CBS has a diversified list of pilots for 2013. Which ones sound worthy and which ones not? Give your predictions in the comments!
CBS
COMEDY
Bad Teacher
Logline: Based on the film, a sexy, foul-mouthed divorcee becomes a teacher to find her next husband.
Cast:
Team: W/EP Hilary Winston (Community); EP Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky (the original Bad Teacher screenwriters), Sam Hansen, Jimmy Miller
Studio: Sony Pictures Television, Mosiac
Format: Single-camera
Location:
Ex-Men
Logline: A young guy (Chris Smith) who finds camaraderie living among the more experienced guys he meets in a short-term rental complex.
Cast: Chris Smith, Kal Penn, Jerry O’Connell, Tony Shalhoub, Rebecca Brooks
Team: W/EP/D Rob Greenberg (How I Met Your Mother); EP Eric and Kim Tannenbaum
Studio: CBS Television, Tannenbaum Co.
Format: Single-camera
Location: Los Angeles
Friends With Better Lives
Logline: A group of thirtysomething friends who each think the other has it better.
Cast:
Team: W/EP Dana Klein (Friends); EP Aaron Kaplan
Studio: 20th Television, Kapital Entertainment
Format: Multicamera
Location:
Mom
Logline: Revolves around a newly sober single mom (Scary Movie‘s Anna Faris) who tries to pull her life together in Napa Valley.
Cast: Anna Faris, Allison Janney
Team: W/EP Chuck Lorre, Eddie Gorodetsky, Gemma Baker (Two and a Half Men)
Studio: Warner Bros. Television, Chuck Lorre Productions
Format: Multicamera
Location: Los Angeles
The McCarthys
Logline: A family comedy about a loud, sports-crazed Boston clan.
Cast:
Team: W/co-EP Brian Gallivan (Are You There, Chelsea?); EP Will Gluck
Studio: Sony Pictures Television, Olive Bridge
Format: Single-camera
Location: Los Angeles
Super Clyde
Logline: Centers on a meek, unassuming fast food worker decides to become a super hero.
Cast:
Team: W/EP Greg Garcia (Raising Hope)
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Format: Single-camera
Location: Los Angeles
Unauthorized Greg Garcia project
Logline: A recently divorced man’s life is complicated when his parents decide to move in with him.
Team: W/EP Greg Garcia (Raising Hope)
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Format: Multicamera
Location: Los Angeles
Untitled Jim Gaffigan comedy
Logline: The semi-autobiographical comedy revolves around Gaffigan as a happily married and harried New York City father of five — as he is in real life.
Cast: Jim Gaffigan
Team: W Jim Gaffigan, Peter Tolan (Rescue Me); EP Michael Wimer, Alex Murray
Studio: Sony Pictures Television, Fedora Entertainment
Format: Single-camera
Location: New York
DRAMA
The Advocates
Logline: A female lawyer and a male ex-con team as “victim advocates,” going to the very edge of the law to right wrongs and fight for the underdog.
Cast:
Team: W/EP Bruno Heller (The Mentalist)
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Location:
Backstrom
Logline: Based on the Swedish book series about an overweight, offensive, irascible detective as he tries, and fails, to change his self-destructive behavior.
Cast:
Team: W/EP Hart Hanson; EP Leif G.W. Persson, Niclas Salomonsson
Studio: 20th Television
Location:
Beverly Hills Cop
Logline: Continuation of the movie franchise, centered around Axel Foley’s police officer son, who takes down the criminal elements of the rich and famous in Beverly Hills.
Cast: Brandon T. Jackson, Eddie Murphy
Team: W/EP Shawn Ryan; EP Eddie Murphy, Marney Hochman
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Location:
Hostages
Logline: Follows Ellen (Toni Collette), a Washington, D.C., surgeon who is thrown into a political conspiracy after being chosen to operate on the president of the United States. Her family is taken hostage, and it’s her responsibility to save their lives. It is based on an Israeli format by Alon Aranya, Rotem Shamir and Chayim Sharir that was never produced.
Cast: Toni Collette
Team: W/EP/DJeffrey Nachmanoff (The Day After Tomorrow) EP Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, Omri Givon, Rotem Shamir and Chayim Sharir; Co-EP: KristieAnne Reed, Alon Aranya
Studio: Warner Bros. Television, Jerry Bruckheimer Television
Location:
NCIS: L.A. spinoff (back-door pilot)
Logline: The back-door pilot will air as part of NCIS: L.A. and follow a mobile team of agents who are forced to live and work together as they crisscross the country solving crimes.
Cast:
Team: W/EP Shane Brennan (NCIS: LA)
Studio: CBS Television Studios, Shane Brennan Productions
Location: Los Angeles
The Ordained
Logline: The son of a Kennedy-esque family leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated.
Cast:
Team: W/EP Lisa Takeuchi Cullen; EP Frank Marshall, Larry Shuman, A.B. Fischer; co-EP Robert Zotnowski
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Location:
The Surgeon General
Logline: A medical show centered on America’s doctor: the surgeon general of the United States.
Cast:
Team: W/EP Samuel Baum (Lie to Me)
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Location:
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Not sure I really am interested in any of these
Friends with Better Lives needs a better title but might get my interest. Most of the rest I am not interested in.
Bad Teacher – The description makes me think she’s looking for a student to be her next husband, ick.
BHC – Really?!
The Ordained – I don’t even understand how that would work and what about the time frame? Someone is going to be assassinated, quick become a lawyer?!
Hostages – At most the plot of the show could last one season so yeah not into it.