Pilot Season 2020: Scoop On This Fall's (Possible!) New Shows, Who's In Them

This list will be frequently updated as more pilots are announced and cast.

Pilot season is upon us, meaning the broadcast networks are taking stock of their needs for the 2020-21 TV season and getting the ball rolling toward filling any gaps. With things about to get really interesting — it's time to start casting stars in 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 very 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. (See: Arrow's "Green Arrow and the Canaries" episode.) Retro 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 that was 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 filming can't start until a suitable (read: "name") actor has been cast in a lead role. (Translation: "The premise is iffy, but a 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/priority if their show gets renewed. The fact that an actor booked a "second position" gig doesn't always mean his/her current show is doomed... but 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 2020-21 TV season, going network by network....

Our running update of pilots ordered for the 2020-21 TV season, going network by network (EPs = executive producers):

ADOPTED (Comedy) — ROLLED TO SECOND CYCLE

WRITERS: Shawn Vance, Daril Fannin, Jimmy Kimmel

When a Green Beret returns home to Texas from military service, he and his family struggle with the challenges of adopting his new brother, a 12-year-old Russian boy. The single-cam comedy is inspired by a true story.

BIG SKY (Drama) — ORDERED STRAIGHT TO SERIES

WRITER: David E. Kelley

OTHER EPs: Ross Fineman, C.J. Box

CAST: Katheryn Winnick (Vikings), Kylie Bunbury (Pitch), Ryan Phillippe (Shooter), Brian Geraghty (Chicago P.D.), John Carroll Lynch (American Horror Story), Dedee Pfeiffer (Cybill), Natalie Alyn Lind (The Gifted)

In this procedural thriller, private detective Cassie Dewell (Bunbury) partners with ex-cop Jenny Hoyt (Winnick) on a search for two sisters who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana. But when they discover that these are not the only girls who have disappeared in the area, they must race against the clock to stop the killer before another woman is taken.

Gina Torres

THE BRIDES (Drama) — NOT MOVING FORWARD

WRITER: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

OTHER EPs: Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, director Maggie Kiley

CAST: Gina Torres (Suits), Katherine Reis (Claws), Erin Richards (Gotham), Goran Višnjić (Timeless), Chris Mason (Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists), Sophia Tatum (I Am Not Okay With This), Charlie McElveen (The Deuce)

The contemporary reimagining of Dracula is a vampire soap about empowered, immortal women and the things they do to maintain wealth, prestige, legacy — and their nontraditional family.

Kyra Sedgwick

CALL YOUR MOTHER (fka MY VILLAGE) (Comedy) — ORDERED TO SERIES

WRITER: Kari Lizer

CAST: Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer), Rachel Sennott (High Maintenance), Joey Bragg (Liv and Maddie), Emma Caymares (Fosse/Verdon), Austin Crute (Daybreak)

In this multi-cam, an "empty nester" mom wonders how she ended up alone while her children live their best lives thousands of miles away. She decides her place is with her family and as she re-inserts herself into their lives, her kids realize they might actually need her more than they thought.

Delroy Lindo

HARLEM'S KITCHEN (Drama) — SHOOTING LATER THIS YEAR

WRITER: Zahir McGhee

OTHER EPs: David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Laurie Zaks, Marcus Samuelsson

CAST: Delroy Lindo (The Good Fight), Sheryl Lee Ralph (Ray Donovan, Moesha), Miguel Gomez (The Strain), Clare-Hope Ashitey (Seven Seconds), Adrianna Mitchell (The Good Fight, Little America), Pepi Sonuga (Into the Dark)

An ensemble family drama set in a fine dining restaurant in Harlem. Ellis Rice, executive chef and patriarch, runs a successful restaurant with his wife and three daughters — but an unexpected death thrusts the family into turmoil and puts the restaurant's future in jeopardy as long-buried secrets are revealed.

Topher Grace

HOME ECONOMICS (Comedy) — SHOOTING LATER THIS YEAR

WRITERS: Michael Colton, John Aboud

OTHER EPs: Topher Grace, Eric & Kim Tannenbaum, co-EP Jason Wang

CAST: Topher Grace (That '70s Show), Caitlin McGee (Bluff City Law), Karla Souza (How to Get Away With Murder), Sasheer Zamata (SNL)

A single-camera comedy about three adult siblings: one in the 1 percent, one middle-class, and one barely holding on.

NATIONAL PARKS SERVICE (Drama) — ROLLED TO SECOND CYCLE

WRITERS: Aaron Helbing, Kevin Costner

OTHER EPs: Rod Lake, Ivan Cohen, Ken Halsband, Jon Baird

Follows the elite special agents of the Investigative Services Branch, who are tasked with solving the most complex and heinous crimes committed within the diverse and majestic national parks of the ISB's Pacific West region.

PROSPECT (Comedy) — DECISION TO BE MADE LATER

WRITERS: Sherry Bilsing-Graham, Ellen Kreamer

OTHER EPs: Director Randall Einhorn

CAST: Hunter King (Life in Pieces), David Alan Grier (The Carmichael Show), Diana Maria Riva (Dead to Me), Dale Dickey (Palm Springs)

A comedic Western following an idealistic young woman who moves to the frontier to be a schoolteacher, but her ideals are quickly tested when she learns that her students are rowdy ranch hands, not children.

Katey Sagal

REBEL (Drama) — ORDERED TO SERIES

WRITER: Krista Vernoff

OTHER EPs: John Davis, John Fox, Alexandre Schmit, Erin Brockovich

CAST: Katey Sagal (The Conners, Sons of Anarchy), John Corbett (Sex and the City), James Lesure (Las Vegas), Tamala Jones (Castle), Lex Scott Davis (The First Purge), Andy Garcia (Ballers, Modern Love)

Inspired by the life of Erin Brockovich today, the drama follows Annie "Rebel" Bello (Sagal), a blue-collar legal advocate without a law degree — a funny, messy, brilliant and fearless woman who cares desperately about the causes she fights for and the people she loves. When Rebel applies herself to a fight she believes in, she will win at almost any cost.

Chris Wood

thirtysomething(else) (Drama) — NOT MOVING FORWARD

WRITERS: Marshall Herskovitz, Edward Zwick (who will also direct)

CAST: Chris Wood (Supergirl), Odette Annable (Supergirl), Patrick Fugit (Treadstone, Outcast), Kendrick Sampson (How To Get Away With Murder), Auden Thornton (This Is Us), original series stars Ken Olin, Mel Harris, Timothy Busfield, Patty Wettig, Melanie Mayron and Polly Draper

The thirtysomething sequel follows an ensemble of new faces playing the grown-up, thirtysomething children of the original characters. Apparently, raising children (even grown children) never ends, but who could have known how hard it would be for them to raise their parents?

TRIAGE (Drama) — ROLLED TO SECOND CYCLE

WRITERS: Erica Messer, David Cornue

OTHER EPs: Director Jon M. Chu, Steven Marrs, Courtney Hazlett, Caitlin Foito

CAST: Parisa Fitz-Henley (Midnight, Texas), Bex Taylor-Klaus (Deputy, Arrow), Michael Ealy (Stumptown), Jamie-Lynn Sigler (Entourage, The Sopranos), Andrew Richardson (The Last O.G.), Kathleen Robertson (Murder in the First)

A character-driven medical drama that follows a pioneering surgeon, Finley Briar, over three distinct decades at the same hospital. With the evolution of medicine as the backdrop, the show explores the interconnected careers, friendships, and romances of Finley and her colleagues, and their tenuous relationship with time.

UNTITLED KAPNEK/HOLLAND PROJECT (Comedy) — DECISION TO BE MADE LATER

WRITER: Emily Kapnek

OTHER EPs: Dean Holland

CAST: Quintessa Swindell (Trinkets)

The single-cam comedy is described as a "love story with a twist," centering on New York City teenager Lennon Cochrane, whose life is turned upside down when she stumbles on a family secret.

UNTITLED SHANA GOLDBERG-MEEHAN PROJECT (Comedy) — SHOOTING LATER THIS YEAR

WRITER: Shana Goldberg-Meehan

CAST: Lucy Liu (Why Women Kill, Elementary)

A diva boss with no patience for working parents adopts a baby and has a change of heart, casting her mother-of-three assistant as an unlikely mentor and upending the office dynamics in the multi-cam comedy.

VALLEY TRASH (Comedy) — NOT MOVING FORWARD

WRITER: Niki Schwartz-Wright

OTHER EPs: Nahnatchka Khan, Jennifer Carreras

CAST: Jason Lee (My Name Is Earl), Lulu Wilson (The Haunting of Hill House)

The single-camera comedy follows the Harmans, a scrappy, blue collar family living in the deep Valley who suddenly experience a major culture clash when their fourteen-year-old daughter, Abby, gets accepted to a prestigious LA private high school filled with students and parents who want nothing to do with her, her family or their 818 area code.

Kelly Ripa & Ryan Seacrest

WORK WIFE (Comedy) — SHOOTING LATER THIS YEAR

WRITERS: David Windsor, Casey Johnson

OTHER EPs: Kelly Ripa, Ryan Seacrest, Mark Consuelos

CAST: Angelique Cabral (Life in Pieces), Tone Bell (Fam), Christopher Gorham (Covert Affairs), Annapurna Sriram (The Blacklist), Matt Shively (The Real O'Neals) Maile Flanagan (Shameless) and Kelly Ripa in a recurring role

Inspired by Ripa and Seacrest's partnership at Live, this single-camera project tells the story of a platonic male-female team whose professional success, personal friendship and ability to share deodorant makes their lives work. Set in the world of real estate, Dani and Scott have taken the leap to start their own team. Now feeling the stress of being the boss, they have to rely on the yin-yang of their dynamic more than ever to keep their professional and personal lives afloat.

WRECKAGE (Drama) — DECISION TO BE MADE LATER

WRITER: Jacquie Walters

OTHER EPs: Director Marc Webb, Sarah Timberman, Carl Beverly, Mark Martin, Keith Samples

On the surface, Lillian Linden looks like a brave survivor of a plane crash. But she's been lying to her family, her friends, and the whole world since rescue helicopters scooped her and her fellow survivor, Dave Hall, off a deserted island in the South Pacific. Missing for almost four years, the castaways are thrust into the spotlight after their rescue, becoming media darlings overnight. But they can't tell the real story — so they lie.

Our running update of pilots ordered for the 2020-21 TV season, going network by network (EPs = executive producers):

B POSITIVE (Comedy) — ORDERED TO SERIES

WRITER: Marco Pennette

OTHER EPs: Chuck Lorre

CAST: Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley), Annaleigh Ashford (Masters of Sex), Sara Rue (Impastor), Kether Donohue (You're the Worst), Kamryn Kunody

Faced with finding a kidney donor, newly divorced dad Drew is at the end of his rope when he runs into Gina, a rough-around-the edges woman from his past who volunteers her own.  Together they form an unlikely bond and begin a journey that will change both of their lives in this multi-cam comedy.

CLARICE (Drama) — ORDERED TO SERIES

WRITERS: Alex Kurtzman, Jenny Lumet

OTHER EPs: Heather Kadin, Co-EP Aaron Baiers

CAST: Rebecca Breeds (The Originals), Kal Penn (Designated Survivor, House), Michael Cudlitz (The Walking Dead, Southland), Nick Sandow (Orange Is the New Black), Lucca De Oliveira (The Punisher), Devyn A. Tyler (Out of Blue)

Set in 1993, a year after the events of The Silence of the Lambs, the series is a deep dive into the untold personal story of Clarice Starling, not yet 30, as she returns to the field to pursue serial murderers and sexual predators while navigating the high-stakes political world of Washington, D.C.

THE EQUALIZER (Drama) — ORDERED TO SERIES

WRITERS: Andrew Marlowe, Terri Miller

OTHER EPs: Queen Latifah, John Davis, John Fox, Debra Martin Chase, Shakim Compere, original series co-creator Richard Lindheim

CAST: Queen Latifah (Star), Lorraine Toussaint (Orange Is the New Black), Chris Noth (Law & Order, Sex and the City), Liza Lapira (9JKL), Tory Kittles (Colony), Laya DeLeon Hayes (Raven's Home)

A reimagining of the classic series in which Queen Latifah portrays an enigmatic figure who uses her extensive skills to help those with nowhere else to turn.

Michael Urie & Becki Newton

FUN (Comedy) — NOT MOVING FORWARD

WRITERS: Michael Patrick King, Tracy Poust, Jon Kinnally

OTHER EPs: Becki Newton, Michael Urie

CAST: Becki Newton (Ugly Betty), Michael Urie (Ugly Betty)

The multicam is a life-long love story between a brother and sister, who always encourage each other to have fun — no matter what hardship life is currently serving up. Fun celebrates life — in spite of the fact that the family business is a funeral home. As they say in their family: "You can't spell funeral without f-u-n." The brother returns to his Pennsylvania hometown to help his sister run the struggling business after his emotional and devastating break-up with... show business.

Rose McIver

GHOSTS (Comedy)

WRITERS: Joe Port, Joe Wiseman

OTHER EPs: Mathew Baynton, Jim Howick, Simon Farnaby, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond, Martha Howe-Douglas, Alison Carpenter, Debra Hayward, Alison Owen, Angie Stephenson

CAST: Rose McIver (iZombie), Utkarsh Ambudkar (Brockmire, The Mindy Project), Brandon Scott Jones (The Good Place)

In the single-camera comedy, a struggling young couple's dreams come true when they inherit a beautiful country house, only to find it's both falling apart and inhabited by many of the deceased previous residents.

Sophia Bush

GOOD SAM (Drama)

WRITER: Katie Wech

OTHER EPs: Jennie Snyder Urman, Joanna Klein

CAST: Sophia Bush (Chicago P.D.), Jason Isaacs (The OA, Star Trek: Discovery)

A talented yet stifled surgeon embraces her leadership role after her renowned and pompous boss falls into a coma. When he awakens and wants to resume surgery, however, it falls to her to supervise this overbearing blowhard who never acknowledged her talents — and also happens to be her father.

JURY DUTY (fka WE THE JURY) (Comedy)

WRITERS: Dana Klein, Stephanie Darrow

OTHER EPs: James Acaster, Kenton Allen, Matthew Justice

CAST: Jack Cutmore-Scott (Deception), Meaghan Rath (Hawaii Five-0), Sadie Calvano (Mom), Alanna Ubach (Bombshell)

A group of jurors are sequestered together until they all agree on a verdict... and they can't even agree on lunch.

THE LINCOLN LAWYER (Drama) — NOT MOVING FORWARD

WRITER: David E. Kelley

OTHER EPs: Ted Humphrey, Michael Connelly, Ross Fineman, director Adam Bernstein

CAST: Logan Marshall-Green (Dark Blue), Kiele Sanchez (Kingdom), Angus Sampson (No Activity, Nightflyers), Jazz Raycole (The Quad, The Soul Man)

Based on author Michael Connelly's series of novels and the subsequent 2011 feature film starring Matthew McConaughey, the drama revolves around Mickey Haller, an iconoclastic idealist who runs his law practice out of the back of his Lincoln town car as he takes on cases big and small across Los Angeles.

OUT THE DOOR (Drama) — PUSHED OFF CYCLE

WRITER: Evan Katz

OTHER EPs: Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, KristieAnne Reed

Upon learning that his impending retirement is being pushed off by several years, an LAPD detective who just wants his pension so he can go off and live the good life decides to do everything in his power to get fired, but his bad behavior only leads to surprising success at solving cases.

Julie Bowen

RAISED BY WOLVES (fka PLEASE HOLD FOR FRANKIE WOLFE)(Comedy)

WRITERS: Max Mutchnick, David Kohan

CAST: Julie Bowen (Modern Family)

The multi-cam comedy centers around Frankie Wolfe, an unfiltered, irreverent, powerful businesswoman with no personal life. When Frankie's impossibly fragile and neurotic sister, Tommie, abandons Quincy — an incredibly bright inner-city child who Tommie attempted to foster — Frankie is faced with the choice of taking him in or casting him back out. Can these two lonely, damaged people find the love and companionship that has eluded them their whole lives?

Oliver Hudson & Malin Akerman

THE THREE OF US (Comedy)

WRITER: Frank Pines

OTHER EPs: Ben Winston, Jeff Grosvenor

CAST: Oliver Hudson (Splitting Up Together, Rules of Engagement), Malin Akerman (Billions, Trophy Wife)

Adult siblings who are children of divorce must circle the wagons when their sister's husband unexpectedly announces he wants to call it quits on their marriage in this multi-cam comedy.

Parker Young

THE UNITED STATES OF AL — ORDERED TO SERIES (Comedy)

WRITERS: David Goetsch, Maria Ferrari

OTHER EPs: Chuck Lorre, Reza Aslan, Mahyad Tousi

CAST: Parker Young (Imposters, Suburgatory), Adhir Kalyan (Rules of Engagement), Dean Norris (Claws, Breaking Bad)

The multi-cam project explores the friendship between Riley (Young), a Marine combat veteran struggling to readjust to civilian life in Ohio, and Awalmir, aka Al (Kalyan), the interpreter from Riley's unit in Afghanistan who has come to America to start a new life.

Hannah Simone & Elizabeth Hurley

UNTITLED KINGSBURY/DALEY/GOLDSTEIN PROJECT (Comedy)

WRITERS: Corinne Kingsbury, John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein

OTHER EPs: Aaron Kaplan, Dana Honor, Wendi Trilling

CAST: Hannah Simone (New Girl), Elizabeth Hurley (The Royals)

When Penelope's career takes off at exactly the same time as her husband's, they call on Penelope's young single mom, Georgia, to help raise their son, but what they find is Georgia needs more raising than their kid in this multi-cam comedy.

Patrick Dempsey

WAYS & MEANS (Drama)

WRITERS: Ed Redlich, Mike Murphy

OTHER EPs: Denise Di Novi, Tom Lassally, Nina Tassler, Co-EP Joannie Burstein

CAST: Patrick Dempsey (Grey's Anatomy), Troian Bellisario (Pretty Little Liars), Amanda Warren (Madam Secretary, NCIS: New Orleans)

Centers around a powerful Congressional leader (Dempsey) who, after having lost faith in politics, finds himself working secretly with an idealistic young Congresswoman from the opposing party to subvert the hopelessly gridlocked system he helped create. Together, they'll attempt to save American politics (provided they don't get caught).

Our running update of pilots ordered for the 2020-21 TV season, going network by network (EPs = executive producers):

THE 100 PREQUEL (Drama)

WRITER: Jason Rothenberg

OTHER EPs: Leslie Morgenstein, Gina Girolamo

CAST: Leo Howard (Why Women Kill, Legacies), Iola Evans (Carnival Row), Adain Bradley (The Bold and the Beautiful)

Airing as an episode of The 100 during the show's upcoming seventh and final season, the prequel offshoot begins in the aftermath of the nuclear apocalypse and follows a band of survivors on the ground as they learn to cope in a dangerous world while fighting to create a new and better society from the ashes of what came before.

GREEN ARROW & THE CANARIES (Drama)

WRITERS: Beth Schwartz, Marc Guggenheim, Jill Blankenship, Oscar Balderrama

OTHER EPs: Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter

CAST: Arrow stars Katherine McNamara, Katie Cassidy, Juliana Harkavy

Airing as the penultimate episode of Arrow, the potential spinoff's pilot is set in Star City 2040, where Mia Queen has everything she could have ever wanted. But when 2020's Laurel Lance and Dinah Drake suddenly show up in her life again, things take a shocking turn and the three suit up once again to save the city — even if Mia is fated to be responsible for its upcoming fall.

Olivia Liang

KUNG FU (Drama) — ORDERED TO SERIES

WRITER: Christina M. Kim

OTHER EPs: Martin Gero, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter

CAST: Olivia Liang (Legacies), Jon Prasida (Hiding), Shannon Dang (Sorry for Your Loss), Eddie Liu (Silicon Valley), Tzi Ma (Wu Assassins, The Man In the High Castle), Kheng Hua Tan (Marco Polo), Gavin Stenhouse (9-1-1, Allegiance), Gwendoline Yeo (American Crime)

A quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese-American woman to drop out of college and go on a life-changing journey to an isolated monastery in China. But when she returns to find her hometown overrun with crime and corruption, she uses her martial arts skills and Shaolin values to protect her community and bring criminals to justice... all while searching for the assassin who killed her Shaolin mentor and is now targeting her. Inspired by the original series created by Ed Spielman.

THE LOST BOYS (Drama)

WRITERS: Heather Mitchell, Rob Thomas

OTHER EPs: Director Marcos Siega, Dan Etheridge, Mike Karz, Bill Bindley

CAST: Branden Cook, Lincoln Younes (Grand Hotel), Ruby Cruz (Castle Rock), Rochelle Aytes (Mistresses)

Based on the 1987 cult movie, this update follows a mother and her Gen Z sons as they move to the seaside town where she grew up and discover there's a sinister reason the local cool kids sleep all day, party all night, never grow up and never get old. Family bonds are tested as the brothers find themselves on opposite sides of a mythological struggle.

MAVERICK (Drama)

WRITER: Merigan Mulhern

OTHER EPs: Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Warren Hsu Leonard, Co-EP Lis Rowinski

CAST: Reina Hardesty (The Flash, Greenhouse Academy), Mark Moses (Mad Men, Desperate Housewives), Nandy Martin (The Fosters), Zainne Saleh (The Night Shift), Christopher Meyer (Tell Me a Story, The Fosters), Zayne Emory (The Rookie, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Pete Ploszek (Teen Wolf)

In a present day America that finds itself under authoritarian rule, the President's daughter — raised to believe her father is moral and benevolent — has her worldview rocked on her first day at Georgetown. Challenged by her fellow students, and under the watchful eye of Secret Service agents, she'll have to decide if her loyalties lie with her family or with a growing resistance as she navigates her freshman year.

THE REPUBLIC OF SARAH (Drama) — ORDERED TO SERIES

WRITER: Jeffrey Paul King

OTHER EPs: Marc Webb, Mark Martin, Jeff Grosvenor, Leo Pearlman

CAST: Stella Baker (Tell Me Your Secrets), Luke Mitchell (Blindspot), Izabella Alvarez (Westworld), Nia Holloway (Hawaii Five-0), Hope Lauren (Awkward, Supergirl), Landry Bender (Fuller House, Looking for Alaska), Ian Duff (New Amsterdam), Forrest Goodluck (The Miseducation of Cameron Post)

Faced with the destruction of her town at the hands of a greedy mining company, rebellious high school teacher Sarah Cooper utilizes an obscure cartographical loophole to declare independence. Now Sarah must lead a young group of misfits as they attempt to start their own country from scratch.

SUPERMAN & LOIS (Drama) — ORDERED STRAIGHT TO SERIES

WRITER: Todd Helbing

OTHER EPs: Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Geoff Johns

CAST: Tyler Hoechlin (Supergirl), Elizabeth Tulloch (Supergirl), Dylan Walsh (Nip/Tuck), Emmanuelle Chriqui (The Passage, Entourage), Erik Valdez (General Hospital), Jordan Elsass (Little Fires Everywhere), Alexander Garfin, Wolé Parks (All American, The Vampire Diaries), Inde Navarrette (13 Reasons Why)

The Arrowverse spinoff follows the world's most famous superhero and comic books' most famous journalist as they deal with all the stress, pressures and complexities that come with being working parents in today's society.

WALKER (Drama) — ORDERED STRAIGHT TO SERIES

WRITER: Anna Fricke

OTHER EPs: Jared Padalecki, Dan Lin, Lindsay Liberatore

CAST: Jared Padalecki (Supernatural), Lindsey Morgan (The 100), Keegan Allen (Pretty Little Liars), Mitch Pileggi (Supernatural, The X-Files), Molly Hagan (iZombie, Jane the Virgin), Coby Bell (The Gifted), Jeff Pierre (Once Upon a Time, Beyond)

The Walker, Texas Ranger reboot follows Cordell Walker (Padalecki), a widower and father of two with his own moral code, who returns to Austin after being undercover for two years, only to discover there's harder work to be done at home. He'll attempt to reconnect with his children, navigate clashes with his family, and find unexpected common ground with his new partner (one of the first women in Texas Rangers history), while growing increasingly suspicious about the circumstances surrounding his wife's death.

Our running update of pilots ordered for the 2020-21 TV season, going network by network (EPs = executive producers):

THE BIG LEAP (Drama) — TO BE SHOT LATER

WRITER: Liz Heldens

OTHER EPs: Sue Naegle

CAST: Scott Foley (Scandal, Whiskey Cavalier), Piper Perabo (Covert Affairs), Teri Polo (The Fosters), Mallory Jansen (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Kevin Daniels (Council of Dads), Ser'Darius Blain (Charmed), Ray Cham (Five Points), Jon Rudnitsky (Catch-22), Simone Recasner

Inspired by a UK format, the centers on a group of diverse underdogs from all different walks of life who compete to be part of a competition reality series that is putting on a modern, hip remake of "Swan Lake." What they lack in the traditional dancer body type, they make up for with their edge, wit and desire to reimagine an iconic story to fit their own mold.

Melissa Leo

BLOOD RELATIVE (Drama) — TO BE SHOT LATER

WRITERS: Chris Levinson, James Renner

OTHER EPs: Director Philip Noyce, Liza Chasin

CAST: Melissa Leo (I'm Dying Up Here), Tate Donovan (Damages, The O.C.), Dascha Polanco (Orange Is the New Black), Tyrone Marshall Brown (Power, Love Is___), Tracie Thoms (9-1-1), Sarah Catherine Hook

Genetic genealogy is the best new tool in crime-scene forensics, and nobody knows it like Louise Kelly. Too bad she's impossible to deal with. Based on a 2018 Cleveland Scene article by journalist and author James Renner.

Jim Parsons & Mayim Bialik

CALL ME KAT (fka CARLA) (Comedy) — ORDERED STRAIGHT TO SERIES

WRITER: Darlene Hunt

OTHER EPs: Mayim Bialik, Jim Parsons, Todd Spiewak, Angie Stephenson, Miranda Hart

CAST: Mayim Bialik (The Big Bang Theory), Swoosie Kurtz (Mike & Molly), Cheyenne Jackson (American Horror Story), Kyla Pratt (One on One), Leslie Jordan (Will & Grace)

Based on the BBC sitcom Miranda, the multi-cam follows a 39-year-old woman (Bialik) who struggles every day against society (and her mother) to prove that you can not have everything you want and still be happy. That's why she spent the money her parents set aside for her wedding to open a cat café in Louisville!

Elodie Yung

THE CLEANING LADY (Drama) — TO BE SHOT LATER

WRITER: Miranda Kwok

OTHER EPs: Shay Mitchell, Melissa Carter

CAST: Élodie Yung (Marvel's Daredevil, The Defenders), Vincent Piazza (The Passage, Boardwalk Empire), Ginger Gonzaga (Kidding, I'm Dying Up Here)

Based on the Argentine series La Chica que Limpia, this darkly aspirational character drama follows a whip-smart doctor who comes to the U.S. for a medical treatment to save her ailing son. But when the system fails and pushes her into hiding, she refuses to be beaten down and marginalized. Instead, she becomes a cleaning lady for the mob and starts playing the game by her own rules.

HOUSEBROKEN (Animated Comedy) — ORDERED STRAIGHT TO SERIES

WRITERS: Clea Duvall, Jennifer Crittenden, Gabrielle Allan

OTHER EPs: Sharon Horgan, Clelia Mountford, Aaron Kaplan, Dana Honor

VOICE CAST: Lisa Kudrow, Clea Duvall, Nat Faxon, Sharon Horgan, Will Forte, Tony Hale, Jason Mantzoukas, Sam Richardson, Bresha Webb, Greta Lee

An irreverent comedy that explores human dysfunction and neurosis through a group of neighborhood animals who live in the suburbs.

Eliza Coupe

PIVOTING (Comedy) — TO BE SHOT LATER

WRITER: Liz Astrof

OTHER EPs: Aaron Kaplan, Dana Honor

CAST: Eliza Coupe (Happy Endings), Ginnifer Goodwin (Why Women Kill, Once Upon a Time), Maggie Q (Designated Survivor), Tommy Dewey (Casual, The Mindy Project), JT Neal (Bless This Mess)

The single-camera comedy follows three women after the death of their childhood best friend. Faced with the reality that life is short, in desperate attempts to find happiness, they make a series of impulsive, ill-advised and self-indulgent decisions, strengthening their bond proving it's never too late to screw up your life.

Seann William Scott

THIS COUNTRY (Comedy) — ORDERED TO SERIES FOR 2021-22

WRITER: Jenny Bicks

OTHER EPs: Director Paul Feig, Angie Stephenson, Dan Magnante and original series creators Charlie Cooper and Daisy May Cooper

CAST: Seann William Scott (Lethal Weapon), Aya Cash (You're the Worst), Sam Straley (The Kids Are Alright), Taylor Ortega (Kim Possible movie), Chelsea Holmes, Krystal Smith, Justin Linville

In this half-hour mockumentary inspired by the BBC format, a documentary crew goes to a small town to study young adults and their current concerns. Their focus is the daily lives of cousins Kelly (Holmes) and Shrub Mallet (Straley) and their idiosyncratic surroundings. We follow the cousins as they pursue their dreams, confront challenges, and fight each other for frozen pizza. These two don't have much, but they do have each other.

UNTITLED FILM RE-ENACTMENT PROJECT (Drama) — TO BE SHOT LATER

WRITER: Sarah Watson

OTHER EPs: Director Greg Mottola, Gail Berman, Lauren Shuler Donner, Richard Donner, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank

CAST: Ramon Rodriguez (The Affair)

After failing to make it in New York and carrying a heavy secret with her, Stella Cooper returns to her distressed automotive hometown to substitute teach. She finds inspiration, hope, and ultimately salvation when she agrees to help three students who are pursuing their filmmaking dreams by putting on an impossibly ambitious shot-for-shot remake of one of the student's favorite movies, The Goonies. Over the course of the season, their passion will inspire a town in desperate need of hope in this love letter to the power of cinema, storytelling and dreams.

Our running update of pilots ordered for the 2020-21 TV season, going network by network (EPs = executive producers):

AMERICAN AUTO (Comedy) — ORDERED TO SERIES FOR 2021-22

WRITER: Justin Spitzer

OTHER EPs: Aaron Kaplan

CAST: Ana Gasteyer (Suburgatory), Harriet Dyer (The InBetween), X Mayo (The Daily Show)

A single-camera workplace comedy set at the headquarters of a major American automotive company in Detroit, where a floundering group of executives try to rediscover the company identity amidst a rapidly changing industry.

AT THAT AGE (Drama) — ROLLED OVER TO NEXT YEAR'S DEVELOPMENT SEASON

WRITER: Carla Banks-Waddles

OTHER EPs: Malcolm D. Lee, Debra Martin Chase

CAST: Emayatzy Corinealdi (Ballers), Christian Keyes (Legends of Tomorrow, Supernatural)

An exploration of an African-American family's legacy, the drama follows the Coopers after their "golden child" suffers a catastrophic event. As a result, seven family members face a foundational shift, make life-altering decisions, and deal with deep secrets coming to light.

CRAZY FOR YOU (Comedy) — ROLLED OVER TO NEXT YEAR'S DEVELOPMENT SEASON

WRITER: Rachele Lynn

OTHER EPs: Lorne Michaels, Andrew Singer, Seth Meyers, Mike Shoemaker

CAST: Shelley Hennig (Teen Wolf), Alice Lee (Brittany Runs a Marathon), Tiana Okoye (Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens), Nick Cafero (Pitch Perfect)

A single-cam comedy about Daisy who, with her life stalling, re-enters the dating scene only to discover that while she was out of the game, the game sort of, totally, completely changed. Realizing she is a bit rusty at being "normal" and "appealing" on first dates, she'll need the support of her friends as she strives to succeed while being her true self in today's quick-to-dismiss dating culture.

Jonathan Tucker

DEBRIS (Drama) — ORDERED TO SERIES

WRITER: J.H. Wyman

OTHER EPs: Jason Hoffs

CAST: Jonathan Tucker (Kingdom), Riann Steele (NCIS: New Orleans), Norbert Leo Butz (Fosse/Verdon, Bloodline)

Two agents from two different continents (and two different mindsets) must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind.

ECHO (Drama) — ROLLED OVER TO NEXT YEAR'S DEVELOPMENT SEASON

WRITER: JJ Bailey

OTHER EPs: John Davis, John Fox

CAST: Janina Gavankar (The Mysteries of Laura, True Blood), Reid Scott (Veep), Wesam Keesh (For the People), Richard Brooks (Law & Order)

A high-concept, genre procedural revolving around a team of investigators who solve the highest-profile crimes by sending our heroes into the past... in the body of the victim. Assuming the victim's identity, they must race against time to prevent the crime before it happens.

GRAND CREW (Comedy) — ORDERED TO SERIES FOR 2021-22

WRITER: Phil Jackson

OTHER EPs: Dan Goor

CAST: Nicole Byer (Nailed It!), Echo Kellum (Arrow), Aaron Jennings (Pure Genius), Carl Tart (Bajillion Dollar Propertie$), Justin Cunningham (When They See Us)

A single-camera ensemble comedy about "black people, dating and wine."

Jim Jefferies

JEFFERIES (Comedy) — ROLLED OVER TO NEXT YEAR'S DEVELOPMENT SEASON

WRITERS: Suzanne Martin, Jim Jefferies

OTHER EPs: Sean Hayes, Todd Milliner, Tim Sarkes, Alex Murray

CAST: Jim Jefferies, Betsy Brandt (Life in Pieces), Anthony LaPaglia (Without a Trace), Darien Sills-Evans (Superior Donuts), Mike Lane (American Princess)

The multi-cam stars Jefferies as a fictionalized version of himself — a comedian with a unique and often controversial take on modern life, relationships and co-parenting with his best friend.

Kenan Thompson

THE KENAN SHOW (Comedy) — ORDERED STRAIGHT TO SERIES; ROLLED OVER FROM 2019-20 SEASON

WRITER: Jackie Clarke

OTHER EPs: Kenan Thompson, Lorne Michaels, Andrew Singer, director Chris Rock

CAST: Kenan Thompson (Saturday Night Live), Andy Garcia (Ocean's Eleven), Punam Patel (Special) Don Johnson (Nash Bridges), Kimrie Lewis (Single Parents), Chris Redd (SNL)

The single-cam comedy follows a newly widowed dad determined to be everything for his kids while begrudgingly letting his persistent father-in-law become more involved in their lives.

Michael Raymond-James

LA BREA (Drama) — ORDERED TO SERIES FOR 2021-22

WRITER: David Appelbaum

OTHER EPs: Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman, Peter Traugott, Rachel Kaplan, Ken Woodruff

CAST: Michael Raymond-James (Once Upon a Time), Natalie Zea (The Detour), Jon Seda (Chicago P.D.), Caleb Ruminer (Finding Carter), Angel Parker (Marvel's Runaways), Catherine Dent (The Shield), Karina Logue (Terriers), Veronica St. Clair (Unbelievable), Jag Bal (The Romeo Section), Rita Angel Taylor (Sunnyside Up), Zyra Gorecki

When a massive sinkhole mysteriously opens in Los Angeles, it tears a family in half, separating mother and son from father and daughter. When half of the family find themselves in an unexplainable primeval world alongside a disparate group of strangers, they must work to survive and uncover the mystery of where they are — and if there is a way back home.

LANGDON (Drama) — SHOOTING LATER THIS YEAR

WRITERS: Dan Dworkin, Jay Beattie

OTHER EPs: Dan Brown, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Anna Culp, Samie Falvey

CAST: Ashley Zukerman (Succession), Valorie Curry (The Following), Eddie Izzard (The Riches), Rick Gonzalez (Arrow), Sumalee Montano (Star Trek: Picard), Beau Knapp (Seven Seconds)

Based on author Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol — the fourth Robert Langdon book — the Da Vinci Code prequel follows the early adventures of the famed Harvard symbologist, who must solve a series of deadly puzzles to save his kidnapped mentor and thwart a chilling global conspiracy.

Ted Danson

MR. MAYOR (Comedy) — ORDERED STRAIGHT TO SERIES

WRITERS: Tina Fey, Robert Carlock

OTHER EPs: Jeff Richmond, David Miner

CAST: Ted Danson (The Good Place), Bobby Moynihan (SNL), Holly Hunter (Top of the Lake, Saving Grace)

A single-cam comedy centering around a wealthy businessman (Danson) who runs for mayor of Los Angeles for all the wrong reasons. Once he wins, he has to figure out what he stands for, gain the respect of his staff, and connect with his teenage daughter — all while controlling the coyote population.

NIGHT SCHOOL (Comedy) — NOT MOVING FORWARD

WRITER: Christopher Moynihan

OTHER EPs: Kevin Hart, Will Packer, Malcolm D. Lee

CAST: Shanola Hampton (Shameless), Ian Gomez (Cougar Town), Josh Segarra (Arrow, The Other Two), Collette Wolfe (You're the Worst), James Earl (Scream Queens), Joe Massingill (Fear the Walking Dead, Hart of Dixie)

Based on the 2018 movie, this multi-cam comedy follows a mix of adults at a night school GED prep class who unexpectedly bond over their shared experience and find themselves helping each other both inside and outside of the classroom.

James Wolk

ORDINARY JOE (Drama) — SHOOTING LATER THIS YEAR

WRITERS: Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner

OTHER EPs: Matt Reeves, Adam Kassan, Rafi Crohn, Howard Klein

CAST: James Wolk (Watchmen, Zoo), Natalie Martinez (Under the Dome), Charlie Barnett (Arrow, Russian Doll)

Explores the three parallel lives of the show's main character after he makes a pivotal choice at a crossroads in his life. The series asks the question of how different life might look if you made your decision based on love, loyalty or passion.

Ryan Hansen

SOMEONE OUT THERE (Comedy) — ROLLED OVER TO NEXT YEAR'S DEVELOPMENT SEASON

WRITERS: Matt Hubbard, Josh Siegal, Dylan Morgan

OTHER EPs: Emiliano Calemzuk, Gonzalo Sagardia, Javier Veiga

CAST: Ryan Hansen (Veronica Mars), Aimee Carrero (Young & Hungry), Neil Casey (Silicon Valley, Big Mouth), Kimia Behpoornia (Abby's)

A single-cam rom-com about two set-in-their-ways adults who are challenged by very unexpected strangers to become the best versions of themselves in order to find love and possibly each other.

Dwayne Johnson

YOUNG ROCK (Comedy) — ORDERED STRAIGHT TO SERIES

WRITER: Nahnatchka Khan, Jeff Chiang

OTHER EPs: Dwayne Johnson, Jennifer Carreras, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia, Brian Gewirtz

CAST: Dwayne Johnson

The single-cam comedy chronicles the formative childhood years of Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock.