Drama Pilots ordered so far for next season for the five US networks
Done ordering dramas
UNTITLED MEDICAL DRAMA: Medical drama about a female doctor working for the mob in Chicago.
THE ASSET: Drama set in the new york office of the CIA, which centers on a female agent
GUILTY: Drama about a brilliant, morally questionable defense attorney who, after being falsely convicted of fraud and stripped of his legal license, uses his unorthodox methods to solve the cases he's been prohibited from handling and to ultimately exact revenge on the men who set him up
UNTITLED KARYN USHER PROJECT: Drama about the orphaned 17-year-old daughter of a CIA operative who is recruited to become an operative herself
UNTITLED KEVIN WILLIAMSON PROJECT: Drama about a diabolical serial killer who uses technology to create a cult of serial killers, and the FBI agent who finds himself in the middle of it
ANTICHRIST: Drama about a young astrophysics student who learns his destiny lies not in science but somewhere between heaven and hell
DEVIOUS MAIDS: Centers on four Latina women who are maids in Beverly Hills
GOTHAM: Centers on a female cop who, after pursuing a seemingly unsolvable case, discovers a magical world that exists within New York City.
ZERO HOUR: Centers on a man who, in a bizarre twist of fate, is pulled into one of the most compelling conspiracies in human history after spending 20 years as the editor of a skeptics magazine.
PENOZA: Centers on the widow of an assassinated criminal who is forced to adopt her husband’s role in a crime syndicate in order to protect her family.
THE GILDED LILLYS: Drama set in 1895 and revolves around the family who owns new york's first true luxury hotel, the staff who work there and the people who pass through
LAST RESORT: Thriller set in the near future when the country is very fractured and revolves around the crew of a U.S. nuclear submarine who become hunted after ignoring an order to shoot nuclear missiles
666 PARK: Drama about an innocent couple from the midwest that moves to New York and gets hired to be resident managers of a building on the Upper East Side where unbeknownst to the couple, the residents have all unwittingly made deals with the Devil to have their deepest needs, ambitions and desires fulfilled
BEAUTY & THE BEAST: Fantastical re-imagining of the classic fairy tale set in a mythical, dangerous world wherein a beautiful and tough Princess discovers an unlikely connection with a mysterious beast.
AMERICANA: A soap set around a legendary fashion designer and his family and business.
NASHVILLE: A family soap set against the backdrop of the Nashville music scene that follows one star at her peak and one on the rise.
SCRUPLES: Centers around a socialite who, following the death of her husband, seeks to open a fashion forward boutique called Scruples in the heart of Beverly Hills.
EX-COMM: Drama about a newly-elected President and his top secret "executive committee," the government's covert team of america's most elite minds who investigate and protect our nation from the strangest occurrences and conspiracy theory truths out there
*Not completely confirmed but casting calls are online
Done ordering dramas
BABY BIG SHOT: Drama about a working-class woman who uses her street smarts to compete with her more polished colleagues at a manhattan law firm
ELEMENTARY: A modern take on the cases of the pipe-smoking private eye created by arthur conan doyle
UNTITLED ARON ELI COLEITE PROJECT: Drama about a common-sense mother who becomes a new york state trooper
GOLDEN BOY: tracks one cop’s meteoric rise from officer to detective to Police Commissioner.
WIDOW DETECTIVE: Centers on a decorated police detective who, after losing three partners in the line of duty, becomes surrogate husband, lover and father to their families.
UNTITLED RALPH LAMB PROJECT: Set in the 1960s and is based on the true story of Ralph Lamb – rodeo cowboy turned longtime Sheriff of Las Vegas.
APPLEBAUM: Centers on a former public defender who becomes a private investigator to keep from being bored to death as a stay-at-home mom.
QUEAN: Centers on an edgy and independent Millennial hacker girl who teams up with an Oakland police detective to solve crimes..
THE SELECTION: Based on the forthcoming series of books by Kiera Cass, it is described as an epic romance set 300 years in the future that centers on a poor young woman who is chosen by lottery to participate in a competition to become the next queen of a war-torn nation at a crossroads.
JOEY DAKOTA: Centers on a documentary filmmaker who travels back in time to the 1990s, where she meets and falls in love with the rock-star subject of her film. When she unexpectedly returns to present day, she must find her way back to the past to reunite with her love and prevent his untimely death.
SHELTER: Set at a historic New England summer resort where the new and returning staff attend to the practical, emotional and often comical needs of the guests while navigating friendships, rivalries and romances of their own.
BEAUTY & THE BEAST: Revival of the cult 1987-1990 series that aims to not only modernize and CW-up the love story but also add a procedural twist
THE CARRIE DIARIES: "Sex and the City" prequel series based on candice bushnell's recent book about the high school years of Carrie Bradshaw
CULT: "Silence of the Lambs"/"Seven"-esque drama that tracks the investigation of a string of mysterious deaths and disappearances surrounding the show-within-a-show entitled "cult"
FIRST CUT: Centers on a brand new doctor who, glad to leave her nerdy past behind for a fresh start in the adult professional world, discovers that, sadly and comically, life at the hospital where she works is no different than high school.
Ordered 9 so far total ordered should be 10->12
BAD GIRLS: Follows the ins-and-outs of a group of unlikely women in a federal prison: a scandalous female warden, her new protégé and a host of inmates — some mothers, some friends — who struggle with loyalties to people on the inside and the outside.
BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE: An imaginative and thematically rich ensemble "what if" drama set 10 minutes in the future where families of mechanical human beings exist to service the human population -- that is until some of the mechanicals begin to "awaken."
DO NO HARM: Medical drama about a brilliant neurosurgeon who wrestles with his dangerous alter-ego that threatens to wreak havoc on his personal and professional life
THE FRONTIER: 1840s-set drama about a diverse group of people who set out from missouri on an incredible adventure across an american landscape that is still largely uncharted, following dreams of riches and reinvention in the west
MIDNIGHT SUN: Drama which revolves around a police investigation into disappearance of a remote cult that slowly uncovers the darkest secrets of the region and its inhabitants, as well as a grander political conspiracy and environmental disaster from which the cult members are attempting to escape
THE MUNSTERS: An imaginative reinvention of "The Munsters" as a visually spectacular one-hour drama from Universal Television.
CHICAGO FIRE: An action-driven drama exploring the complex and heroic men and women of the Chicago Fire Department.
COUNTY: Takes us into the lives of a group of young doctors, nurses, and administrators, in a frenetic underfunded and morally compromising LA County Hospital.
REVOLUTION: Supernatural creator Eric Kripke is teaming up with J.J. Abrams on a one-hour NBC drama series billed as “an epic adventure thriller.” No other details were released.
Both ABC and The CW commit to competing Beauty and the Beast pilots. ABC's Beauty is described as “a fantastical re-imagining of the classic fairy tale set in a mythical, dangerous world wherein a beautiful and tough Princess discovers an unlikely connection with a mysterious beast" while CW's version will be loosely based on the cult-classic 1987 CBS procedural television show that starred Linda Hamilton.
Interesting. By the way, with the recent pilot order announcement for the big 5 networks, start doing the math which of your favorite old and new shows are returning and which aren't.
