[Reality-TV-Fanatics] Fox Pilots

 

Courtesy of my friend Ryan Witalison:

It's an interesting year for Fox who may be entering their last Upfronts with there own Television studio, Disney bought The Studios and library but The Fox Network stays with what will be left of Fox. It's believed they may cut down on scripted shows after this upcoming season to focus on reality and live sports. This season also marks the arrival of NFL Football on Thursday Night which cuts out some 30 hours of programming, which means most bubble shows likely won't be renewed, Gotham and Star appear to be safe but Lucifer and Lethal Weapon are long shots at best. That being said The Untitled Ilene Chaiken and Melissa Scrivner Love which would mark Katie Holmes return to broadcast series TV is considered a Safe Bet, The Passage may also finally get the pick up they've been looking for, the series just missed out last season. In consideration, as well, is the untitled Danny Strong and David Elliot legal drama with Angel and Mad Men alum Vincent Kartheiser and Grimm's Russell Hornsby. On the comedy side Dan the Weatherman is looking good as is Rel and with the chance that Last Man Standing could return on Fox after a season off there isn't much room for much more. The end of New Girl does open up a slot though, also it's likely Ghosted and Last Man Standing will also be ending this season.

Early favorite Mixtape has cooled off to the point it's no longer likely it will be picked up, if it does end up getting a pick up it would be for the Midseason and don't bother with Robert Levine's Gone, Baby, Gone reboot as it's looking like it has no chance, it appears that some top executives at Fox are pushing against airing a Mob drama.  

Fox

Drama

Mixtape

Logline: A romantic musical drama that looks at a disparate group of interconnected people in contemporary Los Angeles through the lens of the music that defines who they are. Mixtape captures the different stages of love, exploring if time can heal a broken heart and if love can withstand life's tragedies.

Cast: Madeline Stowe, Callie Hernandez, Megan Ferguson, Jenna Dewan Tatum

Team: W/EP Josh Safran (Quantico, Smash); EP Megan Ellison, Sue Naegle; co-EP Ali Krug; EP/D Jesse Peretz

Studio: 20th Century Fox Television, Annapurna Television

Untitled David Elliot/Danny Strong

Logline: A legal drama set at a wrongful conviction firm. Led by a fierce and fearless female lawyer with a hunger for justice, the team reopens investigations, putting their own lives in danger to exonerate the innocent that were ‘proven’ guilty. The lead's motivation comes from her infamous past; as a young adult she was found guilty and later exonerated in a high-profile case in which she became a tabloid sensation, household name and national celebrity. While a hero and a victim to some, her bold and bullish tactics garner her some enemies — one of whom will do anything to see her go down for a crime we know she did not commit. The drama will follow her defending others as she fights to maintain her own innocence.

Cast: Russell Hornsby (Grimm), Rachelle Lefevre, Vincent Kartheiser

Team: W/EP David Elliot (Four Brothers); EP Danny Strong, Stacy Greenberg; EP/D Patricia Riggen

Studio: 20th Century Fox Television, Danny Strong Productions

Untitled Ilene Chaiken and Melissa Scrivner Love

Logline: FBI special agent Clementine Otis is in the midst of investigating a domestic terrorism threat when a personal indiscretion — an affair with a prominent general — shatters her life and threatens her career at the FBI. Now labeled "the mistress," Clementine Otis — wife, mother, patriot — begins to rebuild her personal life and professional reputation.

Cast: Katie Holmes, Rose Rollins, Mark Moses, James Tupper, Paul Walter

Team: W/EP Ilene Chaiken (Empire), Melissa Scrivner Love; EP Judy Smith, Oly Obst

Studio: 20th Century Fox Television, 3 Arts Entertainment

Untitled Robert Levine

Logline: Based on the Dennis Lehane's Gone, Baby, Gone novel. Armed with their wits, their street knowledge and an undeniable chemistry, private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro right wrongs the law can’t in the working-class Boston borough of Dorchester.

Cast: Joseph Morgan, Christine Lahti, Peyton List

Team: W/EP Robert Levine (Jericho, Judging Amy); EP Dennis Lehane; EP/D Phillip Noyce

Studio: 20th Century Fox Television, Miramax Television

The Passage (rolled from last season)

Logline: Based on the best-selling trilogy by Justin Cronin..A character-driven thriller about a secret government medical facility experimenting with a dangerous virus that could either cure all disease or cause the downfall of the human race. The drama focuses on a 10-year-old girl named Amy Bellafonte who is chosen to be a test subject; and Brad Wolgast, the federal agent who becomes her surrogate father.

Cast: Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Vincent Piazza, Saniyya Sidney, Brianne Howey, , Jamie McShane, Caroline Chikezie

Team: W/EP Elizabeth Heldens (Friday Night Lights); EP Matt Reeves (Felicity, Let Me In), Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Adam Kassan; co-producer: Justin Cronin; EP/D Jason Ensler

Studio: 20th Century Fox Television, 6th & Idaho, Scott Free

Comedy

Bless This Mess (off-cycle order, shoots in June)

Logline: A newlywed couple gives up their drab and unfulfilling lives in NYC and moves to Nebraska to live a simpler life. It doesn’t work out like they planned.

Cast: Lake Bell, Dax Shepard

Team: W/EP Liz Meriwether; W/EP/D Lake Bell; EP Katherine Pope

Studio: 20th Century Fox TV

Format: Single-camera

Cool Kids

Logline: Cool Kids revolves around three guy friends in a retirement community (David Alan Grier, Leslie Jordan, Martin Mull) who are the top dogs until they’re blown out of the water by the newest member of the community, a female rebel (Vicki Lawrence) who’s ready to challenge their place. Described as high school with 70-somethings.

Cast: Vicki Lawrence, David Alan Grier, Leslie Jordan, Martin Mull

Team: W Charlie Day, Paul Fruchbom; EP/showrunner Kevin Abbott, EP Charlie Day, Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton; Nick Frenkel; EP/D Don Scardino; co-EP Paul Fruchbom

Studio: 20th Century Fox TV, FX Productions

Format: Multicam

Untitled Erin Foster (fka Daddy Issues)

Logline: Loosely based on Erin Foster's life, the comedy revolves around Andi (Foster), a single 30-something who refuses to settle down, and her playboy dad. Andi's world is turned upside down when she discovers her dad has fallen in love with her best friend.

Cast: Erin Foster (Barely Famous), Don Johnson, Janina Gavankar, Jane Leeves 

Team: W/EP Erin Foster; EP Liz Meriwether, Oly Obst, Josh Lieberman; EP/D Kat Coiro

Studio: 20th Century Fox Television, 3 Arts

Format: Single-camera

Dan the Weatherman

Logline: After getting fired from his cushy job as a weatherman at the local TV station, Dan finds it’s not enough to be a charming white man in this world.  He reluctantly ends up at the neighboring Spanish TV station.

Cast: Thomas Lennon

Team: W/EP Steve Dildarian (Life and Times of Tim); EP Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements; EP/D Seth Gordon

Studio: 20th Century Fox Television, Tomorrow Studios

Format: Single-camera 

Culture Clash (fka Our People)

Logline: Based on the Israeli format Nevsu: A Young Multi-Cultural Couple, the comedy revolves around a man from a bombastic African family, who don't have a word in their native language for "privacy,” and his fiancee from a Midwestern family who try to build a normal life together. Although nobody can agree what that "normal" means.

Cast: Lea Thompson, Beth Behrs, Biniam Bizuneh

Team: W/EP Vali Chandrasekaran (Modern Family, 30 Rock); EP Lee Daniels, Pam Williams, Marc Velez, Yossi Vassa, Shai Ben-Atar and Liat Shavit; EP/D Trent O'Donnell

Studio: Endemol Shine, 20th Century Fox Television, Lee Daniels Entertainment

Format: Single-camera

Rel

Logline: Lil Rel, a prideful, self-made success who lives by the code to "always believe in yourself and great things will come," finds that attitude put to the test when he learns his wife is having an affair with his own barber. He tries to rebuild his life post-divorce as a long-distance single father on the South Side of Chicago who is on a quest for love, respect and a new barber. Inspired by Lil Rel's life.

Cast: Lil Rel Howery (The Carmichael Show), Jordan L. Jones, Sinbad, Jessica "Jess Hilarious" Moore

Team: W/EP Kevin Barnett and Josh Rabinowitz (The Carmichael Show), Lil Rel; EP/showrunner Mike Scully (Carmichael Show); EP Jerrod Carmichael; EP/D Gerry Cohen

Studio: 20th Century Fox Television

Format: Multicamera

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

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