To date, these are the pilots on tap for the 2009-10 season at Fox.
Dramas
Masterwork
Team: Paul Scheuring
An adrenalized race against time to recover the world’s most sought-after artifacts and works of art in the vein of "The Da Vinci Code" and "National Treasure"
Maggie Hill
Team: Ian Biederman, David Nevins
Genius comes with a price: A brilliant female surgeon endures adult-onset schizophrenia and thrives.
Human Target
Team: Jon Steinberg, McG
Based on the DC Comics title, the show centers on Christopher Chance, a mysterious freelancer who offers a very unique form of security for hire — he assumes the identities of people in life-threatening danger, becoming the "human target" on behalf of his clients.
Untitled David Hudgins reincarnation
Team: David Hudgins, Lou Pitt , MJ Rose
Past-life investigators use the concept of reincarnation to solve mysteries of their clients’ previous lives in order to resolve their problems in the present
Eva Adams
Team: Kevin Falls, Jamie Tarses
Womanizer is transformed into a woman and must endure the same kind of abuse her used to doll out; based on the Argentinian telenovela "Lalola."
Comedies
Absolutely Fabulous
Team: Christine Zander, Mitch Hurwitz, Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum, Ian Moffitt, Jennifer Saunders
Based on the British series of the same name.
Walorsky
Team: Brian Gatewood, Alessandro Tanaka, Ravi Nandan, Scot Armstrong
In the tone of "Bad Santa," an ex-cop turned security guard patrols a mall in Buffalo. His life is centered around Buffalo sports and doing the least amount of work possible. But when he is assigned a young idiot partner, he is forced to grudgingly get involved with the people that he is assigned to protect.
The Station
Team: Kevin Napier, Ben Stiller, Stuart Cornfeld, Jeremy Kramer
A covert CIA operative and his workmates are embedded in a South American country and must navigate their mission to install a new dictator in this banana republic with its own unique set of challenges.
Two Dollar Beer
Team: Mike Binder, Michael Rotenberg, Jonathan Levin
Set in Detroit, a blue-collar couple and their extended family and friends deal with the reality of their long-standing roots in this community slowly becoming less relevant as the rest of the world slowly passes them by.
Sons of Tuscon
Team: Tommy Dewey, Greg Bratman, Harvey Myman, Jason Felts, Justin Berfield
In the spirit of "Slums of Beverly Hills," a charming but misguided hustler is hired by three young brothers with considerable resources to act as their "Father" while their real one serves time in prison for a white collar crime.
Boldly Going Nowhere (pilot to be reshot for fall consideration)
Team: Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Adam Stein, Michael Rotenberg, Nick Frenkel, Wayne McClammy
A high-concept comedy about what happens day to day on an intergalactic spaceship helmed by a rogue captain.
Starring: Ben Koldyke, Tony Hale
Glee (picked up to series)
Team: Ryan Murphy
The hourlong comedy centers on Will, a thirtysomething Spanish teacher at an Ohio high school who has the daunting task of taking over the school’s glee club, which has become a heaven for outcasts.
Starring: Matthew Morrison, Lea Michele, Jayma Mays, Cory Monteith, Jessalyn Gilsig
Save Us Then the Whales (cast-contingent)
Team: Sameer Gardezi
Single-camera comedy set at a politically incorrect nonprofit organization.
Sincerely, Ted L. Nancy (presentation)
Team: Barry Marder, Chuck Martin, Gary Auberbach and Rob Lee
Centers on a regular guy who, after suffering through too many faulty products and customer service mishaps, decides to take on the corporations by writing letters that "seek to avenge the consumer frustrations of people everywhere.
Starring: Kevin Sussman
The Emancipation of Ernesto (not going forward)
Team: Emily Kapne, Wilmer Valderrama
Centers on Ernesto, a guileless innocent embarking on an epic quest to find his father amid a Los Angeles landscape polluted with excess.
Starring: Wilmer Valderrama, Hector Jimenez, Sarah Wright
Via The Pilot Log