Playboy (NBC) – At the Playboy Club in Chicago in 1963, “bunnies” (incuding Amber Heard and Naturi Naughton) flirt with danger. Person of Interest (CBS): A presumed-dead CIA agent (Jim Caviezel) is recruited by a billionaire (Michael Emerson) to catch violent criminals in New York City. Christina Ricci, Margot Robbie, Karine Vanasse and Michael Mosley will star.ĩ. Jack Orman (“ER”) wrote the pilot and will executive-produce with Nancy Hult Ganis and Tommy Schlamme (“The West Wing”). Pan Am (ABC) – The stewardesses and pilots of the titular airline are the stars of this soap set in the Jet Age of the 1960s. Rob Corddry, Paula Marshall, Kevin Hart and Gabrielle Union star.Ĩ. “Veronica Mars”‘ Rob Thomas will write and executive-produce. Little in Common (Fox): This project revolves around families whose children play Little League together. Dave Foley, Nancy Lenehan and Rhys Darby will also star.ħ. The project comes from Hornsby (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”). How to Be a Gentleman (CBS): An uptight guy (David Hornsby) learns to live his life with the help of an old high school friend. Enrique Murciano and Stephen Tobolowsky will also star.Ħ. Jeff Wadlow will write and executive-produce with Joel Silver and “The L Word” creator Ilene Chaiken. drama tells the story of a suburban single mom (Minnie Driver) who teams up with a street hustler (Brandon T. Kyle Bornheimer, Diane Farr, Patrick Breen and Ken Howard will star.ĥ. The project comes from “Rescue Me” creator Peter Tolan. The Council of Dads (Fox): Based on the non-fiction book by Bruce Feiler, a man who learns he’s dying enlists five men to help his wife raise their two children. Ed Begley Jr., Nick Braun, Will Greenberg, Jazz Raycole, Robbie Benson and Anna Popplewell will star.Ĥ. Peter Tolan (“Rescue Me”) wrote the pilot and will executive-produce with Michael Wimer (“2012”). Brave New World (NBC): The project centers on a group of characters at Pilgrim Village, a theme park that recreates 1637 New England. Owens, Carolyn Bernstein and Todd Cohen will executive-produce.ģ. Awakening (The CW): Two sisters (Lucy Griffiths and Meredith Hagner) face off during a zombie uprising. Jorge Garcia, Sam Neill, Jonny Coyne, Jason Butler Harner, Parminder Nagra, Santiago Cabrera and Robert Forster also star.Ģ. Abrams will executive-produce and Liz Sarnoff (“Lost”) will be the showrunner. Alcatraz (Fox): A cop (Sarah Jones) and a team of FBI agents track down a group of missing Alcatraz prisoners and guards who reappear in the present day after disappearing 30 years earlier. Having taken a gander at Abrams’ decidedly comprehensive list, here’s our list of the 20 shows we’d most like to see turn up come the kickoff of the Fall 2011 season:ġ. Yes, once again, it’s pilot season: the time when the broadcast networks put all of the potential projects for the 2011 – 2012 season on the table, take a cold, hard look at what’s available to them, and decide which ones have the most potential for success come the fall…or spring, depending on how much or how little confidence they end up having in the final product.Ĭritics everywhere should be throwing parades in honor of TV Guide’s Natalie Abrams, who has done the heavy lifting for the rest of us and offered up The Complete Pilot Report, listing off all of the pilots currently in the running for ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox, and NBC, along with their creators, their premises, and the actors currently attached to them as of this writing.
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