PS, for those interested in USA Network,
here's a story on their strategy and future plans.
It's fascinating to see just how rigid they are about the formula - brand filter? Fruit bowl???
The sky must always be blue and the camera must never shake! These people sound like Nazis. The article quibbles a little about the formula being too formulaic, but unless ratings start to weaken, USA has no motive to overturn the fruit bowl which is full of golden apples for them (to stretch a metaphor).
USA network, once known for a bland but reliable mishmash of wrestling and "Murder, She Wrote" reruns, has in recent years built an identity defined by sunny, optimistic original series. Shows like "Burn Notice," "Covert Affairs" and "Royal Pains" have helped make it the most-watched cable channel for the past five years.
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In June, USA will premiere "Necessary Roughness," a new series about a scorned Long Island wife and psychiatrist who becomes a therapist to NFL players, and "Suits," a buddy legal drama about a genius slacker and a high-powered New York attorney. It is casting "Over/Under," about a Wall Street trader with a gambling problem, and recently shot pilots for "Common Law," about a couple of bickering L.A. cops, and "Eden," about a concierge at a New York luxury hotel who caters to guests' every whim.
USA greenlights only shows that go through what network executives call a "brand filter." That means nothing gets the go-ahead unless it is "aspirational, blue skies, upbeat, optimistic and character-driven," says Bonnie Hammer, chairman of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment and Cable Studios.
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USA is so specific about the look and feel of its shows that it tells producers to make sure there is a "fruit bowl" in each potentially drab scene. This is metaphor: It could literally mean a bowl of fruit or, more often, a splash of color, as in a scene in "White Collar" with a red office chair in an otherwise monotone room or a bold-colored billboard outside a window, against an always-blue sky. In the USA playbook, shaky hand-held-camera shots, a favorite of grittier shows like TNT's "Southland," are verboten.
And still MORE prognostications (focusing just on shows that interest me, there's far more at the links):
ABC
Looks good for
Hallelujah, Once Upon a Time (which sounds much better than I'd thought it would be) and
The River (which sounds like another Lost-wannabee-instaflop).
Poe is possible.
CBS
No mention of
Person of Interest. The lack of news about that show is worrysome, considering how tough CBS is for pilots anyway.
FOX
Exit Strategy is a "shoo-in,"
Locke & Key "probable" but "may be too high brow" for FOX viewers, which just makes me want to see it more.
Touch possible for midseason but wow, it sounds much worse than I'd hoped.
Alcatraz not reviewed, but still cited as likely.
CW
Yes to
Awakenings (gak!
and the reviewer agrees with me that Titus Welliver will be the saving grace of the show) and
The Secret Circle.
NBC
Yes to
Wonder Woman (a "train wreck"),
Smash and
17th Precinct. The latter doesn't get a rave review and there's a bit of new info - the baddies are terrorists named Stoics who want to replace magic with "the tyranny of science" - I dunno, sounds like a conflict that will be hard to pull off in a graceful, non-ham-handed way. The reviewer is also skeptical that a fantasy-based
CSI will work on broadcast, and I gotta agree there.
Playboy (lukewarm review)and
REM (best script of the season) are "likely."
Reconstruction is "doubtful," which is too bad because it sounds better than I'd expected.
If
A Mann's World sees the light of day, everyone should check it out - it's "the worst pilot of the season."
No mention of
Grimm or
Brave New World.
Overall, I think the reviewer might not be taking into account NBC's desperate need for fodder. "Likely" translates to "yes," and "unlikely" translates to "possible."
Ditto for Smash. But Brave New World might not be so lucky. 
Person of Interest is 50/50. The reviewer apparently wants to see Poe for the same reason I do. 
