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This updates my previous Primetime Pilot Panic: The Hot List
OVERVIEW: Newly installed Peter Rice is very much on the job and screening pilots. Good development season.
SONS OF TUCSON (Twentieth TV/J2TV) is without doubt FBC's favorite new comedy and maybe next season's hottest new comedy. It's "definitely going".
GLEE (Twentieth TV) as I said previously is already on the Fall schedule with a 13-episode order. It gets a one-episode preview after American Idol on May 19 which makes sense since this show is in the High School Musical genre.
HUMAN TARGET (Warner Bros/DC Comics/Wonderland) is a lock after it screened very well. "Peter Rice saw it and loved it," a source tells me. It's now considered FBC's best drama pilot.
MAGGIE HILL (Twentieth TV/Imagine) is the Ian Biederman drama said to be in competition with PAST LIFE (Warner Bros) for a pairing with Human Target. Sources tell me Past Life has the edge on heat right now after Maggie Hill came in "so-so".
MASTERWORK (Twentieth TV) started later than other pilots and so is just beginning to be shot for a midseason placement. This is a huge event-type show in the vein of Da Vinci Code and National Treasure set in Europe. Plus is that it's from Paul Scheuring who created Prison Break for the network.
BROTHERS (Sony TV/Tantamount) is an NFL comedy with Michael Strahan that's starting to get some buzz.
COP HOUSE (Twentieth Century Fox TV/Adelstein) was really hot but now is the source of conflicting reports, most of them con. One source even goes so far as to tell me it's dead.
ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS (BBC Worldwide/Sony TV/Tantamount) was early on considered a lock. The brass liked it, but now they're not sure it's right for the FBC audience.
EVA ADAMS (Sony TV/Fanfare) is dead.
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What happened to $2 Beer…lots of early buzz (NY Times, etc.) and i haven’t heard a peep since…
I saw Eva Adams and loved it! It’s one of the smartest, funniest dramas of the year. I guess it was too smart for FBC’s audience. Too bad. I hate it when good writing and acting are dismissed for something that makes no sense (like Maggie whatever — oh, yeah, sure, schizophrenic doctor?), or is just boring (Empire State). When will they ever learn?
What if Fox had a development cycle that was so bad it couldn’t even get more than a couple comments on DHD…
Yikes.
2 Dollar Beer is absolutely awful. Worst pilot of the season.
The AbFab pilot completely bastardizes the original. It’s not funny or unique. I would be shocked if it makes it to the schedule.
Two dollar Beer was just awful and proof that Mike Binder should not be allowed to do anything ever again. He better be thanking god his agent is that bad ass that he can still get work in this town.
Human Target is written by the former story editor on Jericho. Cool concept but the network cut must be really slick because the script was definitely on the overwritten/overcooked side. Really reminiscent of the Terminator:SCC pilot. But it has a huge, very MCG-ish train based action sequence so that will certainly provide some eye candy for the promos.
Rest of the Fox pilots sound way more boring, too.
Human Target is a great pilot. Clear, repeatable gags and character beats. Doesn’t feel like a movie, or mini-series, has a fairly strong sense of lethality. Just enough geekdom and normal action to satifsfy a fairly broad audience. Stong add to the FOX brand.