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The Networks' Official 74 Pilots for 2017-18

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ABC COMEDY

CHARLIE FOXTROT (single camera)
Captain Charlie Taylor is a cautious, lovable dentist stationed at Fort Bragg who promises to look after his brother’s impulsive fiancée and her two misfit teens while the brother is deployed in Iraq. CAST: Jason Biggs, Anna Ortiz, Swoozie Kurtz.

HOUSEHOLD NAME (multi-camera)
A family gets a chance to buy the house of their dreams but under extremely abnormal circumstances: They must live with the current owner — an eccentric, larger-than-life actress — until she dies. CAST: Carol Burnett, Mary Holland, Matt Oberg, Timothy Omundson.

JALEN VS. EVERYBODY (single camera)
Follows former NBA star and current TV personality Jalen Rose as he juggles his career responsibilities with the challenges of being a single dad. CAST: Jalen Rose, Anna Maria Horsford, Marla Gibbs, Kelly Jenrette, Laysla de Oliveira, Jessica McKenna, Rich Sommer.

LIBBY AND MALCOLM (single camera)
Two polar opposite political pundits fall in love despite all odds and form an insta-family as well as a work partnership. CAST: Felicity Huffman, Courtney B. Vance, Caitlin McGee.

LOSING IT (single camera)
Three misfit adult siblings and their parents who — between divorce, new parenthood, early-onset dementia and let’s just say life — are all losing it in different ways. And family is the only way they’re going to find it. CAST: Natalie Morales.

RAISED BY WOLVES (single camera)
Sheila Gable is one tough mother struggling to support her five opinionated, eccentric kids on a shoestring budget in a Midwestern town. Based on the UK series. CAST: Georgia King.

SPLITTING UP TOGETHER (single camera)
The story of a couple whose marriage is reignited by their divorce. Based on the 2016 Danish series. CAST: Jenna Fischer, Oliver Hudson.

START UP (single camera)
Alex Schuman is an inquisitive journalist, husband and father who dives headfirst into the brave new world of entrepreneurship when he quits his stable job and starts his own business. Based on the podcast. CAST: Zach Braff, Tiya Sircar.

UNTITLED BLACK-ISH SPIN-OFF PROJECT (single camera) [backdoor pilot]
Potential spin-off series which would focus on Yara Shahidi's Zoey Johnson in college. CAST: Yara Shahidi.

UNTITLED CITY MAYOR PROJECT (single camera)
When an outspoken, idealistic rapper runs for office as a publicity stunt and actually gets elected, he surprises everyone (including himself) when he has a natural knack for the job and slowly transforms City Hall. CAST: Brandon Micheal Hall, Lea Michele.

UNTITLED THE GOLDBERGS SPINOFF (single camera)
Set in the 1990s, it follows two high school teachers who become unlikely father figures to the kids at their Philadelphia school, the same school Adam of The Goldbergs graduated from. One of the teachers is coach Mr. Mellor, a recurring character on Goldbergs. CAST: Bryan Callen.

UNTITLED SINGLE DAD PROJECT (single camera)
An intellectual but emotionally challenged single dad moves to Queens with his two young daughters and forms an unlikely family with the other residents in their apartment building. CAST: Rob Riggle.

ABC DRAMA

BLUEGRASS/BLOOD RED
The sheriff of colorful small town Oxblood, KY, finds her red-state outlook challenged when a young FBI agent of Middle Eastern descent is sent to help her solve a horrific crime. Together they form an uneasy alliance as the sheriff takes the agent behind the lace curtains of this Southern gothic community to meet an assortment of bizarre characters, each with a secret of their own. CAST: Reba McEntire, Saamer Usmani, Jack Coleman, Ryan McPartlin, Ben Esler, Natalie Hall, Saidah Ekulona, W. Earl Brown.

THE CROSSING
Refugees from a war-torn country start showing up to seek asylum in an American town. Only the country these people are from is America and the war they are fleeing is 250 years in the future. The local sheriff with a past, a federal agent and a mother in search of her missing refugee daughter drive this allegory with a surprising conspiracy at the center. CAST: Sandrine Holt.

DECEPTION
When his career is ruined by scandal, superstar magician Cameron Black has only one place to turn to practice his art of deception, illusion and influence: the FBI. He’ll become the world’s first consulting illusionist, helping the government solve crimes that defy explanation and trap criminals and spies by using deception. CAST: Jack Cutmore-Scott, Ilfenesh Hadera, Amaury Nolasco, Lenora Crichlow.

DOOMSDAY
In the aftermath of 9/11, the U.S. government institutes a secret think tank featuring the most creative minds in science and entertainment that is tasked with dreaming up man-made disaster scenarios and their possible solutions. Because the hypothetical ideas are deemed extremely dangerous, the list is sealed and the program shut down. But when a catastrophe occurs that’s ripped from the pages of the missing doomsday book, the team is brought back years later to prevent the disasters of their own making. CAST: Jack Davenport, Rachelle Lefevre, Dan Byrd, Taye Diggs.

THE GOOD DOCTOR
A young surgeon with Savant syndrome is recruited into the pediatric surgical unit of a prestigious hospital. The question will arise: Can a person who doesn’t have the ability to relate to people actually save their lives? CAST: Freddie Highmore, Antonia Thomas, Nicholas Gonzalez.

THE GOSPEL OF KEVIN
Kevin is a down-on-his-luck man who is tasked by God with a mission to save the world. CAST: Jason Ritter.

LAS REINAS
Detective Sonya De La Reina is forced to confront her past when a case compels her to reconnect with her estranged family – the most powerful criminal outfit in Miami. Thrust back into the world she thought she had left behind, Sonya must walk the murky line between the law and her family, and question her true destiny as a De La Reina. CAST: Daniella Alonso, Sonia Braga, John Corbett.

MARVEL’S INHUMANS
Ordered straight to series, eight episodes; first two to premiere in Imax theaters.
The Inhumans are a race of superhumans with diverse and singularly unique powers, and the TV series will explore the never-before-told epic adventure of Black Bolt and the royal family. CAST: Anson Mount, Iwan Rheon, Serinda Swan.

SALAMANDER
A brilliant but misanthropic engineer recruits a skeptical Homeland Security agent to help him track a mysterious bank robber whose theft of 66 specific safety deposit boxes, belonging to the elite and powerful, sets in motion a series of blackmails that might be linked to a greater conspiracy. Based on the 2012 Belgian series. CAST: Allison Miller.

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN
Ordered straight to series, 10 episodes.
Superstar news producer and fiercely loving mom Laura Price isn’t crazy: She knows her daughter Serena is going to be murdered. She doesn’t know who the murderer is or why she’ll be killed, but she knows exactly when it will happen, where and how. Despite this, all of her attempts to keep her daughter safe fail, and Serena’s fixed, unmovable, terrifying fate keeps her directly in the path of her killer. CAST: Paula Patton.

TEN DAYS IN THE VALLEY (off-cycle 10-episode straight-to-series order)
Centers on Jane Sadler, an overworked television producer and single mother dealing with a fractious separation. When her young daughter goes missing in the middle of the night, Jane's world — and her controversial police series — implodes. Life imitates art: Everything's a mystery, everyone has a secret and no one can be trusted. CAST: Kyra Sedgwick, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Josh Randall, Abigail Pniowsky, Mark L. Young, Emily Kinney, Ali Liebert.

THE TRUSTEE
A driven but stubborn detective finds unlikely help from her precinct’s trustee, a larger-than-life ex-con finishing out her prison sentence doing menial tasks for the police department. Although these two have completely opposing views on crime and punishment, a successful partnership is born. CAST: Meaghan Rath.

UNIT ZERO
Jackie Fink is a brilliant but unassuming CIA engineer and single mom who leads a team of desk jockeys into the field as secret agents. Overlooked in the workplace, their invisibility makes them perfect for the CIA’s most covert missions. CAST: Toni Collette, Kimberly Hébert Gregory, Rob Huebel.

UNTITLED PAUL WILLIAMS DAVIES/SHONDALAND PROJECT
Set in the Southern District of New York Federal Court, aka “The Mother Court,” legal drama follows brand-new lawyers working on opposite sides — for both the defense and the prosecution — as they handle the most high-profile and high-stakes cases in the country, all as their personal lives intersect. CAST: Britne Oldford, Ben Rappaport, Anna Deavere Smith, Susannah Flood, Wesam Keesh, Hope Davis, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Regé-Jean Page.

CBS COMEDY

9J, 9K AND 9L (multi-camera)
Inspired by a time in Mark Feuerstein’s adult life when he lived in apartment 9K in the building he grew up in, sandwiched between his parents’ apartment, 9J, and his brother, sister-in-law and their baby’s apartment, 9L, and his attempts to set boundaries with his intrusive but well-meaning family. CAST: Mark Feuerstein, David Walton, Liza Lapira, Matt Murray.

BROTHERED UP (multi-camera)
An emotionally guarded African-American cop gets partnered with an emotionally available Pakistani cop and they are forced to find a way to connect as they patrol a Detroit neighborhood. CAST: Adhir Kalyan.

DISTEFANO (multi-camera/hybrid)
Izzy and Chris are twentysomethings raising their newborn daughter and merging their loud families – one Puerto Rican, one Italian. Inspired by the comedy of Chris Distefano. CAST: Chris Distefano, Annie Potts, Diane Guerrero.

HANNAH ROYCE’S QUESTIONABLE CHOICES (single camera)
A woman has made some interesting choices throughout her life – namely, having three kids with three different men – but all have led her to having a very unique, loving, blended family. CAST: Alice Eve, James Earl.

LIVING BIBLICALLY (multi-camera)
A modern-day man at a crossroads in his life decides to live according to the Bible. Based on A.J. Jacobs’ bestseller The Year of Living Biblically. CAST: Ian Gomez.

ME, MYSELF AND I (single camera)
Examines one man’s life over a 50-year span, focusing on three distinct periods: as a 14-year-old in 1991, a 40-year-old in present day and a 65-year-old in 2042. CAST: Bobby Moynihan, Brian Unger, Kelen Coleman.

REAL LIFE (multi-camera)
Chronicles the relationship of two twentysomethings who go from being co-workers on opposite coasts to working in the same office. CAST: Rebecca Rittenhouse.

CBS DRAMA

EL JEFE
A multi-generational members of a Mexican-American family with deep roots in San Diego intertwine personally and professionally due to their powerful careers in law enforcement. CAST: David Castaneda, Roberto Aguire.

THE GET
A team of tireless Internet journalists pursue and expose stories of injustice using their unconventional investigative techniques in today’s anything-goes world of reporting. CAST: Emayatzy Corinealdi, Brad Garrett.

HIGHER GROUND
Members of an elite team of investigators for the Northeast Regional U.S. Hate Crimes Unit solve myriad crimes against humanity as they confront their own biases. CAST: Brad William Henke.

INSTINCT
A former CIA operative who has since built a “normal” life as a gifted professor and writer is pulled back into his old life when the NYPD needs his help to stop a serial killer on the loose. Based on James Patterson’s upcoming book. CAST: Alan Cumming, Bojana Novakovic, Naveen Andrews, Daniel Ings.

MISSION CONTROL
The next generation of NASA astronauts and scientists juggle both their personal and professional lives during a critical mission with no margin for error. CAST: Nestor Serrano.

PERFECT CITIZEN
After his involvement as a whistleblower in an international scandal, the former General Counsel for the NSA embarks on a new career at a storied law firm in Boston, facing the reality that while half the country thinks he’s our greatest patriot, the other half thinks he’s a traitor. CAST: Lenny Platt.

S.W.A.T.
Procedural follows a locally born and bred S.W.A.T. lieutenant torn between loyalty to the streets and duty to his fellow officers when he’s tasked to run a highly trained unit that is the last stop for solving crimes in Los Angeles. Inspired by the 2003 Sony movie that was based on the 1970s TV series. CAST: Shemar Moore, Stephanie Sigman, Lina Esco, Kenny Johnson.

UNTITLED SEAL TEAM 6 PROJECT
Follows the lives of the elite Navy SEALs as they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high-stakes missions our country can ask. CAST: Neil Brown Jr.

WISDOM OF THE CROWD
Inspired by the notion that a million minds are better than one, it centers on a tech innovator who creates a cutting-edge crowd-sourcing hub to solve his own daughter’s murder, as well as revolutionizing crime solving in San Francisco. Based on the Israeli format. CAST: Jeremy Piven.

NBC COMEDY

A.P. BIOLOGY (single-camera)
A hilariously cynical Ivy League professor loses out on his dream job and goes to work as a high school biology teacher where he imposes his unorthodox teaching style and uses the kids to plot out revenge on those who wronged him. CAST: Mary Sohn, Lyric Lyles.

RELATIVELY HAPPY (multi-camera)
An adult brother and sister wind up living together for the first time since they were kids, after one of them suffers a big loss. They become each other’s wingmen, shoulder to cry on, best friend and punching bag as they navigate love, loss and work while helping to get each other “un-stuck.” CAST: Genevieve Angelson.

THE SACKETT SISTERS (single camera)
Two estranged sisters perform a Sully Sullenberger-esque act of public heroism, then are forced to navigate their newfound notoriety together. CAST: Busy Philipps, Bradley Whitford, Casey Wilson.

SPACED OUT (single camera)
Follows a working class genius and his struggles to fit in with an established team, all made more difficult when their job is building a rocket to Mars. CAST: Brett Goldstein.

UNTITLED CHARLIE GRANDY/MINDY KALING PROJECT (single camera)
Vince is a charismatic gym owner with no ambition who lives with his younger brother Michael, a gorgeous idiot. Their simple life of women and working out is put on hold when Vince’s teenage son is dropped off on their doorstep by Priya, one of his old high school flings. CAST: Anders Holm, Andy Favreau, Mouzam Makkar, Mindy Kaling (recurring).

UNTITLED KOURTNEY KANG PROJECT (single camera)
Explores what it’s like to grow up as the only girl in the only mixed-race family in the suburbs of Philadelphia, dealing with real-world issues like race and gender while never losing focus of her life goal: to become a Laker Girl like her idol, Paula Abdul. CAST: Isabella Russo, Kenneth Choi, Rebecca Creskoff, Ben Taylor, Cade Izuno, Paula Abdul.

WHAT ABOUT BARB? (single camera)
A psychotherapist tries to cut ties with her most overbearing patient but is unsuccessful and gains an annoying family member in the process. Female-led reboot of 1991 movie. CAST: Jessica Gunning, Leah Remini.

NBC DRAMA

DRAMA HIGH
Revolves around an extraordinary working-class high school drama department and the incredible students who come alive under a passionate teacher and family man whose dedication to the program galvanizes the entire town. Inspired by Lou Volpe as chronicled in the book Drama High. CAST: Auli’i Cravalho.

FOR GOD AND COUNTRY
A look into the complex world of our bravest military heroes who make personal sacrifices while executing the most challenging and dangerous missions behind enemy lines. CAST: Mike Vogel, Anne Heche, Hadi Tabbal, Natacha Karam, Demetrius Grosse, Noah Mills.

GOOD GIRLS
Three “good girl” suburban wives and mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take their power back. CAST: Kathleen Rose Perkins, Mae Whitman, Retta, Matthew Lillard, Manny Montana, Reno Wilson.

REDLINERS
A pair of former operatives get reactivated and drawn into a larger conspiracy while attempting to maintain their undercover lives. CAST: Hannah Ware.

REVERIE
A former detective specializing in human behavior is brought in when the launch of an advanced virtual reality program has dangerous and unintended consequences. CAST: Sarah Shahi, Dennis Haysbert, Kathryn Morris, Jessica Lu, Sendhil Ramamurthy.

SALVATION
Real-time “extreme event” medical series follows the nurses and doctors of an understaffed Brooklyn hospital that becomes the borough’s last viable trauma center after a catastrophic hurricane wreaks havoc on the city. On a holiday weekend with few doctors on call, the medical staff will be pushed to make the most difficult life-and-death choices as they work to save their patients and themselves. CAST: Paola Lazaro, Matthew James Thomas.

FOX COMEDY

AMY’S BROTHER (single camera)
An unconventional family is formed when a successful type-A man and his estranged sister, plus her two children, find themselves not only back in one another’s lives but also living under one roof. CAST: Annie Mumolo.

GHOSTED (single camera)
Follows a cynical skeptic and a genius “true believer” in the paranormal who are recruited by the Bureau Underground to look into the rampant “unexplained” activity in Los Angeles – all while uncovering a larger mystery that could threaten the existence of the human race. CAST: Craig Robinson, Ally Walker, Adam Scott, Edi Patterson.

LAX -> VEGAS (single camera)
Set on the Friday night flight from LAX to Vegas and the returning flight on Sunday, it follows a group of underdogs trying to find their place in the world who all share the same goal: to come back a winner in the casino of life. CAST: Dylan McDermott.

LINDA FROM HR (single camera)
All it takes is one bad decision to throw Linda from HR’s monotonous, unfulfilled life into an exciting but dangerous tailspin of balancing work life, home life and a secret that could unravel everything. CAST: Lauren Graham.

THIN ICE (single camera)
A woman reclaims her dreams when she finds herself at the end of the earth – in Antarctica – surrounded by a group of brilliant misfits. CAST: Bridgit Mendler, Ian Harding, Ramona Young, Trond Faus, Dan Gill.

TYPE-A (single camera)
A group of consultants is hand-picked to do the dirty work most professionals can’t handle: layoffs, downsizing, generally delivering horrible news. To everyone else, they’re the enemy – to one another, they’re family.

FOX DRAMA

THE BEAST
A life-and-death procedural that each week will follow three challenging medical cases. In the end, two of the patients will live, one will die. The series will center on their doctor — with a clinical fear of death — who never stops fighting the odds.

BEHIND ENEMY LINES
Described as a “distinctly patriotic series,” the military soap thriller follows a group of U.S. soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines. The “distinctly patriotic series” is a multi-perspective narrative that closely follows our soldiers on the ground, and the officers and service men and women on a nearby. aircraft carrier, along with intelligence officers in D.C., as they attempt to bring our heroes home safely and under the radar. CAST: B.J. Britt, Marg Helgenberger, Gabriel Chavarria, Melia Kreiling.

CONTROVERSY
The Junior Counsel of a prestigious Illinois university must deal with an out-of-control scandal when a young co-ed accuses several star football players of sexual assault. The coaches and boosters wield outsize influence, and the university administration is under siege. CAST: Austin Stowell, Archie Panjabi, Rita Wilson.

ORVILLE (off-cycle 13-episode straight-to-series order)
The hourlong dramedy is set 300 years in the future and follows the adventures of the Orville, an exploratory ship in Earth's interstellar fleet. Facing cosmic challenges from without and within, the motley crew of space explorers will "boldly go where no comedic drama has gone before." CAST: Seth MacFarlane, Adrianne Palicki, Scott Grimes, Peter Macon, J Lee, Halston Sage, Penny Johnson Jerald.

THE PASSAGE (pushed off-cycle to June)
What begins as a character-driven government conspiracy thriller morphs into a post-apocalyptic saga with vampires. The series spans over a century and focuses on a young girl named Amy who must save the human race. Based on Justin Cronin’s fantasy book trilogy.

THE RESIDENT
An idealistic young doctor begins his first day under the supervision of a tough, brilliant senior resident who pulls the curtain back on all of the good and evil in modern-day medicine. Lives might be saved or lost, but expectations will always be shattered. CAST: Manish Dayal, Matt Czuchry.

MARVEL’S X-MEN
Two ordinary parents discover that their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive. CAST: Stephen Moyer, Sean Teale, Blair Redford, Janie Chung, Natalie Alyn.

THE CW DRAMA

BLACK LIGHTNING
Jefferson Pierce made his choice: He hung up the suit and his secret identity years ago, but with a daughter hellbent on justice and a star student being recruited by a local gang, he’ll be pulled back into the fight as the wanted vigilante and DC legend Black Lightning. CAST: Cress Williams.

DYNASTY
A modernized reboot of the 1980s primetime soap that follows two of America’s wealthiest families, the Carringtons and the Colbys, as they feud for control over their fortune and their children. The series will be told primarily through the perspectives of two women at odds: Fallon Carrington, daughter of billionaire Blake Carrington, and her soon-to-be stepmother, Cristal, a Hispanic woman marrying into this WASP family and America’s most powerful class. Features the 1% in all its glitz and gloss, while exposing the dark underbelly: a corrupt world built on backroom deals. CAST: Nathalie Kelley, Elizabeth Gillies, Sam Adegoke, Robert Christopher Riley.

INSATIABLE
A disgraced, dissatisfied civil lawyer-turned-beauty pageant coach takes on a vengeful, bullied teenager as his client and has no idea what he’s about to unleash upon the world. CAST: Debby Ryan, Erinn Westbrook, Michael Provost.

LIFE SENTENCE
Hourlong dramedy centers on a young woman who is diagnosed with terminal cancer. When finds out that she’s not dying after all, she has to learn to live with the choices she made when she decided to “live like she was dying.” CAST: Lucy Hale, Dylan Walsh, Gillian Vigman.

SEARCHERS
A group of unlikely heroes finds themselves on the journey of a lifetime. Ten years after the death of their parents, a pragmatic brother and free-spirited sister are forced to team up when they learn that their mother’s terrifying and bizarre stories might be a road map to discovering the great legends, myths and unexplainable mysteries of the world. CAST: Zane Holtz, William Miller.

VALOR
The boundaries between military discipline and human desire are tested on a U.S. Army base that houses an elite unit of helicopter pilots trained to perform clandestine international and domestic missions. The drama unfolds in the present as well as in flashbacks to a failed mission involving one of the first female pilots in the unit, ultimately uncovering layers of personal and government/military secrets and leading to a season-long plan to rescue a group of MIA soldiers. CAST: Matt Barr, Charlie Barnett.

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> ME, MYSELF AND I (single camera)
> Examines one man零 life over a 50-year span, focusing on three distinct
> periods: as a 14-year-old in 1991, a 40-year-old in present day and a
> 65-year-old in 2042. CAST: Bobby Moynihan, Brian Unger, Kelen Coleman.


Somebody really liked MY LIFE AND TIMES back 25 years ago, didn't they?
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