Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series orders

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Comedy About Parents Raising Non-Binary Child From Chad Gervich & Kapital In Works At ABC

EXCLUSIVE: ABC has bought one of the first projects for the 2020-21 development cycle, and it falls right into the network’s sweet spot on the half-hour side — a family comedy with a unique twist. The untitled single-camera comedy, from Kapital Entertainment and 20th Century Fox TV, is about two parents, Ted and…

By Nellie Andreeva
Jul 6, 2020 11:09 am
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‘Dead To Me’ Renewed For Third & Final Season; Creator Liz Feldman Inks Overall Deal With Netflix

Netflix has renewed its popular dark comedy Dead To Me for a third season. Series creator Liz Feldman will return as executive producer/showrunner under a big overall deal she has signed with the streamer. Under the multi-year pact, Feldman will also develop new original series and other projects for Netflix. Dead To M…

By Nellie Andreeva
Jul 6, 2020 10:00 am
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Lifetime Sets Dates For Summer Ripped From The Headlines Slate: Ann Rule Movie Weekend, ‘Surviving Jeffrey Epstein’ Docuseries & More

EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has set its summer Ripped from the Headlines slate, which kicks off with an Ann Rule movie weekend, starting with Sleeping With Danger on August 1. A Murder to Remember will air August 2, followed by companion documentary special Elizabeth Smart: Finding Justice (new title) hosted by kidnapping…

By Denise Petski
Jul 6, 2020 10:00 am
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Fox Commits To Film All Six Pilots, Including Eliza Coupe’s ‘Pivoting’ & Melissa Leo’s ‘Blood Relative’, As ‘Our Kind Of People’ Leads Off-Cycle Pilot Push

Fox is planning to produce all six of its pilot orders for this year's development season and will continue to ramp up its off-cycle pilot orders. The network has made the decision after its traditional pilot season was impacted by the COVID-19 production shutdown. Fox is the latest network to make its pilot…

By Peter White
Jul 2, 2020 9:00 am
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Utkarsh Ambudkar To Star Opposite Rose McIver In CBS Comedy Pilot ‘Ghosts’

Utkarsh Ambudkar (Brittany Runs a Marathon) has been tapped as the male lead opposite Rose McIver in Ghosts, CBS' single-camera comedy pilot from Joe Port & Joe Wiseman, Lionsgate Television, BBC Studios and CBS Television Studios. Written by Port and Wiseman based on the British series, Ghosts follows a young couple…

By Nellie Andreeva
Jul 1, 2020 9:45 am
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NBC Orders Sci-Fi Drama Series ‘Debris’ Starring Jonathan Tucker & Riann Steele

NBC has given its first series order to a 2020 pilot, picking up sci-fi drama Debris, starring Jonathan Tucker and Riann Steele, from Almost Human creator J.H. Wyman, Legendary Television & Universal Television. A series order had been expected for Debris, which had been in contention to get a pickup before the cast’s…

By Nellie Andreeva
Jun 29, 2020 11:30 am
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ABC Intends To Film 5 Pilots This Year, Including Katey Sagal’s ‘Rebel’ & Delroy Lindo’s ‘Harlem’s Kitchen’, Rolls 3 To Second-Cycle

ABC intends to shoot five pilots once production can safely resume and is rolling three projects to its next pilot cycle. The network is picking up the cast options for the five projects that it has committed to producing this year through to September 30. This includes dramas Rebel, starring Katey Sagal and Andy…

By Peter White
Jun 29, 2020 11:00 am
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‘Thirtysomething(else)’, ‘The Brides’ & ‘Valley Trash’ Pilots Not Going Forward At ABC

ABC today made decisions on its 2020 pilots, impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The decisions included passes on three projects, including two high-profile dramas, the thirtysomething sequel thirtysomething(else), featuring several original cast members; and Berlanti Prods.’ The Brides Dracula reimagining headlined…

By Nellie Andreeva
Jun 29, 2020 11:00 am
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NBC: Series Prospect ‘La Brea’ Extends 2 Cast Members; 2020 Pilots Pick Up Actors; Rolled Pilots Release Casts

EXCLUSIVE: As NBC made decisions on its 2021 pilot slate earlier this week, the network has followed up with casting decisions for most of the pilots on the slate, impacted by the coronavirus pandemic-related production shutdown. They come as the original pilot cast options expire June 30. Of the two drama pilots put…

By Nellie Andreeva
Jun 26, 2020 2:13 pm
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NBC Orders Coronavirus-Era Comedy Series ‘Connecting’ From Martin Gero & Brendan Gall

NBC has given an eight-episode straight-to-series order to Connecting, a coronavirus-era comedy, from Blindspot creator/exec producer Martin Gero, his frequent collaborator Brendan Gall and Universal Television. Connecting marks Gero’s first sale under the major overall deal he signed with Uni TV this spring. He…

By Nellie Andreeva
Jun 26, 2020 12:15 pm
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‘Langdon’: Sumalee Montano, Rick Gonzalez & Beau Knapp Cast In NBC Pilot Based On Dan Brown’s ‘Lost Symbol’

EXCLUSIVE: Sumalee Montano (Star Trek: Picard), Arrow alum Rick Gonzalez and Beau Knapp (The Good Lord Bird) are set as series regulars opposite Ashley Zukerman in Langdon, NBC's drama pilot based on Dan Brown's best-selling thriller novel The Lost Symbol. The project, which hails from Imagine Television, CBS TV…

By Denise Petski
Jun 26, 2020 8:33 am
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‘Big Sky’: Jade Pettyjohn To Star In David E. Kelley’s PI Drama Series For ABC

Little Fires Everywhere star Jade Pettyjohn is set as a lead opposite Katheryn Winnick, Ryan Phillippe and Natalie Alyn Lind in Big Sky, ABC's straight-to-series drama created and executive produced by David E. Kelley. Based on The Highway, the first book in C.J. Box's Cassie Dewell series of novels, the project…