Upfronts 2016: Failed Broadcast Pilots

NETWORK: NBC

CAST: Newcomer Vladimir Caamano, Josh Segarra (Sirens)

LOGLINE: Vlad, the son of Dominican immigrants, wants to carve his own path in life, which proves difficult as his father has no desire to change their extremely co-dependent relationship.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: ABC

CAST: Anna Paquin (True Blood), Blair Underwood (Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), T.R. Knight (Grey's Anatomy), Charity Wakefield (The Player), Penelope Ann Miller (American Crime)

LOGLINE: A ruthless Dallas divorce attorney's life begins to unravel when her emotionally damaged, love-addicted sister resurfaces, triggering self-destructive tendencies and exposing long-hidden family secrets.

STATUS: Being shopped to other networks

NETWORK: Fox

CAST: Nasim Pedrad (SNL), Matthew Mindler, Ariana Molkara

LOGLINE: Follows a young teen (to be played by Pedrad) in the throes of adolescence who is tasked with being the man of the house, which leaves him with all the responsibilities of being an adult without any of the perks.

STATUS: Still in contention for midseason

NETWORK: Fox

CAST: Courteney Cox (Friends), Kyle Bornheimer (Playing House), Isiah Whitlock Jr. (The Wire), Dan Gill (The Wedding Ringer)

LOGLINE: Follows a billionaire's widow who inherits his charity and learns that changing the world is far less glamorous than she had imagined.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: ABC

CAST: Adam Rodriguez (CSI: Miami), Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad), Andy Daly (Review)

LOGLINE: A dual-family single-camera comedy centered on the unlikely friendship of two misfits, Chunk and Bean, who benefit from having two very different sets of parents living next door to each other.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: NBC

CAST: Sarah Michelle Gellar (the original Cruel Intentions film), Taylor John Smith (American Crime), Peter Gallagher (The O.C.), Nathalie Kelley (UnREAL)

LOGLINE: Picking up over 15 years after the end of the movie, it follows the beautiful and cunning Kathryn Merteuil as she vies for control of Valmont International as well as the soul of Bash Casey, the son of her brother, who was the late Sebastian Valmont, and Annette Hargrove. Upon discovering his late father's legacy in a hidden journal, Bash is introduced to a world of sex, money, power and corruption he never could have imagined.

STATUS: Remains in consideration at the network, according to NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt

NETWORK: ABC

CAST: Gina Torres (Suits), Eric Close (Nashville), Melora Hardin (The Office), Raúl Castillo (Looking)

LOGLINE: An immigrant who rose from rags to riches, Eva Sofia Valdez, is a celebrated Miami entrepreneur and a champion for immigrant rights. But her success is fueled by an insatiable ambition that could destroy her family, a vendetta against the lover who betrayed her, and ghosts from the past who threaten to reveal the dark sacrifices Eva Sofia made to attain the American Dream. MacBeth with a Cuban twist.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: ABC

CAST: Justin Long (New Girl), Michelle Buteau (Enlisted), Michael Mosley (Sirens), Wanda Sykes (black-ish)

LOGLINE: Marty Schumacher coached his last club soccer team for 10 years, ultimately taking them to the National Championships. He now has to start from scratch with a diverse group of 8-year-olds, and their disparate parents.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: CBS

CAST: Sarah Shahi (Person of Interest), Anthony Edwards (ER), Felix Solis (The Following), Vanessa Ferlito (Graceland)

LOGLINE: A contemporary take on the character from the iconic Nancy Drew book series. Now in her 30s, Nancy is a detective for the NYPD where she investigates and solves crimes using her uncanny observational skills, all while navigating the complexities of life in a modern world.

STATUS: Passed over due to scheduling issues (and being deemed "too female" for CBS); being shopped to other networks

NETWORK: NBC

CAST: Nico Evers-Swindell (Grimm), Elizabeth Perkins (Weeds), Kevin Nealon (Weeds)

LOGLINE: After years of partying that earned him the "black sheep" label, Karl returns home to compete with his brother for the family throne.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: Fox

CAST: Niecy Nash (Scream Queens), Christine Woods (Hello Ladies), Ian Gomez (Cougar Town), Ryan Hansen (Veronica Mars)

LOGLINE: A female buddy comedy about two wildly different single mothers with dreams of being police officers who find themselves partnered as inspectors in the Code  Enforcement Department. Instead of fighting crime, they have been relegated to handling petty code breaking, like noise complaints, tree trimming and water misuse.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: ABC

CAST: Comedian Gabriel Iglesias, Richard Gant (Men of a Certain Age), Gloria Garayua (Cougar Town), Tyler Hilton (One Tree Hill)

LOGLINE: Iglesias plays a stepfather and boss to his family and friends, while he navigates his home life during the few days he spends off the road each week.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: CBS

CAST: Wilmer Valderrama (That '70s Show), Bojana Novakovic (Shameless), Bruce Greenwood (The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story)

LOGLINE: Two powerful rival families in the military community of Tampa, Fla., make decisions at the highest levels in the interest of national security.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: CBS

CAST: Patrick Brammall (Upper Middle Bogan), Katey Sagal (Sons of Anarchy), Poppy Montgomery (Unforgettable)

LOGLINE: An extended family comedy inspired by the Australian format, Upper Middle Bogan, about a woman who learns she was adopted and that her birth parents are a flamboyant but loving family of drag-racers.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: NBC

CAST: Tone Bell (Truth Be Told), Beau Mirchoff (Awkward), Diane Guerrero (Orange Is the New Black)

LOGLINE: An ensemble comedy that focuses on a hyper-structured young woman whose life is upended when she starts taking advice from a mysterious fortune teller.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: NBC

CAST: Jack McBrayer (30 Rock), Francois Chau (Lost), Susan Chuang (Cold Case)

LOGLINE: Loosely based on Matt's life, a show about a guy learning to manage the expectations and strong cultural traditions of his in-laws after he moves his family to his wife's hometown.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: ABC

CAST: Casey Wilson (Happy Endings), Retta (Parks and Recreation), Sarah Baker (Go On), Jackee Harry (Baby Daddy)

LOGLINE: A young small town mayor named Mary Wolf has dysfunctional siblings, a dying father, disgruntled citizens, a nearly bankrupt town, and the mafia breathing down her neck. Only a miracle can help her. So... she fakes one. Based on the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation series.

STATUS: Being redeveloped

NETWORK: Fox

CAST: Becki Newton (Ugly Betty), Bill Bellamy (Fastlane), Joshua Carlon (Richie Rich)

LOGLINE: This interracial family comedy follows Jay "Havoc" Hammond,  an African American, ex-NFL lineman who recently moved in with his white wife and her two oddball sons, as he struggles to win the most challenging game of his life: fatherhood.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: NBC

CAST: Megan Neuringer (Kroll Show), Alex Newell (Glee)

LOGLINE: An intelligent yet unmotivated woman discovers a special and unexpected way of dealing with her mediocre life.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: ABC

CAST: Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife), Jeremy Sisto (Suburgatory), Adina Porter (The 100), Brandon Jay McLaren (Graceland)

LOGLINE: Dubbed 12 Angry Men meets Serial, the drama follows a single murder trial as seen through the eyes of the individual jurors, exploring the biases and experiences that influence the jurors' judgment, and how their preconceptions change along the way.

STATUS: Being redeveloped

NETWORK: CBS

CAST: Geoff Stults (Enlisted), David Spade (Rules of Engagement), Joanna Garcia Swisher (Once Upon a Time), J.B. Smoove (Curb Your Enthusiasm)

LOGLINE: An oddball athlete drives family, friends and strangers insane after he unexpectedly finds himself cut from his professional football team.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: ABC

CAST: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Adrianne Palicki and Nick Blood, Delroy Lindo (Blood & Oil), Oded Fehr (Covert Affairs)

LOGLINE: The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. spinoff follows Bobbi (aka Mockingbird) and ex-husband Lance, who are on the run with no friends, no S.H.I.E.L.D. and a long list of enemies looking to claim a bounty on their heads. Able to trust no one but each other, Bobbi and Hunter form an uneasy alliance with Dominic Fortune, a rogue adventurer with a wealth of resources and even more adversaries, who agrees to protect them so long as they help him with his own agenda. While on dangerous missions that take them to every corner of the globe, the two heroes will help anyone in need, all while trying to uncover the conspiracy that put their own lives in jeopardy.

STATUS: Not moving forward

NETWORK: NBC

CAST: Stockard Channing (The Good Wife), Gavin Stenhouse (Allegiance)

LOGLINE: An unlikely buddy comedy that follows a fiercely candid and often offensive legendary actress and the ambitious 27-year-old lawyer forced to babysit her.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: NBC

CAST: Rebecca Breeds (The Originals), Jamie Chung (Once Upon a Time), Noel Fisher (Shameless), Gail O'Grady (Revenge), John Gabriel (Young & Hungry)

LOGLINE: A legal soap about an idealistic group of lawyers who not only work together but live together at their start-up firm.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: ABC

CAST: Andie MacDowell (Cedar Cove), Steven Weber (iZombie), Jamie Barber (NCIS), Dan Byrd (Cougar Town)

LOGLINE: A fictionalized family soap inspired by Robert Lacey's book, Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty. Set in the late 1970s during the notorious Model Wars, the show is centered on Bertie Geiss – a tempestuous matriarch and uncompromising businesswoman at the helm of an internationally renowned modeling agency.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: ABC

CAST: Candice Bergen (Boston Legal), Zach Knighton (Happy Endings), Kathleen Rose Perkins (Episodes), Richard Masur (The Good Wife)

LOGLINE: When a larger-than-life family matriarch finds out she has cancer, she becomes intent on controlling and orchestrating every aspect of her family's life before she dies.

STATUS: Being redeveloped

NETWORK: ABC

CAST: Rick Gonzalez (Rush), Colin Woodell (The Originals), Stephanie Sigman (Narcos), Felicity Huffman (guest in pilot)

LOGLINE: Follows Presence Foster, a former Army Counter Insurgency Operative who finds herself navigating a widely divergent and highly colorful cross-section of Los Angeles as she unintentionally begins a career as an unlicensed P.I.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: CBS

CAST: Nick Zano (Minority Report), Lenora Crichlow (A to Z), Lindsey Gort (The Carrie Diaries)

LOGLINE: A conservative, small-town family is forced to reconcile their values when they discover their children's lives are less than perfect.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: Fox

CAST: Tracy Spiridakos (Revolution), Nick Wechsler (Revenge), Alexander Siddig (Game of Thrones)

LOGLINE: A rookie FBI agent embeds herself in a suspected terrorist family.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: NBC

CAST: Sebastian Maniscalco, Tony Danza (Who's the Boss?), Steve Talley (The 100)

LOGLINE: Sebastian's old-school values, instilled by his opinionated Italian father, are constantly put to the test by his new wife, her family and the absurdities of the modern world.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: CBS

LOGLINE: Two-hander centered around a veteran neurologist and her protégé who has mirror-touch synesthesia, a neurological trait that causes him to experience other people's sensations. Inspired by the true story of neurologist Joel Salinas.

STATUS: Being redeveloped for next season

NETWORK: ABC

CAST: Lena Olin (Alias), Tom Brittney (Outlander), Tracy Ifeachor (The Originals)

LOGLINE: Set in an alternate history where gas and coal fuel the world, this genre soap centers on the battle for power between two rival families and a rebellious young woman with a spark of invention that could level both their empires.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: ABC

CAST: Bernard White (The Brink), Katie Walder (How I Met Your Mother), Adhir Kalyan (Rules of Engagement)

LOGLINE: A man from a family of logic-driven engineers is determined to use his "gift" to help the people he loves with their everyday issues, whether they like it or not.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: NBC

LOGLINE: A group of millennial friends struggle with their own made-up rules for personal and professional success.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: CBS

CAST: Comedian Jermaine Fowler, Brian d'Arcy James (Smash), David Koechner (The Office)

LOGLINE: Based on the play by Tracy Letts, it follows the relationship between the owner of a donut shop, his new young employee and their patrons in a gentrifying neighborhood of Chicago.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: NBC

CAST: Craig Ferguson (The Late Late Show), Andrea Anders (Better Off Ted), Kyle Howard (Royal Pains)

LOGLINE: A hybrid game show/comedy that intercuts between a real game show and the scripted workplace that centers on an up-and-coming producer trying to wrangle the volatile host.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: ABC

CAST: Jerrika Hinton (Grey's Anatomy), Tessa Ferrer (You're the Worst), Punam Patel (Kevin From Work)

LOGLINE: Over the course of Max and Paige's wedding rehearsal dinner, their eclectic family and friends give toasts recalling anecdotes about the couple – but flashbacks reveal the toasts don't always get it right, as we watch the real story of their complicated, funny, and relatable road to marriage.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: The CW

CAST: Laura Brent (Legends of the Seeker), Luke Allen-Gale (Dominion), Amrita Acharia (Game of Thrones)

LOGLINE: In 1880, a headstrong young woman in search of her missing father ventures from NYC to Transylvania, where she teams up with a wrongfully disgraced Scotland Yard detective. Together, they witness the births of the most famous monsters and villains in history.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: Fox

CAST: Judy Greer (Married), Patton Oswalt (King of Queens), Esai Morales (NYPD Blue)

LOGLINE: A half-hour workplace comedy that centers around Jane, who is caught between trying to manage her charmingly incompetent human resources department and a new eccentric CEO who dreams of bringing the New Jersey plastics plant into the future.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: The CW

CAST: Georgina Haig (Fringe), Neal Bledsoe (The Mysteries of Laura), Mouzam Makkar (The Vampire Diaries)

LOGLINE: Explorers arrive on Mars to join its first human colony, only to discover that their predecessors have vanished. Led by a woman whose husband is among the missing, the colonists are forced to change their mission from exploration/settlement to investigation/survival, while navigating the hostile planet and their own personal demons.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: The CW

CAST: Megan West (How to Get Away with Murder), Bailey Chase (Longmire), Matt Passmore (Satisfaction), Jessica Szohr (Gossip Girl)

LOGLINE: A young woman seeks help from a parapsychologist when she begins to experience paranormal phenomena.

STATUS: Being redeveloped

NETWORK: ABC

CAST: Julie Goldman, Andy Ridings (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Tattiawna Jones (Flashpoint)

LOGLINE: An unapologetic lesbian and her best friend, a neurotic straight male, navigate their dysfunctional, co-dependent friendship and the world of dating.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: CBS

CAST: Jason Lee (My Name Is Earl), Alyssa Milano (Charmed), Matt Murray (Kevin From Work)

LOGLINE: Two 40-something parents who were wild and reckless teenagers now face their worst nightmare — raising three teenagers of their own.

STATUS: Passed over

NETWORK: Fox

CAST: Marsha Thomason (White Collar), Peter Facinelli (Supergirl), Kim Raver (24)

LOGLINE: The light, unconventional medical procedural follows the unlikely pairing of a successful, driven cardiologist as she risks career suicide by teaming with a socially-challenged veterinarian who relates better to animals than people. They try to put aside their competitive natures to cure the incurable using a unique blend of cross-species medicine that's never been tried before. Based on Natterson-Horowitz and Bowers' book of the same name.

STATUS: Passed over