Pilot Season '18: Scoop On This Fall's (Possible) New Shows, Who's In Them
Pilot season is upon us, meaning the broadcast networks are taking stock of their needs for the 2018-19 TV season and getting the ball rolling toward filling any gaps. With things about to get really interesting — it's time to start booking stars for these wannabe hits! — TVLine presents its annual round-up of who's planning what, and well as our guide to the lingo that gets tossed around.
For easy access: Review the list of pilots for ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox and NBC, and we urge you to bookmark this constantly-updated page for the latest intel.
PILOT | When a network orders a pilot, they're asking its writers/producers/studio to cast and produce a very close facsimile of a series' first episode. Each pilot is reviewed by network brass, then typically put into testing before its fate is decided. (A "put pilot" has a greater likelihood of "going to series," as there is a significant financial penalty if it does not.)
PLANTED SPIN-OFF | Also called a "backdoor" pilot, this is an episode of an existing series that sets up a prospective offshoot. For example, Supernatural this winter brought together Sheriff Jody Mills and a group of orphaned young women, and that was a planted pilot for Wayward Sisters. (Free History Lesson: That Brady Bunch episode with neighbor Ken Berry adopting three diverse boys? That was an ill-fated planted pilot, for a spin-off to be called Kelly's Kids.)
DRAMA/COMEDY PRESENTATION | Due to time or budget restraints, a network sometimes won't order a full pilot but a shorter "presentation" that gives a sense of what a drama or sitcom would look like.
CAST-CONTINGENT | Sometimes a network will order a pilot with the caveat that production can't start until a suitable (read: "name") actor has been cast in a lead role. (One translation: "The premise is iffy, but a big star could sell us.") So you'll sometimes hear that with the casting of so-and-so, "the cast contingency has been lifted" on a pilot.
SECOND POSITION | AKA the two words that make fans of "bubble" shows extremely anxious each spring, as stars from low-rated series start booking pilots (provided they get the OK from their current bosses). The term literally means that a pilot role is in second position (or priority) if their show gets renewed. An actor booking a "second position" gig doesn't always mean his/her current show is doomed... though it usually does. Variation: A "safe second" means the pilot's bosses have been discreetly assured that the actor will be available.
UPFRONTS | The week in mid-May when the networks take turns unveiling their schedules for next season — including the pilots that have been ordered to series. With rare exception, if your show doesn't make the cut here, it's a goner.
And now, our running update of pilots ordered for the 2018-19 TV season, going network by network....
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Our running update of pilots ordered for the 2018-19 TV season, going network by network (EPs = executive producers):
A MILLION LITTLE THINGS (Drama)
WRITER: DJ Nash
OTHER EPs: Aaron Kaplan, Dana Honor
CAST: James Roday (Psych), David Giuntoli (Grimm), Romany Malco (Weeds), Christina Moses (The Originals), Christina Ochoa (Valor, Blood Drive), Allison Miller (Incorporated, Go On), Anne Son (My Generation), Stephanie Szostak (Satisfaction)
A dramedy about a group of friends who, for different reasons and in different ways, are all stuck in their lives, but when one of them dies unexpectedly, it's just the wake up call the others need to finally start living.
FALSE PROFITS (Drama)
WRITER: Kayla Alpert
OTHER EPs: Jason Reed, Sabrina Wind
CAST: Bellamy Young (Scandal), Vanessa Williams (Ugly Betty), Shelley Hennig (Teen Wolf), Kosha Patel (Girlfriends' Guide To Divorce), Ben Lawson (Designated Survivor), Mark L. Young (The Comeback), Kapil Talwalkar, Marcus Coloma (Major Crimes)
A team of down-and-out women in suburban Arizona fight their way to the top of the cutthroat world of a multi-level marketing cosmetics business.
THE FINEST (Drama)
WRITER: Pam Veasey
OTHER EPs: Robin Roberts, Regina King
CAST: Tisha Campbell-Martin (My Wife & Kids), Amirah Vann (How to Get Away With Murder, Underground), Frances Turner (The Gifted), Leigh-Ann Rose (Love Thy Neighbor), Aubin Wise (Atlanta), Michael Beach (The 100), Eric Balfour (Haven), Dorian Missick (Southland), Gerard Celasco (The Haves and the Have Nots), Zoe Robins (The Shannara Chronicles)
Explores the lives of five African-American sisters, all officers in the NYPD, as they face the challenges of their high-risk jobs while juggling the responsibilities of marriage, motherhood and family.
THE FIX (Drama)
WRITERS: Elizabeth Craft, Sarah Fain, Marcia Clark
OTHER EPs: David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Laurie Zaks
CAST: Robin Tunney (The Mentalist), Mouzam Makkar (The Exorcist), Breckin Meyer (Franklin & Bash), Merrin Dungey (Big Little Lies, Alias), Scott Cohen (Gilmore Girls), Marc Blucas (Underground, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Adam Rayner (Tyrant), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Ten Days in the Valley, Lost)
After losing the biggest case of her career and being shredded by the media, former prosecutor Maya Travis has left Los Angeles for a quiet life in rural Oregon. Eight years after her devastating defeat, the murderer strikes again, forcing Maya to return to Los Angeles to confront him one more time. Will she play by the rules, or will she do whatever it takes to get him behind bars? Part legal thriller, part confessional, part revenge fantasy.
FOR LOVE (Drama)
WRITER: Michael Cooney
OTHER EPs: Kim Moses
CAST: Lex Scott Davis (Training Day), Ethan Peck (10 Things I Hate About You), Jon Ecker (Queen of the South), Luke Arnold (Black Sails), Rachel Skarsten (Reign), Wolé Parks (Devious Maids), Chloe Wepper (Manhattan Love Story), Isabella Russo
Five years ago, Hope Castille's fiancé was killed. Then one morning, she receives a phone call from him in this story about an epic love triangle set against a grounded, secret world of magic in present day New Orleans.
GET CHRISTIE LOVE (Drama)
WRITER: Courtney A. Kemp
OTHER EPs: Vin Diesel, Debra Martin Chase, Shana Waterman
CAST: Kylie Bunbury (Pitch), Khandi Alexander (Scandal, Treme), Steven Weber (NCIS: New Orleans, Wings), Camille Guaty (Prison Break), Lisseth Chavez (The Fosters), Dennis Oh (NCIS: New Orleans), Julia Kelly (Freakish), Shea Buckner (Shameless, How to Get Away With Murder), Thomas Cocquerel (Table 19), Juan Javier Cardenas (Snowfall)
Inspired by the revolutionary TV movie and subsequent series that aired on ABC in the '70s, the action-packed, music-driven drama centers on Christie Love, an African American female CIA agent who leads an elite ops unit. She transforms into whomever she needs to be to get the job done, especially when it's down to the wire and the stakes are life and death. The high-adrenaline missions of the series are anchored by an emotional mystery about Christie's first love — unearthing the truth about this relationship will be the biggest mission impossible of her life.
GRAND HOTEL (Drama)
WRITER: Brian Tanen
OTHER EPs: Eva Longoria, Ben Spector, Oliver Bachert, Christian Gockel
CAST: Roselyn Sanchez (Devious Maids), Demian Bichir (The Bridge), Chris Warren (The Fosters), Wendy Raquel Robinson (The Game), Shalim Ortiz (Heroes), Denyse Tontz (The Fosters), Bryan Craig (General Hospital), Wendy Raquel Robinson (The Game), Lincoln Younes (Home and Away), Justina Adorno (Seven Seconds)
A soapy drama set against the backdrop of a Miami Beach hotel, centering around the family who owns the business, the staff who run it, and the explosive secrets they hide under the perfect exterior. Based on the Spanish format.
GREATEST AMERICAN HERO (Comedy)
WRITER: Rachna Fruchbom
OTHER EPs: Nahnatchka Khan, Mandy Summers, Tawnia McKiernan
CAST: Hannah Simone (New Girl), George Wendt (Cheers), Gia Sandhu (Nikita), Zenobia Shroff (The Affair), Shoniqua Shandai (Nobodies), Dennis Andres (Star Trek: Discovery, Dark Matter), Ellie Reed (Girlboss), Humphrey Ker
Inspired by the '80s TV show of the same name, the single-cam comedy centers around Meera, a 30-year-old woman who loves tequila and karaoke and has spent her life searching and failing to find meaning, much to the chagrin of her traditional Indian-American family. An inexplicable event occurs that will change the course of Meera's life forever: she is entrusted with a super suit to protect the planet. Meera may have finally found purpose, but the world has never been in more unreliable hands.
MAN OF THE HOUSE (Comedy)
WRITERS: Vijal Patel, Frank Pines
OTHER EPs: Kerry Washington, Gail Berman, Joe Earley, Pilar Savone
CAST: Alyson Hannigan (How I Met Your Mother), Leslie Bibb (GCB, Popular), Jenna Ortega (Stuck In the Middle), narrator Jimmy Kimmel
A hybrid single-camera/mult-camera sitcom about two recently divorced sisters who decide to move in together to raise their kids under one roof. The oldest kid and only son is left to figure out what manhood means in a world where he's now completely surrounded by females.
THE MISSION (Drama)
WRITER: Jason Richman
OTHER EPs: David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Laurie Zaks
CAST: Lynn Collins (Manhunt: Unibomber, True Blood), Wood Harris (The Wire), Aasif Mandvi (Shut Eye, Younger), Kris D. Lofton (Ballers), Josh Randall (Ten Days in the Valley), Vannessa Vasquez (East Los High), Alexander Karim (Tyrant), Jee Young Han (Santa Clarita Diet)
Chronicles the colorful, complicated lives of cops on and off the beat as we follow them into harrowing, emotional, and often humorous situations.
MOST LIKELY TO (Comedy)
WRITER: Diablo Cody
OTHER EPs: Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter
CAST: Yvette Nicole Brown (Community), Donald Faison (Scrubs), Lesli Margherita (Homeland), Laya DeLeon Hayes (Doc McStuffins), Max Jenkins (The Mysteries of Laura)
In high school, Liz Cooney had everything, and Markie McQueen had nothing. Twenty years later, they're reunited under the same roof as single moms and unlikely housemates.
THE ROOKIE (Drama) — ORDERED STRAIGHT TO SERIES
WRITER: Alexi Hawley
OTHER EPs: Mark Gordon, Nicholas Pepper, Michelle Chapman, Jon Steinberg, Nathan Fillion, Liz Friedlander
CAST: Nathan Fillion (Castle), Melissa O'Neil (Dark Matter), Eric Winter (Rosewood, Witches of East End), Richard T. Jones (Wisdom of the Crowd), Mercedes Mason (Fear the Walking Dead), Afton Williamson (The Night Of, Banshee), Titus Makin (The Path, Pretty Little Liars), Alyssa Diaz (Ray Donovan, Zoo)
Fillion plays John Nolan, the oldest rookie in the LAPD. At an age where most are at the peak of their career, Nolan cast aside his comfortable, small town life and moved to L.A. to pursue his dream of being a cop. Now, surrounded by rookies twenty years his junior, Nolan must navigate the dangerous, humorous and unpredictable world of a "young" cop, determined to make his second shot at life count.
SALVAGE (Drama)
WRITER: Don Todd
CAST: Jim Belushi (According to Jim), Toby Kebbell (Fantastic Four), Charity Wakefield (The Player), Will Patton (Falling Skies), Lacretta (Gotham), Emily Althaus (Orange Is the New Black), Catalina Sandino Moreno (The Affair), Jim Kaplan, Joelle Carter (Justified, Chicago Justice), Evan Parke (King Kong, The Young and the Restless)
Ex-cop Jimmy Hill just wants to be left alone after moving back home in rural Florida. But when a local murder is linked to the sunken treasure of a lost Spanish galleon, he's drawn into the investigation by an idealistic deputy and pitted against the powerful town patriarch, outside criminal agents, and his own father.
SINGLE PARENTS (Comedy)
WRITER: JJ Philbin
OTHER EPs: Liz Meriwether, Katherine Pope
CAST: Taran Killam (SNL), Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl), Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond), Kimrie Lewis (Scandal), Jake Choi (Hawaii Five-O, Younger)
A group of dysfunctional single parents lean on each other as they raise their kids, look for love, and ultimately realize survival is only possible with the help of each other.
STATIES (Drama)
WRITERS: Matt Partney, Corey Evett
OTHER EPs: Michael Seitzman, Christina Davis
CAST: Annie Ilonzeh (Empire, Charlie's Angels), Andy Karl (Law & Order: SVU), David Zayas (Dexter), Jennifer Aspen (GCB), Alexander Sokovikov (The Americans, House of Cards), Justin Johnson Cortez (Lucifer), Ava Capri
Hard-charging NYPD detective, Eliza Cortez, is banished to the boonies after a high-profile mistake and is paired with a new partner, Oregon State Trooper Sam King. Sam's investigative techniques don't exactly follow protocol, as evidenced by his talking to trees for clues and his obsession with flying kites. Eliza is a fish-out-of-water in this police procedural set in an eccentric town of quirky characters in coastal Oregon.
STEPS (Comedy)
WRITER: Kristin Newman
OTHER EPs: David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Laurie Zaks
CAST: Ginnifer Goodwin (Once Upon a Time), Kyle Bornheimer (Casual), Ryan Michelle Bathe (This Is Us), Barry Rothbart (The Wolf of Wall Street), Julie Hagerty (Trial & Error), Cameron Boyce (Descendants)
Four adults in three houses raise three kids after two divorces... together. Based on the Swedish format Bonus Family.
TAKE TWO (Drama) — ORDERED STRAIGHT TO SERIES
WRITERS: Andrew Marlowe, Terri Edda Miller
OTHER EPs: Rola Bauer, Tim Halkin
CAST: Rachel Bilson (Hart of Dixie), Eddie Cibrian (CSI: Miami), Aliyah O'Brien (Beyond, Bates Motel), Alice Lee (Switched at Birth), Xavier De Guzman
Ella, the former star of a hit cop series, is fresh out of-rehab following a bender of epic proportion. Desperate to restart her career, she talks her way into shadowing rough-and-tumble private investigator Eddie as research for a potential comeback role. Though lone wolf Eddie resents the babysitting gig, high-spirited Ella proves herself to be surprisingly valuable, drawing on her acting skills and 200 episodes of playing a detective. When the press touts Ella's role in solving a high-profile case, Eddie finds his phone ringing off the hook with new clients looking to hire the pair.
THREE RIVERS (Comedy)
WRITERS: Sherry Bilsing-Graham, Ellen Kreamer
CAST: Annaleigh Ashford (Masters of Sex), John Larroquette (The Librarians), Stephanie Styles, Shakira Barrera (GLOW), Andrew Keenan-Bolger
Rebecca left her family's Texas ranch years ago to work at an upscale hotel in New York, but after being promised ownership of the ranch by her smooth-talking cowboy dad Beau, she's back and ready to utilize her big city tactics to turn their rustic ranch into a destination spot oozing Southern hospitality. Getting her siblings to fall in line with her vision will be the real thorn in Rebecca's side. And that's going to be even harder once Beau reveals a life-changing family secret.
UNTITLED BOBBY BOWMAN PROJECT (Comedy)
WRITER: Bobby Bowman
OTHER EPs: Dawn Ostroff, Jon Koa, Greg Walter
CAST: Brooke Elliott (Drop Dead Diva), Johnny Sneed (13 Reasons Why), Brenna D'Amico (Descendants), Lilla Crawford (Sunny Day), Will Kindrachuk (School of Rock)
Inspired by Bobby's childhood growing up with a father with mental illness, the uplifting single-cam features a dysfunctional family that perseveres despite their differences and finds happiness in unexpected places.
UNTITLED JUSTIN NOBLE PROJECT (Comedy)
WRITER: Justin Noble
OTHER EPs: Aaron Kaplan, Dana Honor, Wendi Trilling
CAST: Kat Dennings (2 Broke Girls), Angela Kinsey (The Office), Jason Michael Snow (This Is Us), Elizabeth Ho (Disjointed), Derek Richardson (Anger Management, Men in Trees), Nicole Byer (Loosely Exactly Nicole)
Based on the book and blog How May We Hate You, the workplace comedy centers on two guest service associates at a high-end resort and the co-workers and guests that they're stuck with for eight to sixteen hours a day.
UNTITLED THE GOLDBERGS SPINOFF (Comedy) — ORDERED STRAIGHT TO SERIES
WRITER: Marc Firek
OTHER EPs: Adam F. Goldberg, Doug Robinson
CAST: Tim Meadows, Bryan Callen, AJ Michalka
Set in 1990-something and follow the hilarious teachers of William Penn Academy, who, despite their eccentricities and crazy personal lives, are heroes to their students.
UNTITLED KENYA BARRIS PROJECT (Comedy) — PUSHED TO OFF-SEASON
WRITERS: Kenya Barris, Julie Bean
OTHER EPs: Alec Baldwin
A dysfunctional family comedy about a stuck-in-his-ways and opinionated fading TV star who moves in with his progressive daughter, her girlfriend and the child they are raising together.
UNTITLED TIM DOYLE PROJECT (Comedy)
WRITER: Tim Doyle
CAST: Michael Cudlitz (The Walking Dead), Mary McCormack (In Plain Sight), Caleb Foote (American Crime Story: The Assassination of Giani Versace), Christopher Paul Richards (Me, Myself & I), Jack Gore (Electric Dreams), Sawyer Barth (Public Morals), Sam Straley, Andy Walken
An Irish-Catholic family with a working-class dad, traditional mom and eight boisterous sons navigates changes big and small during the turbulent 1970s.
WHISKEY CAVALIER (Dramedy)
WRITER: Dave Hemingson
OTHER EPs: Bill Lawrence, Jeff Ingold, Scott Foley
CAST: Scott Foley (Scandal), Lauren Cohan (The Walking Dead), Ana Ortiz (Devious Maids, Ugly Betty), Tyler James Williams (The Walking Dead), Vir Das (Go Goa Gone)
A high-octane hourlong action dramedy that follows the adventures of tough but tender FBI super agent Will Chase (codename: Whiskey Cavalier) who, following an emotional break-up, is assigned to work with badass CIA operative Francesca "Frankie" Trowbridge (codename: Fiery Tribune). Together, they lead an inter-agency team of flawed, funny, heroic spies who periodically save the world (and each other) while navigating the rocky roads of friendship, romance and office politics.
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Our running update of pilots ordered for the 2018-19 TV season, going network by network (EPs = executive producers):
25 (Comedy)
WRITER: Hilary Winston
OTHER EPs: Seth Rogan, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver
CAST: Matt Shively (The Real O'Neals), Emily Osment (Young & Hungry), Denée Benton (UnREAL), Jessie Ennis (Veep), Tom Maden (Scream)
Twenty-something Kyle comes to Austin to finally convince his old best friend from camp they are perfect for each other. Unfortunately, she just got engaged. A lot of guys would give up; Kyle is not one of those guys. But to Kyle's surprise, even though he came to town looking for "The One," he might end up with much more than that.
CAGNEY & LACEY (Drama)
WRITER: Bridget Carpenter
CAST: Sarah Drew (Grey's Anatomy), Michelle Hurd (Blindspot), Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible)
In this reboot of the iconic series, two female police detectives and friends keep the streets of L.A. safe.
CHIEFS (Drama)
WRITER: David Hudgins
OTHER EPs: Carol Mendelsohn, Julie Weitz
CAST: Jorja Fox (CSI), Alana De La Garza (Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders), Aunjanue Ellis (Quantico), Michael Trucco (Battlestar Galactica), Demetrius Grosse (The Brave)
The professional and personal lives of three driven, successful, but very different women who are each Chiefs of Police of their own precincts in L.A. County.
THE CODE (Drama)
WRITER: Craig Sweeny
OTHER EPs: Carl Beverly, Sarah Timberman
CAST: Mira Sorvino (Falling Skies), Dave Annable (Brothers & Sisters), Phillipa Soo (Broadway's Hamilton), Raffi Barsoumian (The Vampire Diaries)
The military's brightest minds take on our country's toughest challenges inside the courtroom and out where each attorney is trained as a prosecutor, a defense lawyer, an investigator and a Marine.
FAM (Comedy)
WRITER: Corinne Kingsbury
OTHER EPs: David Rosenthal; Aaron Kaplan, Dana Honor, Wendi Trilling
CAST: Nina Dobrev (The Vampire Diaries), Odessa Adlon (Nashville), Tone Bell (Disjointed), Brian Stokes Mitchell (Mr. Robot), Sheryl Lee Ralph (One Mississippi, Instant Mom)
A woman's dreams of an upstanding life with her new fiancé and his upstanding family are dashed when her younger train wreck half-sister comes to live with her to escape their train wreck of a father.
F.B.I. (Drama) — ORDERED STRAIGHT TO SERIES
WRITER: Craig Turk
OTHER EPs: Dick Wolf, Peter Jankowski, Arthur W. Forney; EP/D Niels Arden Oplev
CAST: Missy Peregrym (Rookie Blue), Connie Nielsen (Boss), Jeremy Sisto (Law & Order), Zeeko Zaki (Valor, 24: Legacy), Ebonée Noel (Still Star-Crossed)
Explores the inner workings of the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
GOD FRIENDED ME (Drama)
WRITERS: Steven Lilien, Bryan Wynbrandt
OTHER EPs: Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Marcos Siega
CAST: Brandon Micheal Hall (The Mayor), Joe Morton (Scandal), Violett Beane (The Flash), Javicia Leslie (MacGyver), Suraj Sharma (Homeland)
Questions of faith, existence and science are explored in this humorous, uplifting series about an outspoken atheist whose life is turned upside down when he is "friended" by God on Facebook. Unwittingly, he becomes an agent of change in the lives and destinies of others around him.
HISTORY OF THEM (Comedy)
WRITER: Gloria Calderon Kellett
OTHER EPs: Marc Provissiero, Pamela Fryman
CAST: Brett Dier (Jane the Virgin), Ana Villafane (South Beach), Caitlin McGee (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Chris Powell (Detroiters), Lisa Vidal (Being Mary Jane, Star Trek), Felix Solis (The Family, The Forgotten), Amit Shah (The Rebel), narrator Miranda Cosgrove (iCarly)
A multi-cultural ensemble about how two friends, Luna and Adam, meet and fall in love, using the couple's social media as a guide.
I MOM SO HARD (Comedy)
WRITERS: Michelle Nader, Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley
OTHER EPs: Rob Thomas, Danielle Stokdyk, Dan Etheridge
CAST: Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley (#IMOMSOHARD), Freddie Prinze Jr. (24), David Fynn (Undateable), Tymberlee Hill (Marry Me)
Based on the web series of the same name, two moms show how their friendship gets them through being wives and mothers.
L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (Drama)
WRITER: Jordan Harper
OTHER EPs: Anna Fricke, Arnon Milchan
CAST: Walton Goggins (Justified), Brian J. Smith (Sense8), Sarah Jones (The Path), Mark Webber (Green Room), Shea Whigham (Boardwalk Empire), Alana Arenas (Electric Dreams)
James Ellroy's classic novel gets a thoroughly 2018 treatment in terms of tone, music and style. The paths of three homicide detectives, a female reporter and an up-and-coming actress intersect while the detectives pursue a sadistic serial killer among the secrets and lies of glamorous 1950's Los Angeles.
MAGNUM P.I. (Drama)
WRITER: Peter Lenkov, Eric Guggenheim
OTHER EPs: John Davis, John Fox
CAST: Jay Hernandez (Scandal, Last Resort), Perdita Weeks (Penny Dreadful), Zachary Knighton (Happy Endings), Stephen Hill (Luke Cage, Boardwalk Empire)
An update of the classic television series set in Hawaii, it follows Thomas Magnum, a decorated ex-Navy SEAL who, upon returning home from Afghanistan, repurposes his military skills to become a private investigator.
MAIN JUSTICE (Drama)
WRITER: Sascha Penn
OTHER EPs: Sunil Nayar, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, KristieAnne Reed, Eric Holder
CAST: Bokeem Woodbine (Fargo), Timothy Hutton (American Crime), Peter Gallagher (Covert Affairs, The O.C.), Deborah Ayorinde (Luke Cage), Aubrey Dollar (Battle Creek, Women's Murder Club)
Centered around the U.S. Attorney General, the show takes us into the tumultuous world of the 5th floor of the Department of Justice where he takes on the biggest legal and investigative cases in the country all while being the youngest person to ever hold such an esteemed position. Inspired by the life and work of former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
MURDER (Drama)
WRITER: Amanda Green
OTHER EPs: Dan Lin, Lindsey Liberatore
CAST: Michael Chiklis (The Shield), Teyonah Parris (Survivor's Remorse), Luna Lauren Velez (Dexter), Pallavi Sharda (Pulse), Jennifer Mudge (Boss), Leonard Roberts (Major Crimes), Andrea Demetriades (Janet King)
The investigative drama explores crime through the unique and often conflicting perspectives of cops and killers, witnesses and victims, friends and family. Shot like a true crime documentary, the series invites the audience inside the emotional journey of an investigation, allowing them to discern the truth and judge the suspects' guilt or innocence for themselves.
MURPHY BROWN (Comedy) — ORDERED STRAIGHT TO SERIES
WRITER: Diane English
OTHER EPs: Candice Bergen
CAST: Original stars Candice Bergen, Faith Ford, Joe Regalbuto and Grant Shaud, plus Tyne Daly (Cagney & Lacey), Jake McDorman (Limitless, Greek), Nik Dodani (Atypical)
Bergen reprises her role as the investigative journalist, who returns to a world of cable news, social media, fake news, and a very different political and cultural climate.
PANDAS IN NEW YORK (Comedy)
WRITER: Ajay Sahgal
CAST: Dhruv Singh, Ashley Tisdale (Hellcats), Nishi Munshi (The Originals), Hina Abdullah (The Last Ship), Dan O'Brien (Whitney), Bernard White (Silicon Valley), Gita Reddy (Orange Is the New Black, The Mindy Project)
A family of Indian doctors with a successful group practice in New York City embark on a project to arrange their youngest son's life, unaware he's made plans of his own.
RED LINE (Drama)
WRITERS: Caitlin Parrish, Erica Weiss
OTHER EPs: Ava DuVernay, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter
CAST: Noah Wyle (ER), Noel Fisher (Shameless), Michael Patrick Thornton (Private Practice), Emayatzy Corinealdi (Ballers, Hand of God), Vinny Chhibber (No Tomorrow), Aliyah Royale, Howard Charles (The Musketeers), Elizabeth Laidlaw (Boss)
After a white cop in Chicago mistakenly shoots and kills a black doctor, we follow three different families that all have connections with the case as the story is told from each perspective.
UNTITLED TIM MCAULIFFE/AUSTEN EARL PROJECT (Comedy)
WRITERS: Tim McAuliffe, Austen Earl
OTHER EPs: Ben Winston, Michael Rotenberg, Jonathan Berry
CAST: Damon Wayans Jr. (New Girl, Happy Endings), Amber Stevens West (Ghosted, The Carmichael Show), Felix Mallard (Neighbours)
A young married couple whose evenings have become comfortable and routine have their lives upended when a young musician moves into their spare bedroom and brings with him the complications of being an up-and-coming mega-popstar... and sometimes even the paparazzi.
WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD (Comedy)
WRITER: Jim Reynolds
OTHER EPs: Aaron Kaplan, Dana Honor, Wendi Trilling
CAST: Josh Lawson (Superstore), Cedric the Entertainer (The Soul Man), Dreama Walker (Don't Trust the B— in Apt. 23), Sheaun McKinney (Great News), Marcel Spears (The Mayor)
The nicest guy in the Midwest moves his family into a tough neighborhood in L.A. where not everyone appreciates his extreme neighborliness.
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Our running update of pilots ordered for the 2018-19 TV season, going network by network (EPs = executive producers):
CHARMED (Drama)
WRITERS: Jessica O'Toole, Amy Rardin
OTHER EPs: Jennie Urman, Brad Silberling, Ben Silverman
CAST: Melonie Diaz (The Breaks), Madeleine Mantock (The Tomorrow People), Sarah Jeffery (Shades of Blue), Rupert Evans (Man in the High Castle), Ser'Darius Blain (Survivor's Remorse, Jane by Design), Charlie Gillespie (Degrassi: Next Class), Ellen Tamaki
This fierce, funny, feminist reboot of the original series centers on three sisters in a college town who discover they are witches. Between vanquishing supernatural demons, tearing down the patriarchy, and maintaining familial bonds, a witch's work is never done.
DEAD INSIDE (Drama)
WRITER: Katie Lovejoy
OTHER EPs: Bill Lawrence, Jeff Ingold
CAST: Freddie Stroma (Time After Time, UnREAL), Joey King (Fargo), Lyndon Smith (Parenthood), Hayley Marie Norman (Adam Ruins Everything), Christine Ko (The Great Indoors), Erica Cerra (The 100), Myles Bullock
After surviving an explosion that killed her hotshot detective big brother, an underachieving beat cop starts seeing his ghost, flipping their sibling dynamic on its head and allowing her to truly live her life for the first time, as they work together to help crime victims both living and dead, and figure out the unfinished business keeping his spirit on Earth.
THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT (Drama)
WRITERS: Justin Halpern, Patrick Schumacker
OTHER EPs: Rob Thomas, Danielle Stokdyk, Dan Etheridge, Leslie Morgenstein, Gina Girolamo
CAST: Gage Golightly (Red Oaks, Teen Wolf), Quinta Brunson (the digital series Broke), Josh Helman (Wayward Pines), Liam Garrigan (Once Upon a Time)
When a prison spaceship carrying the universe's most deadly aliens crashes in Southern California, two young women with bigger dreams than working at a kids' pizza place in The Valley are recruited by a space cop to hunt down the escaped criminals, who have camouflaged themselves as eccentric Angelenos. Based on the book by Iva-Marie Palmer.
IN THE DARK (Drama)
WRITER: Corinne Kingsbury
OTHER EPs: Ben Stiller, Jackie Cohn, Nicky Weinstock
CAST: Perry Mattfeld (Shameless), Austin Nichols (The Walking Dead), Kathleen York (The Client List, The West Wing), Derek Webster (NCIS: New Orleans), Brooke Markham (Foursome), Keston John (My Kitchen Rules)
A flawed and irreverent blind woman is the only "witness" to the murder of her drug-dealing friend. After the police dismiss her story, she sets out with her dog, Pretzel, to find the killer while also managing her colorful dating life and the job she hates at Breaking Blind, the guide dog school owned by her overprotective parents.
PLAYING DEAD (Drama)
WRITERS: Rina Mimoun, Josh Reims
OTHER EPs: Tariq Jalil, Lucas Carter
CAST: Tyler Ritter (Arrow, The McCarthys), Clara Lago (Web Therapy), Luke Youngblood (Galavant, Community), Curran Walters (Titans)
A dysfunctional family dramedy about a mortician and his son whose lives are turned upside down when the woman who abandoned them 15 years ago returns and asks them to fake her death.
SKINNY DIP (Drama)
WRITERS: Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner
OTHER EPs: Peter Traugott, Rachel Kaplan, Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman
CAST: Matt Barr (Valor, Sleepy Hollow), Ben Aldridge (Reign), KJ Smith (Dynasty, Queen Sugar), Brent Sexton (The Killing), Richard Esteras
After her husband tries to kill her on what she thought was a romantic cruise to celebrate their second wedding anniversary, a woman teams with a jaded ex-cop to exact her own twisted brand of revenge on her cheating spouse, and winds up uncovering a wider conspiracy in the process. Based on the novel by Carl Hiaasen.
SPENCER (Drama)
WRITER: April Blair
OTHER EPs: Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Robbie Rogers
CAST: Daniel Ezra (The Missing), Taye Diggs (Private Practice), Cody Christian (Teen Wolf), Samantha Logan (13 Reasons Why), Monet Mazur (Castle), Michael Evans Behling, Karimah Westbrook (Shameless, Aquarius)
When a rising high school football player from South Central L.A. is recruited to play for Beverly Hills High, the wins, losses and struggles of two families from vastly different worlds — Compton and Beverly Hills — begin to collide. Inspired by the life of pro football player Spencer Paysinger.
UNTITLED ROSWELL PROJECT (Drama)
WRITER: Carina Adly MacKenzie
OTHER EPs: Julie Plec, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank, Lawrence Bender, Kevin Kelly Brown
CAST: Jeanine Mason (Grey's Anatomy), Nathan Parsons (The Originals), Tyler Blackburn (Pretty Little Liars), Michael Trevino (The Vampire Diaries), Heather Hemmens (Hellcats), Lily Cowles (BrainDead), Michael Vlamis (New Girl), Trevor St. John (Containment), Karan Oberoi (Notorious, NCIS)
After reluctantly returning to her tourist-trap hometown of Roswell, New Mexico, the daughter of undocumented immigrants discovers a shocking truth about her teenage crush who is now a police officer: he's an alien who has kept his unearthly abilities hidden his entire life. She protects his secret as the two reconnect and begin to investigate his origins, but when a violent attack and long-standing government cover-up point to a greater alien presence on Earth, the politics of fear and hatred threaten to expose him and destroy their deepening romance.
WAYWARD SISTERS (Drama)
WRITERS: Andrew Dabb, Robert Berens
OTHER EPs: Robert Singer, Phil Sgriccia
CAST: Kim Rhodes, Kathryn Newton, Katherine Ramdeen , Briana Buckmaster, Clark Backo, Yadira Guevara-Prip
The planted Supernatural spinoff centers around Sheriff Jody Mills and a group of troubled young women — all orphaned by supernatural tragedy — who emerge as a formidable monster-fighting force under Jody's training and protection. Backdoor pilot aired in January.
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COOL KIDS (Comedy)
WRITERS: Charlie Day, Paul Fruchbom
OTHER EPs: Lee Daniels, Pam Williams, Marc Velez, Yossi Vassa, Shai Ben-Atar, Liat Shavit
CAST: Vicki Lawrence (Great News, Mama's Family), David Alan Grier (The Carmichael Show), Leslie Jordan (Will & Grace), Martin Mull (Roseanne)
Three guy friends in a retirement community are the top dogs until they're blown out of the water by a new arrival — a female rebel who's ready to challenge their standing.
DADDY ISSUES (Comedy)
WRITER: Erin Foster
OTHER EPs: Liz Meriwether, Oly Obst, Josh Lieberman
CAST: Erin Foster (Barely Famous), Don Johnson (Nash Bridges), Janina Gavankar (Sleepy Hollow), Jane Leeves (Hot In Cleveland, Frasier), Christine Woods (Perfect Couples), Mike O'Gorman (Vice Principals)
Loosely based on Foster's life, she stars as a single, 30-something woman whose friendship with her playboy dad is upended when he falls in love with her best friend.
DAN THE WEATHERMAN (Comedy)
WRITER: Steve Dildarian
OTHER EPs: Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements
CAST: Thomas Lennon (The Odd Couple), Ashley Williams (How I Met Your Mother), James Earl (Scream Queens), Daniel Stern (Manhattan)
After getting fired from his cushy job as a weatherman at the local TV station, Dan finds it's not enough to be a charming white man in this world. He reluctantly ends up at the neighboring Spanish TV station.
BLESS THIS MESS (Comedy) — OFF-SEASON PILOT TO BE SHOT IN JUNE
WRITERS: Liz Meriwether, Lake Bell
OTHER EPs: Katherine Pope
DIRECTOR: Lake Bell
CAST: Lake Bell (Wet Hot American Summer), Dax Shepard (Parenthood)
A newlywed couple gives up their drab and unfulfilling lives in NYC and moves to Nebraska to live a simpler life. It doesn't work out like they planned.
LIL KEV (Comedy)
WRITERS: Michael Price, Matt Claybrooks
OTHER EPs: Kevin Hart, Jeff Clanagan
VOICE CAST: Kevin Hart, Wanda Sykes, Keith Robertson, Gerald "Slink" Johnson, Deon Cole
An animated pilot presentation based on the comedy of Kevin Hart. It tells the story of a 12-year-old, pint-sized, optimistic, highly imaginative kid who navigates growing up in the crime filled inner-city of North Philly with the help and sometimes hindrance of his strong, quick-tempered mother, drug addicted father, pessimistic older brother, ex-con uncle and wise-ass talking dog.
MIXTAPE (Drama)
WRITER: Joshua Safran
OTHER EPs: Megan Ellison, Sue Naegle, Ali Krug
CAST: Madeleine Stowe (Revenge), Jenna Dewan Tatum (Witches of East End), Raul Castillo (Looking), Callie Hernandez (Graves, La La Land), Megan Ferguson (Grace and Frankie, The Comedians)
A romantic musical drama that follows a disparate group of interconnected L.A. denizens through the lens of the music that defines who they are.
OUR PEOPLE (Comedy)
WRITER: Vali Chandrasekaran
OTHER EPs: Lee Daniels, Pam Williams, Marc Velez, Yossi Vassa, Shai Ben-Atar, Liat Shavit
CAST: Beth Behrs (2 Broke Girls), Bernard David Jones (The Mayor), Biniam Bizuneh, Lea Thompson (Switched at Birth), Charles Parnell (The Last Ship), Saidah Arrika Ekulona (Kevin Can Wait), Matthew Glave (Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce), Skai Jackson (Jessie)
A culture-clash comedy about an engaged couple — his family is from Africa, hers is from the Midwest — as they "try to build a normal life together... though nobody can agree what that 'normal' means."
THE PASSAGE (Drama) — ROLLED OVER FROM LAST SEASON
WRITERS: Liz Heldens
OTHER EPs: Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Adam Kassan, Matt Reeves, Marcos Siega, author Justin Cronin
CAST: Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Pitch), BJ Britt (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Vincent Piazza (Boardwalk Empire), Genesis Rodriguez (Time After Time), Brianne Howey (The Exorcist), Jennifer Ferrin (Time After Time, Hell on Wheels), Emmanuelle Chriqui (Entourage), Saniyya Sidney (American Horror Story: Roanoke), Jamie McShane (Bloodline), Caroline Chikezie (The Shannara Chronicles)
Based on New York Times bestseller, the project begins as a character-driven government conspiracy thriller and morphs into a post-apocalyptic saga... with vampires. The series spans over a century and focuses on a young girl named Amy who must save the human race.
REL (Comedy)
WRITERS: Kevin Barnett, Josh Rabinowitz, Lil Rel
OTHER EPs: Mike Scully, Jerrod Carmichael
CAST: Lil Rel Howery (Get Out), Sinbad (A Different World, The Sinbad Show), Angel Laketa Moore (ER), Jordan L. Jones, Jessica "Jess Hilarious" Moore
A single dad tries to rebuild his life after a nasty divorce while on a quest for love, respect and a new barber in the South Side of Chicago.
UNTITLED DAVID ELLIOT/DANNY STRONG PROJECT (Drama)
WRITER: David Elliot
OTHER EPs: Danny Strong, Stacy Greenberg
CAST: Rachelle Lefevre (Mary Kills People, Under the Dome), Russell Hornsby (Grimm), Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men), Riley Smith (Frequency, Nashville), Brian d'Arcy James (13 Reasons Why), Nikki M. James (BrainDead)
A legal drama set in an wrongful conviction firm. Led by a fierce and fearless female lawyer with a hunger for justice, the team reopens investigations, putting their own lives in danger to exonerate the innocent that were "proven" guilty.
UNTITLED ILENE CHAIKEN/MELISSA SCRIVNER LOVE PROJECT (Drama)
WRITERS: Ilene Chaiken, Melissa Scrivner Love
OTHER EPs: Judy Smith, Oly Obst
CAST: Katie Holmes (Dawson's Creek), James Tupper (Big Little Lies), Ian Harding (Pretty Little Liars), Rose Rollins (The Catch, The L Word), Mark Moses (Mad Men), Jose Pablo Cantillo (Taken), Christian Camargo (Penny Dreadful), Paul Walter Hauser (Kingdom)
A female FBI agent's terrorism investigation is interrupted when her affair with a prominent general is discovered. Now labeled "the mistress," she fights to rebuild her personal life and professional reputation.
UNTITLED ROBERT LEVINE PROJECT (Drama)
WRITER: Robert Levine
OTHER EPs: Dennis Lehane
CAST: Joseph Morgan (The Originals), Christine Lahti (The Blacklist, Chicago Hope), Peyton List (Gotham, Frequency)
Armed with their wits, their street knowledge and an undeniable chemistry, private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro right wrongs the law can't in the working-class Boston borough of Dorchester. Based on Dennis Lehane's novel Gone, Baby, Gone.
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ABBY'S (Comedy)
WRITER: Josh Malmuth
OTHER EPs: Mike Schur, David Miner
CAST: Natalie Morales (Parks and Recreation), Neil Flynn (The Middle), Nelson Franklin (Veep), Jessica Chaffin (Search Party), Leonard Ouzts (Master of None), Kimia Behpoornia (Modern Family, Adam Ruins Everything)
Abby's is an unlicensed bar in San Diego where the regulars enthusiastically enforce a unique set of rules that give them a sense of community and allow them to avoid the frustrating behavior found at other establishments.
BRIGHT FUTURES (Comedy)
WRITERS: Hale Rothstein, Danny Segal, Isaac Schamis
OTHER EPs: Kenya Barris
CAST: Emily Ratajkowski (Entourage, iCarly), Shameik Moore (The Get Down), Calum Worthy (American Vandal, Austin & Ally), Jimmy Tatro (American Vandal), Lilly Singh
Four roommates all stumbling through the transition from the clueless, immature twentysomethings they are now to the successful professionals they're destined to be.
THE ENEMY WITHIN (Drama)
WRITER: Ken Woodruff
OTHER EPs: Vernon Sanders
CAST: Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter), Morris Chestnut (Rosewood), Raza Jaffrey (Code Black), Kelli Garner (Pan Am), Cassandra Freeman (Marvel's Luke Cage, Single Ladies)
This character-driven thriller set in the world of counterintelligence revolves around former CIA agent Erica Wolfe, the most notorious traitor in modern history and most-hated woman in America. So of course the FBI releases her from federal super-max prison, to help stop some of the most dangerous acts of espionage threatening the U.S. today.
FRIENDS-IN-LAW (Comedy)
WRITER: Brian Gallivan
OTHER EPs: Tom Werner
CAST: John Gemberling (Broad City), Devere Rogers, Nicole Parker (MADtv), James Davis (Real Husbands of Hollywood)
Brian and Jake are polar opposites who must quickly figure out how to coexist when their respective best friends decide to get married.
THE GILDED AGE (Drama) — ORDERED STRAIGHT TO SERIES
WRITER: Julian Fellowes
OTHER EPs: Gareth Neame
Set in 1880s New York City, the 10-episode series follows Marian Brook, the wide-eyed young scion of a conservative family who will embark on infiltrating the wealthy neighboring family dominated by ruthless railroad tycoon George Russell, his rakish and available son Larry, and his ambitious wife Bertha, whose "new money" is a barrier to acceptance by the Astor and Vanderbilt set. Marian is about to experience a whole new world springing up right outside her front door.
GUESS WHO DIED (Comedy)
WRITERS: Norman Lear, Peter Tolan
OTHER EPs: Brent Miller
CAST: Holland Taylor (Two and a Half Men), Hector Elizondo (Last Man Standing), Christopher Lloyd (Taxi), Adrian Martinez (The Blacklist: Redemption), Beth Lacke (Frequency)
Based on Lear's personal experiences, the single-cam is a humorous and inspiring look at the shared joys and challenges we all experience at any stage of life. Set in the Las Esperanzado Senior Community in Palm Springs, it follows an upbeat retired music executive, his ex-flight attendant sister-in-law, and a crusty man of mystery and wealth.
IN BETWEEN LIVES (Drama)
WRITER: Moira Kirland
OTHER EPs: David Heyman, Nancy Cotton
CAST: Harriet Dyer (Australia's Love Child), Yusuf Gatewood (The Originals), Anne-Marie Johnson (In the Heat of the Night)
A mysterious young woman reluctantly uses her gift of clairvoyance to help a veteran LAPD detective and a damaged ex-FBI outsider solve "the most unnerving and challenging cases." This eerie ability also opens the door for her to see and talk to the dead, who are seeking help for unresolved problems (whether she likes it or not).
WRITERS: Brandon Margolis, Brandon Sonnier
OTHER EPs: Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, KristieAnne Reed, Jeff Gaspin, Jeff Morrone, Doug Belgrad, Gabrielle Union
CAST: Gabrielle Union (Being Mary Jane), Jessica Alba (Dark Angel), Ernie Hudson (Grace and Frankie), Zach Gilford (Friday Night Lights), Duane Martin (All of Us), Ryan McPartlin (Chuck)
Union reprises her Bad Boys film role as Syd Burnett, who is now an LAPD detective whose world get complicated when a new partner, Nancy McKenna, learns that Syd's pleasures-seeking lifestyle might be masking a big secret.
LIKE FAMILY (Comedy)
WRITER: Suzanne Martin
OTHER EPs: Sean Hayes, Todd Milliner
CAST: Kether Donohue (You're the Worst), Brandon Mychal Smith (You're the Worst), Rebecca Mader (Once Upon a Time), Blake Anderson (Workaholics)
Aubrey and Artie formed the tightest of sibling-like bonds growing up together in foster care, but are discovering that such closeness makes adulthood even more complicated.
MANIFEST (Drama)
WRITER: Jeff Rake
OTHER EPs: Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke, Jackie Levine
CAST: Josh Dallas (Once Upon a Time), Melissa Roxburgh (Valor), J.R. Ramirez (Jessica Jones, Power), Athena Karkanis (Zoo), Parveen Kaur (Beyond), Luna Blaise (Fresh Off the Boat)
In this character-driven, high-concept mystery thriller, a plane disappears from radar and returns years later after being untraceable and presumed lost at sea. No time has passed for those on the plane, but for their loved ones at home, many years have gone by. The series follows their personal lives as well as the larger mystery and purpose that is their destiny.
SO CLOSE (Comedy)
WRITER: Greg Malins
OTHER EPs: Sean Hayes, Todd Milliner
CAST: Sasheer Zamata (SNL), Sean Kleier (Odd Mom Out, Happyish), Julie Klausner (Difficult People), Sabrina Carpenter (Girl Meets World), Dan Bucatinsky (Scandal), Punam Patel (Kevin From Work)
At crossroads in their separate lives, hopeless romantics Riley and Kyle are close to settling for the wrong partner, unaware that they live only blocks apart and may be each other's soul mates.
SUSPICION (Drama)
WRITER: Jessica Goldberg
OTHER EPs: Rachel Kaplan, Peter Traugott, Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman, Joseph Finder
CAST: Derek Luke (13 Reasons Why), Jeri Ryan (Body of Proof), Paula Newsome (NCIS), Raul Esparza (Law & Order: SVU), Sadie Calvano (Mom), Kearran Giovanni (Major Crimes)
A Hitchcockian thriller about how far one man will go to save the people he loves. After Danny Goldman accepts a handshake loan from his new friend and millionaire neighbor, he gets a visit from the FBI and learns that the decision is one he will regret for the rest of his life. Coerced to work as an informant for the FBI to earn back his freedom, Danny is forced to infiltrate a world of violence and corruption while trying to protect his family. Based on the book by Joseph Finder.
UNTITLED ASEEM BATRA PROJECT (Comedy)
WRITER: Aseem Batra
OTHER EPs: Amy Poehler, Julie Anne Robinson, Dave Becky, Kelly Pancho, Josh Maurer, Kim Lessing, Orli Auslander
CAST: Sarayu Blue (No Tomorrow), Paul Adelstein (Private Practice), Zach Cherry (Crashing, Search Party), James Buckley (The Inbetweeners), Johnny Pemberton (Superstore)
One woman's unfiltered take on the side effects of trying to have it all. Inspired by the book I Feel Bad: All Day. Every Day. About Everything. by Orli Auslander.
UNTITLED BELLEVUE HOSPITAL PROJECT (Drama)
WRITER: David Schulner
OTHER EPs: Peter Horton, Eric Manheimer
CAST: Janet Montgomery (Salem), Ryan Eggold (The Blacklist), Freema Agyeman (Sense8, Doctor Who), Anupam Kher (Sense8), Tyler Labine (Reaper), Jocko Sims (The Last Ship)
The character-driven medical drama follows the new director of Bellevue Hospital, whose maverick approach disrupts the status quo while always prioritizing patient care. Located in Manhattan, Bellevue is the only hospital in the world that has the capability to treat Ebola patients, prisoners from Rikers Island and the President of the United States all under one roof. Inspired by Dr. Eric Manheimer's memoir Twelve Patients: Life & Death at Bellevue Hospital.
THE VILLAGE (Drama)
WRITER: Mike Daniels
CAST: Lorraine Toussaint (Rosewood), Warren Christie (Motive, Chicago Fire), Moran Atias (The Resident, Tyrant), Daren Kagasoff (The Secret Life of the American Teenager), Grace Van Dien (Greenhouse Academy), Dominic Chianese (The Sopranos), Michaela McManus (Seal Team, Aquarius), Jerod Haynes (Southside With You), Frankie Faison (Banshee, The Wire)
Despite difference in age, race, culture and lifestyle, the residents of a Manhattan apartment building find that the more their lives intertwine, the more complex and compelling their connections become, thus proving life's challenges are better faced alongside family, even if it's the one you make wherever you find it. All under one roof we will meet a recovering war vet, a pregnant teenage girl and her single mom, a cop with an unexpected love interest, a woman hiding a terrifying secret from her husband and a millennial lawyer who might find his grandfather is the best and worst roommate he ever could have hoped for.