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Bad Mother's Handbook

Based on a novel by Kate Long, this ABC comedy tells the tale of a 32-year-old woman who cares for her 16-year-old daughter and her 48-year-old mother.

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Big in Japan

Reality goes abroad in this ABC project that sends American contestants overseas to compete in challenges in a foreign culture.

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Boundaries

Boundaries tells the story of a failing cable-access psychologist who finds a new lease on life after being forced to take work as a mobile notary. Written by Jill Soloway (Six Feet Under); executive produced by Soloway, Bryan Burk, and J.J. Abrams.

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Castle

This newly minted drama series follows a mystery novelist who lands a second job helping the NYPD solve crimes.

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Cupid

Rob Thomas resurrects this show about a man who thinks he's a god sent to Earth by Zeus to bring 100 romantically-challenged couples together. Jeremy Piven starred in the short-lived original version.

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Dance Machine

Jason Kennedy of E! News hosts this new reality competition, in which amateur dancers compete for big bucks.

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Finnegan

The heart of this new drama lies within the tough-as-nails female detective who leads L.A.P.D.'s organized crime and vice unit.

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Five Year Plan

This ABC comedy follows two brothers and their group of friends, each of whom leads his or her life according to a grand five-year plan.

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Life on Mars

After failing to make the cut last year, this American version of the BBC drama has been given one more chance. The series follows Sam Tyler, a detective from the 21st century who, after a car accident, travels back in time to the 1970s. Tyler ends up working on a case involving a serial killer which may have something to do with his girlfriend's kidnapping in the present.

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Literary Superstar

This upcoming ABC single camera comedy--another straggler from last year--features Jenna Elfman as a sassy book publicist who balances a busy social schedule with the constant demands of up-and-coming authors.

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Middleman

Natalie Morales stars as a young artist who finds new purpose as the crime-fighting protegee of a comic-book-style superhero played by Matt Keeslar. Written and produced by Javier Grillo-Marxuach.

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More Things Change...

This single-camera comedy from Allan Loeb (New Amsterdam) follows four men whose bond of friendship stays strong through major life changes that are both hilarious and horrific.

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Never Better

A regular dad struggles to be the best husband and father he can be, but his attempts to be the good guy are often hilariously ill-advised.

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Outrageous Fortune

The matriarch of a criminal family has a change of heart after her husband is sent to jail--but leaving her life of sin proves to be much harder than she expected.

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Roman's Empire

Based on a BBC comedy of the same name, this single-camera ABC project is about a recently dumped guy who can't seem to break ties with his ex-girlfriend's overbearing and wealthy family.

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Section 8

A group of everyday people who possess uncanny neurological abnormalities have been recruited to work for a secret government agency. The series is produced by ABC Studios, in association with BermanBraun.

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The 16th Minute

This new multi-camera comedy takes a look at the lives of a group of has-been stars who find friendship with one another when they all participate in a televised "where are they now?" special.

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The Goode Family

Mike Judge, creator of Beavis & Butt-Head and King of the Hill, brings us this new animated series about an obsessively "green" family whose politically correct lifestyle results in constant laughs.

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The Unusuals

Also on the police beat, The Unusuals comes from the pen of Noah Hawley (Bones). It's the story of a New York police precinct. Rescue Me vet Peter Tolan is the executive producer, and like that show, The Unusuals will blend drama with comedy.

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This Might Hurt

Doctors' offices are full of laughs, and this single-camera comedy will focus on the antics of a variety of medical professionals, among them a pediatrician, an internist and an OB-GYN.

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Untitled Banks/Kutcher Project

Tyra Banks and Ashton Kutcher bring you this new reality series in which a group of hopeful women compete in a beauty contest with an unexpected twist.

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Untitled Cedric the Entertainer Project

Cedric the Entertainer stars in this new comedy about a man who has lots of laugh-inducing trouble

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Untitled Hemingson Project

Set in Los Angeles, this comedic drama follows a recent law-school grad from the wrong side of the tracks who takes a position at a boutique law firm.

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Untitled Kristin Newman Project

A thirtysomething woman attempts to reinvent her life through breaking free of her quirky family, her friends, and her job in this ABC comedy project.

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Untitled Victor Fresco Project

This new single-camera comedy follows the moral struggles of a decent, regular guy who works for a huge and unscrupulous corporation.

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Untitled Wayans Project

Damon Wayans plays a recently widowed husband who inherits a 19-year-old stepson he never knew in this multi-cam ABC sitcom.

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Wipeout

50 contestants push themselves to the limit to make it through a gigantic obstacle course--all for the grand prize of $50,000.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Can Openers

Can Openers follows a twenty-something woman in a seven-year neurosurgical residency program where she faces intense competition in a "boys' club" atmosphere. Elle Johnson (Ghost Whisperer) is behind the project, which will be produced by Apostle Productions and Sony Pictures Television.

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Don't Bring Frank

Based on BBC comedy Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, this series spotlights Frank Spencer, a high-energy, clumsy clod who causes trouble everywhere he goes.

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Eleventh Hour

This Jerry Bruckheimer-produced adaptation of the BBC series follows a scientist who, along with his feisty female bodyguard, works with the US government to save people from the worst abuses of science.

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Ex Life

A group of seasoned bachelors "adopt" a newly single guy and guide him through the choppy waters of the dating world.

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Exit 19

Geena Davis plays a hardened homicide detective in Manhattan who doubles as a single mom living on Long Island with her two children in this CBS drama.

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Flashpoint

Flashpoint revolves around the risk-filled lives of a group of cops in the elite SRU (Strategic Response Unit). Members of the highly skilled team face hostage situations, bust gangs, and defuse bombs utilizing their training to get inside the heads of these people who have reached their breaking points.

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Game Show in My Head

This hidden-camera game show sees contestants vying for a cash prize by performing a series of outrageous and embarrassing tasks in public, all dictated by the host through a concealed earpiece.

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Harper's Island

This horror-inspired drama tells the story of a group of friends who met up outside Seattle for a wedding. Suspense ensues when they end up dying one by one.

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My Best Friend's Girl

Two best friends who own a bike shop find themselves in an awkward situation when one of them starts dating the other's ex-wife.

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Mythological X

Mythological X revolves around a woman who learns from a psychic that she has already dated the man she is destined to marry. After this revelation she revisits all of the men she has dated in the past in hopes of finding Mr. Right again.

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Ny-Lon

Ny-Lon, based on the 2004 British series of the same name, centers on the cross-continental romance of a female New York record store clerk and male London stock broker who meet in a fateful encounter.

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Oldyweds

A couple gets married while in their mid-thirties, only to find that starting a life together is a lot harder when you already have a life of your own.

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Single White Millionaire

This new CBS comedy from Ricky Blitt (The Winner) focuses on a down-to-earth millionaire in his 30s in search of a wife and family.

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The Doctors

This Dr. Phil spin-off features a panel of doctors discussing a variety of health topics.

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The Meant to Be's

A romantic drama from CBS, this program focuses on a woman who dies young only to find that, before she can "pass over," she must return to Earth to help others better their lives.

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Tower

Chicago reporters not only deliver the news but make it themselves as they jump in to solve the mysteries of their news stories.

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Worst Week

Worst Week, from the mind of Matt Tarses, is an American take on the British series The Worst Week of My Life. This CBS offering centers on young couple dealing with their soon-to-be-in-laws during a family vacation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blue Blood

This Brett Ratner-directed drama pilot focuses on rookie cops on street patrol.

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Celebrity Circus

This NBC reality project sees celebrities running off to join the circus with avant garde professional troupes.

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I Can Do That

Contestants travel the country competing in challenges in this NBC reality competition series.

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Kath & Kim

Adapted from an Australian hit comedy of the same name, this NBC series finds laughs from a 40-something divorcee and her daughter living in the middle-class suburbs. Molly Shannon and Selma Blair lead the cast.

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Kings

Inspired by the biblical story of King David, this contemporary soap is about a typical small town guy who becomes involved with high society and politics and rises to the top against all odds.

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Man of Your Dreams

A multi-camera comedy on NBC, this Conan O'Brien-produced project is about a seasoned ladies' man who uses his skills to help women revive their limp love lives.

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My Own Worst Enemy

Christian Slater stars as a regular suburban dad and a deadly government spy who suddenly realize that, due to a previously undiagnosed multiple personality disorder, they are in fact the same person. Can these two men reconcile their differences and learn to live as one?

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Robinson Crusoe

Based on the classic Daniel Defoe novel, this NBC drama promises plenty of tropical-style action and adventure.

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The Listener

This new CTV/NBC collaborative drama project tells the story of Toby Logan, a gifted young paramedic who has the power to read other people's thoughts.

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The Philanthropist

A billionaire with a heart is at the center of this new drama. This money man uses his financial power to help those in need--no matter what the risk or cost.

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Robinson Crusoe

Car enthusiasts won't want to miss this BBC-inspired reality show. Cars, celebrities, and comedy--does it get any better?

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Untitled Luke Reiter Project

Two lawyers from opposite ends of the ethics perspective are in love with the same woman at their New York City civil law firm.

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Zip

This new comedy follows a con-artist dad and his kids as they seek "the good life" in Beverly Hills.

 

 

Boldly Going Nowhere

Three of the masterminds behind It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia join forces on this single-camera comedy about the daily operations aboard an intergalactic spaceship manned by an adventurous crew and a rogue captain.

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Courtroom K

This courtroom drama is a dark comedic offering in the vein of House. It puts the lives of a judge, a prosecutor and a public defender center stage.

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Dollhouse

Eliza Dushku stars in this new Joss Whedon series, which brings viewers into a mysterious world populated by human beings whose personalities, abilities, and memories have been programmed in order to help them complete top-secret missions.

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Fringe

FBI agents Olivia Warren and Peter Bishop are faced with a rapidly spreading, unexplained phenomenon of the threatening kind. In an attempt to stop the spread, they enlist the assistance of Bishop's estranged father, the institutionalized scientist Dr. Walter Bishop.

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Hole in the Wall

Don't miss this US version of an amazing Japanese game show in which contestants must become pawns in a human game of Tetris by quickly maneuvering their bodies through strangely-shaped holes in a moving wall.

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Inseparable

This modern-day Jekyll and Hyde drama follows a wheelchair-bound psychiatrist with a split personality, each half of which vies for the affections of the same woman.

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Mothballs

Drawn Together creators Matt Silverstein and Dave Jeser bring viewers this new animated comedy about a dysfunctional family that runs a nursing home.

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Nothing but the Truth

Contestants in this game show are hooked up to a lie detector and quizzed about their personal lives to determine if they are honest. Each question gets harder and harder, and the contestant who can make it to twenty-one questions without telling a lie has a chance of winning $500,000.

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Outnumbered

This new comedy--based on a BBC production of the same name--centers on the woes of two harried parents who struggle with the daily responsibilities of life with three brilliant and hyperactive kids.

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Prison Break: Cherry Hill

The awesome name of this new series pretty much says it all: it's a Prison Break spinoff set in an all-female detention center.

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Relative Insanity

A twenty-something struggles for independence from a family that doesn't seem to want him to grow up. This animated project is executive produced by Jack Black.

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Saint of Circumstance

A man in the throes of a mid-life crisis quits his going-nowhere office job to become a night shift paramedic. Adam Braff penned the project; brother Zach Braff is set to direct and executive produce.

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Sit Down, Shut Up

Based on a live-action Australian series of the same name, this animated offering depicts the lives and quirks of seven staffers at a high school in a small fishing town.

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Spaced

Based on the British series of the same name, this single-camera comedy tells the story of a young man and woman who, though they are complete strangers, pretend to be a married couple in order to land a cheap apartment.

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Starting Under

Ken Davitian--better known as the other naked dude in the Borat movie--stars with Bernie Mac in this comedy about a man who, after a divorce, finds himself living with and working for his son.

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The Oaks

This drama pilot jumps through time to tell the stories of three different couples, all of whom lived in the same apparently haunted house at some point in their lives.

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The Pitts

Fox resurrects its short-lived comedy The Pitts in an animated format. The unluckiest family in the world coaxes out laughs with their crazy antics.

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Untitled Cathy Lanier Project

This new series will tell the true story of Cathy Lanier, a 39-year-old single mother who, after giving birth at age 14, went on to become the first female chief of police of Washington, D.C. and one of the youngest heads of the department.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Austin Golden Hour

24 meets ER in this medical drama from American Idol producer Simon Fuller. Watch as a team of ER professionals deal with medical traumas and personal ordeals in real time.

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How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls

Adapted from the novel by Zoey Dean, this new drama tells the story of a Yale-educated young woman who, after losing her job at a gossip rag, becomes a live-in tutor to the granddaughters of a wealthy cosmetics baron.

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The Collection

The experiences of acclaimed fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi are the inspiration for this CW drama. This show seeks to build upon themes of racism, relationships, drugs, sexuality and more--all filtered through the glitz of the fashion industry.

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90210

The CW takes you back to West Beverly High, the alma mater of the Beverly Hills, 90210 clique of the '90s. Newly transported from the Midwest, the three-generational Mills family is at the center of this spinoff which also includes five other characters that may or may not be related the fabled Darren Star-created clan.

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Wrecking Ball

When a scandal ruins a young politician's chances for election his campaign aide convinces him to open a law firm dedicated to helping out lost causes.

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