Latest in Primetime Pilots

The tide is finally turning for female helmers vying to break into the male-dominated field of broadcast drama directing. This pilot season marked a breakthrough with 14 of the 42 broadcast drama pilots going to female directors, reversing an alarming trend –four pilots directed by women in 2015, two in 2016 and just…

While reading pilot scripts, picking up and casting pilots this winter, Fox also has been actively buying drama and comedy pitches in a renewed effort to develop projects for off-cycle pilot and straight-to-series orders. The idea is not new — broadcast networks have been talking about switching to year-round…

Days after last year’s upfront in New York, History‘s Hatfields & McCoys burst onto the scene, shattering ratings records and reviving the limited-event series form. Over the last 12 months, event series have continued to gain momentum, with History launching another blockbuster in The Bible, and Fox, FX and Spike…

It’s pilot screening time. CBS just started viewing its pilots, with the other networks slated to follow over the next few days. Feedback from the screenings and extensive focus group testing inform the networks’ series pickup decisions and are capable of catapulting a pilot from an also-run to frontrunner status…

Up-to-date network-by-network pilot listings are now available at the top of Deadline’s Primetime Pilot Panic section, which features all of our news coverage of the current pilot season. The listings are being updated with new information daily. The comments sections on each network listing will be activated shortly…

So upfronts week is here. And news about the networks’ pickups, renewals and cancellations has been slowly trickling in (slower than previous years). Here are my posts, including TV topic stories, in case you missed any from the past 2 weeks: Primetime Pilot Panic: 'Filthy Rich' OKed Primetime Pilot Panic: SAY IT AIN'T…

LATEST: Fox Sitcom ‘Back To You’ Cancelled; ‘The Inn’ Pilot Picked Up Here are more updates: I’ve just been told that The Inn (20th Century Fox TV /  Reveille / Principato-Young Entertainment) was given the go-ahead by Fox to meet writers. I’m not sure if they can hire yet, “but it’s looking good,” a source…

3rd UPDATE: Fox Sitcom ‘Back To You’ Cancelled; ‘The Inn’ Picked Up 2nd UPDATE: I’ve just been told that The Inn (20th Century Fox TV /  Reveille / Principato-Young Entertainment) was given the go-ahead by Fox to meet writers. I’m not sure if they can hire yet, “but it’s looking good,” a source explains. Directed by…