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ABC’s The Neighbors - Comedy
Produced by ABC Studios. From writer/executive producer Dan Fogelman and executive producers Aaron Kaplan, Jeff Morton and Chris Koch. Directed by Chris Koch (pilot):
ABC’s 666 Park Avenue – Drama
Produced by Bonanza Productions in association with Alloy Entertainment and Warner Bros Television. From writer/executive producer David Wilcox and executive producers Matthew Miller, Leslie Morgenstein, Gina Girolamo. Directed by Alex Graves (pilot):
ABC’s Last Resort – Drama
Produced by Middkid Productions in association with Sony Pictures Television. From writer/executive producers Shawn Ryan and Karl Gajdusek and executive producer Martin Campbell and Marney Hochman Nash. Directed by Martin Campbell (pilot):
ABC’s Mistresses – Drama
Produced by ABC Studios based on the UK series. From writer/executive producer K.J. Steinberg and executive producers Robert Sertner, Rina Mimoun and Douglas Rae. Directed by Cherie Nowlan (pilot):
ABC’s Nashville – Drama
Produced by Lionsgate, ABC Studios and Gaylord Entertainment. From writer/executive producer Callie Khouri and executive producers R.J. Cutler and Steve Buchanan. Directed by R.J. Cutler (pilot):
ABC’s Red Widow – Drama
Produced by ABC Studios based on the Dutch series Penoza. From writer/executive producer Melissa Rosenberg and executive producers Howard Klein, Endemol Studios and Alon Aranya. Directed by Mark Pellington (pilot):
ABC’s Zero Hour – Drama
Produced by ABC Studios. From writer/executive producer Paul T. Scheuring and executive producers Pierre Morel, Lorenzo DiBonaventura and Dan McDermott. Directed by Pierre Morel (pilot):
ABC’s How To Live With Your Parents (For The Rest Of Your Life) - Midseason Comedy
Produced by 20th Century Fox and Imagine Television. From writer/executive producer Claudia Lonow and executive producers Brian Grazer and Francie Calfo. Directed by Julie Anne Robinson (pilot):
ABC’s The Family Tools – Midseason Comedy
Produced by ABC Studios based on the UK series White Van Man. From writer/executive producer Bobby Bowman and executive producers Mark Gordon, Andrea Shay and Paul Buccieri. Directed by Michael Fresco (pilot):
ABC’s Malibu Country - Midseason Comedy
Produced by ABC Studios. From writer/executive producer Kevin Abbott and executive producers Michael Hanel & Mindy Schultheis, Reba McEntire & Narvel Blackstock, Dave Stewart & Pam Williams, and John Pasquin. Directed by John Pasquin (pilot):
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LAST RESORT looks great! Love Braugher, love Shawn Ryan, I’m there.
Odd timeslot, but I’ll definitely watch it.
Weird how 666 PARK sells itself as from the creator of GOSSIP GIRL. Looks interesting though, will check that out too.
@CHoff – yes, the GG mention was actually negative, not a plus, but maybe that’s to get the attention of a really young demo..? I look forward to anything with Terry O.! Glad to see Vanessa W. in here, too – she plays bad very well!
last resort was the only decent preview of the bunch. Penoza was my favorite script but casting feels very off. Did not seem to pop. 666 was laughably bad and I was excited until I saw this clip. Nashville could be a guilty pleasure.
666 Park Avenue looks amazing. Actually for the most part all the pilots look good and I’d definately give a shot all.
666 looks way worse than I thought it would. I think we have our first cancellation of the season folks!
Let the games begin!
Wow, the neighbors looks really bad. LOL-bad.
It’s just a bad promo… The pilot is really inventive and funny.
The ABC voice over guy is cheesing up some otherwise good promos…
So, 666 is the TV version of ‘Devil’s Advocate’??.. doesn’t even look mildly interesting. I’ll be amazed if it gets half way through it’s season before being cancelled.
No – Rosemary’s Baby.
Out of all the trailers I have seen so far, there is really NONE that stands out. Maybe, maybe…and I say mabye only The Red Widow & Nashville are looking different.
All the shows look so…deja vu. I do hope to be wrong but I think that 70% of them are going to be cancelled within the first weeks. I wish ABC had gone forward with Gilded Lilys (WHY? OH WHY?), Americana…on print they sounded something else at least fresh.
These trailers look pretty good. Much better than the NBC clips and Revolution trailer.
Surprised how good ZERO HOUR looks. Now very interested in checking that out, alongside NASHVILLE.
Can’t figure out what to make of LAST RESORT. Could be good… Or not.
Nashville, Red Widow and Last Resort look good. People said that Revenge didn’t look good and that became a great show.
Nashville gets a definite ‘yes’ from me – and I am a big fan of Revenge, so maybe it’s somehow hitting the same notes.
The comedies look brutal. Not one laugh in the trailers. The Neighbors looks like an episode of The Honeymooners made love to a Coneheads sketch (that’s not a compliment). Family Tools will get old REAL fast. Malibu Country looks like a Disney Channel original series. I have the slightest bit of hope for How to Live With Your Parents (awful title) because of Sarah Chalke and Elizabeth Perkins.
I think The Neighbors” is real funny. It’s different and something that kids will like. Give it a chance!!!
Yeah, it could work with young kids (but isn’t ABC going for the 18-49 demo?) or stoned adults (do they watch ads? do they understand ads? Lol!)
666 Park Avenue – brilliant trailer. Sexy, mysterious, full of great actors. Breakout freshman hit of the season?
Last Resort – hmmm… could go either way. Doesn’t look very ABC-ish.
Mistresses – love the original. This looks like good soapy fun.
Nashville – cringeorama throughout that trailer. I’ll give it a go for Connie but this smacks of bomb.
Red Widow – now this is more like it! Looks like it’ll pack a real emotional punch. Soap + heart = winner.
Zero Hour – not a very appealing lead. The flashbacks looks nice but how long can a mystery about a clock really sustain?
The only good comedy looks to be How To Live… (even if it is Samantha Who? minus the amnesia). I can’t imagine what ABC was thinking with the rest. How bad must American Judy have been?!
Wow. Mistresses will air once.
This is the worst out of the bunch! I Like the Neighbors, Nashville, Mistresses, The Sarah Clake one (Title too long!, and 666 park avenue!
The rest look okay or like zero hour and red widow look SOOOO BORING!!!
Zero Hour seems interesting though I have a feeling it’s way too high concept to be successful, unfortunately. I like Connie Britton so I might be willing to give that shot though Hayden what’s her name is already annoying. The Neighbors, though not my cup of tea, is something I could maybe see being a hit given its concept and place in the schedule
Malibu Country looks like a parody of a bad 80′s sitcom. Honestly, I see these clips and I want to drink bleach. Forget how did it get on the air? How did it sell in the first place? Everyone involved ought to be ashamed.
Co-Sign! But there is no mystery regarding how these shows sold.
Common Variables:
1. Somebody knew somebody
2. Somebody cashed in a favor
3. Somebody slept with someone (kidding)
4. Somebody saw a high profile name attached and was too scared to say no
That’s the whole idea, look at Last Man Standing, take Home Improvement, replace the 3 boys with 3 girls a little older, change the set around just a little, have the star work at an outdoor store instead of a tool show, update it to include I pads, internet video, and you have Home Improvement 2012. Even place it in the same time slot. It was one of ABC bright spots in the fall of 2011.
I am from Long Island, aka not from the part of the country where Reba McEntire is a big name, but I find her to be completely charming. I probably wouldn’t watch her show, yet I can imagine why others would.
I am all in for 666 Park. Looks like my kind of show!
Is it just me? or…
The Neighbors = 3rd Rock From the Sun
666 Park Avenue = American Horror Story
Last Resort = Lost
Yeah, it’s probably just me.
It actually is just you. A few of those shows (666 Park Ave.) were based on books that are already out. Check them out if you want. If you aren’t goting to give them a chance then don’t but stop hearing or seeing something that remotely has the same plot point as something else and immediately comparing it. Because someone could go:
3rd Rock From the Sun = Mork and Mindy
American Horror Story = Addams Family
Lost = Fantasy Island
Yeah, it’s definitely you.
Are you too young to realize a Rosemary’s Baby ripoff?
How does “Last Resort” look like “Lost”?
And Michae is right about the pointless, obnoxious comparisons
Actually, I got a Devil’s Advocate vibe from 666 Park Avenue, except the TV series seems lighter and more fun.
Last Resort gave me a BSG and Lost vibe (in terms of hopefully strong characters and relationships).
Wow. The drama stuff all seem like film pitches, not TV shows. Looking forward to 666 (shades of American Horror Story?), Last Resort, and Zero Hour. All of whom seem to have LOST elements in their creative DNA (an island, a conspiracy).
Great to see Braugher back on TV with an intense role! Men of a Certain Age was depressing.
Red Widow? We’ll have to see.
Which do you guys think will be the first to get cancelled?
Neighbors is the first shot down. Nashville and 666 Park Ave will be hits. Zero Hour will limp along and maybe get the Friday night deathslot in 2013-14. Last Resort will premiere big, then do a nose dive.
The Neighbors looks like it got cancelled from ABC’s old TGIF lineup.
This is my first year watching all the promos, so I’ll admit to ignorance, but do they all always look so bad (not just ABC, but Fox and NBC)?
Honestly, this time last year, I was scratching my head at the Once Upon a Time trailer, wondering how in hell that would work as an ongoing series. But Smash’s trailer looked great!
Now, OUaT is a hit and Smash is lucky to get a second season. So trailers often make shows look better than they are (well, that’s their job), and while the reverse is rarer, it’s not unheard of.
Yes…so take them with a grain of salt. Revenge for example, everyone thought that looked awful and it ended up becoming a moderate hit. Many people thought New Girl would flop and it has done ok as well. And NBC..well NBC is NBC. I don’t think it would help them even if they had awesome trailers/shows.
Honestly, the trailers are usually never good. Just go back and look at the pilots to your favorite shows and imagine what the trailers would have been like. Pilots usually aren’t the best but shows need time to gel and develop to get to a point where the creator is able to depict what he imagined the show being. The image of what a show will be can’t be done in a pilot because the pilot is too busy setting up the premise and characters
I never saw the original trailer for Lost (one of my favorite shows), but the one they run on Hulu makes it look like a complete bore of a show.
The comedies all look terrible. The dramas look mediocre.
Wonder how bad the shows were that didn’t get picked up if these were the best of the bunch.
That’s not how this works. Many great scripts don’t even get shot because the network is looking for this or that or there’s a star attached to something, even though it might be lame. Trust me, this isn’t the best of the bunch.
Laughed at neighbors. At least they are FUNNY ACTORS and not models. I’d give this one a shot. It could hold up and I think it’s different then most of the network 1/2 hours. I did laugh…
666 Park Ave and Zero Hour – Look fun, will check out.
Nashville – Can’t tell the difference between Connie Britten’s good country music and Hayden Panetierre’s bad sell-out music. That’s a strong sign this show isn’t for me, lol.
The Last Resort – ??? !!! Anyway I’ll check it out, could be great and could be a total misfire. If Andre Braugher refuses to endanger innocent lives, then his nukes aren’t much of a deterrent. What possible target could he aim at, that he knows doesn’t have, say, soldiers who are loyally following orders?
The Neighbors – Horrible, just horrible. Why do networks bother with obvious catastrophes like this?
Actually, the crew of the sub has no way of knowing what target their missiles are aimed at.
They input the target with a code that the missile’s processor translates into a specific latitude & longitude.
This show is Lost + Jericho + Terra Nova = Flop!
You’re all either severely high or studio plants…or both. Based on that trailer, The Neighbors looks like the worst piece of television since that Cavemen mess! Shocked if it lasts more than two episodes.
I’m not a studio plant, I promise. I don’t necessarily think The Neighbors looks good but something being good doesn’t necessarily equate success (*cough* Two and a Half Men *cough*). The Neighbors has the post Modern Family time slot, which is about as good as it gets lead in wise. I know plenty of people/families who watch Modern Family and given the alien concept, I could definitely see people leaving the tv on for it.
Lets face it, it’s people like you that would have turned a blind eye to ALF and Dinosaurs. It’s people like you that take out the fun and imagination that network tv used to have. It’s people like you that need to realize not every show needs to be in the form a Modern Family to be a successful show.
The Neighbors could be very adult. 3rd Rock from the Sun was one of the most adult sitcoms of the 90s. And everyone I know that knocked Cavemen never even saw it. I saw the whole series on youtube, it was hilarious. The thing that I will not forgive ABC for is Malibu Country. That looks awful, time to stop using multi-cams.
Nashville has my vote. Can’t go wrong with Connie Britton!
You guys!
So I guess the rumors were true about ABC hating their pilots. So much mediocrity.