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CBS has added two drama pilots to its slate: The Doctor, a medical/family drama from Privileged creator Rina Mimoun, 
and Hail Mary, a buddy PI show from writer Jeff Wadlow. The Doctor, which originally landed at CBS in August with a put pilot commitment, centers on a mother who reconnects with her adult children when she joins the family medical practice. Mimoun, who is under an overall deal at WBTV, is the writer-executive producer. I hear this is one of 3 projects top pilot director David Nutter, aka “the pilot whisperer,” is considering for his pilot directing gig this year. CBS has been aggressive in pursuing medical shows this development season as launching a successful medical franchise is a priority for the network. The Doctor is the second medical drama project picked up to pilot so far, following the order to Susannah Grant’s supernatural medical show.
Hail Mary, which is co-produced by Silver Pictures, is a buddy P.I. show centered around a suburban single mom in Atlanta who teams up with a street-wise hustler to solve crimes. This marks the second consecutive drama pilot at CBS for Wadlow who last year created The Odds, also with Silver Pictures and WBTV producing. Wadlow wrote Hail Mary and is executive producing it with Joel Silver. Beau Bauman serves as a producer. In addition to Hail Mary, Wadlow has another drama project in contention this pilot season, Rush at the CW.
Besides to the Susannah Grant project, Hail Mary and The Doctor join recently greenlighted dramas Rookies, and the Sarah Michelle Geller starrer Ringer.
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Bring back “Terriers”!!!
MORE shows about doctors and MORE crime dramas??????? Why why why????? What angle is left to explore? This is ridiculous….can anyone come up with a premise that doesn’t involve doctors, lawyers, or anything having to do with detectives/cops/crime scene investigators?
Here’s the deal, Bill: here’s why medical shows, cop shows, and lawyer shows are popular. Two big reasons:
1) stakes. Life or death, freedom or incarceration, justice or injustice.
2) story engine. When you’re coming up with plots for 22 episodes a season, those shows all bring you ready cases. Grey’s Anatomy, a show that’s essentially a relationship show, is saved from the fate of Cashmere Mafia, Six Degrees, Big Shots, etc, due to having stories and stakes coming in through the medical franchise.
They also tend to lend themselves to stand-alone storytelling — enclosed stories — which is better news for syndication and reruns (though DVDs often do better with more serialized shows.)
You want something that fits outside of these shows? Then you should have gotten five million of your closest friends to watch Friday Night Lights.
Lame. Guess we know why TV sucks.
Mimoun is one of the classiest and most talented writers in television. Congrats!
I’d be careful calling the creator of Privileged “talented” she may be classy, but that’s a subjective determination that can only be made by people who know her. But based on “privileged” it’s a fairly objective certainty that “talented” does not factor in her writing.
Both shows, from their descriptions, sound like absolute network shit. With all the money involved in these projects, this is really the best, overly derivative shit these two morons can come up with? No wonder network TV is in the toilets. Rina Mimoun, and Jeff Wadlow, you write shit for a living. You ought to be ashamed of yourselves. Do you not have a single, creative bone in your bodies? What the hell is wrong with the two of you?
But you have the spectacularly original idea that’s going to revolutionize network television, right? I bet you have more creative bones than you know what to do with!
Rina rocks. I love doctor shows and I loved Priviledged. This will save CBS.
Save CBS???? From what???
When you pitch at a studio they will tell you, you have to pitch in the trinity. Cops, Lawyers or Doctors. This way you can have story of the week that wraps up and are not serialized. And this way the shows can last forever and everyone can make money. The major networks are not in the business of serialized shows. Desperate and Brothers and Sisters are the only models of that. The networks want Grey’s and CSI. That’s a fact. Twist the trinity in a different way and make a hit. That is the formula. If you want to write about a sports therapist who is quirky go to USA. A chemist who makes meth go to AMC. You can’t air those out of order like you can NCIS. NETWORKS WANT INTERNATIONAL HITS.
WB made this show with CBS two years ago called “The Eastmans” about a family of doctors. It was the best pilot at CBS that season. No pick up. Sadly CBS doesn’t know a good medical show from a bad one. They picked up that horrible 3 Rivers instead.
That was a good pilot, written by Margaret Nagle. They also picked up Miami Medical, the Bruckheimer one which sucked worse than Three Rivers.
Someone should take The Eastmans script in turnaround from WB and make it on NBC. Everyone in my office thought it was the best pilot script of the season. No medical has come close.
So instead WB is having Rima M. make a new version of it. Kind of creepy of Susan Rovner.
More pilots should get made in turnaround.
Saw the completed “Eastmans” pilot and it was great. Sad it never made it to air. All I can think is that the agents (UTA) are so lazy, clueless, lame or all of the above.
Here’s news, dude. If you read the logline for Seinfeld or Friends, it’s sound like crap. If you read th elogline for Moonlighting, it would sound like crap. The emphasis on high concept stuff in features does NOT translate to TV: case study, Flash Forward.
I can’t speak to Jeff Wadlow, but Rina Mimoun is a funny, breezy writer, so let’s welcome the fact that because of Good Wife, CBS is finally being open to character shows … they just have to be character dramas set in a lawyer, cop, or doctor world. Rina’s could very well be the doctor version of Blue BLoods or Good Wife. For those of us who ODed on the character-free Bruckheimer shows, this is good news.
Jeez – chill out Rooster. Doesen’t matter that the actual arena is. Docs/Laywers/Crime/etc… You will love the show if the characters are compelling, the writing/acting/directing is good… The networks are appealing to a mass audiernce and that audience likes this stuff. They get it wrong quite often, but sometimes they get it right – even when it is a common theme. The show has to be set somewhere – around something – etc. Have you any ideas that have never been done before? If you answer yes – than clearly you are another out of work writer who thinks they can do better. Good luck with that.
Hail Mary sounds shockingly horrible, even by today’s standards.
More sheisa from Silver. What is with Nina Tassler and Joel Silver? She’s given him so many chances and all he does is crush the creative process and antagnize any creative person foolish enough to work with him. CBS is so lazy and so obvious.
Actually, just read it. And…. It is terrible. Like, seriously? Someone paid for this — then decided to send it to Pilot? Holy fucking hell. No surprise if they cast Kristen Chenoweth – feels like it was written for her. But yay… Sassy southern suburban white woman goes out in the dark of night to solve crime.
I agree that anything can be a great show. But it’s still pretty disappointing that we’re trying to slice the doctor, lawyer, cop thing a million different ways. Of course, it’s POSSIBLE someone will create a revolutionary doctor,/lawyer/cop show, but in all probability it will be the same warmed over crap.
I’m sorry, Haily Mary sounds a lot like the poor man’s version of “White Collar” (which is pretty much akin to It Takes A Thief…but still a great show with it’s own rhythm.)
Congrats to Rina. And all you people crapping on this, stop focusing on the doctor part of the pitch. It sounds like a family/relationship thing and Rina knows how to do that. You’ve come a long way, girl.
CBS should just go with NCSI NY and NCSI Miami and forget the rest.
Or they could do N.C.I.S…..not NCSI…….
And yes – that’s a brilliant idea. So original.
I’d watch that.
How about NCSI Chatsworth?
Wow – medical AND crime. What diversity!
Why they just don’t remake the ER? Will save some money.
Let’s see the mother for sure is brilliant doctor, daughter is outsider at first who can do shit and she just wants to follow the path of her mother, but she won’t admit it, because they have a rough patch. And they are reconnecting for 9 seasons, because it’s CBS and in final season mother and her child finally are connected, mother hugs the child and tell him “Deep down I always believed in you”.
Yup, save your time I told you whole series arc.
How about a remake of St. Elsewhere??
Jeff Wadlow is katie Couric’s nephew…Likie she doesn’t have alot of pull at CBS. Got it? Read “Odd Lots”…just terrible.
Nice. Now that’s investigative reporting!
Hail Mary sounds like a tweaked Scarecrow and Mrs. King…
opps i feel asleep
old school Medical dramas… yikes
Here’s the low boys and girls…the bashers just don’t have what it takes to write and write well. I love the those who feel like they can do better. If you can than do it…”TRY TO MOVE THE MOUNTAIN AND REALIZE IT IS THE GRAIN OF SAND IN YOUR SHOW THAT STOPS YOU FROM MOVING.” Kick Ass, Jeff and Rina!