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UPDATE 9:30PM: CIA comedy The Station too is now officially dead. Executive producer Ben Stiller tweeted the news tonight. "I like to produce a failed pilot for Fox about once every ten years," he wrote. "Latest was the Station. Written directed and acted by a great group."
UPDATE 6:30PM: And Most Likely To Succeed too is now officially dead at Fox. This one had a lot of fans.
UPDATE 4:15PM: Also dead are comedies Tax Man and Strange Brew.
UPDATE 3:15: Comedy 'Wilde Kingdom' (now 'Running Wilde') also picked up to series
UPDATE 2:30PM: Breakout Kings, a surprising early frontrunner after great testing scores, is now dead at Fox. The procedural will probably be shopped elsewhere. Also dead is Breaking In, the comedy pilot starring Christian Slater.
PREVIOUS 11:30AM: Fox just picked up comedy pilots Keep Hope Alive and Traffic Light to series. Dramas Lone Star (form. Midland) and Shawn Ryan's Ridealong also have been ordered. And on the bubble series front, Lie To Me and Human Target both are being renewed for 13 episodes. Word is Chuck executive producer Matt Miller will be joining Human Target as an executive producer and co-showrunner alongside Jonathan Steinberg. As for the remaining Fox pilots in contention, I hear Breakout Kings, which had been competing with Ridealong for a slot, is not looking good despite its high testing marks. Comedies Most Likely To Succeed and Mitch Hurwitz/Will Arnett's Wilde Kingdom are still in the mix.
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BIG Lie To Me fan, and I would love more episodes. Were the ratings poor?
Is that it? Inquiring minds want to KNOW!
Finally there’s a place to go for accurate, up-to-the-minute pilot stuff. Nellie you’re a godsend. A great addition to DHD, thank you Nikki…
LIE TO ME is terrific entertainment
That mean no Breakout Kings? =(
No! What about Wilde Kingdom? I was really looking forward to that.
Wow. Network executives are really determined to drive comedy into the ground. How many shows can there possibly be about a group of friends/couples in various stages of relationships??? Traffic Light is such a boring read, as is the Goldberg-Meehan pilot, the Silveri pilot, and all the others about the exact same thing.
How bad was the Lone Star pilot?
What makes you think the Lonestar pilot was bad? Everything I heard was that it looked great.
it’s actually pretty good. watching it right now.
After endless rich deals that lead to deathly unfunny pilots, when is Hollywood going to recognize… Silveri and Goldberg did NO. Crate Friends. You want them in staff godbless. But the shiws they create are lame.
What language are you speaking? Or are you drunk deadlining?
Lie To Me returns June 7th with new episodes.
I have to agree with Comedy Writer. After seeing articles trumpeting “the return of the sitcom”, the shows that are being picked up so far sound staggeringly lame and like a step backward for television comedy. Don’t network execs realize that the reason people like “Glee” and “Modern Family” is because they’re different and creative? MF isn’t popular because it’s a family sitcom, it’s popular because it’s written well and very funny.
So what do the networks do? Stack the schedules with “Friends” clones like it’s 1992 all over again. Great idea!
Outsourced is completely original. Nellies right, it is the return of the sitcom.
I want to second that Nellie is an awesome addition to DHD which now has the most current TV news on the web!!
Huge LTM & HT fan, LTM especially. Thank you!
Any word about “Prime Suspect”
While I never for a minute thought that FOX was deciding “between” Lie to Me and Human Target, I have to say I’m a little surprised they renewed both (unless they are going to have season 3 of Lie to Me run in the summer again.
HUMAN TARGET! More Lee Majors please! He was great in this!
I think the only people hoping ‘Lie To Me’ returned to the air were a handful of fans. I know most people on the staff felt just the opposite way.
Regarding Lie To Me. Why was there such a hiatus in broadcasting episodes? (Besides the Olympics etc.) And was internal contention a factor in Shawn Ryan departing? (although I’d have to think the sheer volume of work he had lined up/now picked up was the biggest reason). I suppose I’m digging for dirt where not necessary, but the comment made me curious.
I find Tim Roth performances generally engaging no matter what he’s in, and certainly Lie To Me would not have been a show I checked out were he not part of the project. Seems a bit of an unusual fit for Fox, and I was hoping to see the rest of S2, let alone wonder if Fox would give it a third. Glad to hear news of both. Also glad to know Fringe will be back in the mix.
Also. I suppose that all the Fox early pick-ups and renewals mean that Hart Hanson’s Pleading Guilty has no shot? (Did it ever have?) Seemed like there was next to no buzz about it in any of the coverage, not even for a mid-season show or the like.
Curious about (and exasperated by) the general onslaught of sit-coms.
As for CBS. They really seem to like their ’sekrits,’ though I expect there is more question about what for their schedule will take than what it will probably consist of?
Yes!! More Human Target! Great show! Happy dance!
Michael prime suspect films a back door 2 hour movie in july don’t expect it to be a series until the 2011 – 2012 season
Fox is going to burn Breakout Kings after the awesome testing off a great script… really??
Who was going to watch asshole prison escapees get chased down every week? The real question is why did this ever get made. It’s a great hour. It’s not a great 100 hours.
Duh.
It was a dumb depressing script. Chase is the more commercial take on the same basic notion of a Fugutive-like series.
But the big question for Fall 2010 is: Is NBC actually gonna pull this off? They have the best buzz of the big four in terms of development, but can they actually translate that into a turnaround after six years of declines?
I STILL think it’s a safe move to bet against them.
Am gonna love watching MIDLAND go down in flames…
While Fox execs blame the writing staff for not making it work. Meanwhile ‘Breakout’ gets kicked to the curb?
Damn, ‘BREAKING IN’ was a really funny script, with a great premise. Bummed.
And breakout kings was surprisingly interesting and powerful for a procedural.
I just saw Tim Roth at the Melting Pot in Old Town Pasadena. If I had read Deadline before going there, I could’ve told him the good news in person.
Also, it’s nice to see good tv like Human Target get a chance to cement an audience in place. Bravo on this one Fox.
You pick up Midland…Lone Star which everyone knows is a piece of crap and you turn down Breakout Kings. Are you serious? Ah…. Earth to Fox…really? Breakout KIngs was better than Ride Along. Has Fox become the new NBC?
Sounds as if you read all (3) scripts or basing your opinion from audience tests, because you couldn’t have seen the screenings in person. You wouldn’t know the first thing about Lonestar……LOL
All these pilots are gambles. Is one of your clients with Breakout Kings? Sorry you’re not getting your commission check.
Jimmy Wolk is going to surprise a lot of people. Just wait and see…..
I screened Midland, back when it was Midland, and it was not great. Just seemed to be an attemped rip off of a few cable series…and failed. I was bored more than intrigued. Hopefully they made changes.
Heard Breakout Kings was their highest testing pilot. What gives?
I bet they passed on Breaking in so that they could pick up The Station. They need to have a good relationship with Ben Stiller since he moved his company to Fox after years at Dreamworks/Paramount and he also gave them a great promotion for Avatar when he went on Conan and promoted it and dressing up as a Na’vi at the Oscars.
When does ABC start announcing?
If you read the pilots to PERFECT COUPLES for NBC by Scott Silveri and Jon Pollack and THE UNTITLED COUPLES PROJECT for ABC by Shana Goldberg-Silveri (are you seeing the connection?) the characters are completely interchangeable. Is this what network TV wants? More of the same cookie-cutter shows that have failed so many times in the past? Didn’t NBC do COUPLES (their genius show from a few years back)? Anyone remember how that turned out? Just sayin’… David O. is right. These two (Silveri & Goldberg) worked on Friends, they did NOT create it.
Did they kick your dog or something? Why all the hate?
You guys are right. Each year the same lame ass theme and to show you how far down this idiocy goes BET as a sitcom with the same premise.
Breaking In isn’t getting picked up? That sucks. I hope you’re wrong, Nellie!
I could see Breakout Kings being picked up by ABC (who are in the market for a procedural with a twist ala Castle).
I hope Fox creates a Friday Night Comedy lineup because, CBS dominates Mondays – ABC dominates Wednesdays – NBC dominates Thursdays – and Tuesday comedy lineups tend to fail.
And yeah, I agree with you Jon V, I bet you that The Station will be picked up as per an agreement made between Ben Stiller and Fox – which thus pushes Breaking In out of the loop (although, Traffic Light better be really funny since the plot line sounds so “BLAH”).
Also, is there any word on if Fox plans on making Jack & Dan part of its midseason lineup? Or are those plans contingent on how it does this summer?
Ponderous. Breakout Kings had it all! Masterful script, proven concept and a great latin star. I don’t get it.
Where was the concept proven? You know how often people break out of jail in this country? Not often enough for a “realistic” show. Not even close.
This idea was totally untenable. It’s an series concept that fails the “Blink” test.
Feel bad for the writers if you want. But it was their idea that ultimately got passed on. Not the great execution, but still… their idea.
Oh right, I forgot tv needs to be realistic to be successful, like 24, and Lost, and the fact that the FBI profilers at the BAU have their own jet and the CSI guys actually investigate crime and arrest culprits. Thanks for the realism.
Something tells me Olmstead and Santora will ‘breakout’ of this mess with a big hit next season.
Yes — I see it now…. this one will be about a group of Juvenile Hall delinquents who go out on the lam! It’ll be called JUVI BREAKERS!
Hope Imagine takes Most Likely to Succeed to ABC.
Me too. It was hilarious at screening.
What’s really interesting is how BAD network TV actually is. It is so incredibly formulaic, the same actors (god bless ‘em, always being better than the writing) are in every damn show, the plots, you can see coming ten miles away.
Then you switch over to HBO or Showtime or AMC or SOME other cable stuff, and, man it just ROCKS.
The acting, the writing, DWARFS the network bullshit. And people get all hot and bothered about the fall network season as if it’s artistically relevant, when all the good shit – and I mean ALL the good shit – is on cable.
Network TV is like the reworked starting 22 of the Houston Texans. Every year. “Here they come… here they come… here they COME! AND. THEY. SUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Just to switch to movies, same thing. Same EXACT thing. Studio movies? Wow. Talking about all looking the same, all having the EXACT same 30 people in them, and the vast majority of them JUST. BLOWING. CHUNKS.
My wife and I saw “Iron Man 2″ last Friday, and, it’s like: let’s get EVERY SINGLE GO-TO ACTOR IN EVERY SINGLE ROLE.
Samuel Jackson? Who the FUCK WAS HE? Some black dude in a long black leather coat? With a fucking EYE PATCH? Was that the name of his character? What the FUCK was he even DOING in that movie?
Anyway, priceless – there’s tons of kids in the rows behind us, Downey slowly walks out of Paltrow’s office, stops, and my wife whispers to me “he’s going to see his father’s
World’s Fair mock-up is a circuit board.”
And the kids are making all this noise, until, SUDDENLY!
Downey STOPS. Starts to slowly turn towards the board – and some kid yells out:
“QUIET! HE’S ABOUT TO HAVE AN EPIPHANY!”
WE laughed so fucking hard under our breath for five minutes.
It was the best thing in the movie, by far.
And the movie, as far as sequels go, wasn’t that bad. Hey, they played “Highway to Hell” with original singer Bon Scott at the end – REAL LOUD. That was worth the $24.
Stiller is tweeting that his Fox pilot is a bust. That would be The Station, no?
Why would anyone want to watch a series called “Tax Man”? That has to be the worst name for a show ever.
Wow… Breakout Kings not making it is really sad.
What happened with “Pleading Guilty”?
Anyone know if they ended up re-editing the Tax Man pilot? Obviously it’s dead to them now, but I had heard that there was a new edit they were working hard to send around last week. The initial one only really sang when Short appeared IMO.
Here’s hoping both Matthew Broderick and Marty Short find better vehicles in the next go round.
This doesn’t even seem like news at all. 24’s status, that’s news. Since that show has been canned, what does Fox have? KITCHEN NIGHTMARES? HOUSE? FRINGE has already done a musical. Seriously, what happened?!? What is the next 24? Seriously, I want it!
I was just pondering. Wasn’t STACKED an awesome sitcom by the creators of current hit MODERN FAMILy? Didn’t it get great ratings? Did it ever have a second season? Fox! What happened?!?
Nirvana was passed on as well. Heard from one of the lead actors that they received word.
I couldn’t stand Lie to Me, but I just finished the brillian The Sheild and on imdb it says Shawn Ryan took over as showrunner for Lie to Me so I will probably check out his episodes this summer and then move over to Ride Along in the fall.
Three sitcom pickups? Something tells me one of them ends up on Sunday night, either at 8:30 or 9:30. (American Dad would move to 7:30 so they can pre-empt it every other week or so through February for NFL and NASCAR, and stretch what could be its last season out into two like they did with Futurama and King Of The Hill.) They can fill out the night with “Bob’s Burgers” when it’s ready.
HELP = i love the cast of Lie to Me but the writing SUUUCCCKKSS!!! get REAL – i want to see ONE SHOW without massive ridiculous errors of obvious practical facts and a reasonable premise. i know fox knows how to get good writers – they have House (well SOME good stories despite exploding ora)
want to like this show