Post by ebnpresident on Mar 27, 2010 18:16:15 GMT -5
Post your 2010 pilots here, and get feedback/give others feedback. Im looking to pick up 4 dramas and one new comedy
10 Days - A drama about a young psychiatrist (Erinn Hayes) who suffers an emotional breakdown after the mysterious death of her banker husband (Carlos Ponce) and is convicted of the murder, but wakes up ten days prior to his murder and must work to stop his death and figure out who is trying to kill him.
40 Not Dead – Turning 40 is hell. Just ask best friends since college Scott (Brian Van Holt), Grayson (Mitch Rouse) and Deborah (Mary McCormack). Businessman and divorce Scott starts to date women half his age, while Grayson tries to spice up his suburban marriage and life with kids, and Deborah realizes that being a single business woman at 40 isn’t so easy. In some ways they all have their own mid-life crises as they try to figure out life when they’re half way dead together.
Embassy Row – Some people are born with money and some people are born with class. To be a McKinlan in America is to be born with both money and class. Lynne McKinlan (Sally Field) has entertained presidents at her house on Embassy Row for decades, as the wife of a loving and wealthy Democratic Senator who has been a landmark in the senate for nearly 30 years following in the footsteps of his grandfather who was vice president. Lynne’s greatest accomplishment though may have been raising 4 children in Washington DC. Her children were raised with all of America watching, knowing they would be political royalty. Her son Jess (Scott Speedman) is a do-gooder liberal college professor going through a nasty divorce after he had an affair, her 28 year old daughter Avery (Lizzy Caplan) is a hard-partying photographer struggling to find herself, while Avery’s twin Grant (Brandon Routh) is a very successful gay radio political commentator. When Lynne’s husband suddenly and tragically dies in a suspicious car accident that could be homicide, the family is torn apart. When brother Dean (Jonathan LaPaglia) returns from New York with his wife Michelle (Amy Jo Johnson) and daughter (Sarah Hyland) after being estranged for years and announces his candidacy for his father’s famed senate position it creates further controversy in the family. Dean has to return to DC, the place he fled so long ago, and face the one thing he always ran away from: his father’s shadow. In senate he’ll face great challenges, but he’ll face even more dealing with his powerful mother and strong-willed siblings. Embassy Row is a political drama about a famous family who grew up in the heart of the American political scene.
In My Life –Whitney Tilbert (Shiri Appleby) is a writer for Hype magazine who has been estranged from her family for 6 years and lives a dream life in Seattle. Her brother Chris (Sean Faris) is always the life of the party and at 28 years old, he could still acts like a 16 year old and depends on his parents. After their parents die in a car crash, their 15 year old sister Lea (Renee Olstead) comes to live with them. Whitney hasn’t seen her younger sister since Lea was 9. Lea is ready to make trouble, and in a new city with inexperienced guardians, it becomes easy to do so. In My Life is a new drama from Amy Sherman Palladino, the creator of Gilmore Girls, about 3 siblings growing up, at different ages.
Loving Jenny Vaughn– Jenny Vaughn (Chyler Leigh) is the beautiful, smart and funny concierge at a Miami resort. Jenny Vaughn also comes with a lot of baggage. When Jenny gets engaged to her boyfriend Justin (Zachary Levi) he moves from Colorado to Miami to live with her and he sees all the baggage she comes with. From her overbearing, wealthy, golf-loving and completely out of touch father Greg (Ed O’Neill) to her trashy coworker (Busy Phillips) who never seems to leave. Her gold-digging childhood friend Kia (Becki Newton) is impossible to deal with and feels Jenny is out of Justin’s league. Her older brother single father Liam (Eric Stonestreet) is overly protective and nearing an emotional breakdown dealing with divorce. Her best friend and ex-boyfriend (Joe Manganiello) has graduated from an Ivy League College and now works as a doctor helping immigrants, a very hard act for Justin to follow. When Justin got engaged to Jenny Vaughn he didn’t realize he was getting a package deal in this hilarious comedy about getting hitched without knowing what you’re getting into.
Lyons – Professor Kevin Lyons (Bruce Greenwood) is the world’s leading expert on criminal psychology and he can read people like a book. He is also a quirky, loud, unpredictable recluse who left people behind after the murder of his wife. When the Houston PD needs him to help stop a serial killer, he is partnered with by-the-books Detective Elaina Beckan (Lake Bell).
Maggie Hill – Meet Maggie Hill (Caitlyn Fitzgerald). She’s brilliant, sophisticated and slowly going insane. She’s the young but brilliant doctor who is the best surgeon in Pittsburg. But what Maggie Hill keeps hidden from all of her coworkers is that she suffers from schizophrenia, which hinders her but often helps her solve medical mysteries.
My Suburban Life – FBI Agent Steven Lambert (Stuart Townsend) and his wife Suzanne (Julie Benz) have a great life in Boston with their three kids. But when Steven becomes the witness in an important case his entire family is put in the witness protection program and moved to the suburbs in Oregon, where they must attempt to start a new life for themselves while fixing their troubled 15 year marriage.
On the Job – For Chicago mom Amanda Eastman (Ellen Pompeo) leaving medicine for motherhood 6 years ago was a hard move, but one she has felt helped her teenage daughter and two younger sons. When her husband Ian (Nathan Fillion), the head of medicine at a Chicago hospital becomes accused of murder for illegally selling prescription medication, Amanda returns to work at the hospital with her husband. Working with her husband at the hospital, trying to keep the social life she had and juggling raising a family proves to be a challenging task for Amanda.
Park Avenue - A dramedy about a recent college graduate (Aynsley Bobbico) becomes the assistant of a successful housewife (Jaime Ray Newman) on Park Avenue, and finds herself going to deep into the world of the elite and wealthy.
Rogue Agent – In the CIA when an agent goes rogue, they betray their promise to their country and are seen as a traitor. Their history is erased and to contact someone from their past would endanger them. When Princeton educated CIA agent Dominic Burrows (Jay Hernandez) claims to have uncovered a plot among higher-ups in the CIA to sell weapons to other countries to attack the US in hopes of starting a war, he is accused of being a spy for another country and is forced to go on the run. Intent to stop the CIA and prove his innocence. His ex-girlfriend (Jacinda Barrett) who is a CIA analyst secretly helps him and believes his story. His old boss (Regina King) does what she is told and therefore is going after Dominic. Dominic’s friend Agent TJ Darrow (Jason Winston George) has no clue where Dominic is, and is being fed false information from Agent Weston (Neal Jones) who has hidden motivations. This gritty and edgy spy drama takes the audience all around the world in search for the truth. Rogue Agent is an action-packed serialized drama about what happens when the CIA’s best uses the skills they taught him against them.
Southern Charm – A dark serial drama about a wealthy scheming Republican governor (Julian McMohan) from Kentucky who makes dirty deals and cheats on his wife (Melinda McGraw) with anyone and everyone. After a suspicious murder of a female aide, he becomes involved with the local mob, while the District Attorney (Jason Isaacs) becomes convinced that the governor murdered his aide.
Street Justice – A cocky, hotshot lawyer whose life is in the fight lane (Coby Bell), a struggling Atlanta beat cop and single dad (Skeet Ulrich), and an unethical and unpredictable investigative journalist (Sean Maguire) work together on the streets of Atlanta to solve crimes. They have been best friends since high school, and seeing the injustice in all the different areas of law they work together to solve the cases that get left behind, sometimes with the help of law and sometimes without. Street Justice is crime thriller about the bond between three best friends who grew up on the Atlanta streets and work for justice.
St. Louis Heat – Welcome to St. Louis Missouri, America’s most dangerous city. To keep law and order in a city like this, you need someone as tough as nails. Someone like Tess Johnson (Sharon Stone). After a drug scandal with the chief of police, Tess is surprisingly selected as the first female chief of police in Missouri. She’s unconventional, unethical, and completely unpredictable with a hard past. Tess struggles to get respect from the men she’s controlling, especially the Assistant Chief of Police Vincent (DB Woodside). Also working with Tess is Deputy Roy Vice (David Reese Snell) who may be her biggest supporter. Newbie Officer Holden (Scott Evans), a tough guy with a secret he keeps from the other officers, isn’t quite ready for the tough streets of St. Louis. Holden is partnered with war veteran, alcoholic and macho-guy Deputy Steven Gracen (Michael Cudlitz). Detective Vin Cooke (Steve Harris) has been working for the St. Louis PD for 20 years and knows the streets all too well. Tess will have to adapt fast to solve and stop crimes in this city, where the man beside you might not be there the next day and where your job follows you home.
Teenagers
An edgy teen drama revolving around a group of Los Angeles teenagers attending an elite prep school.
Them - a revolutionary new drama about a sleeper cell operating in the everyday environs of modern-day Los Angeles a sleeper cell from another world. They might be the friendly new neighbors next door or the office workers carpooling alongside you on the freeway. But they are nothing like us. They arrive emotionless, follow orders without question, and none of them knows the true nature of their mission on Earth. What a few of them do know, however, is that something unexpected has happened: Our emotions affect them like a dangerous, uncontrollable virus. Once indulged, any feelings they have toward us can suddenly shatter their carefully codified order. Cain Johnson (James D'Arcy) the cell's vigilant, determined Enforcer, tasked with investigating agents who "go rogue." A new arrival, he struggles to understand our strange human ways, such as why we give each other dead foliage to express tenderness. When cell agent Adam Bridges betrays his own kind because of his love for a human woman, Cain is ordered to hunt him down. In the process, while learning more about his prey and, eventually, himself, Cain begins to question the true purpose of his cell's mysterious mission on Earth is it one of mercy, or domination? And what role does he actually play in it?
World’s Worst Mother – If there were an award for bad parenting, it would surely go to one of the Adams women of Houston. Tina (Jane Curtin) had her daughter Maya (Jessalyn Gilsig) at 16, Maya had her daughter Cate (Ellary Porterfield) at 16, and now Cate has reached the precious age of sixteen to the horror of her mom and grandma. Luckily Cate is smart and precocious, more intelligent than her ditzy mom Maya who is still look for a husbanding. Watch as these three different women try to raise each other together.
Writer’s Block – A boozing, womanizing and extremely offbeat bestselling author Damien Leno (Kevin Connolly) has everything he’s ever wanted: A sexy assistant (Gillian Jacobs), a lot of money and a great best friend (Jason Segal). But when his third novel is going nowhere, the publishers send in an assistant with a deadline to force him to finish the job. The assistant Charley (Toni Collette) is opposite of Damien, she’s organized, uptight and successful. She is given a room right next to his at the hotel he lives, and must try to force him to finish his book before he drives her crazy.
10 Days - A drama about a young psychiatrist (Erinn Hayes) who suffers an emotional breakdown after the mysterious death of her banker husband (Carlos Ponce) and is convicted of the murder, but wakes up ten days prior to his murder and must work to stop his death and figure out who is trying to kill him.
40 Not Dead – Turning 40 is hell. Just ask best friends since college Scott (Brian Van Holt), Grayson (Mitch Rouse) and Deborah (Mary McCormack). Businessman and divorce Scott starts to date women half his age, while Grayson tries to spice up his suburban marriage and life with kids, and Deborah realizes that being a single business woman at 40 isn’t so easy. In some ways they all have their own mid-life crises as they try to figure out life when they’re half way dead together.
Embassy Row – Some people are born with money and some people are born with class. To be a McKinlan in America is to be born with both money and class. Lynne McKinlan (Sally Field) has entertained presidents at her house on Embassy Row for decades, as the wife of a loving and wealthy Democratic Senator who has been a landmark in the senate for nearly 30 years following in the footsteps of his grandfather who was vice president. Lynne’s greatest accomplishment though may have been raising 4 children in Washington DC. Her children were raised with all of America watching, knowing they would be political royalty. Her son Jess (Scott Speedman) is a do-gooder liberal college professor going through a nasty divorce after he had an affair, her 28 year old daughter Avery (Lizzy Caplan) is a hard-partying photographer struggling to find herself, while Avery’s twin Grant (Brandon Routh) is a very successful gay radio political commentator. When Lynne’s husband suddenly and tragically dies in a suspicious car accident that could be homicide, the family is torn apart. When brother Dean (Jonathan LaPaglia) returns from New York with his wife Michelle (Amy Jo Johnson) and daughter (Sarah Hyland) after being estranged for years and announces his candidacy for his father’s famed senate position it creates further controversy in the family. Dean has to return to DC, the place he fled so long ago, and face the one thing he always ran away from: his father’s shadow. In senate he’ll face great challenges, but he’ll face even more dealing with his powerful mother and strong-willed siblings. Embassy Row is a political drama about a famous family who grew up in the heart of the American political scene.
In My Life –Whitney Tilbert (Shiri Appleby) is a writer for Hype magazine who has been estranged from her family for 6 years and lives a dream life in Seattle. Her brother Chris (Sean Faris) is always the life of the party and at 28 years old, he could still acts like a 16 year old and depends on his parents. After their parents die in a car crash, their 15 year old sister Lea (Renee Olstead) comes to live with them. Whitney hasn’t seen her younger sister since Lea was 9. Lea is ready to make trouble, and in a new city with inexperienced guardians, it becomes easy to do so. In My Life is a new drama from Amy Sherman Palladino, the creator of Gilmore Girls, about 3 siblings growing up, at different ages.
Loving Jenny Vaughn– Jenny Vaughn (Chyler Leigh) is the beautiful, smart and funny concierge at a Miami resort. Jenny Vaughn also comes with a lot of baggage. When Jenny gets engaged to her boyfriend Justin (Zachary Levi) he moves from Colorado to Miami to live with her and he sees all the baggage she comes with. From her overbearing, wealthy, golf-loving and completely out of touch father Greg (Ed O’Neill) to her trashy coworker (Busy Phillips) who never seems to leave. Her gold-digging childhood friend Kia (Becki Newton) is impossible to deal with and feels Jenny is out of Justin’s league. Her older brother single father Liam (Eric Stonestreet) is overly protective and nearing an emotional breakdown dealing with divorce. Her best friend and ex-boyfriend (Joe Manganiello) has graduated from an Ivy League College and now works as a doctor helping immigrants, a very hard act for Justin to follow. When Justin got engaged to Jenny Vaughn he didn’t realize he was getting a package deal in this hilarious comedy about getting hitched without knowing what you’re getting into.
Lyons – Professor Kevin Lyons (Bruce Greenwood) is the world’s leading expert on criminal psychology and he can read people like a book. He is also a quirky, loud, unpredictable recluse who left people behind after the murder of his wife. When the Houston PD needs him to help stop a serial killer, he is partnered with by-the-books Detective Elaina Beckan (Lake Bell).
Maggie Hill – Meet Maggie Hill (Caitlyn Fitzgerald). She’s brilliant, sophisticated and slowly going insane. She’s the young but brilliant doctor who is the best surgeon in Pittsburg. But what Maggie Hill keeps hidden from all of her coworkers is that she suffers from schizophrenia, which hinders her but often helps her solve medical mysteries.
My Suburban Life – FBI Agent Steven Lambert (Stuart Townsend) and his wife Suzanne (Julie Benz) have a great life in Boston with their three kids. But when Steven becomes the witness in an important case his entire family is put in the witness protection program and moved to the suburbs in Oregon, where they must attempt to start a new life for themselves while fixing their troubled 15 year marriage.
On the Job – For Chicago mom Amanda Eastman (Ellen Pompeo) leaving medicine for motherhood 6 years ago was a hard move, but one she has felt helped her teenage daughter and two younger sons. When her husband Ian (Nathan Fillion), the head of medicine at a Chicago hospital becomes accused of murder for illegally selling prescription medication, Amanda returns to work at the hospital with her husband. Working with her husband at the hospital, trying to keep the social life she had and juggling raising a family proves to be a challenging task for Amanda.
Park Avenue - A dramedy about a recent college graduate (Aynsley Bobbico) becomes the assistant of a successful housewife (Jaime Ray Newman) on Park Avenue, and finds herself going to deep into the world of the elite and wealthy.
Rogue Agent – In the CIA when an agent goes rogue, they betray their promise to their country and are seen as a traitor. Their history is erased and to contact someone from their past would endanger them. When Princeton educated CIA agent Dominic Burrows (Jay Hernandez) claims to have uncovered a plot among higher-ups in the CIA to sell weapons to other countries to attack the US in hopes of starting a war, he is accused of being a spy for another country and is forced to go on the run. Intent to stop the CIA and prove his innocence. His ex-girlfriend (Jacinda Barrett) who is a CIA analyst secretly helps him and believes his story. His old boss (Regina King) does what she is told and therefore is going after Dominic. Dominic’s friend Agent TJ Darrow (Jason Winston George) has no clue where Dominic is, and is being fed false information from Agent Weston (Neal Jones) who has hidden motivations. This gritty and edgy spy drama takes the audience all around the world in search for the truth. Rogue Agent is an action-packed serialized drama about what happens when the CIA’s best uses the skills they taught him against them.
Southern Charm – A dark serial drama about a wealthy scheming Republican governor (Julian McMohan) from Kentucky who makes dirty deals and cheats on his wife (Melinda McGraw) with anyone and everyone. After a suspicious murder of a female aide, he becomes involved with the local mob, while the District Attorney (Jason Isaacs) becomes convinced that the governor murdered his aide.
Street Justice – A cocky, hotshot lawyer whose life is in the fight lane (Coby Bell), a struggling Atlanta beat cop and single dad (Skeet Ulrich), and an unethical and unpredictable investigative journalist (Sean Maguire) work together on the streets of Atlanta to solve crimes. They have been best friends since high school, and seeing the injustice in all the different areas of law they work together to solve the cases that get left behind, sometimes with the help of law and sometimes without. Street Justice is crime thriller about the bond between three best friends who grew up on the Atlanta streets and work for justice.
St. Louis Heat – Welcome to St. Louis Missouri, America’s most dangerous city. To keep law and order in a city like this, you need someone as tough as nails. Someone like Tess Johnson (Sharon Stone). After a drug scandal with the chief of police, Tess is surprisingly selected as the first female chief of police in Missouri. She’s unconventional, unethical, and completely unpredictable with a hard past. Tess struggles to get respect from the men she’s controlling, especially the Assistant Chief of Police Vincent (DB Woodside). Also working with Tess is Deputy Roy Vice (David Reese Snell) who may be her biggest supporter. Newbie Officer Holden (Scott Evans), a tough guy with a secret he keeps from the other officers, isn’t quite ready for the tough streets of St. Louis. Holden is partnered with war veteran, alcoholic and macho-guy Deputy Steven Gracen (Michael Cudlitz). Detective Vin Cooke (Steve Harris) has been working for the St. Louis PD for 20 years and knows the streets all too well. Tess will have to adapt fast to solve and stop crimes in this city, where the man beside you might not be there the next day and where your job follows you home.
Teenagers
An edgy teen drama revolving around a group of Los Angeles teenagers attending an elite prep school.
Them - a revolutionary new drama about a sleeper cell operating in the everyday environs of modern-day Los Angeles a sleeper cell from another world. They might be the friendly new neighbors next door or the office workers carpooling alongside you on the freeway. But they are nothing like us. They arrive emotionless, follow orders without question, and none of them knows the true nature of their mission on Earth. What a few of them do know, however, is that something unexpected has happened: Our emotions affect them like a dangerous, uncontrollable virus. Once indulged, any feelings they have toward us can suddenly shatter their carefully codified order. Cain Johnson (James D'Arcy) the cell's vigilant, determined Enforcer, tasked with investigating agents who "go rogue." A new arrival, he struggles to understand our strange human ways, such as why we give each other dead foliage to express tenderness. When cell agent Adam Bridges betrays his own kind because of his love for a human woman, Cain is ordered to hunt him down. In the process, while learning more about his prey and, eventually, himself, Cain begins to question the true purpose of his cell's mysterious mission on Earth is it one of mercy, or domination? And what role does he actually play in it?
World’s Worst Mother – If there were an award for bad parenting, it would surely go to one of the Adams women of Houston. Tina (Jane Curtin) had her daughter Maya (Jessalyn Gilsig) at 16, Maya had her daughter Cate (Ellary Porterfield) at 16, and now Cate has reached the precious age of sixteen to the horror of her mom and grandma. Luckily Cate is smart and precocious, more intelligent than her ditzy mom Maya who is still look for a husbanding. Watch as these three different women try to raise each other together.
Writer’s Block – A boozing, womanizing and extremely offbeat bestselling author Damien Leno (Kevin Connolly) has everything he’s ever wanted: A sexy assistant (Gillian Jacobs), a lot of money and a great best friend (Jason Segal). But when his third novel is going nowhere, the publishers send in an assistant with a deadline to force him to finish the job. The assistant Charley (Toni Collette) is opposite of Damien, she’s organized, uptight and successful. She is given a room right next to his at the hotel he lives, and must try to force him to finish his book before he drives her crazy.