Pilot Season 2020

The shows and the casts

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Updates, May 5

Two CBS projects will not be going forward:

drama The Lincoln Lawyer (May 2); the article revealed that LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN had been cast in the lead role of Micky Haller before production was shut down for COVID-19

comedy Fun (May 4)

Primetimer has posted

the pilot preview for At That Age

the pilot preview for Ways and Means

the pilot preview for Wreckage

their rankings of the ABC comedies

their rankings of the CBS comedies (published before the aforementioned pass on Fun)

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Casting Updates, Apr 28

JULIAN GANT, Call Me Kat

Primetimer posted their pilot preview for Clarice

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Pilot Season 2020 Remains In Limbo As Networks Mull Straight-To-Series Orders

It’s April, the month when Deadline usually launches its Pilot Panic feature, where we track buzz on the broadcast pilots as they go through production and testing. This year, there is no pil…

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Casting Updates, Apr 21

ELIZA COUPE and TOMMY DEWEY, Pivoting; Tristram Shapeero will direct

Newer Pilot Previews from Primetimer:

here, for The Big Leap

here, for Maverick

here, for The Cleaning Lady

here, for Harlem’s Kitchen

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Casting Updates, Apr 7 and 8

in Superman & Lois

EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI, Apr 7

ERIK VALDEZ, Apr 8

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Casting Updates, Apr 6

ELODIE YUNG, The Cleaning Lady

Yung replaces previously announced Shannyn Sossamon, who left the project after the first table read; the article announcing Yung’s casting also suggests that Adan Canto has joined, although no details on his role have been supplied yet. The leading role was adjusted to reflect the differences in Yung and Sossamon’s ethnicities.

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UNTITLED ELLIOT STABLER SPIN-OFF (ordered direct to series, 13 eps)

a spin-off of “Law & Order: SVU” and the extended franchise

Revolves around the NYPD organized crime unit, led by Elliot Stabler.

Cast (thus far)

Christopher Meloni will reprise his role as Elliot Stabler, which was the male lead role in the first twelve seasons of Law & Order: SVU. Alongside his partner/best friend Olivia Benson, Stabler was a dedicated and brash detective who investigated sex crimes. Stabler was married with five children. The role earned Meloni a lead actor in a drama series Emmy nomination in 2006.

Producers: Dick Wolf, Arthur W. Forney, Peter Jankowski, *Matt Olmstead

Studios: Universal Television, Wolf Entertainment

“SVU” is now finishing its 21st season and has become the longest-running US live action series on television. When Meloni left, the now tied-in Chicago franchise hadn’t even made its debut. This is the first show to come out of the massive new five-year, nine-figure, multi-platform deal Wolf signed with Universal Television last month, which includes multiple series commitments.

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Casting Updates, as of Apr 3

LESLIE JORDAN, Call Me Kat

DYLAN WALSH, Superman & Lois

note that both of the above castings are for straight-to-series orders

In other news:

NBC ordered a new series from prolific EP Dick Wolf, starring former Law & Order: SVU male colead Chris Meloni reprising his role as Elliot Stabler

Newer Pilot Previews from Primetimer:

here, for Blood Relative

here, for Echo

here, for Good Sam

here, for The Lost Boys

here, for Ordinary Joe

Apr 4 edit: here, for The Brides

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Pilot Season 2020: Networks Order Backup Scripts, May Move Toward Streaming Model Amid Coronavirus Crisis

The ongoing coronavirus health crisis is giving broadcast pilot season a jolt that might be felt long after the global pandemic is over. Following the unprecedented Hollywood shutdown over the COVI…

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Pilot Season 2020 In Turmoil Due To Coronavirus As Pilots Get Pushed

How is this for tragic irony? For decades, network executives have been trying to break out of the traditional development cycle with little success. It may take a cataclysmic event like the curren…

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Coronavirus Fears Force WarnerMedia To Join NBC & CBS Cancelation Of Live Upfronts Events – UPDATE

(UPDATED with WarnerMedia statement) Rapidly after NBC and CBS pulled the plug on their New York City Upfronts presentations, WarnerMedia has done the same. “The health and safety of the advertisin…

CBS & NBC have cancelled their live Upfronts events in New York in May, due to the Coronavirus. Currently, the plan seems to be to stream video presentations. WarnerMedia, behind the new HBO MAX platform, has also cancelled. The CW, which is a joint venture between CBSViacom and WarnerMedia, will likely follow the example, and ABC and FOX are said to be considering the matter.

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Casting Updates, Mar 12

VIOLET BRINSON & KALE CULLEY, Walker

LEX SCOTT DAVIS, Rebel

A Primetimer Pilot Preview has been posted for The Big Sky

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Casting Updates, Mar 11

TONE BELL, ANGELIQUE CABRAL, CHRISTOPHER GORHAM, MAILE FLANAGAN, MATT SHIVELY, ANNAPURNA SRIRAM & KELLY RIPA, Work Wife

SCOTT FOLEY and SIMONE RECASNER & JON RUDNITSKY, The Big Leap

ERIN RICHARDS & CHARLIE MCELVEEN, The Brides

last night, it was announced that after the table read, Shannyn Sossamon has left the lead role in The Cleaning Lady; we will update that post once her replacement is announced

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Casting Updates, Mar 10

CLARE-HOPE ASHITEY, ADRIANNA MITCHELL & PEPI SONUGA, Harlem’s Kitchen

LANDRY BENDER, IAN DUFF & FORREST GOODLUCK, The Republic of Sarah

DALE DICKEY & DIANA MARIA RIVA, Prospect

ANDY GARCIA, Rebel

SHELLEY HENNIG, ALICE LEE, TIANA OKOYE & NICK CAFERO, Crazy for You

JESSE JAMES KEITEL & NATALIE ALYN LIND, The Big Sky

X MAYO, American Auto

LUCCA DE OLIVEIRA & DEVYN A. TYLER, Clarice

MEAGHAN RATH and SADIE CALVANO & ALANNA UBACH, Jury Duty

LULU WILSON, Valley Trash

A Primetimer Pilot Preview has been posted for The Republic of Sarah

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Pilot Season 2020: The Overachievers List

It’s been a subdued broadcast pilot season, one overshadowed by the slew of high-profile launches of new streaming services, shrouded in uncertainty over a potential writers strike and hit by…

Deadline posted an article about “overachieving” producers, directors, and writers. They also pointed out the trends in English-format adaptations and movies turned into series.

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Casting Updates, Mar 9

NICOLE BYER & AARON JENNINGS, Untitled Phil Augusta

GINGER GONZAGA & VINCENT PIAZZA, The Cleaning Lady

CHRISTIAN KEYES, At That Age

MARK MOSES & PETE PLOSZEK, Maverick

GAVIN STENHOUSE & GWENDOLINE YEO, Kung Fu

RITA ANGEL TAYLOR, La Brea

GORAN VISNJIC, The Brides

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Casting Updates, Mar 6

KIMIA BEHPOORNIA, Someone Out There

JULIE BOWEN, Raised by Wolves

JOEY BRAGG, EMMA CAYMARES, AUSTIN CRUTE & RACHEL SENNOTT, My Village

RICHARD BROOKS, Echo

CHEYENNE JACKSON, Call Me Kat

SHERYL LEE RALPH & MIGUEL GOMEZ, Harlem’s Kitchen

RAMON RODRIGUEZ, Untitled Sarah Watson

JOSH SEGARRA, Night School