Pilot Order Updates
NBC has given a pilot order to Parenthood, a dramedy a based on Ron Howard’s 1989 feature starring Steve Martin. Friday Night Lights creator/exec producer Jason Katims wrote the adaptation.
ABC has handed a pilot order to Threesome, a comedy from Family Guy’s Ricky Blitt. The show centers on a thirtysomething guy who hasn’t quite grown up. He finds himself torn between his needy best friend and the newfound love of his life and her teen kids.
ABC also greenlighted Let it Go, which will star Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls) as a a self-help guru who teaches women how to "let it go’ but fails to follow her own advice when her perfect boyfriend dumps her.
CBS made its first drama pilot pickups last week: The U.S. Attorney project, from "The Unit" co-exec producer Frank Military, is an ensemble legal show about a team of federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan; Back centers on a man who returns home, only to discover he had been reported missing eight years earlier, after Sept. 11. He must learn how to reconnect with his family and a world that moved on without him; and Washington Field, about the National Capital Response Squad, a unit comprising elite experts in different areas who travel around the world, responding to events that concern the U.S. national interest. They also greenlighted a spin-off of the hit NCIS.
I have updated all of my pilot posts with this info. For a list of all of the pilots to date, check out:
Fox - http://www.tvchatting.com/fox-pilot-orders-for-2009-10-season/
CBS - http://www.tvchatting.com/cbs-pilot-orders-for-2009-10-season/
NBC - http://www.tvchatting.com/nbc-pilot-orders-for-the-2009-10-season/
ABC - http://www.tvchatting.com/abc-pilot-orders-for-the-2009-10-season/
I’ll also be putting together a rundown of cable pilot pickups very soon.
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