UPDATES Primetime Pilot Panic: The Hot List
DRAMAS (2009/2010 Primetime Season)
NEW – My sources say because of the hold off on Legally Mad, there may only be two drama pilot pickups right away…
TRAUMA (Universal Media Studio/Film 44) NEW – “ALL BUT PICKED UP”… “BIGGEST PILOT OF THE YEAR BUDGET-WISE.” … “HUGE ACTION WITH HELICOPTERS CRASHING.” … “BUT DOES JEFF ZUCKER WANT TO DO A $4 MILLION [AN EPISODE] SHOW?” (Previous: “Pete Berg…”) (Text continues below video)
PARENTHOOD (Universal Media Studios/Imagine): NEW – “ALL BUT PICKED UP”… “THEY LOVE JASON KATIMS WHO WROTE IT” … (Previous: “Almost a lock.” “Great cast.” “Tommy Schlamme directing.”)
LEGALLY MAD (Warner Bros/David E Kelley): NEW – “I HEAR IT DIDN’T COME IN SO WELL” … “HOLD OFF” … “HARD TO GET A STRAIGHT ANSWER BUT DAVID KELLEY GETS THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.” – (Previous: Series penalty.)
LOST & FOUND (Universal Media Studios/Wolf Films): NEW – “DICK WOLF … BUT IT REALLY HAS TO PLAY. THEY DON’T HAVE AS MANY TIME SLOTS.”
MERCY (Universal Media Studios/BermanBraun): NEW – “A LITTLE SOFT … REACTION WASN’T GREAT.”
DAY ONE (Universal Media Studios) NEW – “MORE OF AN EVENT SHOW”
COMEDIES
NEW – My sources say NBC will pick up 3 or possibly 4 comedy pilots.
COMMUNITY (Sony TV/Krasnoff); NEW – “PICKED UP”… “HOT COMEDY WITH JOEL MCHALE, STAR OF THE SOUP” … “VERY MUCH FITS INTO THEIR 30 ROCK/THE OFFICE LINEUP.”
OFF DUTY (Universal Media Studios/American Work): NEW – My sources say it’s in competition with CHARLOTTE PAYNE. One or both may get picked up.
100 QUESTIONS FOR CHARLOTTE PAYNE (Universal Media Studios/Tagline Pictures): NEW – Jim Burrows directing… My sources say it’s in competition with OFF DUTY. One or both may get picked up.
