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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?