It’s pilot season, that time of year when the TV networks put test episodes of next season’s potential series into production. Here’s a look at the pilots for the 2016-17 television season, who is starring in them and which cities they are filming in.
LOS ANGELES
Chunk & Bean
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.
Cast: Anna Gunn, Andy Daly, Adam Rodriguez, Hassie Harrison, Simon Belz, Sofia Gonzalez, Cyrus Arnold
ABC
Location: Los Angeles
Dream Team
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.
Cast: Justin Long, Wanda Sykes, Michael Mosley, Lindsey Kraft, Michelle Buteau, Wynn Everett, Carlos Leal, Betty Gilpin, Addison Osta
ABC
Location: Los Angeles
The Fluffy Shop
Logline: The semi-autobiographical comedy follows actor-comedian Gabriel Iglesias as a stepfather and boss to his family and friends as he navigates his home life during the few days he spends off the road each week.
Cast: Gabriel Iglesias, Richard Gant, Gloria Garayua, Paul Walter Hauser, Tommy Savas
ABC
Location: Los Angeles
Pearl
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.
Cast: Candice Bergen, Zachary Knighton, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Richard Masur, Ren Colley, Halina James
ABC
Location: Los Angeles
The Second Fattest Housewife in Westport
Logline: A family comedy narrated by Katie, a strong-willed mother raising her flawed family in a wealthy town filled with “perfect” wives and their “perfect” offspring.
Cast: Katy Mixon, Diedrich Bader, Carly Hughes, Ali Wong, Johnny Sequoyah
ABC
Location: Los Angeles
Square Roots
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.
Cast: Adhir Kalyan, Katie Walder, Noureen DeWulf, Nina Wadia, Bernard White, Isabella Day, Callan Farris
ABC
Location: Los Angeles
Toast
Logline: Over the course of Max and Page’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 the comedy explores the real story of their complicated, funny and relatable road to marriage.
Cast: Jerrika Hinton, Jono Kenyon, Tessa Ferrer, Punam Patel
ABC
Location: Los Angeles
Untitled Weeks & Mackay
Logline: An roguish lesbian and her best friend, a neurotic straight male, navigate their dysfunctional, co-dependent friendship and the world of dating.
Cast: Andy Ridings, Julie Goldman
ABC
Location: Los Angeles
Marvel’s Most Wanted
Logline: A second spinoff from Agents of SHIELD, the drama follows the adventures of Bobbi Morse (aka Mockingbird) and Lance Hunter.
Cast: Adrianne Palicki, Nick Blood, Delroy Lindo
ABC
Location: Los Angeles
Notorious
Logline: Inspired by the true-life stories of famed criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos and cable news producer Wendy Walker, the drama is a provocative look at the unique, sexy and dangerous interplay of criminal law and the media.
Cast: Daniel Sunjata, Piper Perabo, Kate Jennings Grant, Aimee Teegarden, J. August Richards, Sepideh Moafi, Ryan Guzman, Kevin Zegers
ABC
Location: Atlanta and L.A.
Presence
Logline: Centers on a former Army veteran Presence Foster who finds herself interacting with a widely divergent and highly colorful cross-section of Los Angeles as she unintentionally begins a career as an unlicensed private investigator.
Cast: Stephanie Sigman, Rick Gonzalez, Marcus Anderson, Colin Woodell, Felicity Huffman
ABC
Location: Los Angeles
Bunker Hill
Logline: A young Silicon Valley tech titan enlists a veteran surgeon with a controversial past in starting a hospital with a cutting-edge, “new school” approach to medicine.
Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Odette Annable, Augustus Prew, Brenda Song, Reshma Shetty, Ward Horton, Aaron Jennings
CBS
Location: Los Angeles
Four Stars
Logline: Two powerful rival families in the military community of Tampa, Florida make decisions at the highest levels in the interest of national security.
Cast: Wilmer Valderrama, Ashley Zukerman, Anna Cruz Kayne, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Bauer, Danielle Savre
CBS
Location: Los Angeles
Training Day
Logline: Described as a reimagining that begins 15 years after the 2001 film left off, the reboot centers on an idealistic young African-American police officer who is appointed to an elite squad of the LAPD where he is partnered with a seasoned, morally ambiguous detective.
Cast: Bill Paxton, Justin Cornwell, Katrina Law, Drew Van Acker, Lex Scott Davis, Julie Benz
CBS
Location: Los Angeles
Charity Case
Logline: When Hailey inherits her late billionaire husband’s charity, she quickly finds that changing the world is far less glamorous than she had imagined.
Cast: Courteney Cox, Kyle Bornheimer, Isiah Whitlock, Dan Gill, Diona Reasonover
FOX
Location: Los Angeles
The Mick
Logline: The comedy revolves around a hard-living, foul-mouthed woman who moves to affluent Greenwich, Conn., to raise the spoiled kids of her wealthy sister who has fled the country to avoid a federal indictment. She quickly learns what everyone else already knows: other people’s children are awful.
Cast: Kaitlin Olso, Sofia Black D’Elia, Thomas Barbusca, Carla Jimenez, Thomas Barbusca, Jack Stanton
FOX
Location: Los Angeles
Son of Zorn
Logline: Centers on an animated Barbarian father who comes home for the first time in 10 years to his live-action son and ex-wife. He finds that reconnecting with his family, struggling through his mundane office job and dealing with the banality of suburban life is much harder than waging actual war in his distant, animated world.
Cast: Jason Sudeikis, Cheryl Hines, Tim Meadows, Artemis Pebdani, Johnny Pemberton
FOX
Location: Los Angeles
24: Legacy
Logline: The new take features an all-new cast of characters and will be structured in the same style of the original series. Legacy revolves around a military hero’s return to the U.S. and the trouble that follows him back — compelling him to ask CTU for help in saving his life, and stopping what potentially could be one of the largest-scale terror attacks on American soil.
Cast: Corey Hawkins, Miranda Otto, Jimmy Smits, Dan Bucatinsky, Charlie Hofheimer, Coral Pena, Anna Diop, Teddy Sears, Ashley Thomas, Zayne Emory (recurring)
FOX
Location: Los Angeles
Lethal Weapon
Logline: Based on the feature film of the same name. When Texas cop and former Navy SEAL Martin Riggs suffers the loss of his wife and baby, he moves to Los Angeles to start anew. There, he gets partnered with LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh, who, having recently suffered a “minor” heart attack, must avoid any stress in his life.
Cast: Damon Wayans Sr., Clayne Crawford, Jordana Brewster, Keesha Sharp Golden Brooks, Kevin Rahm, Chandler Kinney, Johnathan Fernandez
FOX
Location: Los Angeles
Untitled Amy Poehler/Charlie Grandy
Logline: After years of partying that earned him the “black sheep” label, Karl returns home to compete with his brother for the family throne.
Cast: Nico Evers-Swindell, Elizabeth Perkins, Kevin Nealon, Tim Baltz, Jessie Ennis, Tiya Sircar, Patrick Gallagher
NBC
Location: Los Angeles
Cruel Intentions
Logline: Cruel Intentions picks up more than 15 years after the 1999 movie left off. The drama 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.
Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kate Levering, Taylor John Smith, Peter Gallagher, Samantha Logan, Sophina Brown, Nathalie Kelley, Coby Bell, Bryce Cass
NBC
Location: Los Angeles
Untitled Dan Fogelman birthday dramedy
Logline: The hourlong dramedy is described as a unique ensemble that follows characters all born on the same day.
Cast: Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Justin Hartley, Sterling Brown, Ron Cephas Jones, Chrissy Metz, Susan Kelechi Watson
NBC
Location: Los Angeles
No Tomorrow
Logline: When a risk-averse, straight arrow, female procurement manager at an Amazon-like distribution center falls in love with a freewheeling man who lives life to the fullest because he believes the apocalypse is imminent, to comedic and poignant results they embark on a quest together to fulfill their individual bucket lists. Based on the Brazilian format.
Cast: Joshua Sasse (1st position to ABC’s Galavant), Tori Anderson, Amy Pietz, Sarayu Blue
The CW
Location: Los Angeles
CHICAGO
APB
Logline: A tech billionaire purchases a troubled police precinct in the wake of a loved one’s murder, but can this eccentric and enigmatic figure’s cutting-edge approach fix the broken ways of these blue blooded veterans? Inspired by the New York Times story “Who Runs the Streets of New Orleans?”
Cast: Justin Kirk, Eric Winter, Natalie Martinez, Taylor Handley, Tamberla Perry, Ernie Hudson
FOX
Location: Chicago
The Exorcist
Logline: A modern reinvention inspired by William Blatty’s 1971 book, the drama is a propulsive, serialized psychological thriller following two very different men tackling one family’s case of horrifying demonic possession, and confronting the face of true evil.
Cast: Geena Davis, Alfonso Herrera, Ben Daniels, Brianne Howey, Hannah Kasulka, Kurt Egyiawan, Alan Ruck
FOX
Location: Chicago
Chicago Justice (planted spinoff of Chicago PD; formerly known as Chicago Law)
Logline: A spinoff featuring ADA characters appearing on Chicago PD.
Cast: Philip Winchester, Nazneen Contractor, Joelle Carter, Carl Weathers, Lorraine Toussaint
NBC
Location: Chicago
Zoobiquity
Logline: Based on the best-seller by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers, the drama is a light, unconventional medical procedural that 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.
Cast: Kim Raver, Peter Facinelli, Marsha Thomason (White Collar), Antonia Bernath, Melissa Tang, Ben Rappaport
FOX
Location: Chicago
ALBUQUERQUE
Untitled Mars drama
Logline: A team of explorers arrive on Mars to join the first human colony on the planet, 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 and settlement to investigation and survival, while navigating the hostile planet and their own personal demons.
Cast: Georgina Haig, Neal Bledsoe, Mouzam Makkar, Carl Beukes, Tongayi Chirisa, Peter Mark Kendall, America Olivo, Mark Leslie Ford
The CW
Location: Albuquerque, N.M.
Midnight, Texas
Logline: Based on the New York Times best-selling trilogy from Charlaine Harris, the drama is described as Twin Peaks meets True Blood in Midnight, Texas, a remote town where your neighbor could be a vampire, a witch, a werewolf and even an angel. Mystery, horror and romance combine to both enthrall and frighten any outsiders who decide to venture into this unusual place.
Cast: Francois Arnaud, Dylan Bruce, Sarah Ramos, Arielle Kebbel
NBC
Location: Albuquerque, N.M.
NEW YORK
Bull
Logline: Based on the early career of Dr. Phil McGraw during his days as head of one of the most prolific trial consulting services of all time.
Cast: Michael Weatherly, Freddy Rodriguez, Christopher Jackson, Geneva Carr
CBS
Location: New York
Untitled Kevin James
Logline: A newly retired police officer looks forward to spending more quality time with his wife (Erinn Hayes) and three kids (Taylor Spreitler) but figures out he faces more challenges at home than he ever did on the streets.
Cast: Kevin James, Erinn Hayes, Taylor Spreitler, Ryan Cartwright, Mary-Charles Jones, James DiGiacomo
CBS
Location: New York
Doubt
Logline: Centers on Sadie, a smart, chic, successful defense lawyer at a boutique firm who shockingly gets romantically involved with one of her clients, who may or may not be guilty of a brutal crime.
Cast: Katherine Heigl, Steven Pasquale, Dule Hill, Laverne Cox, Kobi Libbi, Elliott Gould, Dreama Walker
CBS
Location: New York (filmed last fall)
Drew
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.
Cast: Sarah Shahi (1st position to CBS’ Person of Interest), Anthony Edwards, Vanessa Ferlito, Steve Kazee, Felix Solis, Rob McClure, Debra Monk
CBS
Location: New York
Untitled Tracey Wigfield
Logline: Inspired by the life of Tracey Wigfield, the comedy centers on a mother-daughter relationship that is challenged when an overly involved New Jersey mom (Andrea Martin) interns at her daughter’s workplace, a cable news network.
Cast: Briga Heelan, Andrea Martin, Kimrie Lewis-Davis, Adam Campbell
NBC
Location: New York
Time After Time
Logline: Based on the novel Time After Time, written by Karl Alexander, the drama uses the 1979 novel and movie as a starting point and chronicles the epic adventures of young H.G. Wells and his time machine.
Cast: Freddie Stroma, Josh Bowman, Genesis Rodriguez, Regina Taylor, Vanessa Anders, Jordin Sparks
ABC
Location: New York
Model Woman
Logline: A fictionalized family soap inspired by Robert Lacey’s book, Model Woman about 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.
Cast: Andie MacDowell, Steven Weber, Dan Byrd, Chris Mason, Madeline Blake, Nicole Ari Parker, Caitlin Carver, Marcus Callender
ABC
Location: New York
TORONTO
Recon
Logline: A rookie FBI agent embeds herself in a suspected terrorist family.
Cast: Tracy Spiridakos, Nick Wechsler, Sarita Choudhury, Karan Oberoi, Alexander Siddig, Amanda Warren, Yasmin Kaur Barn
FOX
Location: Toronto
Taken
Logline: A modern-day prequel to Luc Besson’s feature of the same name that starred Liam Neeson as a retired CIA operative Bryan Mills on a one-man mission to save his kidnapped daughter. The series will illustrate how a young Bryan develops his skills.
Cast: Clive Standen, Jennifer Beals, Gaius Charles, Monique Gabriela Curnen, James Landry Hebert, Michael Irby, Brooklyn Sudano, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Jennifer Marsala
NBC
Location: Toronto
Transylvania
Logline: In 1880, a headstrong young woman in search of her missing father ventures from NYC to Transylvania where she teams with a wrongfully disgraced Scotland Yard detective. Together they witness the births of the most famous monsters and villains in history.
Cast: Laura Brent, Luke Allen-Gale, Sofia Pernas Amrita Acharia
The CW
Location: Toronto
Designated Survivor
Logline: Centers on a lower-level U.S. cabinet member who is suddenly appointed president after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union kills everyone above him in the presidential line of succession. The series is described as a family drama wrapped around a conspiracy thriller about an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.
Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Natasha McElhone, Maggie Q, Kal Penn, Italia Ricci, Adan Canto, LaMonica Garrett
ABC
Location: Toronto
Conviction
Logline: Tells the story of Carter Morrison, the brilliant but ne’er-do-well daughter of a former president, who is blackmailed into taking a job as the head of Los Angeles’ newly created Conviction Integrity Unit. She, along with her team of lawyers, investigators and forensic experts, work together to examine cases where there’s credible suspicion that the wrong person may have been convicted of a crime.
Cast: Hayley Atwell (1st position to ABC’s Agent Carter), Eddie Cahill, Shawn Ashmore, Emily Kinney, Manny Montana, Merrin Dungey, Daniel DiTomasso
ABC
Location: Toronto
VANCOUVER
Prison Break
Logline: A new chapter based on the original series about a guy determined to prove his convicted brother’s innocence and save him from death row by creating an elaborate plan to escape from prison.
Cast: Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell, Sarah Wayne Callies, Mark Feuerstein, Augustus Prew, Rick Yune, Steve Mouzakis, Robert Knepper, Rockmond Dunbar, Amaury Nolasco
FOX
Location: Vancouver
Powerless
Logline: Set in the DC Comics universe full of superheroes, villains and people just like us, Powerless is described as an office comedy about the exceedingly average employees at an insurance company and their quest to find their own power. Based on characters from DC Comics.
Cast: Vanessa Hudgens, Alan Tudyk, Danny Pudi, Christina Kirk
NBC
Location: Vancouver
Time
Logline: The high-octane drama follows an unlikely trio who travel through time to battle a master criminal intent on altering the fabric of human history with potentially catastrophic results.
Cast: Matt Lanter, Abigail Spencer, Goran Visnjic, Claudia Doumit, Paterson Joseph, Malcolm Barrett, Sakina Jaffrey
NBC
Location: Vancouver
Frequency
Logline: In this reimagining of the New Line Cinema film, a female police detective in 2016 discovers she is able to speak via a ham radio with her estranged father (also a detective) who died in 1996. They forge a new relationship while working together on an unresolved murder case, but unintended consequences of the “butterfly effect” wreak havoc in the present day.
Cast: Peyton List, Riley Smith, Mekhi Phifer, Lenny Jacobson, Anthony Ruivivar, Devin Kelley, Daniel Bonjour
The CW
Location: Vancouver
Riverdale
Logline: Set in present day and based on the iconic Archie Comics characters, Riverdale is a surprising and subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead Jones, Josie, and their friends, exploring the surrealism of small town life — the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome façade. Based on the characters from Archie Comics.
Cast: KJ Apa, Lili Reinhart, Ashleigh Murray, Cole Sprouse, Luke Perry, Madelaine Petsch, Camila Mendes, Madchen Amick, Marisol Nichols, Casey Cott
The CW
Location: Vancouver
Miranda’s Rights
Logline: A legal soap centering on 28-year-old Miranda Coale (The Originals’ Rebecca Breeds), who gets a shot at redemption six years after a sex scandal upended her life when she’s hired by a group of millennials living and working together in a start-up law firm.
Cast: Rebecca Breeds (The Originals), Parker Sawyers (Southside With You), Noel Fisher (Shameless), Jamie Chung, John Gabriel, Monique Coleman, Ruffin Prentiss
NBC
Location: Vancouver
Untitled Goldberg/Guaracio (aka Imaginary Mary)
Logline: Centers on a 30-something bachelorette whose life is turned upside down when she finally meets the love of her life — a divorced father with three kids. This triggers even more upheaval when the slightly unhinged imaginary friend she created as an only child suddenly reappears in her life to help her navigate the transition from single girl to a woman ready for a family.
Cast: Jenna Elfman, Stephen Schneider, Nicholas Coombe, Matreya Scarrwener, Erica Tremblay, Stephen Schneider, Jillian Bell
ABC
Location: Vancouver
ATLANTA
Making History (formerly untitled Sharpe/Lord & Miller, aka In Time)
Logline: Centers on three unlikely friends find an even less likely way to travel through time, irreversibly complicating their personal lives in 2016, as the great moments of the past collide with today’s popular culture — with hilarious and quite disastrous results.
Cast: Adam Pally, Leighton Meester, Yassir Lester (writer on Carmichael Show, Girls)
FOX
Location: Atlanta
Untitled Kevin Williamson paranormal drama
Logline: A young woman seeks help from a parapsychologist when she begins to experience paranormal phenomena.
Cast: Matt Passmore, Megan West, Bailey Chase, Jessica Szohr
The CW
Location: Atlanta
Star
Logline: The Atlanta-set drama revolves around three girls who come together to form a band. Star details their rise to the top in a challenging business. While Empire is told from the point of view of music executives, Star will be told from the perspective of the artist.
Cast: Benjamin Bratt, Queen Latifah, Jude Demorest, Ryan Destiny, Brittany O’Grady, Nicholas Gonzalez, Amiyah Scott
Location: Atlanta
Hail Mary
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.
Cast: Casey Wilson, Retta, Sarah Baker, Gareth Reynolds, Gareth Reynolds
ABC
Location: Atlanta
The Jury
Logline: The anthology series is described as 12 Angry Men meets podcast Serial, The Jury 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.
Cast: Archie Panjabi, Jeremy Sisto, Eve Harlow, Adina Porter, Hina Bbdullah, JD Pardo, Brandon Jay McLaren, Ben Esler, Brian Howe, Jayne Taini, Kevin Rankin, Sepideh Moafi, Nikki DeLoach, JD Pardo
ABC
Location: Atlanta
Other Locations/TBD
Pitch
Logline: Centers on a young female pitcher who defies the odds when she becomes the first woman to play in the major leagues.
Cast: Kylie Bunbury, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Elisabeth Shue Ali Larter, Mark Consuelos, Dan Lauria, Mo McRae, Meagan Holder, Tim Jo, Bob Balaban FOX
Location: San Diego
Shots Fired
Logline: Explores the aftermath of racially charged shootings in a small town in Tennessee. Sanaa Lathan stars an expert investigator who digs into the cases, alongside a special prosecutor sent to the town by the Department of Justice. The pair must navigate the media attention, public debate and social unrest that comes with such volatile cases as they seek justice before the divided town erupts.
Cast: Sanaa Lathan, Stephan James, Tristan Wilds, Aisha Hinds, DeWanda Wise
FOX
Location: Charlotte, N.C.
Still Star-Crossed
Logline: A period drama that picks up where Romeo & Juliet left off, charting the treachery, palace intrigue and ill-fated romances of the Montagues and Capulets in the wake of the young lovers’ tragic fate. Based on the book by Melinda Taub.
Cast: Lashana Lynch, Zuleikha Robinson, Medalion Rahimi, Ebonee Noel, Torrance Coombs (1st position to Reign), Wade Briggs, Medalion Rahimi, Ebonee Noel, Sterling Sulieman, Dan Hildebrand
ABC
Location: Spain
Spark
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.
Cast: Antonia Thomas, Rege-Jean Page, Tracy Ifeachor, Lena Olin, Tom Brittney, Alex Lanipekun, Austin Hebert, Vondie Curtis-Hall
ABC
Location: Prague
The Death of Eva Sofia Valdez*
Logline: An immigrant who rose from rags to riches, Eva Sofia Valdez (Suits’ Gina Torres, in second position), 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. Described as MacBeth with a Cuban twist.
Cast: Gina Torres (2nd position to Suits), Eric Close (Nashville), Raul Castillo (Looking), Marta Milans, Zabryna Guevara, Alison Fernandez, Christian Ochoa, Christina Pickles, Angelica Celaya, Melora Hardin, Debra Mooney, Alison Fernandez, Jeimy Osorio
Team: W/EP Charise Castro Smith (Devious Maids); EP Michele Fazekas, Tara Butters
Studio: ABC Studios
Location: Myrtle Beach
Broken
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.
Cast: Anna Paquin, Penelope Ann Miller, Blair Underwood, T.R. Knight, Charity Wakefield, Thad Luckinbill, Zeb Sanders, Enrique Murciano
ABC
Location: Dallas
MacGyver
Logline: A reimagining of the television series of the same name, following a 20-something MacGyver as he gets recruited into a clandestine organization where he uses his knack for solving problems in unconventional ways to help prevent disasters from happening.
Cast: Lucas Till, George Eads, Joshua Boone
CBS
Location: Portland
Sensory
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.
Cast:
CBS
Location: Pittsburgh
Downward Dog
Logline: Based on the web series of the same name, centers on a woman, Nan and her dog.
Cast: Allison Tolman, Lucas Neff, Kirby Howell-Baptise, Barry Rothbart, Mo Collins
ABC
Location: TBD
Speechless
Logline: A family with a special-needs child is good at dealing with the challenges it faces and excellent at creating new ones.
Cast: Minnie Driver, Cedric Yarborough, Mason Cook, Micah Fowler, Kyla Kennedy
ABC
Location: TBD
The Great Indoors
Logline: An adventure reporter must adapt to the times when he becomes the boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of the magazine.
Cast: Joel McHale, Stephen Fry, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Shaun Brown, Christine Ko
CBS
Location: TBD
Untitled Matt LeBlanc comedy (formerly I’m Not Your Friend)
Logline: A contractor learns that raising his kids is more challenging than expected when his wife goes back to work.
Cast: Matt LeBlanc, Jenna Fischer, Matt Cook, Grace Kaufman, Jessica Chaffin, Diana Maria Riva
CBS
Location: TBD
The Kicker
Logline: An oddball athlete drives family, friends and strangers insane after he unexpectedly finds himself cut from his professional football team.
Cast: Geoff Stults, David Spade, Joanna Garcia Swisher, J.B. Smoove
CBS
Location: TBD
My Time/Your Time
Logline: Based on Avital Ash’s web series 7P/10E, the comedy the relationship of a young couple as they begin dating long distance.
Cast: Jane Levy, Nicholas Braun, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Izzie Steele, Langston Kerman
CBS
Location: TBD
Superior Donuts
Logline: Based on the play by Tracy Letts, series follows the relationship between the owner of a donut shop, his new young employee and their patrons in a gentrifying neighborhood of Chicago.
Cast: Brian d’Arcy James, Jermaine Fowler, Maz Jobrani, David Koechner, Megyn Price, Sarah Stiles
ABC
Location: TBD
Furst Born (formerly untitled Butler/Hope/O’Shannon)
Logline: An extended family show inspired by the Australian format Upper Middle Bogan about a wife and mother who learns she was adopted and that her birth parents are a flamboyant but loving family of drag-racers.
Cast: Poppy Montgomery, Patrick Brammall, Katey Sagal, Swoosie Kurtz, John Carroll Lynch, Brooke Elliott, Kelli Goss, Talitha Bateman
CBS
Location: TBD
Real Good People (formerly untitled Stephnie Weir)
Logline: A conservative, small town family is forced to reconcile their values when they discover their children’s lives are less than perfect.
Cast: Nick Zano, Lenora Crichlow, Ross Kimball, Beth Hoyt, David Keith, Lindsey Gort, Betsy Beutler, Julie White, Carolyn Hennesy
CBS
Location: TBD
What Goes Around Comes Around
Logline: Two 40-something parents who were wild and reckless teenagers now face their worst nightmare — raising three teenagers of their own.
Cast: Jason Lee, Alyssa Milano, Dougie Baldwin, Jee Young Han
CBS
Location: TBD
Chad: An American Boy
Logline: A 14-year-old boy in the throes of adolescence 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.
Cast: Nasim Pedrad, Matthew Mindler
FOX
Location: TBD
Winning Ugly (formerly untitled Chris Case)
Logline: The inter-racial 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 life: fatherhood.
Cast: Becki Newton, Bill Bellamy, Joshua Carlon, Steele Stebbins, Amberia Allen
FOX
Location: TBD
The Enforcers
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.
Cast: Christine Woods, Niecy Nash, Ian Gomez, Ryan Hansen, Matt Oberg
FOX
Location: TBD
HR (aka untitled Laura Steinel comedy)
Logline: 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.
Cast: Judy Greer, Patton Oswalt, Esai Morales, Jon Daly, Milana Vayntrub, Veronica Osorio, Lateefah Holder
FOX
Location: TBD
Crunch Time
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
Cast: Craig Ferguson, Kyle Howard, Kellee Stewart, Andrea Anders
NBC
Location: TBD
Good Place
Logline: Centers on a woman wrestling with what it means to be good.
Cast: Kristen Bell, Ted Danson, William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil, Manny Jacinto, D’Arcy Carden
NBC
Location: TBD
Good Fortune
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.
Cast: Tone Bell, Beau Mirchoff, Diane Guerrero, Jessy Hodges, Blake Lee
NBC
Location: TBD
Imaginary Friend
Logline: The winner of NBC’s Playground comedy initiative, centers on Wendy, an intelligent yet unmotivated woman who discovers a special and unexpected way of dealing with her mediocre life.
Cast: Kalia Prescott, Megan Neuringer, Brandon Scott, Allan McLeod, Morgan Grace Jarrett, Alex Newell
NBC
Location: TBD
Marlon
Logline: Loosely inspired by Marlon Wayans’ life, the comedy centers on an inappropriate but loving father committed to successfully co-parenting with his polar opposite ex-wife.
Cast: Marlon Wayans, Essence Atkins, Bresha Webb, Diallo Riddle
NBC
Location: TBD
Me & Mean Margaret
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.
Cast: Stockard Channing, Gavin Stenhouse
NBC
Location: TBD
Sebastian
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.
Cast: Sebastian Maniscalco, Tony Danza, Steve Talley, Vanessa Lachey
NBC
Location: TBD
Sunset PPL
Logline: The winner of NBC’s Playground Comedy initiative, the pilot centers on a group of millennial friends who struggle with their own made-up rules for personal and professional success.
Cast: Julianna Guill, Cass Buggle, Brandon Kyle Goodman, Alesha Renee, Carmine DiBenedetto, Paul Palmeri
NBC
Location: TBD
The Trail
Logline: A serialized comedy following a young big-city lawyer and his oddball defense team during a high-profile murder trial in a small southern town.
Cast: Nick D’Agosto, John Lithgow, Sherri Shepherd, Steven Boyer, Jayma Mays, Krysta Rodriguez
NBC
Location: TBD
Untitled Matt Hubbard
Logline: Loosely based on Hubbard’s life, the comedy centers on a guy who learns to manage the expectations and strong cultural traditions of his in-laws after he moves his family to his wife’s hometown.
Cast: Jack McBrayer, Chris Smith, Elizabeth Ho, Francois Chau, Susan Chuang, Concetta Tomei
NBC
Location: TBD
Untitled Vladimir Caamano
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.
Cast: Vladimir Caamano, Maria Canals-Barrera, Josh Segarra, Lilah Richcreek
NBC
Location: TBD
