Development season is now officially on and all the big broadcasters are looking to turn their new pilot episodes into popular shows. Here's what's going on with some of the shows.
Variety reported on the 2012-13 season recently talking about what shows would be scheduled when and who would most likely get those top primetime spots. NBC has given the greenlight to their first comedy called Go On. In addition to some unscripted shows, the network is also looking at premiering a new show around August during the Olympics.
Go On is a single camera comedy with Matthew Perry starring as a "sportscaster trying to recover from a personal loss with the help of group therapy. Julie White, Suzy Nakamura, Laura Benanti, Allison Miller and Khary Payton are set to co-star in the 13-episode season written by Scott Silveri from Friends.
NBC also has 1600 Penn and Friday Night Dinners in the running for pick-up along with unscripted shows like Stars Earn Stripes, Howie Mandel's White Elephant and Ready for Love. While these show are in the running, there are also a few shows that have not delivered pilots yet and could easily make it on to the show next season.
CBS has two big name projects Ralph Lamb and Elementary lined up and they are getting together a group of writers for the two dramas. Lamb is the 1960's Vegas show that has Dennis Quaid, Michael Chiklis and Jason O'Mara attached. Elementary is a take on Sherlock Holmes that has Jonny Lee Miller set to play Holmes and Lucy Liu signed up for the role of Watson.
The CW has promising pilots with Arrow and The Carrie Diaries along with The Selection, Cult, and First Cut. In addition to these shows they also have their Beauty and the Beast project along with J.J. Abrams' project Shelter. The last two project were filmed late and it's unknown how they will fit into the schedule if they move forward.
Fox doesn't really have any big projects set up other than Mastermind with Kevin Bason and the comedy Rebounding.
ABC is bringing back some big names from TV including Sarah Chalke, Judy Greer, Reba McEntire and Lily Tomlin. The four comedies are the most likely to see a pickup from the network. Chalke will be staring in the longest title of the season How to Live With Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life. McEntire and Tomlin will be starring together in Malibu Country and Greer will star in her own show titled American Judy.
These are just the shows that have seen pilots and are frontrunners for pickup when it comes to getting a full season. There are many others that are still being made and could be in contention if they move up production or another show isn't good enough.
