Primetime Pilot Panic News

Rescue Me co-creator Peter Tolan is returning to the FX fold with a new comedy. FX has given a pilot order to Belated,  written, directed and executive produced by Tolan. The half-hour comedy follows an unexpected intergenerational friendship between Owen, a recently out man in his 40s, and Clay, a 17-year-old trans…

EXCLUSIVE: NBC has given a put pilot commitment to Blank Slate, an hourlong drama from The Brave creator Dean Georgaris and The Blacklist producer Davis Entertainment. Written by Georgaris, Black Slate is a high-concept procedural about a government agent who may not be what he seems. Georgaris executive produces with…

EXCLUSIVE: Freeform has given a formal pilot order to What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding, a one-hour comedy based on Kristin Newman‘s (Only Murders in the Building) memoir, with Chelsea Frei (Dollface) set as the lead. Catherine Cohen (What We Do in the Shadows), Alice Hunter (Another Period) and Kosha Patel (Gir…

EXCLUSIVE: Hank Azaria (Brockmire, Ray Donovan), Haneefah Wood (Truth Be Told, One Day at a Time), Alison Pill (Them, The Newsroom), Nick Podany (Harry Potter And The Cursed Child on Broadway) and Dewshane Williams (The Umbrella Academy, In the Dark), are set to star alongside Billy Crudup in Apple TV+ original series…

Lopez Vs. Lopez, a family comedy starring George Lopez and his daughter Mayan, has been picked up to pilot at NBC. This comes after Deadline revealed that the multi-camera project, which comes from The Conners duo Bruce Helford and Debby Wolfe, had scored a put pilot commitment earlier this summer. Lopez Vs. Lopez is…

EXCLUSIVE: Bernard David Jones’ pilot Remember has headed into pre-production, after receiving a WarnerMedia OneFifty grant supporting the early stages of its development. Remember is a dramedy that follows a forgetful millennial and his four best friends as they navigate queer love, rocky careers, and the ups and…

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend co-creators Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna are reteaming for Badass (And Her Sister), a new comedy project for Hulu and ABC Signature, where Brosh McKenna is under a deal. Like with the CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Bloom and Brosh McKenna co-wrote and executive produce Badass. Bloom again is…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS has taken in for development I Give It 6 Months, a multi-camera romantic comedy from Jordan Young (Bojack Horseman), Party Over Here, the production company founded by the Lonely Island's Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, and CBS Studios. Written by Young, in this anti-romantic, romantic…

EXCLUSIVE:  Chicago P.D. writer/executive producer Gwen Sigan has been promoted to showrunner. She is taking the reins of the long-running NBC series as part of an overall deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, which produces the cop drama. Sigan replaces Rick Eid who has served as Chicag…

ABC has given a pilot order to The Son In Law, a single-camera comedy written and executive produced by Ajay Sahgal (The Carmichael Show) and executive produced by Jake Kasdan and Melvin Mar, the duo behind such series as ABC's Fresh Off the Boat and Disney+'s Doogie Kealoha, M.D. 20th Television, where Kasdan and Mar…

Colin Woodell (The Flight Attendant) has been tapped as the lead in The Continental, Starz’s TV series prequel to the Keanu Reeves film franchise John Wick. Woodell, who will play Winston Scott, the younger version of Ian McShane’s character from the John Wick films, joins Mel Gibson in the three-night special-event…

Netflix’s planned To All the Boys I've Loved Before TV series offshoot is a go. The YA series, XO, Kitty, headlined by the movies' breakout Anna Cathcart, has been greenlighted with a 10-episode order, making it the first series spawned by a Netflix original film. Building integrated film-TV series universes has been…