2ND UPDATE: NBC Picks Up Comedies Parham/St. Clair, 'Bent', Chelsea Handler, 'Free Agents', Passes On More Pilots

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UPDATE: I hear NBC just picked up two more comedy pilots: romantic comedy Bent, starring Amanda Peet and David Walton, which I hear will probably be for midseason, and the untitled Parham/St. Clair project, now called BFFs. That makes a total of six new comedy series and five dramas for the peacock network. BFFs, written by and starring Upright Citizens Brigade alums Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair, has been a classic dark horse. It was very low-budget presentation (“made for nothing,” as one agent put it), the network brass didn’t quite like the first cut but was they were intrigued enough to order a second cut and that did very well.

PREVIOUS: NBC just picked up two more comedy pilots to series: the Chelsea Handler project Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea and the British romantic comedy adaptation Free Agents starring Hank Azaria and Kathryn Hahn. Meanwhile, more pilots got word that they are not going forward: dramas Reconstruction and 17th Precinct and comedies Lovelives, Brave New World, My Life as an Experiment and untitled Kari Lizer, which was well received but dubbed “not an NBC show.” They join Wonder Woman, Metro and A Mann’s World, which may be shopped to cable. The pass on My Life as an Experiment means that its co-star Paget Brewster will probably return to Criminal Minds. The producers of the CBS drama have an option on her, which they can exercise if her pilot was not picked up.