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Pilot season is currently underway and like usual, there are some good and some bad news. Good news first:
ABC has picked up Quantico (Graham Rogers is part of the main cast) and Fox has picked up The Guide to Surviving Life (co-starring Maureen Sebastian):
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ABC Picks Up Dramas ‘The Catch’, Jenna Bans, ‘Kings & Prophets’, ‘Boom’ ‘L.A. Crime’ & ‘Quantico’ To Series
ABC is adding a fourth Shondaland series, The Catch, for next season. It is one of abclogosix new drama series picked up by the network, along with Jenna Bans’ The Family starring Joan Allen, the untitled Don Johnson-Chace Crawford starrer (formerly Boom), the biblical saga Of Kings and Prophets, which already has a writers room set up to work on 15 scripts, gritty anthology L.A. Crime — now titled Wicked City — and the Mark Gordon-produced procedural Quantico.
Here are descriptions of ABC’s newly picked up drama series:
“QUANTICO”
A diverse group of recruits have arrived at the FBI Quantico Base for training. They are the best, the brightest and the most vetted, so it seems impossible that one of them is suspected of masterminding the biggest attack on New York City since 9/11.
“Quantico” stars Priyanka Chopra as Alex, Dougray Scott as Liam, Jake McLaughlin as Ryan, Aunjanue Ellis as Miranda, Yasmine Al Massri as Nimah, Johanna Braddy as Shelby, Tate Ellington as Simon Asher and Graham Rogers as Caleb Haas.
“Quantico” was written by Josh Safran. Executive producers are Josh Safran, Mark Gordon and Nick Pepper. “Quantico” is produced by ABC Studios.
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Fox Picks Up John Stamos Comedy ‘Grandfathered’ & ‘Guide’ To Series
Fox has completed its comedy series pickups with nods to Grandfathered starring John Stamos and The Guide to Surviving Life (formerly Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life), which join freshly picked up The Grinder, toplined by Rob Lowe. All three are single-camera, with neither of the network’s multi-camera pilots making it to series. With the network’s renewed comedy series also all single-camera, New Girl, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Last Man on Earth, Fox will have an all-single-camera comedy lineup for the first time in several years.
The Grinder and Guide are from 20th TV, while Grandfathered hails from ABC Studios, marking only the third ever comedy series order from an outside network for the studio, following Scrubs (NBC) and Gary Unmarried (CBS), and the first in 7 years. (Grandfathered became a co-production with 20th TV when it landed at Fox with a put pilot commitment in September in a bidding war with ABC.)
While starring vehicles The Grinder and Grandfathered were early standouts, Guide flew under the radar early on, getting a boost by solid testing results, with the momentum carrying it to the finish line. This marks the first series order for Gail Berman’s Jackal Group since the company’s launch last summer in partnership with the Fox Networks Group and the official return of the former Fox entertainment president to the network.
Written and executive produced by Jay Lacopo and executive produced by Gail Berman, in Guide, after a particularly calamitous experience, 26-year-old Cooper Barrett (Jack Cutmore-Scott) turns to a camera and, using cautionary tales from his own life, episode by episode, helps the youth of America survive the ridiculous disaster that is life and love in your 20s. Bill Callahan has been brought in as showrunner and will also executive produce. Meaghan Rath, James Earl, Charlie Saxton, Justin Bartha and Maureen Sebastian co-star.
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And sadly, ABC has passed on The Advocate (starring Kim Raver):
I find that very disappointing because The Advocate was one of the shows I could have seen myself tuning in for. I am not surprised, though. The premise of the show is dealing with a very delicate issue and ABC was probably worried about the potential backlash it could receive...  |