Pilot season continues with even more shows getting ready to be made. Here's just what's being announced today.
ABC picked up four dramas, one from Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry. They also ordered a comedy pilot from Judy Greer and the adaptation of Scruples. CW picked up three more dramas. HBO gave a second season to the just premiered Luck.
Variety reports that the four dramas coming to ABC include an adaptation of a Mexican drama from Marc Cherry and another project from Lorenzo di Bonaventura.
Devious Maids comes from Cherry and focuses on four ambitious Beverly Hills maids.In comedy, Variety says the network picked up American Judy from Judy Greer. The show is centered around a woman from the city who gets married and moves into the strange suburbs. She is forced to deal with being a mother-in-law and her husband's ex who is the town sheriff. The pilot was written by Deborah Kaplan and Herry Elfont.
Zero Hour from Bonaventura tells the story of a natural skeptic who gets roped into a massive conspiracy.
Penoza adapts a Dutch format on the widow of an assassinated criminal who is dragged into his role at a crime syndicate.
Gotham centers on a female cop who discovers a previously unseen magical world within New York City.
Lastly at ABC, According to Variety, Scruples has been given the greenlight to move ahead with producer Tony Krantz and Natalie Portman. The show is based on a 1978 novel written by Krantz's mother Judith. The story revolves around the world of clothing designers and a "world of sex, revenge, and scandal." WBTV will be producing with Krantz's Flame Ventures. The company has the rights to the title from their miniseries in 1980 that stared Lindsay Wagner.
Over at The CW, Variety reports that the network has ordered three more drama pilots for the 2012-2013 season. They now have projects from the creator of One Tree Hill and J.J. Abrams.
Shelter is set among the staffers and guests at a New England summer resort. Abrams will be producing with Bad Robot and Warner Bros. TV. One Tree Hill" creator Mark Schwahn has written the pilot.And last but not least, a press release from HBO has announced that the network is giving a second season to Luck, a show that just premiered. After receiving lots of critical acclaim and seeing an audience of 3.3 million with it's debut, ten more episodes have been ordered for the January 2013. Production is scheduled to start again at the end of February.
The Selection, a high-concept vehicle set 300 years in the future revolves around a poor woman who is chosen by lottery to compete to become the next queen of a war-torn nation.
Joey Dakota a docu filmmaker travels back in time to the 1990s where she falls in love with the rock-star subject of her pic, and then has to figure out how to prevent his death when she returns to the present.
That's the news for today, what are you looking forward to?
