[Reality-TV-Fanatics] The CW Pilots

 

Courtesy of my friend Ryan Witalison:

The CW is an interesting place to watch this Spring, with the addition of Sunday to their line up that is an extra 2 hours a week and given their more modern style of programming they could look to add up to 6 shows, it may come down to how the 100 and iZombie do, as both are too close to call heading into The Upfronts. The Charmed reboot has been a favorite since day one and continues to make a strong case to be picked up. A couple other favorites include Berlanti's untitled April Blair drama and Julie Plec's Roswell reboot and there is a battle of the spin-offs going on between Supernatural's Wayward Sisters and the being worked on Originals Spinoff, which didn't have a pilot order but was apparently pitched and liked well enough by The CW to be put into contention.   

 In the Dark has had to deal with some behind the scenes issues which are making things look dim for that pilot. 

The CW

Charmed

Logline: Described as a fierce, funny and feminist reboot of the original series, the drama centers on three sisters in a college town who discover they are witches. Between vanquishing supernatural demons, tearing down the patriarchy, and maintaining familial bonds, a witch's work is never done.

Cast: Melonie Diaz (Fruitvale Station), Sarah Jeffery (Shades of Blue), Ser'Darius Blain, Rupert Evans, Madeleine Mantock 

Team: W/EP Jessica O’Toole, Amy Rardin (Jane the Virgin); EP/story by Jennie Urman; EP/D Brad Silberling; EP Ben Silverman

Studio: CBS Television Studios

Dead Inside

Logline: After surviving an explosion that killed her hotshot detective big brother, an underachieving beat cop starts seeing his ghost, flipping their sibling dynamic on its head and allowing her to truly live her life for the first time, as they work together to help crime victims both living and dead, and figure out the unfinished business keeping his spirit on Earth.

Cast: Freddie Stroma, Joey King

Team: W/EP Katie Lovejoy (Dracula); EP Bill Lawrence, Jeff Ingold

Studio: Warner Bros. Television, Doozer Productions

The End of the World as We Know It

Logline: When a prison spaceship carrying the universe's most deadly aliens crashes in Southern California, two young women with bigger dreams than working at a kids' pizza place in the Valley are recruited by a space cop to hunt down the escaped criminals, who have camouflaged themselves as eccentric Angelenos. Based on the book The End of the World as We Know It by Iva-Marie Palmer.

Cast: Gage Golightly, Quinta Brunson

Team: W/EP Justin Halpern, Patrick Schumacker (Powerless); EP Rob Thomas, Danielle Stokdyk, Dan Etheridge, Leslie Morgenstein, Gina Girolamo

Studio: Warner Bros. Television, Ehsugadee Productions, Spondoolie Productions, Alloy Entertainment

In the Dark

Logline: A flawed and irreverent blind woman is the only "witness" to the slaying of her drug-dealing friend. After the police dismiss her story, she sets out with her dog, Pretzel, to find the killer while also managing her colorful dating life and the job she hates at Breaking Blind — the guide dog school owned by her overprotective parents.

Cast: Perry Mattfeld, Brooke Markham, Keston John

Team: W/EP Corinne Kingsbury (The Newsroom); EP Ben Stiller, Jackie Cohn, Nicky Weinstock EP/D Mike Showalter

Studio: CBS Television Studios, Red Hour Films

Playing Dead

Logline: A dysfunctional family dramedy about a mortician and his son whose lives are turned upside down when the woman who abandoned them 15 years ago returns and asks them to fake her death.

Cast: Tyler Ritter

Team: W/EP Rina Mimoun, Josh Reims (Hart of Dixie); EP Tariq Jalil, Lucas Carter

Studio: CBS Television Studios, Intrigue Entertainment

Skinny Dip

Logline: After her husband tries to kill her on what she thought was a romantic cruise to celebrate their second wedding anniversary, a woman teams with a jaded ex-cop to exact her own twisted brand of revenge on her cheating spouse, and winds up uncovering a wider conspiracy in the process. Based on the novel by Carl Hiaasen.

Cast: Matt Barr

Team: W/EP Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency); EP Peter Traugott, Rachel Kaplan, Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman

Studio: CBS Television Studios, Keshet Studios

Untitled April Blair

Logline: When a rising high school football player from South Central L.A. is recruited to play for Beverly Hills High, the wins, losses and struggles of two families from vastly different worlds — Compton and Beverly Hills — begin to collide. Inspired by the life of pro football player Spencer Paysinger.

Cast: Taye Diggs, Daniel Ezra

Team: W/EP April Blair (Reign); EP Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter; P Robbie Rogers; consultant Dane Morck; EP/D Rob Hardy

Studio: Warner Bros.. Television, Berlanti Productions

Untitled Roswell project

Logline: After reluctantly returning to her tourist-trap hometown of Roswell, New Mexico, the daughter of undocumented immigrants discovers a shocking truth about her teenage crush who is now a police officer: he’s an alien who has kept his unearthly abilities hidden his entire life. She protects his secret as the two reconnect and begin to investigate his origins, but when a violent attack and long-standing government cover-up point to a greater alien presence on Earth, the politics of fear and hatred threaten to expose him and destroy their deepening romance. Based on the Roswell High book series by Melinda Metz.

Cast: Jeanine Mason (Grey's Anatomy), Michael Trevino, Nathan Parsons, Lily Cowles, Michael Vlamis, Tyler Blackburn, Heather Hemmens

Team: W/EP Carina Adly MacKenzie (The Originals); EP Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank, Lawrence Bender, Kevin Kelly Brown; EP/D Julie Plec

Studio: Warner Bros. Television, Amblin Television, Bender Brown Productions

Wayward Sisters (aired as a planted episode of Supernatural)

Logline: Wayward Sisters tells the story of Supernatural fan-favorite recurring player Sheriff Jody Mills (Kim Rhodes) and a group of troubled young women, all of them orphaned by supernatural monster attacks and tragedies. Under Mills' protection, they emerge as a supreme monster-fighting force.

Cast: Kim Rhodes, Briana Buckmaster, Kathryn Newton, Katherine Ramdeen, Clark Backo, Yadira Guevara-Prip

Team: W/EP Robert Berens, Andrew Daab; EP Robert Singer, Phil Sgriccia, Robert Berens

Studio: Warner Bros. Television

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

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