2010-11 pilot pickups

[Bob The Skutter]

Meanwhile on this side of the pond Outcasts has been picked up for 8 episodes...

Outcasts is set on a recently-discovered planet and tells of the dilemmas, loves and lives of a group of people setting up a new world.
This life-sustaining planet is now home to the surviving population from Earth. Here there is a chance to start again, to bring the lessons learnt from Earth and to put them into action on a new planet.

Set in 2040, Outcasts begins on the day the last known transporter from Earth arrives, prompting great excitement on the new planet: Who is on board? Friends and loved ones? Important supplies and news from Earth? But also many questions: Will the new people bring the problems of Earth with them? Will the mistakes that destroyed Earth be repeated? Will the arrival of a new, would-be leader, rock the fragile and precarious equilibrium of our fresh, unified and courageous new world?

And, most importantly of all, how do you create a new and a better world?

There's 3 pilots airing on BBC Three, amongst which is Pulse.

Pulse

St Timothy's is one of the UK's top teaching hospitals, home to some of the country's most promising trainee doctors. But beneath its veneer of medical normality lies a secret network of dangerous experiments pushing back the boundaries of science with potentially horrifying consequences in this one-off 60-minute medical horror drama written by Paul Cornell.

Hannah Carter's mother was a consultant at the hospital, but died suddenly a year ago. Grief left Hannah (Claire Foy) teetering on the edge, but following a year off, she's back to resume her training. But Hannah remains fragile, so when she starts glimpsing peculiar events in the hospital and unsettling behaviour from her ex-boyfriend and star surgeon Nick (Stephen Campbell Moore), she's unsure what to believe.

Ignoring the pleas of those around her, Hannah puts her sanity on the line to uncover the truth about the hospital.

The Deep

James Nesbitt, Minnie Driver and Goran Visnjic star in a five-part thriller set thousands of feet below the Arctic ice. Simon Donald's story follows the crew of an oceanographic submarine as they search the final frontiers of Earth for unknown and remarkable life forms before inexplicable circumstances then cause catastrophe to strike.

There's also 3 comedies been picked up by Channel 4, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, Campus and PhoneShop, all of which you can probably find the pilots on Youtube.

 

[StarshipDefiant]

I was thinking that Cutthroat sounds very much like Weeds-- a dramedy about a single mother involved with drugs...sounds awfully familiar to me,

Yeah I expect Weeds Lite with a strong whiff of nasty bitchy guilty pleasure...could be worse, I spose.

hey whatever happened to Amy Ackers Happytown? Did that not get picked up coz I thought it did

I've been expecting it midseason but so far, no sign of it.

I had it figured for some sort of mid season thing to, I have to wonder if for some reason, they are waiting until after the Winter Olympics, like they are with V, to air the episodes.

 

[FreezeC77]

Wasn't Outcasts announced like a couple years ago? I swear I heard about it back when Primeval S1 was going on

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Wasn't Outcasts announced like a couple years ago? I swear I heard about it back when Primeval S1 was going on

Yeah, they announced it was in development in 2007, I think they've been looking for international partners and things since then. It looks like it's to be filmed in South Africa, and I've read they're already planning the second series.

 

[Mr. Sin]

Wasn't there a Doctor Who K-9 series on it's way?

 

[Christopher]

Wasn't there a Doctor Who K-9 series on it's way?

There's a K-9 series in production, slated to air sometime this year, but without any real connection to Doctor Who. In Britain, unlike the US, the writers who create a character own the rights to the character, so they can continue to use that character independently of the show they created it for. So this K-9 show is being done with no participation from the BBC and will avoid any direct references to DW because they don't have the rights for that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-9_(TV_series)

The K-9 featured in the show is implicitly the K-9 Mark I seen from "The Invisible Enemy" through "The Invasion of Time," left behind with Leela on Gallifrey. How the Mk I survived the Time War will presumably never be addressed due to the rights issues.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

^I believe K-9 has already started airing in Australia and at least one has aired in the UK.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Three more pickups: two sitcoms and a legal drama.

This Little Piggy - about two adult siblings who, after falling on hard times, are forced to move back into their childhood home with their eldest brother and his family

Nathan vs. Nurture - centers on an overachieving heart surgeon given up for adoption who reunites with his biological parents and underachieving siblings

Pleading Guilty - based on Scott Turow's novel, centers on Mack Malloy, an ex-cop-turned-attorney who works as a partner at a powerful Chicago law firm

Dire situation remains: unchanged.

Edit: oops, here are some more. Poppin' up like (largely inedible) mushrooms.

aaand a sitcom and a cop show.

MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED (FOX) - multi-camera comedy about "a group of friends who were superstars growing up and are now dealing with the reality of adulthood."

Snoore.

EDGAR FLOATS (ABC) - drama about "a police psychologist who becomes a bounty hunter."

Oh what the hell, I better stop being so fussy or I'll have nothing to watch. If the lead character is cast well, I might just bite or at least nibble... What's Joe Flanigan doing lately?

Ah hah! Here are some more...and one that sounds like it has potential!

The Event - a story about a large government conspiracy

Could be 24-ish fun.

Plus their wholly unnecessary remakes of Prime Suspect and The Rockford Files. More legal schmegal from Kindreds and Rex is Not Your Lawyer. Cop show - The Chase. Sitcom - Love Bites. Snore snore snore snore and more snore.

Oh wait, what is skiffy up to? Ordered to series:

Being Human - can't say the premise interests me much; too gimmicky

Haven - based on the novella "The Colorado Kid," from Stephen King...hmm...small town murder mystery lingers for decades...no doubt with supernatural overtones?

Okay skiffy, don't screw up Stephen King and you might have something there.

Yet another one, sitcom from FOX called Bob's Burgers - animated comedy centering on a man who runs a struggling restaurant along with his tightly-wound wife and three underachieving kids.

TNT: Delta Blues (cop show) and Rizzoli & Isles (murder mystery)

This is a big list of pickups. Not much room now for that wow-that-sounds-INCREDIBLE pilot I've been hoping to see.

Seems like CW is still to be heard from. I'm rooting from Plymouth Rock (sole space opera in contention) and Bitches in Britches (ya gotta love the name!)

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

EDGAR FLOATS (ABC) - drama about "a police psychologist who becomes a bounty hunter."

Better name would be "Edgar Allan Floats".

 

[Kelso]

Meanwhile on this side of the pond Outcasts has been picked up for 8 episodes...

Outcasts is set on a recently-discovered planet and tells of the dilemmas, loves and lives of a group of people setting up a new world.
This life-sustaining planet is now home to the surviving population from Earth. Here there is a chance to start again, to bring the lessons learnt from Earth and to put them into action on a new planet.

Set in 2040, Outcasts begins on the day the last known transporter from Earth arrives, prompting great excitement on the new planet: Who is on board? Friends and loved ones? Important supplies and news from Earth? But also many questions: Will the new people bring the problems of Earth with them? Will the mistakes that destroyed Earth be repeated? Will the arrival of a new, would-be leader, rock the fragile and precarious equilibrium of our fresh, unified and courageous new world?

And, most importantly of all, how do you create a new and a better world?

Yay! I'd all but given up on this.

Pulse

St Timothy's is one of the UK's top teaching hospitals, home to some of the country's most promising trainee doctors. But beneath its veneer of medical normality lies a secret network of dangerous experiments pushing back the boundaries of science with potentially horrifying consequences in this one-off 60-minute medical horror drama...

I have no interest in this.

...written by Paul Cornell.

Gah! They got me.

The Deep James Nesbitt, Minnie Driver and Goran Visnjic star in a five-part thriller set thousands of feet below the Arctic ice. Simon Donald's story follows the crew of an oceanographic submarine as they search the final frontiers of Earth for unknown and remarkable life forms before inexplicable circumstances then cause catastrophe to strike.

You had me at "James Nesbitt." I'll watch this.

Rex is Not Your Lawyer

Not my type of show, but I'll watch for Tennant.

Being Human

I'd rather BBCA hurry up and air series two... but I'll check out the remake.

Plymouth Rock

It has a spaceship? I'll check it out.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

A few from Showtime...

Episodes - Sendup of the TV biz. Doesn't Curb Your Enthusiasm and Entourage's Johnny Drama plotline have this covered? TV sure is in love with itself.

The Borgias - The Tudors, only this time with medieval Italians. They should cast actors like James Gandolfini and Zachary Quinto. Or how about this: Al Pacino as the decrepit, corrupt patriarch, still detemined to hang onto his power while the younger vultures circle. Done right, this could be a sleazy, crazy hoot

The Big C - Laura Linney battles cancer. This one could be good.

 

[Chris3123]

I think you mean 2009-2010, not 2010-2011.

No; the 2009-2010 season is already more than half over. These are pilots picked up for the following season, which will be 2010-2011. (You are remembering to put 2010 on your checks now, right? I almost forgot that today.)

I said that because she listed NCIS: Los Angeles, which began in 2009.

 

[RoJoHen]

The Big C - Laura Linney battles cancer. This one could be good.

Could be. I love me some Laura Linney.



But good lord, how many cops shows do we need on TV?!

Somebody needs to invent a new genre, quick!

 

[gastrof]

...Somebody needs to invent a new genre, quick!

Yes, but the only remaining choices I can think of are a sitcom about Amish pottery makers and an animated show about polar bears struggling to survive in today's economy.

 

[Theodore Jay Miller]

...Somebody needs to invent a new genre, quick!

Yes, but the only remaining choices I can think of are a sitcom about Amish pottery makers and an animated show about polar bears struggling to survive in today's economy.

They can get some ideas from anime series. Modern-day people in a fantasy world, looking for the spell to get home by stripping elves naked? A show about competitive bread baking? Martial artists who change into ducks, cats, pigs, and women? Pirates who gained super-powers by eating fruit? A ten-year-old wizard teaching a class of teenage girls, including a ninja, a vampire, and a robot?

 

[Mistral]

Walking Dead and Outcasts(as well as Survivors, which starts here in USA in a couple weeks) are the only new shows that grabbed me. I think I'll stick with Lost, Burn Notice, Leverage, Desperate, Medium and Grey's. And whatever Jay Leno's doing-'cause that's sure to be a hit, right?

 

[wamdue]

apparntly Jeremy Kyle is taking his show to the USA

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jan/25/jeremy-kyle-american-version

Jeremy Kyle is making a US version of his ITV1 show for daytime syndication.ITV Studios' Los Angeles-based production office is hoping Kyle's Jerry Springer-style programme will prove popular with American audiences.
Co-produced by ITV Studios and US company Lionsgate's wholly-owned producer and distributor Debmar-Mercury, the American version of Jeremy Kyle will air in 2011.
Kyle will fly to the US later this year to record the episodes. "I am particularly looking forward to meeting ordinary American people and hearing about their extraordinary lives," he said.
"This show isn't about me – it is about their issues and problems and how we can face them together – with complete honesty and openness – in front of US audiences."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7011962.stm

A judge has branded The Jeremy Kyle Show "a form of human bear-baiting" at a court case in Manchester.

District Judge Alan Berg said the ITV1 daytime programme was "trash" and existed to "titillate bored members of the public with nothing better to do".
"It seems to me that the purpose of this show is to effect a morbid and depressing display of dysfunctional people whose lives are in turmoil."
He added that it was "human bear-baiting which goes under the guise of entertainment".

 

[Temis the Vorta]

^^Yikes, that sounds wretched. All reality TV should die!!!

Funny how I haven't run across reality TV pilots...do they get picked up at the last minute or something? It's not like they require a lot of advance thought.

But good lord, how many cops shows do we need on TV?!

Oh I'm sure we'll get a few more before this all winds down...

Here's one that sounds like sf/f at first blush but probably isn't:

No Ordinary Family - centers on a typical American family whose members have special abilities.

and

Freshman - centers on the friendship of three freshmen members of Congress -- two men and a woman -- who live together in D.C.

Well at least that one is fairly unique. There's no glut of political dramas.

And a couple more from CBS.

"Hitched," from Warner Bros. TV, centers on a twentysomething newlywed couple who, surrounded by their family and friends, is still learning about each other.

...

The untitled Tad Quill comedy, from CBS TV Studios, centers on a widower father who raises his 12-year-old son while jumping back into the dating pool.

Two more.

LEAPFROG (ABC) - two sisters at different stages in their romantic relationships: one is in a happy, long-term relationship but isn't married, and the other gets pregnant and winds up marrying her beau.

Still not seeing much to get excited about...at least this one has a good cast:

SHAMELESS (Showtime) - drama about the lives of a very unconventional family. Emmy Rossum, Justin Chatwin,William H. Macy, Alison Janney.

Hmm, and maybe we have one less lawyer show to worry about. Has Rex is Not Your Lawyer been un-picked-up? Now if only they'd rescind about 3/4ths of those damn cop shows.

 

[Kegg]

Freshman - centers on the friendship of three freshmen members of Congress -- two men and a woman -- who live together in D.C.

Well at least that one is fairly unique. There's no glut of political dramas.

It's interesting. Make them a mixed group of Democrats and Republicans and you'd have something both wildly unrealistic but also probably fun to watch.

SHAMELESS (Showtime) - drama about the lives of a very unconventional family. Emmy Rossum, Justin Chatwin,William H. Macy, Alison Janney.

Wait, William H. Macy plus Showtime? Count me half-interested. I hope his unconventional parenting involves kidnapping his wife as an elaborate scheme to get money.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Make them a mixed group of Democrats and Republicans and you'd have something both wildly unrealistic but also probably fun to watch.

I'm sure they could room together, even if they don't work for the same Senators or whatever...in fact, that's probably exactly how the cast would be written.