The CW
The Hundred: About a post-apocalyptic world where survivors send back 100 juvenile delinquents in order to rebuild and repopulate Earth. Written by Jason Rothenberg (Body Politic), the series is based off of an upcoming book series of the same name by Kass Morgan.
Oxygen: The logline of the show states “Passion and politics threaten the peace and an epic romance ignites between a human girl and an alien boy when he and eight others of his kind (The Orion 9) are integrated into a suburban high school ten years after they and hundreds of other landed on earth and were immediately consigned to an internment camp where they’ve been imprisoned ever since.” Meredith Averill (Life on Mars, The Good Wife) will be writing for the show.
Reign: An era show about Mary the Queen of Scots and the untold history of the French Court. Stephanie Sengupta (“Law and Order: Criminal Intent”) and Laurie McCarthy (“GCB”) will be writing for the pilot.
NBC
Untitled show by Office veterans: Actor Craig Robinson (also known as Daryll Philbin) will be involved in a new comedy alongside writer-producer Owen Ellickson in which Robinson’s character plays a musician-converted music teacher. It would deal with life adjustments to dealing with teaching his kids, teaching the kids politics, and resisting temptations of single moms. Executive producers also include Tracy Katsky, Howard Klein, and Mark Schulman.
Lorne Michaels’ comedy: Lorne Michaels, in addition to his new HBO comedy, will be head of a new NBC comedy, starring stand-up comic John Mulaney. It will be loosely based on the comics life, though Mulaney will also write for the project along with Michaels and Andrew Singer.
Welcome to the Family: A show about an unplanned pregnancy between a white and Latino family. It will be written by Mike Sikowitz (Rules of Engagement, Friends).
CBS
Bad Teacher: Based on the 2011 film Bad Teacher, the pilot will be written by Hilary Winston (Community, Happy Endings). It “follows a sexy, foul-mouthed divorcee who becomes a teacher to find her next husband.”
Friends with Better Lives: Revolves around a group of 30-something friends who each believe the others have it better. It will be written by Dana Klein (Friends) and produced by Aaron Kaplan (Knowing)
Beverly Hills Cop: A continuation of the movies with Eddie Murphy, this time featuring Brandon T. Jackson (Percy Jackson and the Olympiads) as the lead. It centers around Axel Foley’s son, a police officer who patrols the Beverly Hills streets. Murphy will make an appearance in the pilot, which will be written by Shawn Ryan (The Shield).
Backstorm – A new drama written by Bones creator Hart Hanson, based off of a Swedish book series by Leif G.W Persson, following (as CBS reports) an “overweight, offensive, irascible detective as her tries, and fails, to change his self destructive behavior.”
FOX
Untitled J.J Abrams and J.H Wyman project: A cop drama set in the future, Abrams (Lost, Star Wars XII) and Wyman (Fringe) are writing and co-executive producing the drama. It is described as an “action-packed buddy cop show…in the near future, where all LAPD officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids.”
Sleepy Hollow adaptation: A modern version of the Tale of Sleepy Hollow, the drama pilot will be written by Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci, who’ve teamed up in the past with the television show Fringe.
Delirium: Based on a best-selling book series by Lauren Oliver, in which a young girl falls in love in a society where love is deemed illegal and can be “removed” by a special procedure. It will be written by Karyn User (Prison Break) and co-executive produced by Katherine Pope (New Girl) and Peter Chernin (Rise of the Planet of the Apes).
The List: Focuses on the U.S Marshal who tries to uncover the person who has murdered various members from the Federal Witness Security Program and stolen a file of every person in the program. Paul Zbyszewski (Lost) will write. He will also be executive-producing with Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, Gangster Squad).
ABC
Betrayal: Follows a married woman involved in an affair with a lawyer for a powerful family. The crux? He is defending a suspect for murder, with the prosecutor being her husband. “The relationship and the case begin a spiraling series of betrayals with cataclysmic results for everyone involved,” as ABC states. It will be written by David Zabel (Detroit 1-8-7).
Pulling: ABC states that the comedy pilot focuses on three 30something-year-old women “living their lives the way they want, even if society tells them they should have it all figured out by this point.” It will be written by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitzky, who’ve worked on The Office and Bad Teacher together.
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Those from the cw are sooo meh, actually I'm rather disappointed in all the networks. the only one that sounds cool is 'sleepy hollow'.
Oxygen sounds like a Roswell knock off. The Hundred doesn't even begin to make sense. Why would you send 100 juvenile delinquents to do anything of importance? Have fun with that. Most of the shows sound like the aren't even trying for longevity. Come on, Sleepy Hollow? Really?!
the only one that I have hope for is JJ Abrams one.
the hundred sounds like the tribe sort of but I agree why would you use young offenders for anything and the whole thing seems alittle perverted. Cuase pretty much this synopsis is minors will be force to engage in relations to reproduce. Really CW? I really wonder how pilots work as I wonder why no one goes back and look at old ones that never made it to series and reconsider them, cause the ones that the CW passed on last year sound hell alot better.
ALso don't get me started on reign...that stuff only belong on showtime. the only era thing that cw can sell me on is making the originals an era piece.