Here’s where all the TV pilots are now filming.
Pilot season is officially here. Project Casting has shared some of the biggest auditions, casting calls and job opportunities from Hollywood’s most anticipated projects. Filming is ramping in cities like Los Angeles, Vancouver, New York City and Atlanta. Check out the full breakdown below.
Pilot Season 2018
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, Lyndon Smith Joey King, Hayley Marie Norman, Christine Ko, Erica Cerra
Network: The CW
Location: Vancouver
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: Josh Helman, Gage Golightly, Quinta Brunson, Liam Garrigan
Network: The CW
Location: Vancouver
A Million Little Things
Logline: A dramedy about a group of friends who, for different reasons and in different ways, are all stuck in their lives, but when one of them dies unexpectedly, it’s just the wake-up call the others need to finally start living.
Cast: James Roday, David Giuntoli, Romany Malco, Christina Ochoa, Anne Son, Christina Moses, Allison Miller, Stephanie Szostak, Tristan Byon, Lizzy Green
Network: ABC
Location: Vancouver
The Mission (formerly Safe Harbor)
Logline: The series chronicles the colorful, complicated lives of cops on and off the beat as we follow them into harrowing, emotional, and often humorous situations.
Cast: Lynn Collins, Wood Harris, Aasif Mandvi, Kris D. Lofton, Josh Randall, Vanessa Vasquez, Alexander Karim, Chris Conroy, Aidan Wotjak-Hissong
Network: ABC
Location: Vancouver
Take Two (straight to series order)
Logline: Take Two revolves around Ella, the former star of a hit cop series who is fresh out of rehab following a bender of epic proportion. Desperate to restart her career, she talks her way into shadowing rough-and-tumble private investigator Eddie as research for a potential comeback role. Although lone wolf Eddie resents the babysitting gig, high-spirited Ella proves herself to be surprisingly valuable, drawing on her acting skills and 200 episodes of playing a detective. When the press touts Ella’s role in solving a high-profile case, Eddie finds his phone ringing off the hook with new clients looking to hire the pair.
Cast: Rachel Bilson, Eddie Cibrian, Aliyah O’Brien, Alice Lee
Network: ABC
Location: Vancouver
In Between Lives
Logline: A mysterious young woman reluctantly uses her gift of clairvoyance to help a veteran LAPD detective and a damaged ex-FBI outsider solve the most unnerving and challenging cases the city encounters. This eerie ability also opens the door for her to see and talk to the dead, who are seeking help for unresolved problems, whether she likes it or not.
Cast: Harriet Dyer, Yusuf Gatewood, Cindy Luna
Network: NBC
Location: Vancouver
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
Network: The CW
Location: Vancouver
The Fix
Logline: After losing the biggest case of her career and being shredded by the media, former prosecutor Maya Travis has left Los Angeles for a quiet life in rural Oregon. Eight years after her devastating defeat, the killer strikes again, forcing Maya to return to Los Angeles to confront him one more time. Will she play by the rules, or will she do whatever it takes to get him behind bars? Part legal thriller, part confessional, part revenge fantasy.
Cast: Robin Tunney, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Adam Rayner, Scott Cohen, Breckin Meyer, Merrin Dungey, Mouzam Makkar, Marc Blucas, Alex Saxon
Network: ABC
Location: Los Angeles
The Rookie (straight to series)
Logline: Inspired by a true story, The Rookie centers on John Nolan, the oldest rookie in the LAPD. At an age where most are at the peak of their career, Nolan cast aside his comfortable, small-town life and moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of being a cop. Now, surrounded by rookies 20 years his junior, he must navigate the dangerous, humorous and unpredictable world of a “young” cop, determined to make his second shot at life count.
Cast: Nathan Fillion, Melissa O’Neil, Eric Winter, Afton Williamson, Richard T. Jones, Alyssa Diaz, Mercedes Mason, Titus Makin
Network: ABC
Location: Los Angeles
The Greatest American Hero
Logline: Inspired by the 1980s TV show the comedy centers around Meera, a 30-year-old woman who loves tequila and karaoke and has spent her life searching and failing to find meaning, much to the chagrin of her traditional Indian-American family. An inexplicable event occurs that will change the course of Meera’s life forever: She is entrusted with a super suit to protect the planet. Meera may have finally found purpose, but the world has never been in more unreliable hands.
Cast: Hannah Simone (New Girl), George Wendt, Gia Sandhu, Zenobia Shroff, Shoniqua Shandai, Dennis Andres, Ellie Reed, Humphrey Ker
Network: ABC
Location: Los Angeles
Most Likely To
Logline: In high school, Liz Cooney had everything and Markie McQueen had nothing. 20 years later, they’re reunited under the same roof as single moms and unlikely housemates.
Cast: Yvette Nicole Brown, Lesli Margherita (Homeland), Laya DeLeon Hayes
Network: ABC
Location: Los Angeles
Single Parents
Logline: A group of dysfunctional single parents lean on each other as they raise their kids, look for love, and ultimately realize survival is only possible with the help of each other.
Cast: Taran Killam, Leighton Meester, Brad Garrett, Jake Choi, Kimrie Lewis, Marlow Barkley, Tyler Wladis
Network: ABC
Location: Los Angeles
Steps
Logline: Four adults in three houses raise three kids after two divorces together. Based on the Swedish format, Bonus Family.
Cast: Ginnifer Goodwin, Barry Rothbart, Kyle Bornheimer
Network: ABC
Location: Los Angeles
Untitled Justin Noble
Logline: Based on the book and blog How May We Hate You, the workplace ensemble comedy centers on two guest service associates at a high-end resort and the co-workers and guests that they are stuck with for eight to 16 hours a day.
Cast: Kat Dennings, Elizabeth Ho, Angela Kinsey, Derek Richardson, Jason Michael Snow
Network: ABC
Location: Los Angeles
Untitled Kenya Barris (Straight to series order)
Logline: A dysfunctional family comedy about a stuck-in-his-ways and opinionated fading TV star who moves in with his progressive daughter, her girlfriend and the child they are raising together.
Cast: Alec Baldwin
Network: ABC
Location: Los Angeles
Untitled Tim Doyle project
Logline: The comedy is set in the 1970s and revolves around an Irish-Catholic family with a working-class dad, traditional mom and eight boisterous sons who navigate changes big and small during one of America’s most turbulent decades.
Cast: Michael Cudlitz, Mary McCormack, Christopher Paul Richards, Jack Gore, Sam Straley, Caleb Martin Foote, Andy Walken, Sawyer Barth, Santino Barnard
Network: ABC
Location: Los Angeles
Cagney and Lacey
Logline: In this reboot of the iconic series, two female police detectives and friends keep the streets of L.A. safe.
Cast: Sarah Drew, Michelle Hurd
Network: CBS
Location: Los Angeles
Chiefs
Logline: The professional and personal lives of three driven, successful, but very different women who are each chiefs of police of their own precincts in L.A. county.
Cast: Jorja Fox, Alana De La Garza, Aunjanue Ellis, Michael Trucco
Network: CBS
Location: Los Angeles
L.A. Confidential
Logline: James Ellroy’s novel gets a 2018 treatment in terms of tone, music and style. The paths of three homicide detectives, a female reporter and an up-and-coming actress intersect while the detectives pursue a sadistic serial killer among the secrets and lies of glamorous and gritty 1950s Los Angeles.
Cast: Brian J. Smith, Walton Goggins, Mark Webber, Shea Whigham, Alane Arenas, Sarah Jones
Network: CBS
Location: Los Angeles
Fam
Logline: A woman’s dreams of an upstanding life with her new fiancé and his upstanding family are dashed when her younger train wreck half-sister comes to live with her to escape their train wreck of a father.
Cast: Nina Dobrev, Tone Bell, Odessa Adlon, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Sheryl Lee Ralph
Network: CBS
Location: Los Angeles
Welcome to the Neighborhood
Logline: The nicest guy in the Midwest moves his family into a tough neighborhood in L.A. where not everyone appreciates his extreme neighborliness.
Cast: Cedric the Entertainer, Sheaun McKinney, Marcel Spears
Network: CBS
Location: Los Angeles
I Mom So Hard
Logline: Based on the popular web series of the same name, two moms show how their friendship gets them through being wives and mothers.
Cast: Kristin Hensley, Jen Smedley, Freddie Prinze Jr., David Flynn, Tymberlee Hill
Network: CBS
Location: Los Angeles
Pandas in New York
Logline: A family of Indian doctors with a successful group practice in New York City embark on a project to arrange their youngest son’s life, unaware he’s made plans of his own.
Cast: Nishi Munshi, Hina Abdullah, Dan O’Brien, Bernard White, Gita Reddy
Network: CBS
Location: Los Angeles
25
Logline: Twenty-something Kyle comes to Austin to finally convince his old best friend from camp they are perfect for each other. Unfortunately, she just got engaged. A lot of guys would give up; Kyle is not one of those guys. But to Kyle’s surprise, even though he came to town looking for “the one,” he might end up with much more than that.
Cast: Emily Osment, Matt Shively
Network: CBS
Location: Los Angeles
Untitled Austen Earl and Tim McAuliffe
Logline: A 30-something couple, tired of their mundane life, start to reconnect with their younger, cooler selves when an emerging pop star, who is drawn to their super normal suburban life, moves in.
Cast: Damon Wayans Jr., Felix Mallard
Network: CBS
Location: Los Angeles
Untitled Erin Foster (fka Daddy Issues)
Logline: Loosely based on Erin Foster’s life, the comedy revolves around Andi, 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, Don Johnson, Janina Gavankar, Jane Leeves, Christine Woods
Network: Fox
Location: Los Angeles
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
Network: Fox
Location: Los Angeles
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: Beth Behrs, Lea Thompson, Charles Parnell, Saidah Arrika
Network: Fox
Location: Los Angeles
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: Callie Hernandez, Madeline Stowe
Network: Fox
Location: Los Angeles
Abby’s
Logline: Abby’s is an unlicensed bar in San Diego where the regulars enthusiastically enforce a unique set of rules that give them a sense of community and allow them to avoid the frustrating behavior found at other establishments.
Cast: Natalie Morales, Nelson Franklin, Jessica Chaffin, Leonard Ouzts, Kimia Behpoornia
Network: NBC
Location: Los Angeles
Friends-in-Law
Logline: Brian and Jake are polar opposites who must quickly figure out how to coexist when their respective best friends decide to get married.
Cast: Devere Rogers, John Gemberling, Nicole Parker
Network: NBC
Location: Los Angeles
Guess Who Died
Logline: Norman Lear has shown that the secret to longevity is to continue learning and growing at every point in life, but especially when society expects you to slow down. Based on his personal experiences and in partnership with the authentic, irreverent voice of Peter Tolan, the comedy is a humorous and inspiring look at the shared joys and challenges we all experience at any stage of life.
Cast: Holland Taylor, Hector Elizondo, Christopher Lloyd, Adrian Martinez, Beth Lacke
Network: NBC
Location: Los Angeles
Like Family
Logline: Aubrey and Artie formed the tightest of sibling-like bonds growing up together in foster care, but are discovering that such closeness makes adulthood even more complicated.
Cast: Brandon Mychal Smith, Kether Donohue, Blake Anderson, Rebecca Mader
Network: NBC
Location: Los Angeles
So Close
Logline: At crossroads in their separate lives, hopeless romantics Riley (Sasheer Zamata) and Kyle (Sean Kleier) are close to settling for the wrong partner, unaware that they live only blocks apart and may be each other’s soul mates.
Cast: Sasheer Zamata, Sean Kleier, Punam Patel, Sabrina Carpenter, Dan Bucatinsky
Network: NBC
Location: Los Angeles
Untitled Bad Boys spinoff
Logline: Free-spirited former DEA agent Syd Burnett (Gabrielle Union, reprising her role from Bad Boys II) has a fresh start in her new job as an LAPD detective. She is partnered with Nancy McKenna (Jessica Alba), a working mom who can’t help but look at Syd’s freedom with some grass-is-greener envy. These two have totally different lifestyles and approaches, but they both are at the top of their fields in the action-packed, character-driven procedural.
Cast: Gabrielle Union, Jessica Alba, Ernie Hudson, Ryan McPartlin
Network: NBC
Location: Los Angeles
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, Samantha Logan, Bre-Z, Greta Onieogou
Network: The CW
Location: Los Angeles
Get Christie Love
Logline: An action-packed, music-driven drama that centers on Christie Love, an African-American CIA agent who leads an elite ops unit. She transforms into whomever she needs to be to get the job done, especially when it’s down to the wire and the stakes are life and death. The high-adrenaline missions of the drama are anchored by an emotional mystery about Christie’s first love — unearthing the truth about this relationship will be the biggest mission impossible of her life. Inspired by the TV movie and subsequent series starring Teresa Graves that aired on ABC in the 1970s.
Cast: Kylie Bunbury, Khandi Alexander, Julia Kelly, Camille Guaty, Thomas Cocquerel, Shea Buckner, Juan Javier Cardenas, Steven Weber, Lisseth Chavez, Dennis Oh
Network: ABC
Location: New York
The Finest (formerly untitled Holmes sisters)
Logline: A drama that explores the lives of five African-American sisters, all officers in the NYPD, as they face the challenges of their high-risk jobs while juggling the responsibilities of marriage, motherhood and family.
Cast: Amirah Vann, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Frances Turner, Michael Beach, Zoe Robins, Aubin Wise, Eric Balfour, Dorian Missick, Gerard Celasco, Leigh-Ann Rose
Network: ABC
Location: New York
The Code
Logline: The military’s brightest minds take on the country’s toughest challenges — inside the courtroom and out — where each attorney is trained as a prosecutor, a defense lawyer, an investigator — and a Marine.
Cast: Dave Annable, Phillipa Soo, Anna Wood, Ato Essandoh
Network: CBS
Location: New York
FBI (Straight to series order)
Logline: Explores the inner-workings of the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Cast: Missy Peregrym, Jeremy Sisto, Zeeko Zaki, Connie Nielsen, Ebonee Noel
Network: CBS
Location: New York
God Friended Me
Logline: Questions of faith, existence and science are explored in what is described as a humorous, uplifting drama about an outspoken atheist whose life is turned upside down when he is “friended” by God on Facebook. Unwittingly, he becomes an agent of change in the lives and destinies of others around him.
Cast: Brandon Micheal Hall, Joe Morton, Javicia Leslie, Suraj Sharma
Network: CBS
Location: New York
Main Justice
Logline: Inspired by the life and work of former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. The U.S. Attorney General takes viewers into the tumultuous world of the fifth floor of the Department of Justice where he takes on the biggest legal and investigative cases in the country all while being the youngest person to ever hold such an esteemed position.
Cast: Bokeem Woodbine, Timothy Hutton, Peter Gallagher, Deborah Ayorinde
Network: CBS
Location: New York
Murder
Logline: A fresh take on the investigative drama, the potential series explores crime through the unique and often conflicting perspectives of cops and killers, witnesses and victims, friends and family. Shot like a true crime documentary, the series invites the audience inside the emotional journey of an investigation, allowing them to discern the truth and judge the suspects’ guilt or innocence for themselves.
Cast: Michael Chiklis, Teyonah Parris, Luna Lauren Velez, Pallavi Sharda, Leonard Roberts, Andrea Demetriades, Jennifer Mudge
Network: CBS
Location: New York
Murphy Brown (Straight to series order)
Logline: A current-day 13-episode revival of the network’s classic comedy. As the series approaches its 30th anniversary, the revival returns to a world of cable news, social media, fake news and a very different political and cultural climate.
Cast: Candice Bergen, Faith Ford, Joe Regalbuto, Grant Shaud
Network: CBS
Location: New York
Untitled Bellevue hospital project
Logline: Inspired by Dr. Eric Manheimer’s memoir Twelve Patients: Life & Death at Bellevue Hospital, it’s a character-driven medical drama that revolves around the new director of Bellevue Hospital (The Blacklist’s Ryan Eggold), whose maverick approach disrupts the status quo while always prioritizing patient care. Located in Manhattan, Bellevue is the only hospital in the world that has the capability to treat Ebola patients, prisoners from Rikers Island and the president of the United States all under one roof.
Cast: Ryan Eggold, Janet Montgomery, Tyler Labine, Jocko Sims (first position to TNT’s The Last Ship)
Network: NBC
Location: New York
Manifest
Logline: In this character-driven, high-concept mystery thriller, a plane disappears from radar and returns years later after being untraceable and presumed lost at sea. No time has passed for those on the plane, but for their loved ones at home, many years have gone by. The series follows their personal lives as well as the larger mystery and purpose that is their destiny.
Cast: Josh Dallas (Once Upon a Time), Melissa Roxburgh (Valor), J.R. Ramirez, Athena Karkanis, Parveen Kaur, Luna Blaise
Network: NBC
Location: New York (pilot only)
The Village
Logline: Despite differences in age, race, culture and lifestyle, the residents of a Manhattan apartment building find that the more their lives intertwine, the more complex and compelling their connections become, thus proving life’s challenges are better faced alongside family, even if it’s the one you make wherever you find it. All under one roof we will meet a recovering war vet, a pregnant teenage girl and her single mom, a cop with an unexpected love interest, a woman hiding a terrifying secret from her husband and a millennial lawyer who might find his grandfather is the best and worst roommate he ever could have hoped for.
Cast: Moran Atias, Michaela McManus, Frankie Faison, Jerod Haynes, Grace Van Dien, Warren Christie, Daren Kagasoff, Lorraine Toussant, Dominic Chianese
Network: NBC
Location: New York
Red Line
Logline: After a white cop in Chicago mistakenly shoots and kills a black doctor, we follow three different families that all have connections with the case as the story is told from each perspective.
Cast: Noah Wyle, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Noel Fisher, Michael Patrick Thornton, Vinnie Chhibber, Howard Charles, Elizabeth Laidlaw
Network: CBS
Location: Chicago (pilot only)
Untitled Ilene Chaiken and Melissa Scrivner Love
Logline: FBI special agent Hazel 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,” Hazel Otis — wife, mother, patriot — begins to rebuild her personal life and professional reputation.
Cast: Katie Holmes, James Tupper, Rose Rollins, Mark Moses, Ian Harding, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Christian Camargo, Paul Walter Hauser
Network: Fox
Location: Chicago
For Love
Logline: Five years ago, Hope Castille’s fiancé was killed. This morning she received a phone call from him. An epic love triangle set against a grounded, secret world of magic in present day New Orleans.
Cast: Lex Scott Davis, Ethan Peck, Jon Ecker, Luke Arnold, Rachel Skarsten, Isabella Russo, Chloe Wepper, Wole Parks
Network: ABC
Location: New Orleans
False Profits
Logline: Follows a team of down-and-out women in suburban Arizona as they fight their way to the top of the cutthroat world of a multi-level marketing cosmetics business.
Cast: Bellamy Young, Vanessa Williams, Kosha Patel, Kapil Talwalkar, Shelley Hennig, Ben Lawson, Mark L. Young, Marcus Coloma
Network: ABC
Location: Dallas (pilot only)
Salvage
Logline: Ex-cop Jimmy Hill just wants to be left alone after moving back home in rural Florida. But when a local murder is linked to the sunken treasure of a lost Spanish galleon, he’s drawn into the investigation by an idealistic deputy and pitted against the powerful town patriarch, outside criminal agents, and his own father.
Cast: Toby Kebbell, Charity Wakefield, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Jim Belushi, Will Patton, Jim Kaplan, Lacretta, Emily Althaus, Joelle Carter, Evan Parke
Network: ABC
Location: South Carolina
Staties
Logline: The drama revolves around hard-charging NYPD detective Eliza Cortez, who is banished to the boonies after a high-profile mistake and is paired with a new partner, Oregon state trooper Sam King (Andy Karl). Sam’s investigative techniques don’t exactly follow protocol, as evidenced by his talking to trees for clues and his obsession with flying kites. Eliza is a fish-out-of-water in this police procedural set in an eccentric town of quirky characters in coastal Oregon.
Cast: Andy Karl, Annie Ilonzeh, David Zayas, Jennifer Aspen, Alexander Sokovikov, Ava Capri, Justin Johnson Cortez, Ava Capri
Network: ABC
Location: Portland
Magnum P.I.
Logline: An update of the classic television series set in Hawaii, the reboot follows Thomas Magnum, a decorated ex-Navy SEAL who, upon returning home from Afghanistan, repurposes his military skills to become a private investigator.
Cast: Jay Hernandez, Perdita Weeks
Network: CBS
Location: Hawaii
The Passage
Logline: Based on the best-selling trilogy by Justin Cronin, the drama begins as a character-driven government conspiracy thriller and morphs into a post-apocalyptic saga with vampires. The potential series spans over a century and focuses on a young girl named Amy who must save the human race. 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, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Saniyya Sidney, Brianne Howey, Jamie McShane, Caroline Chikezie Genesis Rodriguez, BJ Britt, Jennifer Ferrin
Network: Fox
Location: Atlanta
Suspicion
Logline: A Hitchcockian thriller about how far one man will go to save the people he loves. After Danny Goldman accepts a handshake loan from his new friend and millionaire neighbor, he gets a visit from the FBI and learns that the decision is one he will regret for the rest of his life. Coerced to work as an informant for the FBI to earn back his freedom, Danny is forced to infiltrate a world of violence and corruption while trying to protect his family. Based on the book by Joseph Finder.
Cast: Derek Luke, Raul Esparza, Jeri Ryan, Paula Newsome
Network: NBC
Location: Boston (pilot only)
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, Kathleen York, Derek Webster, Austin Nichols
Network: The CW
Location: Toronto
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, Clara Lago, Luke Youngblood, Curran Walters
Network: The CW
Location: Toronto
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, Nathan Parsons, Lily Cowles, Michael Vlamis, Tyler Blackburn, Heather Hemmens, Michael Trevino
Network: The CW
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Grand Hotel
Logline: Based on the Spanish format. A soapy drama set against the backdrop of a Miami Beach hotel, centering around the family who owns the business, the staff who run it, and the explosive secrets they hide under the perfect exterior.
Cast: Demian Bichir, Roselyn Sanchez, Denyse Tontz, Chris Warren, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Shalim Ortiz, Bryan Craig, Anne Winters, Lincoln Younes
Network: ABC
Location: TBD
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: Sarah Wright Olsen, Matt Barr, Ben Aldridge
Network: The CW
Location: TBD
Bright Futures
Logline: Revolves around a group of friends stumbling through the transition from the clueless, immature 2 TBD0-somethings they are now to the successful professionals they’re destined to be.
Cast: TBD
Network: NBC
Location: TBD
Untitled Aseem Batra
Logline: A half-hour comedy that shows one woman’s hilarious unfiltered take on the side effects of trying to have it all. Inspired by Orli Auslander’s book I Feel Bad: All Day. Every Day. About Everything.
Cast: Sarayu Blue, Paul Adelstein, Zach Cherry, James Buckley, Johnny Pemberton
Network: NBC
Location: TBD
The Enemy Within
Logline: A character-driven investigative thriller set in the world of counterintelligence. It revolves around former CIA agent Erica Wolfe, the most notorious traitor in modern history and most-hated woman in America whom the FBI releases from federal super-max prison, enlisting her to help stop some of the most dangerous acts of espionage threatening the U.S. today.
Cast: Jennifer Carpenter, Morris Chestnut, Raza Jaffrey, Cassandra Freeman, Kelli Garner
Network: NBC
Location: TBD
The Gilded Age (Straight to series order)
Logline: The Gilded Age in 1880s New York City was a period of immense social upheaval, of huge fortunes made and lost, and of palaces that spanned the length of Fifth Avenue.
Cast: TBD
Netowkr: NBC
Location: TBD
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 (The Originals’ Joseph Morgan) and Angela Gennaro (Peyton List, Frequency) right wrongs the law can’t in the working-class Boston borough of Dorchester.
Cast: Joseph Morgan (The Originals), Peyton List (Frequency), Christine Lahti, Laysla De Oliveira, April Bowlby
Location: TBD
Untitled David Elliot/Danny Strong
Logline: A legal drama set at a wrongful conviction firm. Led by a fierce and fearless female lawyer (Rachelle Lefevre) 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: Vincent Kartheiser, Russell Hornsby, Rachelle Lefevre, Riley Smith
Netowrk: Fox
Location: TBD
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
Network: Fox
Location: TBD
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, Angel Laketa Moore
Fox
Location: TBD
History of Them
Logline: A multicultural ensemble about how two friends, Luna (Ana Villafane) and Adam, meet and fall in love, using the couple’s social media as a guide.
Cast: Ana Villafane, Lisa Vidal, Felix Solis, Amit Shah, Caitlin McGee, Chris Powell
Network: CBS
Location: TBD
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
Network: Fox
Location: TBD
Four Rivers
Logline: Rebecca (Annaleigh Ashford, Masters of Sex) left her family’s Texas ranch years ago to work at an upscale hotel in New York, but after being promised ownership of the ranch by her smooth-talking cowboy dad Beau (John Larroquette), she’s back and ready to utilize her big city tactics to turn their rustic ranch into a destination spot oozing Southern hospitality. Getting her siblings to fall in line with her vision will be the real thorn in Rebecca’s side. And that’s going to be even harder once Beau reveals a life-changing family secret.
Cast: Annaleigh Ashford, John Larroquette, Stephanie Styles, Shakira Barrera
Network: ABC
Location: TBD
Untitled Bobby Bowman
Logline: Inspired by Bowman’s childhood growing up with a father with mental illness, the comedy revolves around a dysfunctional family that perseveres despite their differences and finds happiness in unexpected places.
Cast: Brooke Elliott, Carson White, Johnny Sneed, Brenna D’Amico
Network: ABC
Location: TBD
Whiskey Cavalier
Logline: A high-octane hourlong action dramedy that follows the adventures of tough but tender FBI super-agent Will Chase who, following an emotional breakup, is assigned to work with badass CIA operative Francesca “Frankie” Trowbridge. Together, they lead an inter-agency team of flawed, funny, heroic spies who periodically save the world (and each other) while navigating the rocky roads of friendship, romance and office politics.
Cast: Scott Foley, Lauren Cohan, Ana Ortiz, Tyler James Williams, Vir Das
Network: ABC
Location: TBD
Man of the House
Logline: A multicamera hybrid family comedy about two recently divorced sisters who decide to move in together to raise their kids under one roof. The oldest kid and only son is left to figure out what manhood means in a world where he’s now completely surrounded by females.
Cast: Alyson Hannigan, Leslie Bibb
Network: ABC
Location: TBD
