2014 FX & FXX Pilots

FX: COMEDY

ATLANTA
STUDIO: FX Productions
TEAM: Donald Glover (ep), Paul Simms (ep), Dianne McGunigle (ep)
LOGLINE: Revolves around two cousins on their way up through the Atlanta rap scene whose opposing views on art versus commerce, success and race will make their quest anything but easy.
CAST: Donald Glover

BIGFOOT (animated)
STUDIO: FX Productions
TEAM: Matt McKenna (w, ep), Seth Rogen (ep), Evan Goldberg (ep), Graham Roumieu (ep), Jimmy Miller (ep), Sam Hansen (ep), Adam Reed (ep), Matt Thompson (ep)
LOGLINE: Centers on Bigfoot, everyone’s favorite crypto-zoological hominid, as a modern-day everyman who struggles with life’s philosophical quandaries as well as his own animalistic tendencies. Based on Graham Roumieu’s faux Bigfoot autobiography graphic novels.

THE COMEDIANS (single-camera)
PICKED UP TO SERIES; 13-EPISODE ORDER
STUDIO: Fox TV Studios
TEAM: Matt Nix (w, ep), Billy Crystal (w, ep), Larry Charles (w, d, ep), Ben Wexler (w, ep), Mikkel Bondesen (ep), Henrik Bastin (ep), Carl Molinder (ep), John Nordling (ep), Kristen Campo (co-ep)
LOGLINE: A superstar veteran comedian is reluctantly paired with a younger, edgier comedian for a late-night comedy sketch show. Based on the 2004 Swedish series Ulveson And Herngren.
CAST: Billy Crystal, Josh Gad, Stephanie Weir, Matt Oberg, Megan Ferguson

DEATH PACT (single-camera)
ON HOLD IN WAKE OF TRACY MORGAN’S ACCIDENT
STUDIO: FX Productions
TEAM: Rob Long (ep), Ted Safran (ep), Eric Tannenbaum (ep), Kim Tannenbaum (ep), Randall Einhorn (d)
LOGLINE: A formerly lazy, pot-dealing assistant high school coach returns to his hometown as a decorated war hero. He runs across three down-on-their-luck friends and former students and sucks them into his new radical self-help philosophy, which involves harsh consequences for failure.
CAST: Tracy Morgan, Steve Talley

HOW AND WHY
PASSED ON
STUDIO: FX Productions
TEAM: Charlie Kaufman (w, d, ep)
LOGLINE: The story of a man who can explain how and why a nuclear reactor works, but is clueless about life.
CAST: John Hawkes, Michael Cera, Sally Hawkins, Catherine Keener, Olafur Darri Olafsson

MAN SEEKING WOMAN
PICKED UP TO SERIES; 10-EPISODE ORDER
STUDIO: Broadway Video/FX Productions
TEAM: Simon Rich (w, ep), Jonathan Krisel (d, ep),
LOGLINE: Based on Simon Rich’s book The Last Girlfriend On Earth, it’s described as a sweet, surreal look at the life-and-death stakes of dating in New York City.
CAST: Jay Baruchel, Eric André, Britt Lower, Maya Erskine

MARRIED (formerly UNTITLED ANDREW GURLAND)
PICKED UP TO SERIES; 10-EPISODE ORDER
STUDIO: FX Productions
TEAM: Andrew Gurland (w, d, ep), Paul Young (ep), Peter Principato (ep), Salamo Levin (p)
LOGLINE: A married man is given permission by his wife to get a mistress in order to save their marriage.
CAST: Nat Faxon, Judy Greer, Paul Reiser, Regina Hill

PARIAH
STUDIO: FX Productions/RCG Productions
TEAM: Bill Burr (ep), Charlie Day (ep), Rob McElhenney (ep), Glenn Howerton (ep), John Chernin (ep), Dave Chernin (ep), Rob McElhenney (d, ep), Dave Becky (ep), Michael Rotenberg (ep), Nick Frenkel (ep)
LOGLINE: Volatile TV personality Joe Abbott who is exiled from show business after an on-air meltdown and forced to navigate society as a man with no apparent skills.
CAST: Bill Burr, Regina King

SEX&DRUGS&ROCK&ROLL
PICKED UP TO SERIES; 10-EPISODE ORDER
STUDIO: FX Produtions/Fox Television Studios
TEAM: Denis Leary (w, ep), Jim Serpico (dep)
LOGLINE: Johnny Rock, lead singer of early ’90s NY band The Heathens, was on his way to stardom but had a problem with booze. And coke. And weed. And pills. He also slept with his guitarist’s wife and his bass player’s fiancée. The band broke up the same day their first and only record was released. 25 years later Johnny is trying to get the band back together.
CAST: Denis Leary, John Corbett, Robert Kelly, Elizabeth Gillies, Sainty Nelsen, Elaine Hendrix

BASKETS (formerly UNTITLED ZACH GALIFIANAKIS)
PICKED UP TO SERIES; 10-EPISODE ORDER
STUDIO: FX Productions
TEAM: Zach Galifianakis (ep), Louis C.K. (w, ep), Blair Breard (ep), Dave Becky (ep), Andrea Pett-Joseph (ep), Marc Gurvitz (ep)
LOGLINE: A married man is given permission by his wife to get a mistress in order to save their marriage.
CAST: Zach Galifianakis

YOU’RE THE WORST
PICKED UP TO SERIES; 10-EPISODE ORDER
STUDIO: FX Productions
TEAM: Stephen Falk (w), Jordan Vogt-Roberts (d),
LOGLINE: Two toxic, self-destructive people who fall in love and attempt the impossible — a relationship.
CAST: Chris Geere, Aya Cash, Kether Donohue, Desmin Borges

FX: DRAMA

THE BASTARD EXECUTIONER
STUDIO: Fox 21/Imagine TV/FX Productions
TEAM: Kurt Sutter (w, ep), Paris Barclay (d, ep), Brian Grazer (ep), Francie Calfo (ep)
LOGLINE: A warrior knight in King Edward II’s charge is broken by the ravages of war and vows to lay down his sword. But when that violence finds him again, he is forced to pick up the bloodiest sword of all.
CAST: Katey Sagal

HOKE
STUDIO: FX Productions
TEAM: Scott Frank (w, d, ep), Paul Giamatti (ep), Curtis Hanson (ep), Carol Fenelon (ep), Dan Carey (ep)
LOGLINE: The story of midlife crisis and murder that features the hardboiled and possibly insane homicide detective Hoke Moseley in pre-chic Miami circa 1985.
CAST: Paul Giamatti, Robert Wisdom, Tammy Blanchard, Oona Chaplin, John Carroll Lynch, Robert Wisdom, Jordi Mollà

THE STRAIN
PICKED UP TO SERIES
STUDIO:
TEAM: Guillermo del Toro (w, d, ep), Chuck Hogan (w, ep), Carlton Cuse (ep, showrunner), Gary Unger (ep)
LOGLINE: Eph Goodweather, who investigates biological threats for the CDC, teams with ex-professor and Holocaust survivor Abraham Setrakian and they assemble a ragtag group that represents mankind’s only hope when a swarm of vampires quickly turn civilization into a buffet spread. Based on the novel trilogy.
CAST: Corey Stoll, Mia Maestro, Kevin Durand, John Hurt, Robert Maillet, Lauren Lee Smith, Sean Astin, Jack Kesy, Miguel Gomez, Natalie Brown

TYRANT
PICKED UP TO SERIES
STUDIO: Fox 21/FX Prods/Teakwood Lane/Keshet Broadcasting
TEAM: Gideon Raff (w, ep), Howard Gordon (ep), Craig Wright (ep, showrunner), David Yates (d)
LOGLINE: An unassuming American family is drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation.
CAST: Adam Rayner, Justin Kirk, Jennifer Finnigan, Salim Daw, Ashraf Barhom, Mehdi Dehbi, Moran Atias

FXX: COMEDY

UNTITLED TRACY MORGAN
ORDERED STRAIGHT TO SERIES
STUDIO: FX Productions
TEAM: Rob McElhenney (ep), Charlie Day (ep), Glenn Howerton (ep), Luvh Rakhe (w)

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