The pilot season is in full swing, meaning cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Vancouver will be covered in TV production crews for the next few weeks. Los Angeles has 18, while New York and Vancouver have 9 each.
Below are all of this year’s pilots, the show’s stars, and where they are filming:
The Baker and the Beauty
Logline: Based on the Israeli series created by Assi Azar, the drama tells the story of the unlikely romance between a blue-collar baker and an international superstar. Theirs is a relationship that not only upends their own lives, but the lives of their two very different families.
Cast: Nathalie Kelley, Carlos Gomez, Lisa Vidal, Dan Bucatinsky, Belissa Escobedo, Victor Rasuk, Michelle Veintimilla, David Del Rio
Network: ABC
Location: Atlanta and exterior shots in Miami
Heart of Life
Logline: Inspired by John Mayer’s song, the drama follows two sets of adult siblings from wildly different worlds who discover they are related and must reassess everything they thought they knew about their shared father. As they explore the mystery of their separate childhoods, they’ll experience the difficulty in overcoming the sins of the past, and learn the joys of reuniting with long-lost family.
Cast: Harry Shum Jr., Katie Findlay, Dave Annable
Network: ABC
Location: Atlanta
The Hypnotist’s Love Story
Logline: After a string of failed romances, successful hypnotherapist Ellen is optimistic about her current boyfriend. But then he reveals a disturbing truth: a stalker ex-girlfriend has been following him for years. Ellen finds herself intrigued — and oddly thrilled by the stalker, entirely unaware that they’ve already met. Based on the book of the same name by Liana Moriarty (Big Little Lies).
Cast: Heather Graham, Juliet Rylance, Jane Seymour, Liza Lapira, Adan Canto, Nathaniel Buescher
Network: ABC
Location: Vancouver
New York Undercover
Logline: Picking up 20 years after the end of the original, the new take follows detectives Nat Gilmore and Melissa Ortiz as they investigate the city’s most dangerous criminals from Harlem to Battery Park.
Cast: Malik Yoba, Luna Lauren Velez, Otmara Marrero, Toby Sandeman, Anna Enger, Octavio Pizano, MC Lyte
Network: ABC
Location: New York
NYPD Blue
Logline: Follows Andy Sipowicz’s son, Theo, as he tries to earn his detective shield and work in the 15th squad while investigating his father’s murder.
Cast: Fabien Frankel, Alona Tal, Kim Delaney, Bill Brochtrup, Rick Gomez, Ashley Thomas, Sofia Barclay
Network: ABC
Location: New York
Stumptown
Logline: Inspired by the Oni Press graphic novels, the drama follows Dex Parios, a strong, assertive and unapologetically sharp-witted Army veteran working as a P.I. in Portland. With a complicated personal history and only herself to rely on, she solves other people’s messes with a blind eye toward her own.
Cast: Cobie Smulders, Michael Ealy, Mark Webber, Adrian Martinez, Camryn Manheim, Cole Sibus, Tantoo Cardinal
Network: ABC
Location: Portland, Vancouver
Triangle
Logline: What if the Bermuda Triangle was not a watery grave in the middle of the ocean, but a land lost in time that has trapped travelers over the course of human history? When a family is shipwrecked in this strange land, they must band together with a group of like-minded inhabitants — from throughout history — to survive and somehow find a way home.
Cast: Mike Vogel, Edwin Hodge, Mallory Jansen
Network: ABC
Location: New Zealand
Until the Wedding
Logline: Based on an Israeli format, the series tells the story of how one couple’s decision to get married can affect everyone in their lives. The show will explore the intimate relationships in a group of friends and family as they are forced to reckon with their own romantic lives and come to terms with the realities of love and marriage.
Cast: Olivia Thirlby, E.J. Bonilla, Britt Lower, Trent Garrett, Juani Feliz, Lisa Colon-Zayas, Vered Blonstein, Michael Stahl-David, Michael Benjamin Washington, Christian Coulson, Christian Borle
Network: ABC
Location: Los Angeles
Untitled Hank Steinberg/Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson drama
Logline: A serialized legal and family drama about a prisoner who becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit. His quest for freedom is driven by his desperate desire to get back to the family he loves and reclaim the life that was stolen from him. The show will also, through the window of his ferocious struggle and complicated relationship with a progressive female prison warden, examine the flaws and challenges in the penal and legal systems.
Cast: Nicholas Pinnock, Indira Varma , Joy Bryant, Boris McGiver, Tyla Harris, Mary Stuart Masterson
Network: ABC
Location: New York
Happy Accident
Logline: Revolves around two Pittsburgh families — a father with three adult daughters and a hotel lounge singer with her med student son — who are forced together after a decades-old secret is revealed.
Cast: Vanessa Williams, Matt Walsh, Joanna Garcia Swisher, Kether Donohue, Jessie Pinnick, Elliot Knight, Robert Smith
Network: ABC
Location: Los Angeles
Nana
Logline: After the death of his wife, an obsessive, overprotective dad is forced to invite his brash and bawdy mother-in-law into his home to help raise the two granddaughters she barely knows.
Cast: Katey Sagal, Josh Cooke, Kimberly Quinn, Gemma Allen, Bill Bellamy, Jolie Hoang-Rappaport
Network: ABC
Location: Los Angeles
United We Fall
Logline: A profoundly realistic, multicultural family sitcom that shows how, when two people with young children and overzealous extended families truly love each other, barely anything is possible.
Cast: Jane Curtin, Jason Michael Snow
Network: ABC
Location: Los Angeles
Untitled Hannah Simone comedy
Logline: Hannah and her Indian-American immigrant father have always been close, but after she admits to herself that she’s in a dead-end job and he reveals his marriage is over, they’re starting over together and each finding a new path. This new chapter will either make them crazy close … or just crazy.
Cast: Hannah Simone, Jane Leeves, Alanna Ubach, Deniz Akdeniz, Liza Treyger, Hank Chen
Network: ABC
Location: Los Angeles
Untitled Jessica Gao
Logline: Revolves around Janet Zhao, a first-generation Chinese-American woman who struggles to set healthy boundaries with her crazy, exhausting family. When her wealthy grandmother dies and names Janet the sole inheritor, she suddenly finds herself the unwilling new matriarch of the family she’s spent her life trying to keep at arm’s length.
Cast: Holly Chou, Cindy Cheung, Stephen Park, Kelly Hu, Helen Hong, Ki Hong Lee, Ashley Park, John Gemberling
Network: ABC
Location: Los Angeles
Untitled Leslie Odom Jr. comedy
Logline: Inspired by real-life progressive pastors Toure Roberts and Sarah Jakes-Roberts, the show revolves around Omari and Hope, who together run a modern ministry and share an eclectic, chaotic home life with their combined four children.
Cast: Leslie Odom Jr., Kelly Jenrette, Alexis Fields, Hailey Kilgore
Network: ABC
Location: Los Angeles
Woman Up
Logline: Two former teen moms have worked their asses off to see their daughters all the way through high school graduation. And now, at 35, they’re ready to make up for the youth they never had.
Cast: Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Tawny Newsome, Abby Quinn, Gabrielle Elyse, Kym Whitley, Leon Thomas, Tate Moore, Bryce Charles
Network: ABC
Location: Los Angeles
Courthouse
Logline: Follows the dedicated, chaotic, hopeful and sometimes absurd lives of the judges, assistant district attorneys and public defenders as they work with bailiffs, clerks, cops and jurors to bring justice to the people of Los Angeles.
Cast: Jessica Camacho, Wilson Bethel, J. Alex Brinson
Network: CBS
Location: Los Angeles
Evil
Logline: A drama about the battle between science and religion, Evil focuses on a skeptical female clinical psychologist who joins a priest-in-training and a blue-collar contractor as they investigate supposed miracles, demonic possessions and other extraordinary occurrences to see if there’s a scientific explanation or if something truly supernatural is at work.
Cast: Katja Herbers, Mike Colter, Aasif Mandvi, Michael Emerson
Network: CBS
Location: New York
FBI: Most Wanted (spinoff to air as planted episode of FBI)
Logline: Revolves around the division of the FBI tasked with tracking and capturing the notorious criminals on the FBI’s Most Wanted list.
Cast: Julian McMahon, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Alana de la Garza, Kellan Lutz, Roxy Sternberg
Network: CBS
Location: New York
Frankenstein
Logline: A San Francisco homicide detective is mysteriously brought back to life after being killed in the line of duty, but as he resumes his old life and he and his wife realize he isn’t the same person he used to be, they zero in on the strange man behind his resurrection: Dr. Victor Frankenstein.
Cast: Saidah Arrika Ekulona
Network: CBS
Location: Vancouver
Republic of Sarah
Logline: A small New Hampshire town is thrust onto the world stage when the discovery of a valuable resource within its borders compels the residents to declare themselves an independent nation, setting the unlikely young mayor and her cabinet of inexperienced locals on the path of running a brand new country.
Cast: Sarah Drew, Kirsten Nelson, James Lesure, Kimberly Guerrero
Network: CBS
Location: Vancouver
Surveillance
Logline: A spy thriller about around the head of communications for the NSA, a charming operative who finds her loyalties torn between protecting the government’s secrets and her own.
Cast: Sophia Bush, Dennis Haysbert, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Matthew Modine, Allen Leech, Raphael Acloque, Nick Blood, Spencer Moss, Tina Huang, Judith Scott, Brian Markinson, Catherine Curtin
Network: CBS
Location: Vancouver
Tommy (formerly known as Nancy)
Logline: When a former high-ranking NYPD officer becomes the first female chief of police for Los Angeles, she uses her unflinching honesty and hardball tactics to navigate the social, political, and national security issues that converge with enforcing the law.
Cast: Edie Falco, Michael Chernus, Adelaide Clemens, Russel G. Jones, Olivia Lucy Phillip
Network: CBS
Location: Los Angeles
Under the Bridge
Logline: When a scandal rocks the medical practice she runs with her husband and their friends, a surgeon rises to the occasion and takes the lead in trying to mend both the practice and her own marriage.
Cast: Jennifer Morrison, Justin Kirk, David Ajala, Sarayu Blue, Reggie Lee
Network: CBS
Location: Los Angeles
Deputy
Logline: Deputy Bill Hollister is a career lawman who’s very comfortable kicking down doors and utterly lost in a staff meeting. But when the L.A. County sheriff drops dead, Bill becomes acting sheriff of Los Angeles County, in charge of 10,000 sworn deputies policing a modern Wild West. Produced with the cooperation of the L.A. Sheriff’s Department.
Cast: Stephen Dorff, Yara Martinez, Brian Van Holt, Siena Goines, Jasmine Kaur, Shane Paul McGhie
Network: Fox
Location: Atlanta
Filthy Rich
Logline: A Southern Gothic dramedy revolving around two strong, sharp women who will go to any length to protect their loved ones and get their due. When the wealthy CEO of the world’s largest Christian network dies in a plane crash, his wife and adult children are stunned to discover he has grown, illegitimate kids who are also in his will. When the steel azalea matriarch of the family tries to pay them to go away, these newly legitimized heirs have very different ideas and insist on not only staying in town, but becoming part of the family empire.
Cast: Kim Cattrall, Gerald McRaney, Aubrey Dollar, Benjamin Levy Aguilar, Corey Cott, Mark L. Young, Steve Harris, Melia Kreiling, David Denman, Olivia Macklin
Network: Fox
Location: New Orleans
Next
Logline: A propulsive, fact-based thriller grounded in the latest A.I. research that revolves around a brilliant but paranoid former tech CEO who joins a Homeland Cybersecurity Agent and her team to stop the world’s first artificial intelligence crisis: the emergence of a rogue AI with the ability to continuously improve itself.
Cast: Eve Harlow, Fernanda Andrade, Aaron Moten, Gerardo Celasco
Network: Fox
Location: Vancouver
Prodigal Son
Logline: Revolves around Malcolm Bright, the son of a notorious serial killer called The Surgeon who understands how killers think. The criminal psychologist uses his skills to help the NYPD solve crimes and stop killers while balancing his manipulative mother and annoyingly normal sister and a homicidal father still looking to bond with his prodigal son. The drama is described as a fresh take on the crime franchise with a darkly comedic tone.
Cast: Tom Payne, Finn Jones, Michael Sheen, Lou Diamond Phillips, Aurora Perrineau, Frank Harts, Bellamy Young, Keiko Agena, Halston Sage
Network: Fox
Location: New York
Untitled Annie Weisman/Jason Katims drama
Logline: Only child Julia Beckley has her life turned upside down when it’s revealed that her father, a pioneering Nobel Prize-winning fertility doctor, used his own sperm to conceive dozens of children over the course of his career. Reeling from this explosive revelation, Julia discovers two new sisters — her former best friend and an ex-Olympic athlete. Against all odds, the women attempt to form an untraditional family and lean on each other as they grapple with their own identity crises. Based on the original Endemol Shine Australia series Sisters.
Cast: Brittany Snow, Emily Osment, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Timothy Hutton, Mustafa Elzein, Mo McRae
Network: Fox
Location: New York
Untitled Tom Kapinos drama
Logline: A structurally inventive dramedy in which the entire first season takes place over the course of a single night at a wedding. As viewers get to know the wedding party, they’ll learn surprising reveals about both their present and past, see that things aren’t always as they seem and explore the complicated bonds of love, friendship and family at different stages of life. Inspired by the Endemol Shine France series Quadras.
Cast: Andie MacDowell, Kathleen Turner, Richard Roxburgh, Madeline Wise, Usman Ally
Network: Fox
Location: Atlanta
Adam & Eve
Logline: Based on the French-Canadian format, the comedy follows one couple at three stages of their relationship — young and passionate, middle-aged with kids and navigating retirement.
Cast: Odette Annable
Network: Fox
Location:
Geniuses
Logline: A family comedy about a blue-collar couple in South Jersey trying to get by and raise four kids, three of whom just happen to be certified geniuses.
Cast: Maggie Lawson, Jason Biggs, Connor Kalopsis, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Jack Stanton, Ashley Boettcher
Network: Fox
Location:
Patty’s Auto
Logline: Inspired by Patrice Banks’ Girls Auto Clinic — a repair shop with all female mechanics — the comedy revolves around Patty and the eclectic women who work for her.
Cast: Carra Patterson, Joanna Adler, Sarah Levy, Paola Lazaro, Kyla Pratt
Location:
Richard Lovely
Logline: Richard Lovely is the disgruntled author of the best-selling children’s book series, Mr. Mouse. He doesn’t hate children, but rather just everything about them. After a publicity fiasco involving an unexpectedly savvy 9-year-old kid, Mr. Mouse appears in Richard’s real life as he is forced into an unlikely father-son relationship that will change his life forever.
Cast: Thomas Lennon, Wendie Malick, Mason Shneiderman, Nicole Sun, Asif Ali
Network: Fox
Location:
Bluff City Law
Logline: A character-driven legal drama that follows the lawyers of an elite Memphis law firm that specializes in the most controversial landmark civil rights cases. Led by legendary lawyer Elijah Strait and his brilliant daughter, Sydney Keller, they take on the toughest David-and-Goliath cases while navigating their complicated relationship.
Cast: Jimmy Smits, Caitlin McGee, Barry Sloane, Michael Luwoye, Maame Yaa Boafo, Jayne Atkinson
Network: NBC
Location: Memphis
Council of Dads
Logline: Based on Bruce Feiler’s memoir of the same name, the drama revolves around a father whose life is thrown into upheaval when he is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Facing his morality, he and his wife assemble a group of friends to support his family and guide them through life’s challenges.
Cast: Sarah Wayne Callies, Michele Weaver, J. August Richards, Clive Standen, Michael O’Neill, Steven Silver, Emjay Anthony, Thalia Tran
Network: NBC
Location: Savannah, Ga.
Emergence
Logline: A character-driven genre thriller that centers around a sheriff who takes in a young child that she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child’s identity is at the center of it all.
Cast: Allison Tolman, Alexa Skye Swinton, Clancy Brown, Robert Bailey Jr., Ashley Aufderheide, Owain Yeoman, Donald Faison
Network: NBC
Location: New Jersey
Lincoln
Logline: Based on the bestselling Bone Collector book series, the drama follows legendary forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme, who was seriously injured during his hunt for the diabolic serial killer known as the Bone Collector. Called back into action when the killer re-emerges, Lincoln forms a unique partnership with Amelia Sachs, a young beat cop who helps him hunt the deadly mastermind while also taking on the most high-profile cases in the NYPD.
Cast: Russell Hornsby, Arielle Kebbel, Michael Imperioli
Network: NBC
Location: New York
Prism
Logline: A provocative exploration of a murder trial in which every episode is told through the perspective of a different key person involved. Each new version of the facts ratchets up the mystery and the suspense, calling into question everything we have seen so far and asking is the right person on trial? Driven by an ensemble of complicated characters, the show lets the audience ask if truth matters less than who can tell the most compelling story.
Cast: Malin Akerman, Mykelti Williamson, Ramon Rodriguez, Chloe Wepper, David Alpay, Brooke Smith, Sara Rue
Network: NBC
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist
Logline: An innovative musical dramedy about a whip-smart but socially awkward girl, in her late 20s who is suddenly able to hear the innermost thoughts of people around her as songs and even big musical numbers that they perform just for her. With this new ability at her disposal, she is able to use her “gift” to not only help herself understand people in her life, but also to help others around her.
Cast: Jane Levy, Skylar Astin, Alex Newell, Mary Steenburgen, Peter Gallagher, John Clarence
Network: NBC
Location: Vancouver with some exterior in San Francisco
Like Magic
Logline: A workplace comedy following an optimistic young woman (Jee Young Han, Station 19) who pursues her dream of becoming a headlining magician in the eccentric and ego-driven world of the Magic Palace.
Cast: Jee Young Han, Rory O’Malley, Freddie Stroma, Hayley Magnus, French Stewart, Mike Lane
Network: NBC
Location: Los Angeles
Perfect Harmony
Logline: A rural church choir gets the director it never thought it needed when a salty, Ivy League music professor stumbles through their door.
Cast: Bradley Whitford, Anna Camp, Will Greenberg, Geno Segers, Rizwan Manji
Network: NBC
Location: Los Angeles
Saving Kenan
Logline: A newly widowed dad is determined to be everything for his kids while begrudgingly letting his persistent father-in-law become more involved in their lives.
Cast: Kenan Thompson
Network: NBC
Location: Los Angeles
Sunnyside
Logline: Revolves around Garrett Shah, a former New York city councilman, who finds his calling when faced with immigrants in need of his help and in search of the American Dream.
Cast: Kal Penn, Kiran Deol, Moses Storm, Diana Maria Riva, Samba Schutte, Poppy Liu, Joel Kim Booster, Tudor Petrut
Network: NBC
Location: Los Angeles
Uninsured
Logline: Young parents Dave and Rebecca end up having to take care of Dave’s parents, who have mismanaged their finances and need help paying down a sizable debt.
Cast: Adam Pally, Abby Elliott, Fran Drescher, Jessy Hodges, Amer Chadha-Patel
Network: NBC
Location: Los Angeles
Village Gazette
Logline: Amber is the editor of the Benson Village Gazette. She loves fluff pieces that demonstrate the idyllic nature of life in her hometown. When the newspaper owners hire a reporter who’s looking to uncover a juicy story in Benson, he threatens to unravel the happy denial Amber has been living in.
Cast: Amber Ruffin (Late Night with Seth Meyers)
Network: NBC
Location: Los Angeles
Batwoman
Logline: Revolves around Kate Kane, who, armed with a passion for social justice and flair for speaking her mind, soars onto the streets of Gotham as Batwoman, an out lesbian and highly trained street fighter primed to snuff out the failing city’s criminal resurgence. But don’t call her a hero yet — in a city desperate for a savior, Kate must overcome her own demons before embracing the call to be Gotham’s symbol of hope.
Cast: Ruby Rose, Dougray Scott, Elizabeth Anweis, Meagan Tandy, Camrus Johnson, Nicole Kang, Rachel Skarsten, Elizabeth Anweis
Network: The CW
Location: Vancouver with exteriors in Chicago
Glamorous
Logline: A gender non-conforming recent high school graduate lands the gig of a lifetime interning at a cosmetics company whose products he panned on YouTube.
Cast: Ben J. Pierce, Brooke Shields, Jade Payton, Pierson Fode
Network: The CW
Location: Toronto
Jane the Novela
Logline: A telenovela anthology series in the tradition of JANE THE VIRGIN, where each season is based on a different fictional novel “written by” Jane Villanueva and narrated by the author herself. The first installment takes place at a Napa Valley Vineyard, where family secrets (and family members) don’t stay buried for long.
Cast: Gina Rodriguez (Narrator), Marcia Cross, Jacqueline Grace Lopez
Network: The CW
Location: Los Angeles
Katy Keene
Logline: A Riverdale spinoff, Katy Keene follows the lives and loves of four iconic Archie Comics characters — including fashion legend-to-be Katy Keene — as they chase their twenty-something dreams in New York City. This musical dramedy chronicles the origins and struggles of four aspiring artists trying to make it on Broadway, on the runway and in the recording studio. Based on Archie Comics characters.
Cast: Lucy Hale, Ashleigh Murray, Jonny Beauchamp, Julia Chan, Camille Hyde, Lucien Laviscount
Network: The CW
Location: New York
The Lost Boys
Logline: Welcome to sunny seaside Santa Carla, home to a beautiful boardwalk, all the cotton candy you can eat…and a secret underworld of vampires. After the sudden death of their father, two brothers move to Santa Carla with their mother, who hopes to start anew in the town where she grew up. But the brothers find themselves drawn deeper and deeper into the seductive world of Santa Carla’s eternally beautiful and youthful undead.
Cast: Tyler Posey, Kiele Sanchez, Medalion Rahimi, Dakota Shapiro, Cheyenne Haynes, Haley Tju, Sarah Hay, Rio Mangini, Del Zamora
Network: The CW
Location: Vancouver
Untitled Nancy Drew
Logline: Set in the summer after her high school graduation,18-year-old Nancy Drew thought she’d be leaving her hometown for college, but when a family tragedy holds her back another year, she finds herself embroiled in a ghostly murder investigation — and along the way, uncovers secrets that run deeper than she ever imagined.
Cast: Kennedy McMann, Leah Lewis, Tunji Kasim, Maddison Jaizani, Alex Saxon, Freddie Prinze Jr.
Network: The CW
Location: Vancouver
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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