against a backdrop of vicious family rivalries, scandalous secrets, and conflict and comingling of classes.

Last Resort (Shawn Ryan, Karl Gajdusek): An international action-thriller-soap that follows the story of establishing a new society in a world held hostage by the crew of a ballistic missile submarine. Basically a U.S. nuclear sub crew refuses orders to fire their missiles and escape to a NATO outpost and declare themselves the smallest nuclear nation.

Zero Hour
Logline: A bizarre twist of fate pulls a man who’s spent 20 years as the editor of a skeptics magazine into one of the most compelling conspiracies in human history.

Untitled Roland Emmerich
Logline: Set in New York City against the backdrop of the presidential race. Follows a young astrophysics student who finds out that his destiny lies not in science but somewhere between hell and heaven.

Americana
Logline:  A soap set around a legendary fashion designer and his family and business


Comedies

How to Live With Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life (Claudia Lonow): Polly, a recently divorced single mom moves in with her eccentric parents, Elaine and Max, a couple who are full of life but know no boundaries.

Untitled Adam Sztykiel project (Adam Sztykiel): Single-camera comedy that offers a raw, hilarious peek behind the curtain of modern twentysomething relationships.

Only Fools & Horses (Steven Cragg, Brian Bradley): Multi-camera based on the iconic British series, this classic comedy chronicles the misadventures of two streetwise brothers and their aging grandfather as they concoct outrageous, morally questionable get-rich-quick schemes in their quest to become millionaires.

Counter Culture (Stephnie Weir): Three aging sisters who run their family diner together in West Texas find that sibling dynamics are always getting in the way of getting the job done.

White Van Man (Bobby Bowman). A single-camera comedy based on the British format White Van Man, the show centers on a man who is forced to put his dreams on hold in order to take over the family handyman business from his father.

American Judy (Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont): Judy Greer will costar in this single-camera comedy about a cosmopolitan woman who gets married and becomes a fish out of water in the suburbs. She juggles step-kids, a mother-in-law, and the ex-wife of her husband, who also serves as the town sheriff.

Prairie Dogs (Jackie & Jeff Filgo): Neil, an uncool cubicle worker, at one of the coolest companies in the world, is the victim of identity theft. When he discovers the thief has created a much more fulling kick ass life with his identity than he ever has, he engages the charismatic conman to help him change his life.

Malibu Country (Kevin Abbott). Reba McEntire to star and executive produce in this comedy about a spurned woman whose “good old boy” rock star husband cheats on her and burns through most of their money, so she moves her three kids out to Malibu.

Untitled Dan Fogelman
Logline: Family that moves into a highly desirable gated community in New Jersey only to discover that the entire neighborhood is made up of aliens disguised as humans.

Untitled Karl Lizer (yes, another one)
Logline: The half-hour multicamera project concerns a high-powered female executive who has dominated corporate America for years, facing the biggest challenge of her life: finding herself unemployed and acting as a full-time mom to her two teenagers.


The Smart One
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Dramas

Beautiful People
Logline: An imaginative and thematically rich ensemble “what if” drama set 10 minutes in the future where families of mechanical human beings exist to service the human population — that is, until some of the mechanicals begin to “awaken.”

The Munsters
Logline: From writer-executive producer Bryan Fuller, The Munsters is an imaginative reinvention of The Munsters as a visually spectacular one-hour drama.

The Frontier
Logline: In an intense tale of survival a group of disparate travelers embark on an incredible cross-country adventure through the West, where danger stalks them at every turn.

Midnight Sun
Logline: This thriller follows the mysterious disappearance of a group living on a commune in Alaska. Based on an acclaimed Israeli format, a female FBI cult specialist starts an investigation that uncovers a larger conspiracy.

Do No Harm
Logline: A brilliant neurosurgeon wrestles with his dangerous alter ego that threatens to wreak havoc on his personal and professional life.

Chicago Fire
Logline: From the writing team of 3:10 to Yuma comes this action-driven drama exploring the complex and heroic men and women of the Windy City’s Fire Department.

County
Logline: Emmy-winning creator Jason Katims takes us into the lives of a group of young doctors, nurses, and administrators, in a frenetic underfunded and morally compromising L.A. County Hospital.

Bad Girls
Logline: From the producers of Shameless, and adapted from the long-running U.K. hit series of the same name, Bad Girls follows the ins and outs of a group of unlikely women in a federal prison: a scandalous female warden, her new protégé and a host of inmates – some mothers, some friends—who struggle with loyalties to people on the inside and the outside.


Comedies

Sarah Silverman Project
Logline: A single-camera comedy in which series star Sarah Silverman (The Sarah Silverman Program) returns to her old life after a breakup, ready to pick up where she left off, and finds it’s not as easy as she thought because those around her have moved on.

Downwardly Mobile
Logline: This multi-cam comedy brings Roseanne Barr back to series television as the proprietor of a mobile-home park and surrogate mother to all of the unique people who live there in a challenging economy.

Isabel
Logline: A comedy centering on an otherwise normal middle-class family that wrestles with the challenges of everyday life while raising a daughter (Sophia Mitri Schloss, Grimm) who has magical qualities.

Save Me
Logline: A woman who lets herself go while in a broken marriage goes through a transformation where she becomes the best version of herself and creates miracles along the way.

Untitled Karl Lizer
Logline: What happens between two lifelong female friends when a husband comes into the mix.

Go On
Logline: While an irreverent yet charming sportscaster tries to move on from loss, he reluctantly finds surprising solace from the members of his mandatory group-therapy sessions.

Animal Kingdom
Logline: A single-camera office comedy centered on a House-like veterinarian, who loves animals but usually hates their owners.

Untitled Hilary Winston
Logline: After being dumped by her fiancé, a shy, focused woman leans on her co-workers to help her come out of her shell and plot her revenge.

Untitled Jimmy Fallon
Logline: Three thirtysomething guys enjoy the adventures of parenting despite the fact they haven’t grown up themselves.

The New Normal
Logline: A heartwarming comedy about a blended family of a gay couple and the woman who becomes a surrogate to help them start a family.

Friday Night Dinner
Logline: Based on the U.K. format, this single-camera comedy about a quirky family that has supper together every Friday night is adapted by Emmy-winning creator Greg Daniels.

Next Caller Please
Logline: A single-camera gender comedy focusing on a brash alpha-male DJ and his new, plucky, feminist cohost, set in the offices of a satellite radio station.

Daddy’s Girls
Logline: A young woman returns home from overseas to find that her father is seriously dating the “mean girl” from her high school.

1600 Penn
Logline: Focuses on the President and his dysfunctional family,

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CBS fall development 2012

Elementary
Logline: A modern take on the cases of Sherlock Holmes, with Sherlock now living in New York City.

Baby Big Shot
Logline: A working-class woman uses her street smarts to compete with her more polished colleagues at a Manhattan law firm.

Trooper
Logline: A common-sense mother turns New York state trooper.

Golden Boy
Logline: A show about the making of a man. Tracks one cop’s meteoric rise from officer to detective to police commissioner.

Widow Detective
Logline: After losing three partners in the line of duty, a decorated police detective becomes surrogate husband, lover, and father to their families.

Untitled Ralph Lamb
Logline: Period piece set in the 1960s centered around the true story of Ralph Lamb: rodeo cowboy turned longtime sheriff of Las Vegas.

Applebaum
Logline: Based on Ayelet Waldman’s Mommy Track Mysteries series of books in which a former public defender becomes a private investigator to keep from being bored to death as a stay-at-home mom.

Quean
Logline: An edgy and independent millennial hacker girl teams up with an Oakland police detective to solve crimes.


Comedies

Super Fun Night
Logline: A half-hour multi-cam comedy following three nerdy female friends on their “funcomfortable” quest to have SUPER FUN every Friday night.

Untitled Louis CK
Logline: Ensemble of young people trying to achieve their creative dreams in these tough financial times.

Friend Me
Logline: Twentysomething best friends, Evan and Rob, move from their hometown of Bloomington, Ind., to Los Angeles to begin their exciting new lives working at GroupOn. Evan is having trouble breaking his old slothful habits and rather than go out after work to explore L.A. and meet new people, prefers to play online poker with his buddies back home. Rob has different plans and is determined to drag Evan, kicking and screaming, along with him.

Untitled Nick Stoller
Logline: Loosely based on Stoller’s real-life experiences, the pilot is a twentysomething ensemble comedy about a guy who gets his heart broken by his girlfriend and now has to work one cubicle away from her at an ad agency.

Partners
Logline: A personal story of two lifelong friends and business partners. Architects Charlie and Louis’ friendship has lasted longer than either of their romantic relationships and almost seems like a weird marriage. When Charlie decides to propose to his girlfriend, Louis’ neurotic attempts to be supportive nearly result in the breakup of his own relationship.


Untitled Greg Malins/Greg Berlanti Project
Logline: Nick has a health scare and realizes Wendy, his best friend and business partner of 15 years, is “the one.” Now he has to figure out how to break it to her.

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FOX fall development 2012

The Asset
Logline: A character-driven drama set in the CIA’s New York City station, focusing on a female agent with a very specialized and controversial area of expertise.

Guilty
Logline: After being falsely convicted of fraud and stripped of his legal license, a brilliant, morally questionable defense attorney uses his unusual methods to solve the cases he’s been prohibited from handling and ultimately to exact revenge on the man who set him up.

Untitled Berman/Wright
Logline: A young female thoracic surgeon with Bridgeport roots is split between two worlds as she juggles her career and her lifelong debt to the South Chicago mob.

Untitled Karyn Usher
Logline: The orphaned 17-year-old daughter of a CIA operative encounters a mysterious rogue agent-assassin who serves as both her surrogate father and professional mentor in the spy world.

Untitled Kevin Williamson
Logline: An edge-of-your-seat thriller about the complex relationship between a diabolical serial killer and the damaged FBI agent who took him down. After the killer escaped, the agent is reactivated and discovers that he is no longer just hunting one man, but a massive cult of serial killers created and manipulated during his time in prison. Kevin Bacon near deal to star as the agent.


Comedies

Ben Fox is My Manny
Logline: Under the guise of being his niece’s nanny, a free spirited young guy moves in with his type “”A,”" tightly wound sister and in the process will help her re-enter the world.

El Jefe
Logline: Tossed out of his Brentwood home, an affable but lost 30-year-old guy moves in with his longtime Latin American nanny, goes head to head with her strong-willed son, and finds himself in a family and worklife very different from the one he grew up in.

Like Father
Logline: Comedy centering a on father-son relationship, inspired by Lawrence’s real-life experiences.

Little Brother
Logline: A boisterous ex-con moves in with his level-headed brother and his family.

Living Loaded
Logline: A hard-partying blogger is forced to reevaluate his laissez-faire career plan when he gets a new job as a host on public radio.

Prodigy Bully
Logline: A rare child prodigy with an attitude shakes up his Hogwarts-like academy, while bringing the rarified world of his school back home to his aggressive working class family in Lowell, MA.

Untitled Mindy Kaling
Logline: Young Bridget-Jones type doctor trying to navigate both her personal and professional lives

Rebounding
Logline: Is based on the life of writer Joe Port, focuses on a man trying to move on from the death of his fiancée with the help of his basketball team.

Must Hire
Logline: Follows a tense executive who hires his father, only to discover that his dad is the office clown.

Let It Go
Logline: Is described as an ensemble comedy and centres on a married couple and their friends.

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CW fall development 2012

Dramas

Arrow
Logline: Based on the DC Comics comic book, this hour long drama is a modern retelling of the legendary DC Comics character Green Arrow

The Carrie Diaries
Logline: Based on the novel by Candace Bushnell, a young Carrie Bradshaw comes of age in the 1980s, asking her first questions about love, sex, friendship and family while exploring the worlds of high school and Manhattan.

Shelter
Logline: Drama set at an historic New England summer resort where the new and returning staff attend to the practical, emotional and often comical needs of the guests while navigating friendships, rivalries and romances of their own.

The Selection
Logline: Based on the forthcoming series of books by Kiera Cass, The Selection is an epic romance set 300 years in the future which centers on a poor young woman who is chosen by lottery to participate in a competition to become the next queen of a war-torn nation at a crossroads.

Joey Dakota
Logline: Based on the Israeli format Danny Hollywood. In this romantic-time-travel-musical, a documentary filmmaker travels back in time to the 1990’s where she meets and falls in love with the rock star subject of her film. When she unexpectedly returns to present day, she must find her way back to the past to reunite with her love and prevent his untimely death.

Cult
Logline: After a rash of disappearances and a likely murder, an inquisitive, young female production assistant on a wildly popular television show called “Cult” joins a journalist blogger in investigating the rabid fans of the series who might be re-creating crimes seen on the program, in real life.

Beauty and the Beast
Logline: Loosely based on the CBS’s Beauty and the Beast series from the 1980s, this is a modern day romantic love story with a procedural twist. (Yes, this is in addition to ABC’s Beauty and the Beast project)

First Cut
Logline: Glad to leave her nerdy past behind for a fresh start in the adult professional world, a newly minted doctor discovers that, sadly and comically, life at the hospital where she works is no different than high school.

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ABC Family Picks Up New Comedy And Reality Series, Renews ‘American Teenager

ABC Family has picked up to series half-hour pilot Baby Daddy, created by Dan Berendsen, which the network says is its highest-testing comedy pilot in history. Additionally, ABC Family is re-entering the reality space with new series Beverly Hills Nannies. This is the network’s first unscripted series in 4 years, since America’s Prom Queen, which aired in Spring 2008. ABC Family also has renewed veteran drama The Secret Life of the American Teenager, whose star Shailene Woodley is hot off her starring role in The Descendants, for a fifth season to become the longest-running series ever on ABC Family, hitting the 100-episode mark. In other ABC Family news, Tori Spelling and Tia Mowry have been tapped to star in The Mistle-Tones, the holiday movie which will anchor the network’s next ‘25 Days of Christmas’ event. “This Summer, we’re excited to continue to expand our content across key genres adding another season to our groundbreaking drama, Secret Life, wonderful comedy and a return to reality programming as we continue to innovate with our ABC Family brand,” said ABC Family president Michael Riley. Here are descriptions of ABC Family’s new series and movie:

Baby Daddy, the network’s highest testing comedy pilot ever, stars Chelsea Kane (Dancing with the Stars), Tahj Mowry (The Game) and Derek Theler (90210). From executive producer Dan Berendsen, creator The Nine Lives of Chloe King, the half-hour series is about a young man who becomes a surprise dad to a baby girl when she’s left on his doorstep by an ex-girlfriend. He decides to raise the baby with the help of his mother, his brother Danny (Theler), his best buddy Tucker (Mowry) and his close female friend, Riley (Kane), who is harboring a secret crush on him. Baby Daddy, a multi-camera comedy, will begin production in Spring and will shoot in front of a live audience in Los Angeles.

Beverly Hills Nannies is a docuseries following the lives of a group of nannies working for families in the most exclusive zip code in the country. Evolution Media, the production company known for The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and The Real Housewives of Orange County will produce the series.  The series will go into production in Spring.

Tori Spelling (Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood) and Tia Mowry (The Game) have been tapped to star in the new original Christmas movie The Mistle-Tones which will begin principal photography next month in Salt Lake City, Utah.  In The Mistle-Tones, Holly (Tia Mowry), blessed with an amazing singing voice, is all set to audition for the newly vacated spot in a legendary local Christmas group which was founded by her late mother years ago. Shocked and upset when the slot goes to the barely talented best friend of the group’s leader, Marci (Tori Spelling), Holly sets out to create her own musical group, The Mistle-Tones. After challenging their rivals to a sing-off on Christmas Eve, Holly finds herself on a journey to the real meaning of Christmas–with some new friends and a new love thrown in for good measure…  The Mistle-Tones is executive produced by Maggie Malina (Single Ladies), from a script by Jed Elinoff & Scott Thomas (My Super Psycho Sweet 16), and directed by Paul Hoen (Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam).

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Lost' star Ken Leung joins Sarah Silverman NBC comedy pilot

Ken Leung has joined Sarah Silverman's NBC comedy pilot.

The untitled project will star Silverman as a woman readjusting to being single after a decade spent in a relationship.

Lost star Leung will play a neighbour and love interest for Silverman's character, according to TVLine.

Described as a "shut-in", Leung's character spends most of his time watching TV in his apartment.

The actor played Miles Straume on Lost from 2008 to 2010 and has since appeared in an episode of The Good Wife.

His additional credits include episodes of the The Sopranos and Law & Order and film roles in 2004's Saw and 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand.

Harris Wittels and Party Down actress June Diane Raphael previously joined the cast of Silverman's pilot.

The project landed at NBC in August after reportedly sparking a bidding war between the television networks.

Roseanne Barr's Downwardly Mobile, The Munsters reboot Mockingbird Lane and a remake of UK sitcom Friday Night Dinner are among the other comedy projects in the works at NBC.

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JJ Abrams, 'Supernatural' Eric Kripke pilot 'Revolution' gets pick-up

NBC has picked up a new drama pilot from JJ Abrams and Supernatural creator Eric Kripke.

The project, written by Kripke, has been described as an "epic adventure thriller" and will follow a group of characters struggling to survive in a world where all forms of energy have ceased to exist.

Abrams will executive produce alongside Kripke and Lost's Bryan Burk on NBC's latest drama commission, according to TVLine.

Star Trek director Abrams is also developing a pilot project for The CW. He will collaborate with One Tree Hill creator Mark Schwahn on drama Shelter.

Kripke, who quit his role as Supernatural showrunner in 2010, was also reported to be working with The CW on an adaptation of DC Comics character Deadman.

Other projects in development at NBC include a remake of UK drama series Bad Girls, sci-fi pilot Beautiful People and Jason Ritter medical drama County.

Fantasy drama Isabel and FBI thriller Midnight Sun are also in the works.

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Thursday 2nd February

8:00PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

The Big Bang Theory

16.38 Million

5.4/16

30 Rock

3.21 Million

1.3/4

The Vampire Diaries

2.72 Million

1.2/3

8:30PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

Rob

11.28 Million

3.4/9

Parks & Recreation

3.65 Million

1.8/5

9:00PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

Person Of Interest

14.92 Million

3.3/8

Grey's Anatomy

9.65 Million

3.5/9

The Finder

6.93 Million

2.4/6

The Office

5.27 Million

2.7/7

The Secret Circle

1.75 Million

0.7/2

9:30PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

Up All Night

3.76 Million

1.8/5

10:00PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

The Mentalist

13.54 Million

2.8/8

Private Practice

6.55 Million

2.3/6

The Firm

2.98 Million

0.8/2

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Jamie Bamber joins David E Kelley's medical drama 'Chelsea General'

Jamie Bamber has won a lead role in TNT medical drama pilot Chelsea General.

The project - from Harry's Law creator David E Kelley - is based on CNN medical correspondent Dr Sanjay Gupta's novel Monday Mornings.

It will chart the careers and personal lives of five surgeons working in a high-pressure environment, according to Deadline.

Bamber will play Dr Tyler Wilson, a neurosurgeon who had a romantic fling with a colleague, played by Better with You's Jennifer Finnigan.

Best known for playing Lee 'Apollo' Adama on Battlestar Galactica, Bamber appeared on Law & Order: UK from 2009 to 2011 and has since featured in episodes of House and CSI: Miami.

Kelly and Gupta will executive produce Chelsea General, with Boston Legal's Bill D'Elia hired to direct the pilot.

Other projects in the works at TNT include Frank Darabont's L.A. Noir and police dog drama Scent of the Missing starring Tricia Helfer

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'Ghostbusters' star Ernie Hudson joins NBC's 'Beautiful People

Ernie Hudson is the latest actor to join NBC sci-fi pilot Beautiful People.

The Ghostbusters star will play the owner of a law firm in the project, according to Deadline.

Created by Cougar Town writer Michael McDonald, Beautiful People is set in a future world in which humans co-exist with life-like androids, known as 'Mechanicals'.

Hudson is best known for playing Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters films and also starred in 1994 film The Crow.

His recent credits include guest roles on Torchwood, Grey's Anatomy and Franklin & Bash.

Ghost Whisperer star David Conrad and Law & Order actress Tovah Feldshuh also signed up for roles in Beautiful People earlier this week.

Other stars attached to the pilot include Frances Conroy, James Murray, Patrick Heusinger, Andrea Parker, Jud Tylor, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Madisen Beaty and Cody Christian.

House of Lies director Stephen Hopkins will helm the pilot, which will be co-produced by ABC Studios and Universal TV.

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