TV Pilots/Development Scorecard
Follow all of the development action during upfront season with Variety Insight’s up-to-the-minute listings of pilot and series orders.
The network-by-network listings for major broadcast and cable channels are searchable by title and genre, and include detailed information on production auspices and creative teams.
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Comedy
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UNITED WE FALL | Sony Pictures Television,ABC Studios,Exhibit A | Julius Sharpe (EP, W-Pilot), Seth Gordon (EP N/W), Julia Gunn (EP N/W), Mark Cendrowski (D-Pilot) | A profoundly realistic family sitcom that follows the trials and tribulations of Jo (Christina Vidal) and Bill (Will Sasso), parents of two young kids, as they try to make it day-to-day as a functioning family. | Series Pick Up |
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Drama
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FOR LIFE | Sony Pictures Television,ABC Studios,G-Unit Films and Television,Doug Robinson Productions | Hank Steinberg (EP, W-Pilot), 50 Cent (EP N/W), Alison Greenspan (EP N/W), Doug Robinson (EP N/W), Isaac Wright Jr. (EP N/W), George Tillman Jr. (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | A fictional serialized legal and family drama inspired by the life of Isaac Wright, Jr. | Series Pick Up |
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Drama
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THE BAKER AND THE BEAUTY | ABC Studios,Universal Television,Keshet Studios | Dean Georgaris (EP, Show Runner, W-Pilot), Becky Hartman-Edwards (EP, Show Runner), Assi Azar (EP N/W), Rachel Kaplan (EP N/W), Avi Nir (EP N/W), Alon Shtruzman (EP N/W), Peter Traugott (EP N/W), David Frankel (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | Daniel Garcia is working in the family bakery and doing everything that his loving Cuban parents and siblings expect him to do. | Series Pick Up |
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Comedy
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GAO, JESSICA PROJECT | ABC Studios,CBS Television Studios,Imagine Television | Jessica Gao (EP, W-Pilot), Francie Calfo (EP N/W), Samie Kim Falvey (EP N/W), Brian Grazer (EP N/W), Larry Wilmore (EP N/W), Jude Weng (D-Pilot) | The single camera comedy series is about Janet Zhao, a first generation Chinese-American woman who struggles to set healthy boundaries with her crazy, exhausting family. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Comedy
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HAPPY ACCIDENT | 20th Century Fox Television,ABC Studios | Abraham Higginbotham (EP, W-Pilot), Jon Pollack (EP, W-Pilot), Jeff Morton (EP N/W, LP), Kat Coiro (D-Pilot) | In this single camera comedy, two Pittsburgh families -- a father with three adult daughters, and a hotel lounge singer with her med student son -- are forced together after a decades-old secret is revealed. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Comedy
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NANA | 20th Century Fox Television,ABC Studios,Alcon Television,Goldenlight Films | Lon Zimmet (EP, W-Pilot), Broderick Johnson (EP N/W), Andrew Kosove (EP N/W), Laura Lancaster (EP N/W), Theodore Melfi (EP N/W), Kimberly Quinn (EP N/W), Andy Ackerman (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | After the death of his wife, an obsessive, overprotective dad is forced to invite his brash and bawdy mother-in-law – Nana (Katey Sagal) - into his home to help raise the two granddaughters she barely knows in this multi-camera hybrid comedy. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Comedy
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ODOM JR., LESLIE PROJECT | ABC Studios,Simpson Street | Saladin Patterson (EP, W-Pilot), Leslie Odom Jr. (EP N/W), Pilar Savone (EP N/W), Kerry Washington (EP N/W), Fred Savage (D-Pilot) | Inspired by real life progressive pastors Touré & Sarah Roberts, the multi-camera comedy show revolves around Omari & Hope who together run a modern ministry and share an even more eclectic and chaotic home life with a combined 4 children. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Comedy
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SIMONE, HANNAH PROJECT | ABC Studios | Matt Fusfeld & Alex Cuthbertson (EP, W-Pilot), Hannah Simone (EP, W-Pilot), Todd Holland (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | In this single camera comedy, Hannah (Simone) and her Indian-American immigrant father have always been close, but after she admits to herself that she’s in a dead-end job and he reveals his marriage is over, they’re starting over together and each finding a new path. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Comedy
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WOMAN UP | 20th Century Fox Television,ABC Studios,Small Dog Picture Company | Zoe Lister-Jones (D-Pilot, EP, W-Pilot), Elizabeth Meriwether (EP N/W), Jon Radler (EP N/W), Jason Winer (EP N/W) | In this single camera comedy, two former teen Moms have worked their asses off to see their daughters all the way through high school graduation. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Drama
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HEART OF LIFE | ABC Studios,20th Century Fox Television | Ben Queen (EP, W-Pilot), Jake Kasdan (EP N/W), Melvin Mar (EP N/W), John Mayer (EP N/W), Paul Weitz (EP N/W), Anne Fletcher (Co EP N/W, D-Pilot) | Inspired by John Mayer’s hit song, HEART OF LIFE follows two sets of adult siblings from wildly different worlds who discover they’re related and must reassess everything they thought they knew about their shared father. | Rolled Pilot |
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Drama
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NEW YORK UNDERCOVER | ABC Studios,Universal Television,Wolf Entertainment | Benjamin Watkins (EP, W-Pilot), Dick Wolf (EP, W-Pilot), Arthur W. Forney (EP N/W), Peter Jankowski (EP N/W), Anthony Hemingway (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | Picking up 20 years after the end of the iconic series that changed the face of TV cop dramas, NEW YORK UNDERCOVER will follow detectives Nat Gilmore and Melissa Ortiz as they investigate the city’s most dangerous criminals from Harlem to Battery Park. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Drama
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NYPD BLUE | ABC Studios,20th Century Fox Television | Matt Olmstead & Nicholas Wootton (EP, W-Pilot), Jesse Bochco (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | The new series follows Andy Sipowicz’s son, Theo, as he tries to earn his detective shield and work in the 15th squad while investigating his father’s murder. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Drama
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THE HYPNOTIST'S LOVE STORY | ABC Studios,Mandeville Films | Katie Wech (EP, W-Pilot), Heather Graham (EP N/W), David Hoberman (EP N/W), Todd Lieberman (EP N/W), Laurie Zaks (EP N/W), Francesca Gregorini (D-Pilot) | After a string of failed romances, successful hypnotherapist Ellen is optimistic about her current boyfriend. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Drama
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TRIANGLE | ABC Studios,Random Hill Productions | Jon Harmon Feldman (EP, W-Pilot), Sonny Postiglione (EP, W-Pilot), Jennifer Gwartz (EP N/W), McG (D-Pilot) | What if the Bermuda Triangle was not a watery grave in the middle of the ocean, but a land lost in time that has trapped travelers over the course of human history? When a family is shipwrecked in this strange land, they must band together with a group of like-minded inhabitants -- from throughout history -- to survive and somehow find a way home. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Drama
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UNTIL THE WEDDING | ABC Studios,Timberman/Beverly Productions,Reshet,Paper Plane Productions | Becky Mode (EP, W-Pilot), Ami Amir (EP N/W), Alon Aranya (EP N/W), Carl Beverly (EP N/W), Nelly Feld (EP N/W), Sarah Timberman (EP N/W), Avi Zvi (EP N/W), Susannah Grant (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | Based on the acclaimed Israeli format, UNTIL THE WEDDING is the story of how one couple’s decision to get married can affect everyone in their lives. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Comedy
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BARGATZE, NATE PROJECT | 20th Century Fox Television,Brillstein Entertainment Partners | Nate Bargatze (EP, W-Pilot), Jerrod Carmichael (EP, W-Pilot), Ari Katcher (Co EP, W-Pilot), Dan Shaki (Co EP, W-Pilot), Danielle Sanchez-Witzel (EP, Show Runner), Alex Murray (EP N/W), Tim Sarkes (EP N/W), Drew Goddard (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | Based on the life and comedy of Nate Bargatze, the multi-camera comedy series follows Nate and his wife who choose to move from California to Nate's native Tennessee, where his parents still live, to raise their six-year-old daughter. | Rolled Pilot |
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Comedy
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BARRIS, KENYA AND BEAN, JULIE PROJECT | ABC Studios | Kenya Barris (EP, Show Runner, W-Pilot), Julie Bean (EP, Show Runner, W-Pilot), Alec Baldwin (EP N/W) | A multi-camera comedy series that follows a stuck-in-his-ways, opinionated, fading TV star who moves in with his progressive daughter, her girlfriend and the child they are raising together. | Terminated Pilot |
Comedy
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BROKE | CBS Television Studios,Propagate Content,Sutton St. Productions | Alex Herschlag (EP, W-Pilot), Jaime Camil (EP N/W), Gonzalo Cilley (EP N/W), Marcia Lucia Hernandez Frieri (EP N/W), Joanna Klein (EP N/W), Guillermo Restrepo (EP N/W), Ben Silverman (EP N/W), Jennie Snyder Urman (EP N/W), Victor Gonzalez (D-Pilot) | A multi-camera comedy about Jackie (Perrette), a single suburban mother who’s shocked when her estranged sister, Elizabeth (Natasha Leggero), her sister’s outrageously wealthy, big-hearted husband, Javier (Camil), and Javier’s fiercely loyal assistant/driver/friend, Luis (Izzy Diaz), land on her doorstep in need of a place to live after the couple’s money dries up. | Series Pick Up |
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Drama
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FBI: MOST WANTED | CBS Television Studios,Universal Television,Wolf Entertainment | Rene Balcer (EP, W-Pilot), Dick Wolf (EP), Arthur W. Forney (EP N/W), Peter Jankowski (EP N/W), Fred Berner (D-Pilot) | From Emmy Award winner Dick Wolf and the team behind FBI and the “Law & Orderâ€�? franchise, FBI: MOST WANTED is a high-stakes drama that focuses on the Fugitive Task Force, which relentlessly tracks and captures the notorious criminals on the Bureau’s Most Wanted list. | Series Pick Up |
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Drama
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TOMMY | CBS Television Studios,Amblin Television | Paul Attanasio (EP, W-Pilot), Justin Falvey (EP N/W), Darryl Frank (EP N/W), Kate Dennis (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | Multiple Emmy Award winner Edie Falco stars in TOMMY as a former high-ranking NYPD officer who becomes the first female Chief of Police for Los Angeles. | Series Pick Up |
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Comedy
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OUR HOUSE | Sony Pictures Television,CBS Television Studios,Stoller Global Solutions | Brendan O'Brien (EP, W-Pilot), Katherine Heigl (EP N/W), Nicholas Stoller (EP N/W), Conor Welch (EP N/W), James Burrows (D-Pilot) | In this multi-camera hybrid comedy, a devoted mom and dad are committed to raising their children with the love and support the mom never got as a kid, but discover how difficult that is with her insane parents and siblings back in the picture. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Comedy
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SUPER SIMPLE LOVE STORY | Sony Pictures Television,CBS Television Studios,Stoller Global Solutions | Mike Royce (EP, W-Pilot), Nicholas Stoller (EP N/W), Conor Welch (EP N/W), Pamela Fryman (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | This hybrid comedy is a story told through interviews and vignettes spanning 10 years, about how an unlikely couple becomes an unlikely family. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Comedy
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THE EMPEROR OF MALIBU | Warner Bros. Television | Kevin Kwan & David Sangalli (EP, W-Pilot), Christina Lee (EP, Show Runner), Michelle Nader (EP, Show Runner), Danielle Stokdyk (EP N/W), Andy Ackerman (D-Pilot) | In this multi-camera comedy, when the son of a Chinese billionaire announces his engagement to an American woman, his outrageous family descends upon the couple to win their son back and test drive the American dream. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Comedy
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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN | CBS Television Studios,The Jackal Group | Mike Metz (Co EP, W-Pilot), Joe Port & Joe Wiseman (EP, Show Runner), Gail Berman (EP N/W), Mark Cendrowski (D-Pilot) | In this hybrid comedy, Evan sets out with his group of 20-something friends to accomplish a list of challenges he wrote for himself years ago in an effort to turn around his banal life. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Drama
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ALIVE | CBS Television Studios | Jason Tracey (EP, W-Pilot), Robert Doherty (EP), Uta Briesewitz (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | A San Francisco homicide detective is mysteriously brought back to life after being killed in the line of duty, but as he resumes his old life and he and his wife realize he isn’t the same person he used to be, they zero in on the strange man behind his resurrection – Doctor Victor Frankenstein. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Drama
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REPUBLIC OF SARAH | CBS Television Studios,Fulwell 73 | Jeffrey Paul King (EP, W-Pilot), Anna Fricke (EP), Jeff Grosvenor (EP N/W), Leo Pearlman (EP N/W), Marc Webb (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | A small New Hampshire town is thrust onto the world stage when the discovery of a valuable resource within its borders compels the residents to declare themselves an independent nation, setting the unlikely young mayor and her cabinet of inexperienced locals on the path of running a brand new country. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Drama
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SURVEILLANCE | CBS Television Studios,20th Century Fox Television,6th & Idaho | David C. White (Co EP, W-Pilot), Russell Ackerman (EP N/W), Matt Reeves (EP N/W), John Schoenfelder (EP N/W), Patricia Riggen (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | This complex and timely spy thriller centers around the head of communications for the NSA (Bush), a charming operative who finds her loyalties torn between protecting the government’s secrets and her own. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Drama
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UNDER THE BRIDGE | CBS Television Studios,Jerry Bruckheimer Television | Rina Mimoun (EP, W-Pilot), Jerry Bruckheimer (EP N/W), Jonathan Littman (EP N/W), KristieAnne Reed (EP N/W), Victoria Mahoney (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | When a scandal rocks the medical practice she runs with her husband and their friends, a surgeon rises to the occasion and takes the lead in trying to mend both the practice and her own marriage. | Pilot Pick Up |
Drama
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KATY KEENE | Warner Bros. Television,CBS Television Studios,Berlanti Productions | Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (EP, W-Pilot), Michael Grassi (EP, W-Pilot), Greg Berlanti (EP N/W), Jon Goldwater (EP N/W), Sarah Schechter (EP N/W), Maggie Kiley (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | A RIVERDALE spinoff, KATY KEENE follows the lives and loves of four iconic Archie Comics characters — fashion legend-to-be Katy Keene (Lucy Hale), singer/songwriter Josie McCoy (Ashleigh Murray), performer Jorge Lopez/Ginger (Jonny Beauchamp), and “It Girlâ€�? Pepper Smith (Julia Chan) — as they chase their twenty-something dreams in New York City…together. | Series Pick Up |
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Drama
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GLAMOROUS | CBS Television Studios,Two Shakes Entertainment | Jordon Nardino (EP, W-Pilot), Damon Wayans Jr. (EP N/W), Eva Longoria (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | A gender non-conforming recent high school graduate lands the gig of a lifetime interning at a cosmetics company whose products he panned on YouTube. | Pilot Pick Up |
