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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BALDWIN, ALEC AND GRAMMER, KELSEY PROJECT | 20th Television | Vali Chandrasekaran (EP, W-Pilot), Christopher Lloyd (EP, W-Pilot), Alec Baldwin (EP), Kelsey Grammer (EP), Matthew DelPiano (EP N/W), Adam Griffin (EP N/W), Jeffrey Morton (EP N/W), Tom Russo (EP N/W), Jason Schrift (EP N/W) | Roommates in their twenties until their warring egos drove them apart, three men reunite decades later for one more run at the lives theyรขยยve always wanted. | Series Pick Up |
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Comedy
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HOME ECONOMICS | ABC Signature,Lionsgate Television,The Tannenbaum Company | Michael Colton & John Aboud (EP, W-Pilot), Topher Grace (EP N/W), Eric Tannenbaum (EP N/W), Kim Tannenbaum (EP N/W), Peter Atencio (D-Pilot) | HOME ECONOMICS is a single-camera comedy that takes a look at the heartwarming, yet super uncomfortable and sometimes frustrating relationship between three adult siblings: one in the 1 percent, one middle-class, and one barely holding on. | Series Pick Up |
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Drama
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WOMEN OF THE MOVEMENT | Kapital Entertainment,Mazo Partners,Serendipity Film Group,Roc Nation,The Middleton Media Group,Westbrook Studios | Jay Z (EP N/W), Jay Brown (EP N/W), David Clark (EP N/W), Alex Foster (EP N/W), Rosanna Grace (EP N/W), Dana Honor (EP N/W), Aaron Kaplan (EP N/W), James Lassiter (EP N/W), Michael Lohmann (EP N/W), John Powers Middleton (EP N/W), Will Smith (EP N/W), Tyran 'Ty Ty' Smith (EP N/W), Gina Prince-Bythewood (D-Pilot, EP) | The series focuses on Mamie Till Mobley, who devoted her life to seeking justice for her son Emmett Till following his brutal murder in the Jim Crow South. | Series Pick Up |
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Comedy
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ADOPTED | ABC Signature,Kimmelot | Daril Fannin (EP, W-Pilot), Jimmy Kimmel (EP, W-Pilot), Shawn Vance (EP, W-Pilot), Scott Lonker (EP N/W), Marc Buckland (D-Pilot) | When a Green Beret returns home to Texas from military service, he and his family struggle with the challenges of adopting his new brother, a 12-year-old Russian boy. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Comedy
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BUCKTOWN | ABC Signature,Sara + Tom | Emily R. Wilson (EP, W-Pilot), Sara Gilbert (EP N/W), Marc Provissiero (EP N/W), Mandy Summers (EP N/W), Tom Werner (EP N/W) | In this multi-camera comedy, after being dumped by her boyfriend and kicked out of her apartment on the eve of a big promotion, Amy finds refuge at her momรขยยs house in the blue-collar neighborhood where she grew up. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Comedy
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HARRITY ELEMENTARY | 20th Television,Warner Bros. Television,Delicious Non-Sequitur Productions | Justin Halpern & Patrick Schumacker (EP) | HARRITY ELEMENTARY is a single camera workplace comedy about a group of teachers brought together in one of the worst public schools in the country, simply because they love teaching. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Comedy
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HICKS, REGINA PROJECT | ABC Signature,JuVee Productions,Wilmore Films | Regina Y. Hicks (EP, W-Pilot), Larry Wilmore (EP), Viola Davis (EP N/W), Julius Tennon (EP N/W) | In this multi-camera comedy, three former sorority sisters who lost touch after college reunite during a pivotal point in their lives. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Comedy
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MAGGIE | 20th Television | Justin Adler (EP, W-Pilot), Maggie Mull (EP, W-Pilot), Evan Hayes (EP N/W) | In this single camera comedy, a young woman tries to cope with life while coming to terms with her abilities as a psychic. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Comedy
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THE WONDER YEARS | 20th Television,Lee Daniels Entertainment | Saladin Patterson (EP, W-Pilot), Lee Daniels (EP N/W), Marc Velez (EP N/W), Fred Savage (D-Pilot, EP) | This single camera comedy tells the story of how a black middle-class family in Montgomery, Alabama in the turbulent late 1960s, the same era as the original series, made sure it was The Wonder Years for them too. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Comedy
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WORK WIFE | ABC Signature,Ryan Seacrest Productions,Milojo Productions | David Windsor & Casey Johnson (EP, W-Pilot), Albert Bianchini (EP N/W), Mark Consuelos (EP N/W), Kelly Ripa (EP N/W), Ryan Seacrest (EP N/W), Andrea Shay (EP N/W), Nina Wass (EP N/W), Todd Holland (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | In this single camera comedy inspired by the real-life partnerships of producers Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest and writers Casey Johnson and David Windsor, WORK WIFE tells the story of a platonic male/female team whose professional success, personal friendship and ability to share deodorant makes their lives work. | Terminated Pilot |
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Drama
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ACTS OF CRIME | ABC Signature,Universal Content Productions,Esmail Corp. | Sam Esmail (D-Pilot, EP, W-Pilot), Chad Hamilton (EP N/W) | ACTS OF CRIME is a unique spin on the crime procedural. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Drama
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DARK HORSE | ABC Signature,Universal Television,Keshet Studios,Blackfella Films | William Jehu Garroutte (EP, W-Pilot), Darren Dale (EP N/W), Miranda Dear (EP N/W), Rachel Griffiths (EP N/W), Avi Nir (EP N/W), Alon Shtruzman (EP N/W), Peter Traugott (EP N/W) | Based on an Australian format, DARK HORSE follows Alex Irving, a passionate Indigenous woman, on her unconventional journey into politics. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Drama
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EPIC | ABC Signature,Kitsis/Horowitz | Brigitte Hales (EP, W-Pilot), Adam Horowitz & Edward Kitsis (EP N/W) | From the creators of รขยยOnce Upon A Timeรขยย comes a romantic anthology series that reinvents fairy tales for a new audience. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Drama
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NATIONAL PARKS | 20th Television,A+E Studios,Anthony Hemingway Productions | Jon S. Baird (EP, W-Pilot), Kevin Costner (EP, W-Pilot), Aaron Helbing (EP, Show Runner, W-Pilot), Ivan Cohen (EP N/W), Ken Halsband (EP N/W), Tana Jamieson (EP N/W), Barry Jossen (EP N/W), Rod Lake (EP N/W), Anthony Hemingway (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | While the national parks are known for their sweeping, beautiful landscapes, there is also a darker, more sinister side to these parks that attract a vast array of criminal activity. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Drama
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PROMISED LAND | ABC Signature | Matt Lopez (EP, W-Pilot), Adam Kolbrenner (EP N/W) | An epic, generation-spanning drama about two Latinx families vying for wealth and power in Californiaรขยยs Sonoma Valley. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Drama
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QUEENS | ABC Signature,Windpower Entertainment | Zahir McGhee (EP, W-Pilot), Sabrina Wind (EP N/W), Tim Story (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | Estranged and out-of-touch, four women in their 40s reunite for a chance to recapture their fame and regain the swagger they had as the Nasty Bitches รขยย their รขยย90s group that made them legends in the hip-hop world. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Drama
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TRIAGE | 20th Television,Erica Messer Productions,OutEast Entertainment | Caitlin Foito (EP N/W), Courtney Hazlett (EP N/W), Steven Marrs (EP N/W), Jon Chu (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | A character-driven medical drama that follows a pioneering surgeon, Finley Briar, over three distinct decades at the same hospital. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Comedy
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ABC WORKPLACE COMEDY | CBS Studios,20th Television | Shana Goldberg-Meehan (EP, W-Pilot), Christine Gernon (D-Pilot) | In this multi-camera comedy, a diva boss with no patience for working parents adopts a baby and has a change of heart, casting her mother-of-three assistant as an unlikely mentor and upending the office dynamics. | Terminated Pilot |
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Drama
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HARLEM'S KITCHEN | ABC Signature,Mandeville Films | Zahir McGhee (EP, Show Runner, W-Pilot), David Hoberman (EP N/W), Todd Lieberman (EP N/W), Marcus Samuelsson (EP N/W), Laurie Zaks (EP N/W), Stephen Williams (D-Pilot) | An ensemble family drama set in a fine dining restaurant in Harlem. | Terminated Pilot |
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Comedy
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COOPER, SARAH AND CHUPACK, CINDY PROJECT | CBS Studios,PatMa Productions | Cindy Chupack (EP, Show Runner, W-Pilot), Sarah Cooper (EP, W-Pilot), Joan Boorstein (EP N/W), Denise Di Novi (EP N/W), Nina Tassler (EP N/W) | In this single camera comedy, three women at different stages in their careers at a male-dominated company help each other navigate modern gender politics in their professional and personal lives. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Comedy
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GHOSTS | Lionsgate Television,CBS Studios,BBC Studios Los Angeles,Monumental Pictures | Joe Port & Joe Wiseman (EP, W-Pilot), Mathew Baynton (EP), Simon Farnaby (EP), Martha Howe-Douglas (EP), Jim Howick (EP), Laurence Rickard (EP), Ben Willbond (EP), Alison Carpenter (EP N/W), Debra Hayward (EP N/W), Alison Owen (EP N/W), Angie Stephenson (EP N/W) | In this single camera comedy, a struggling young coupleรขยยs dreams come true when they inherit a beautiful country house, only to find itรขยยs both falling apart and inhabited by many of the deceased previous residents. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Comedy
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JURY DUTY | CBS Studios,Big Talk Productions | Stephanie Furman Darrow (EP, W-Pilot), Dana Klein (EP, W-Pilot), James Acaster (EP N/W), Kenton Allen (EP N/W), Matthew Justice (EP N/W), Christine Gernon (D-Pilot) | In this hybrid comedy, a group of jurors are sequestered together until they all agree on a verdictรขยยฆand they canรขยยt even agree on lunch. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Comedy
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THE THREE OF US | CBS Studios,Fulwell 73 | Frank Pines (EP, W-Pilot), James Corden (EP N/W), Jeff Grosvenor (EP N/W), Ben Winston (EP N/W), Mark Cendrowski (D-Pilot) | In this multi-camera comedy, adult siblings who are children of divorce must circle the wagons when their sisterรขยยs husband unexpectedly announces he wants to call it quits on their marriage. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Comedy
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TOM SMALLWOOD PROJECT | CBS Studios | Mark Gross (EP, W-Pilot), David Hollander (EP), Brian d'Arcy James (EP N/W) | In this multi-camera comedy, after being laid off from the assembly line at the GM factory, a seemingly ordinary man makes the extraordinary decision to provide for his family by following his dream of becoming a professional bowler. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Comedy
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WELCOME TO GEORGIA | CBS Studios,Kapital Entertainment,TrillTV | John Francis Daley (EP, W-Pilot), Jonathan Goldstein (EP, W-Pilot), Corinne Kingsbury (EP, W-Pilot), Dana Honor (EP N/W), Aaron Kaplan (EP N/W), Wendi Trilling (EP N/W), Pamela Fryman (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | In this multi-camera comedy, when Penelopeรขยยs career takes off at exactly the same time as her husbandรขยยs, they call on Penelopeรขยยs young single mom, Georgia, to help raise their son, but what they find is Georgia needs more raising than their kid. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Comedy
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WILDE THINGS | Universal Television | Max Mutchnick & David Kohan (EP, W-Pilot), James Burrows (D-Pilot) | Frankie Wilde (Bowen) is a very successful and fiercely independent crisis manager whose world is turned upside down when she decides to let someone into her life for the first time รขยย Quinn (Donenfeld), an 11-year-old girl whom she adopts and raises with the occasional help of her fragile, nervous wreck of a sister, Mary (Koenig). | Pilot Pick Up |
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Drama
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GOOD SAM | CBS Studios,Sutton Street Productions | Katie Wech (EP, W-Pilot), Jennie Snyder Urman (EP), Joanna Klein (EP N/W), Tamra Davis (D-Pilot) | A talented yet stifled surgeon embraces her leadership role after her renowned and pompous boss falls into a coma. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Drama
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TRUE LIES | 20th Television,Flying Glass of Milk Productions,Wonderland Sound & Vision,Lightstorm Entertainment | Matt Nix (EP, W-Pilot), James Cameron (EP N/W), Rae Sanchini (EP N/W), Mary Viola (EP N/W), McG (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | Shocked to discover that her bland and unremarkable computer consultant husband is a skilled international spy, an unfulfilled suburban housewife is propelled into a life of danger and adventure when sheรขยยs recruited to work alongside him to save the world as they try to revitalize their passionless marriage. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Drama
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WAYS AND MEANS | CBS Studios,3 Arts Entertainment,PatMa Productions | Mike Murphy (EP, W-Pilot), Ed Redlich (EP, W-Pilot), Patrick Dempsey (EP N/W), Denise Di Novi (EP N/W), Tom Lassally (EP N/W), Nina Tassler (EP N/W), Phil Abraham (D-Pilot, EP N/W) | A powerful Congressional leader who has lost faith in politics finds himself working secretly with an idealistic young Congresswoman from the opposing party to subvert the hopelessly gridlocked system he helped create; together, theyรขยยll attempt to save American politics. | Pilot Pick Up |
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Drama
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OUT THE DOOR | CBS Studios,Jerry Bruckheimer Television | Evan Katz (EP, W-Pilot), Jerry Bruckheimer (EP N/W), Jonathan Littman (EP N/W), KristieAnne Reed (EP N/W) | Upon learning that his impending retirement is being pushed off by several years, an LAPD detective who just wants his pension so he can go off and live the good life decides to do everything in his power to get fired, but his bad behavior only leads to surprising success at solving cases. | Terminated Pilot |
