18 May 2022 U.S. Broadcast TV Season For the new broadcast TV season, the U.S. networks are looking at the following 39 new pilots. Pick-ups will be announced at the Upfronts in New York City, to be held May 16-19. Updates on which series are picked up and their international distribution companies will be available at videoageinternational.com. ABC (COMEDY) Josep In this single-cam comedy, a recently divorced Filipino American nurse attempts to navigate dating, fatherhood and a very Filipino mother who loves to “help.” Production Team: Steve Joe, Jo Koy, Kourtney Kang, Jake Kasdan, Melvin Mar, Joe Meloche, Randall Park, Michael Golamco, Hieu Ho Studio: 20th Television Not Dead Yet Broke, newly single and feeling old, Nell Stevens works to restart the life and career she left behind 10 years ago. When she lands the only job she can find —writing obituaries —Nell starts getting life advice from an unlikely source. Adapted from Confessions of a Forty-Something F**ck Up by Alexandra Potter. Production Team: Casey Johnson, David Windsor, McG, Mary Viola, Corey Marsh Studio: 20th Television The Son-In-Law The single-cam comedy follows a salt of the earth man who finds himself seeking the approval of his new fiancée’s sophisticated parents — even as he’s a difficult to impress father-in-law to his daughter’s longtime boyfriend. Production Team: Ajay Saghal, Jake Kasdan, Melvin Mar Studio: 20th Television. ABC (Drama) Avalon (ordered straight to series) Based on a short story by Michael Connelly, the series takes place in the main city of Avalon on Catalina Island, where L.A. Sheriff Department Detective Nicole “Nic” Searcy heads up a small office. Detective Searcy is pulled into a careerdefining mystery that will challenge everything she knows about herself and the island. Production Team: David E. Kelley, Michael Connelly, Ross Fineman, Barry Jossen, Tana Jamieson Studio: 20th Television, A+E Studios International Distribution: Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution The Company You Keep A night of passion leads to love between con-man Charlie and undercover CIA officer Emma. While Charlie ramps up the “family business” so he can get out for good, Emma’s closing in on the vengeful criminal who holds Charlie’s family debts in-hand. Based on the Korean series My Fellow Citizens. Production Team: Julia Cohen, Milo Ventimiglia, John M. Chu, Todd Hartham, Caitlan Foito, Russ Cundiff, Lindsay Goffman, Deann Harris Studio: 20th Television L.A. Law An update of the NBC drama that sees the venerable law firm of McKenzie Brackman reinvent itself as a litigation firm specializing in only the most highprofile, boundary-pushing, and incendiary cases. Production Team: Marc Guggenheim, Ubah Mohamed, Dayna Bochco, Jesse Bochco, Blair Underwood, Anthony Hemingway Studio: 20th Television Untitled Alaska Project Revolves around a star journalist who moves to Alaska for a fresh start after a career-killing misstep and finds redemption personally and professionally after joining a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage. Production Team: Tom McCarthy, Bert Salke, Melissa Wells, Hilary Swank, Kyle Hopkins, Ryan Binkley Studio: 20th Television Untitled Kay Oyegun Project Five therapists in Philadelphia find unique ways to solve problems in their patients’ lives while grappling with their own. The owner of the practice has her life turned upside down when she begins working with a sociopathic patient who may hold the key to her sister’s disappearance. Production Team: Kay Oyegun Studio: 20th Television Untitled National Park Project A procedural that revolves around the messy lives of the agents who work for the ISB — an elite law enforcement unit responsible for solving all serious crimes that occur in our country’s 81,000 square miles of protected land. Production Team: Rashad Raisani, Barry Jossen, Tana Jamieson Studio: 20th Television, A+E Studios International Distribution: Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution Untitled Rookie Spin-Off Simone Clark is a force of nature, the living embodiment of a dream deferred — and the oldest rookie in the FBI Academy. She is a single mother of two who put her dreams on hold to make sure her kids pursued their own — and she never has shied away from a challenge or a fight. Planted spinoff follows the premise of The Rookie. Production Team: Alexi Hawley, Terence Paul Winter, Mark Gordon Studio: eOne/ABC Signature International Distribution: eOne International Will Trent (order is cast contingent) Special Agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta’s foster care system. Determined to make sure no one feels as abandoned as he was, Will Trent has the highest clearance rate in the GBI. Based on Karin Slaughter’s Will Trent series. Production Team: Liz Heldens, Dan Thomsen, Karin Slaughter Studio: 20th Television CBS (Comedy) The Hug Machine A dad gets a second chance to save both his marriage and his f lailing rock career when his band unintentionally finds success in the raucous, cutthroat world of children’s music. Production Team: Sam Laybourne, Jorma Taccone, Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Ali Bell Studio: CBS Studios International Distribution: Paramount Global Content Distribution Rust Belt News A single-camera comedy about a small Ohio town where the local newspaper goes out of business, leaving the reporters of the high school newspaper as the only people left to report on scandals and dig up corruption. Production Team: Matt Warburton, Leslie Morgenstein, Gina Girolamo Studio: Warner Bros. Television International Distribution: WBD International Sober Companion Eliza, a hot-mess alcoholic who owns a bar with her uncle in New Orleans, is forced to get her life in order when the court appoints her an upbeat sober companion with whom she has to live 24/7. Production Team: Gracie Glassmeyer, David Rosenthal, Jennie Snyder Urman, Joanna Klein, Christine Gernon Studio: CBS Studios International Distribution: Paramount Global Content Distribution Unplanned In Akron A series about two teenagers navigating parenthood in the best way they know how. With a little help from their friends and parents, they’ll learn that mistakes don’t have to derail your life. Production Team: Schuyler Helford, Emily Wilson, Samie Falvey, Erik Feig, Chris Mills, Chris Emerson Studio: CBS Studios International Distribution: Paramount Global Content Distribution CBS (Drama) Bridge City (fka Untitled Mother and Son Legal Drama) Despite their opposing personalities, a talented but directionless P.I., who is the black sheep of his family, agrees to work as the in-house investigator for his overbearing mother, a successful attorney reeling from the recent dissolution of her marriage. Production Team: Scott Prendergast, Phil McGraw, Jay McGraw, Julia Eisenman Studio: CBS Studios International Distribution: Paramount Global Content Distribution Cal Fire Seeking redemption and a shorter prison sentence, a young convict joins a program that returns him to his Northern California hometown where he and other inmates work alongside elite firefighters to extinguish massive blazes across the region. Production Team: Tony Phelan, Joan Rater, Max Thieriot, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, KristieAnne Reed, David Grae, James Strong Studio: CBS Studios International Distribution: Paramount Global Content Distribution Early Edition In the reboot of the original CBS series, an ambitious but uncompromising journalist starts receiving 2022-2023 New Series In Consideration (Continued on Page 22)
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