BoatDrinks

Now, there will still be some last minute shopping, but here are what the 6 nets ordered for the coming season (drama):

ABC
10-8 - Rookie cops in LASD
Players: Aaron Spelling
111 Gramercy Park - "Upstairs/Downstairs" redux
Players: Bob Brush from Wonder Years and Ed fame
Alaska (The Circle) - Alaskan state troopers
The DA - LA DA's office gets new boss
The Flannerys - Irish family of lawyers
Players: Kevin Falls from West Wing fame
Partners - Female undercover cops
Karen Sisco - based on Out of Sight
The Street Lawyer - based on Grisham book
Then Came Jones - El Paso in 1899
Threat Matrix - Anti-terrorist task force
Naked Hotel - Another version of old "Hotel" series
Untitled FBI drama - FBI vs. Organized crime

CBS
Battle Creek - FBI agent and Cop in small town
Players: Vince Gilligan of X-Files
Cold Cases - Female heads up cold case squad (ripoff of a Canadian show)
Players: Jerry Bruckheimer
Criminology 101 - students solve crimes
Expert Witness - Forensics psychologists and lawyers in Boston
JAG spinoff - what it is
Century City - lawyers in 2053
Players: Paul Attanasio
Street Boss - the training of undercover cops
Danny Glover project - Glover as Rockford type P.I.
Players: Walter Mosley
Brotherhood of Poland, NH - 3 brothers in small town
players: David E. Kelley
Violent Crime - female detectives in Boston

FOX
The Break - cops in Hawaii
Players: John Stockwell (Blue Crush) and Brian Grazer (surfing producer)
No Place like Home - teems marry and start family
NYPD 2069 - future cops
Players: Bochco
The O.C. - Bev Hills 90210 in Orange county, CA
Players: McG
Skin - series loosely based on "Boogie Nights"
Players: Bruckheimer
Splitsville - Couple who write advice column split up
Still Life - Family drama from dead son's POV
Untitled Todd Holland project - version of "Royal Tennebaums"
Grad Student project - student learns she can relive any day in history

NBC
EDNY - more lawyers
Players: Billy Baldwin
Future Tense - high tech law enforcement
Players: Joel silver
Homeland Security - anti-terrorism in u.S.
HUB - Drama set at giant airport
Lyon's Den - even more lawyers
Players: Rob Lowe
Miss Match - Lawyer/matchmaker
Players: Alicia Silverstone
Sunset Division - Spinoff of "Crossing Jordan"
Players: Jerry O'Connell
Las Vegas project - surveillance experts in Vegas

WB
Chasing Alice - Young female P.I.
Dicks - Friends become P.I.'s
Fearless - Female FBI agent born without the "fear" gene (I'm not kidding)
Players: Bruckheimer
Gilmore Girls spinoff - Jess's character gets own show
Players: Amy sherman-Palladino
Immediate Family - woman who adopts sister's kids
Players: Aaron Spelling
Jack - teen destined to be president
Players: Tommy Schlamme of West Wing fame
Ravens - half-brothers in small town
Shadow Walkers - Archeologists hunt down scary creatures
Tarzan - young Tarzan in NY
MacGyver - MacGyver's 23 yr old nephew makes jets out of paperclips
Players: Henry Winkler producing

UPN
The Edge - Feds on Mexican border
Hotel - remake of "hotel" but in Miami!
Players: Spelling
Kamelot - King Arthur as modern day "hipster"
Players: Wes Craven
Newton - family in suburbia
Players: Joel Silver
Vegas Dick - con man helps casinos solve crimes
Weapons X - NSA agent injected with computer chips (think $6 million man)

So... does the word crap or redundant come to mind? Well, to be fair, I have only read a few of the pilots. Hope to get to them all within the next weeks.

Comments?

freedexter

Well, of course not all pilots will be accepted, so it won't matter much. It'll be interesting to see how many of those actually will make it to air, which will be mid-season replacements, and which ones will never see the light of day.

Robert

Starring who? Tom Ridge?

raKim

sounds like a good variety

Cops
Cops in the future
Cops in the Past
Cops in different states
Cops that are women
Rookie Cops
Undercover Cops
Cops that are friends
Lawyers
Female Lawyers
Irish Lawyers
FBI
NSA
DA
yada
yada
yada

I LOVE MY DVD'S

Geofferson

It'll be interesting to see how Street Lawyer and Skin turn out.

ten41

Alien Redrum

Criminology 101 - students solve crimes

Hey! Didn't they try this once before. Helping death row inmates or something?

I'm thinking Oliver Platt was in it.

Static Cling

You forgot CBS' Century City. Lawyers... OF THE FUTURE!!!!!!

The hell?

NYPD 2069 will get to duke it out with Future Tense to win "Best show to feed off of the success of Minority Report."

And NBC will now have Ed AND EDNY... and I think A.U.S.A., while we're acronymming.

HistoryProf

wow....good to see originality is alive and well....not.

Along Came Jones - El Paso in 1899 could be a cool show though....we need something not focused on cops and/or lawyers anyway - although i'm sure there'd be a sherriff or two in that one as well....

edit to ad:

You know, my subconscious mistype of the name "Then Came Jones" into "Along Came Jones" has me wondering if it is somehow related to the Gary Cooper comedy/western of the latter name.....just a thought?

Jepthah

Zzzzzzzzz.......whu? Is somming new on thu tewevishun....? Zzzzzzzzzzz.....

Groucho

This is the only show on the list that even looks remotely interesting. Most of these sound like train wrecks.

Blaster1

These ones below are the ones I think have potential. I rarely watch network tv anymore, so I probably won't end up seeing more than 3 or 4 of them at most. I don't see how the Skin show can work on network tv though. That would be better suited for HBO.

ABC
10-8 - Rookie cops in LASD
Players: Aaron Spelling
Alaska (The Circle) - Alaskan state troopers
Karen Sisco - based on Out of Sight
The Street Lawyer - based on Grisham book
Then Came Jones - El Paso in 1899
Threat Matrix - Anti-terrorist task force

CBS
Street Boss - the training of undercover cops
Brotherhood of Poland, NH - 3 brothers in small town
players: David E. Kelley


FOX
The Break - cops in Hawaii
NYPD 2069 - future cops
The O.C. - Bev Hills 90210 in Orange county, CA
Players: McG
Skin - series loosely based on "Boogie Nights"
Players: Bruckheimer
Still Life - Family drama from dead son's POV
Grad Student project - student learns she can relive any day in history

NBC
Future Tense - high tech law enforcement
Players: Joel silver
Homeland Security - anti-terrorism in u.S.
Las Vegas project - surveillance experts in Vegas

WB
Dicks - Friends become P.I.'s
Fearless - Female FBI agent born without the "fear" gene (I'm not kidding)
Players: Bruckheimer
Jack - teen destined to be president
Players: Tommy Schlamme of West Wing fame
Tarzan - young Tarzan in NY


UPN
The Edge - Feds on Mexican border
Vegas Dick - con man helps casinos solve crimes

shanester

Can't network programmers come up with anything else besides cops, lawyers and doctors??..

No wonder people flock to reality tv or cable!!

The "Criminology 101" plot reminds of that 80's show "The Whiz Kids" anybody remember that??

Goblincat

Grad Student project - student learns she can relive any day in history

I think this could have potential.

Mopower

Thank god for cable. Now I can completely ignore network television. They just can't get enough medical crime lawyer dramas can they?

adamblast

A really dismal sounding year for dramas, I must say... Yeesh.

Red Dog

Damn. Can't we get some more police and legal dramas?


Naked Hotel? Why can't this be on HBO?

Some of the FOX ones sound interesting. Of course, I'll check out the new MacGyver as well.

BoatDrinks

It's really frustrating to see this when I know there were so many pilots turned in that were original or smart or both, and didn't get picked up.

Network/Studio execs are probably decent intelligent people (well, some of them) but they all live in fear of their jobs, so they never take chances.

Here's a great Hollywood story: an exec for Fox Studios gets a rep for "not really having a good sense of material." So the exec gets relegated to FX (a demotion) and ends up putting The Shield on the air.

but does this exec get the credit? Nope... the Fox Studios execs who sent the person "away" take all the credit.

BoatDrinks

Example of the type of pilots that weren't picked up:

Joan of Arcadia - a modern day telling of Joan of Arc. A high schooler named Joan realizes that God is talking to her. He appears in the forms of various people - lunch lady, guy at a bus stop, butcher, etc - and is telling Joan that she's a messenger.

Joan is a bit freaked, especially being in the middle of high school and all that goes with that. She has a brother who is in a wheelchair due to some X-Games type of antics, and a dad who is a cop. The dad is hunting a serial rapist/killer in town and when Joan starts claiming to see these strangers following her around...

Anyway, the script was funny and touching and very intelligent and once you finished reading it you just knew that the network that bought it (CBS) would never put it on the air, but maybe they would at least shoot it?

They didn't.

Mopower

Sounds like an episode of "Touched by an Angel'

BoatDrinks

You should be a studio exec.

bboisvert

Of course, the networks are going to pass on all of these and just give the greenlight to 18 more reality TV shows and an extra night of Dateline.

Static Cling

Hey, no personal attacks.

das Monkey

• Quoth Static Cling •<HR SIZE=1>Hey, no personal attacks. <HR SIZE=1>

Yeah, that's just low.

das

BoatDrinks

The WORST thing about the "reality" shows - which, btw folks, are quite unreal as in they are scripted - the WORST thing about them is:

They don't even have to get good ratings to be cash cows. The studio's and network's overhead on them is so low (compared to original programming) that a reality show must only make what would be considered an "okay" number to be successful.

So, even though the research indicates that ratings are dropping for reality shows, they're still huge money makers.