Primetime Pilot Panic News

Lopez Vs. Lopez, a family comedy starring George Lopez and his daughter Mayan, has been picked up to pilot at NBC. This comes after Deadline revealed that the multi-camera project, which comes from The Conners duo Bruce Helford and Debby Wolfe, had scored a put pilot commitment earlier this summer. Lopez Vs. Lopez is…

EXCLUSIVE: Bernard David Jones’ pilot Remember has headed into pre-production, after receiving a WarnerMedia OneFifty grant supporting the early stages of its development. Remember is a dramedy that follows a forgetful millennial and his four best friends as they navigate queer love, rocky careers, and the ups and…

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend co-creators Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna are reteaming for Badass (And Her Sister), a new comedy project for Hulu and ABC Signature, where Brosh McKenna is under a deal. Like with the CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Bloom and Brosh McKenna co-wrote and executive produce Badass. Bloom again is…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS has taken in for development I Give It 6 Months, a multi-camera romantic comedy from Jordan Young (Bojack Horseman), Party Over Here, the production company founded by the Lonely Island's Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, and CBS Studios. Written by Young, in this anti-romantic, romantic…

EXCLUSIVE:  Chicago P.D. writer/executive producer Gwen Sigan has been promoted to showrunner. She is taking the reins of the long-running NBC series as part of an overall deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, which produces the cop drama. Sigan replaces Rick Eid who has served as Chicag…

ABC has given a pilot order to The Son In Law, a single-camera comedy written and executive produced by Ajay Sahgal (The Carmichael Show) and executive produced by Jake Kasdan and Melvin Mar, the duo behind such series as ABC's Fresh Off the Boat and Disney+'s Doogie Kealoha, M.D. 20th Television, where Kasdan and Mar…

Colin Woodell (The Flight Attendant) has been tapped as the lead in The Continental, Starz’s TV series prequel to the Keanu Reeves film franchise John Wick. Woodell, who will play Winston Scott, the younger version of Ian McShane’s character from the John Wick films, joins Mel Gibson in the three-night special-event…

Netflix’s planned To All the Boys I've Loved Before TV series offshoot is a go. The YA series, XO, Kitty, headlined by the movies' breakout Anna Cathcart, has been greenlighted with a 10-episode order, making it the first series spawned by a Netflix original film. Building integrated film-TV series universes has been…

Corbin Bernsen is set as a lead opposite Blair Underwood in L.A. Law, a new incarnation of the iconic Steven Bochco legal drama that was officially picked up to pilot by ABC earlier this month. Underwood and Bernsen, reprising their roles as Jonathan Rollins and Arnie Becker, respectively, are believed to be the only…

HBO is developing Blood Sugar, a series starring and executive produced by Emmy-nominated GLOW alumna Betty Gilpin, from Annapurna. In Blood Sugar, written by Duke Merriman (Monos) and Preston Thompson (Kids In Love), when the Sharks of Shark Tank laugh the delightful Margot Schultz and her frozen food business off…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS, which has long tradition in drama procedurals, is currently the only major broadcast network without a successful first-responders series as Fox has the 9-1-1 franchise, NBC has Chicago Fire and ABC has Station 19. CBS is hoping to remedy that with Rescue: MIA. The drama, which is in development at the…

Apple TV+ has given a formal series green light to Shrinking, a 10-episode comedy series starring Jason Segel, who also serves as writer and executive producer alongside Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein, coming off their Emmy wins for the streamer’s hit comedy Ted Lasso. Written by Segel, Lawrence and Goldstein, Shrin…