TVFishBowl is buzzing with excitement as the networks begin releasing their list of pilots for this year.

 It’s time to decide which shows sound like winners and which ones sound like duds. We will begin with ABC and discuss each network and their respective list independently. I can’t wait to read your thoughts in the comments. Without further ado and a special thanks to The Hollywood Reporter, let’s dig  in!

ABC

COMEDY

Bad Management
Logline: A slightly self-centered female boss (Pulling‘s Sharon Horgan) at a high-end luxury goods department store who finds her ways challenged when the boss’ son comes to town and makes youth and sex the new company focus.
Cast: Sharon Horgan
Team: W Sharon Horgan, Holly Walsh (Dead Boss); EP Aaron Kaplan
Studio: ABC Studios, Kaplan Entertainment
Format: Single-camera
Location:

How the Hell Am I Normal? (previously How the F Am I Normal)
Logline: A dysfunctional Wonder Years set in the simpler times of the 1980s, inspired by Adam F. Goldberg‘s childhood. 
Cast: Wendi McLendon-Covey, Jeff Garlin
Team: W/EP Adam F. Goldberg (Breaking In); EP Doug Robinson, EP/D Seth Gordon
Studio: Sony Pictures Television, Happy Madison
Format: Single-camera
Location: Los Angeles

Middle Age Rage
Logline: About a middle aged mother who is fed up with feeling invisible and begins to speak up and demand the respect she feels she’s earned.
Cast:
Team: W Cheryl Holliday (Malibu Country); EP Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank
Studio: ABC Studios, Amblin TV
Format: Single-camera
Location:

Mixology
Logline: A high-concept single-camera comedy from the writers behind The Hangover set in the world of a sexy Manhattan bar chronicling the exploits of singles in search of love — all over the course of one night.
Cast:
Team: W/EP Jon Lucas, Scott Moore (The Hangover)
Studio: ABC Studios
Format: Single-camera
Location:

Pulling
Logline: The story of three dysfunctional women in their 30s living their lives the way they want, even if society tells them they should have it all figured out by this point.
Cast:
Team: W/EP Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky (Bad Teacher); EP Aaron Kaplan, Sharon Horgan, Dennis Kelly
Studio: ABC Studios, Kaplan Entertainment
Format: Single-camera
Location:

Spy
Logline: Based on the British series of the same name, a well-intentioned father of a highly intelligent and verbal son, who also happens to be his complete opposite, inadvertently takes a job at the secret service in order to prove himself a worthy father.
Cast: Rob Corddry
Team: W/EP Simeon Goulden; EP Jimmy Mulville, Helen Williams
Studio: ABC Studios, Hat Trick Productions
Format: Single-camera
Location: 

Super Fun Night (rolled from CBS last year)
Logline: Revolves around three nerdy female friends, including Pitch mPerfect‘s Rebel Wilson, on a “funcomfortable” quest to have “super fun” every Friday night.
Cast: Rebel Wilson, Kelen Coleman, Kevin Bishop, Lauren Ash, Liza Lapira
Team: W/Co-EP Rebel Wilson; EP Conan O’Brien, David Kissinger, Jeff Ross, EP/D John Riggi
Studio: Warner Bros. Television, Conaco Productions
Format: Single-camera
Location: Los Angeles

Trophy Wife
Logline: A reformed party girl finds herself with an instant family when she falls in love with a man who has three manipulative children and two judgmental ex-wives.
Cast: Bradley Whitford, Malin Akerman, Marcia Gay Harden, Michaela Watkins, Natalie Morales, Ryan Lee
Team: W/EP Emily Halpern (Private Practice), Sarah Haskins; EP Gene Stupnitsky, Lee Eisenberg; D Jason Moore
Studio: ABC Studios
Format: Single-camera
Location: Los Angeles

Untitled Andrea Abbate
Logline: Karey is the clean-nosed black sheep in a family of petty thieves, drug addicts, and narcissists — but when her brother is sent to prison, she decides to raise his kids along with her adopted African-American son and give them the normal lives they deserve.
Cast:
Team: W Andrea Abbate (Accidentally on Purpose); EP Shawn Levy, Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements
Studio: 20th Television, 21 Laps/Adelstein
Format: Single-camera
Location:

The untitled Cullens project
Logline: When Terry Gannon, a recently divorced, single mother, temporarily moves in with her estranged father (James Caan), a beer swilling former baseball player, she reluctantly starts coaching her son’s underdog little league team and is drawn back into the world of sports she vowed to leave behind.
Cast: James Caan
Team: W/EP Mark Cullen, Robb Cullen (Las Vegas); EP Aaron Kaplan
Studio: 20th Television, Kaplan Entertainment
Format: Single-camera
Location:

DRAMA

Betrayal
Logline: A beautiful but unhappily married female photographer begins a torrid affair with a lawyer for a powerful family. When he turns out to be defending a murder suspect who is being prosecuted by her husband, the relationship and the case begin a spiraling series of betrayals with cataclysmic results for everyone involved.
Cast:
Team: W/EP David Zabel (ER); EP Rob Golenberg, Alon Aranya
Studio: ABC Studios
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Big Thunder
Logline: When a brilliant, late-19th-century New York doctor and his family are given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to relocate to a frontier mining town run by a powerful, but mysterious tycoon, they quickly realize that not everything in Big Thunder is as it seems.
Cast:
Team: Jason Fuchs (Ice Age: Continental Drift); EP Chris Morgan (Fast & Furious)
Studio: ABC Studios
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Doubt
Logline: A former cop who’s now a cunning but charming low-rent lawyer uses his street smarts to work the system for his
clients while battling his own demons and wooing his ex-wife.
Cast:
Team: W/EP David Shore (House)
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Location:

Gothica
Logline: A sexy gothic soap set in the present day that weaves together a mythology that incorporates the legends of Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein and Dorian Gray, among others.
Cast:
Team: W Matt Lopez (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice); EP Mark Gordon
Studio: ABC Studios, Mark Gordon Co.
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Influence
Logline: Provocative workplace ensemble centered on the complicated relationship between two brothers who head a unique agency designed to attack their clients’ problems using the real science of human motivation and manipulation.
Cast:
Team: W/EP Kyle Killen (Awake)
Studio: 20th Television
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Killer Women
Logline: It’s hard to fit in when you’re the only woman in the notoriously male Texas Rangers, but that doesn’t stop Molly Parker — our ballsy, beautiful badass who knows how to get to the truth and isn’t afraid to ruffle a few feathers on her way there. Based on the Argentine series Mujeres Asesinas.
Cast:
Team: W Hannah Shakespeare (The Raven); EP Sofia Vergara, Martin Campbell
Studio: ABC Studios, Electus, Latin World Entertainment
Location: 

Murder in Manhattan
Logline: An hourlong dramedy set in New York City centering on a mother and daughter who team as amateur sleuths.
Cast:
Team: W Maria Maggenti (90210); EP Ryan Reynolds
Studio: ABC Studios, DarkFire
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Reckless
Logline:  When his wife is unjustly imprisoned during a political uprising overseas, resourceful problem solver David desperately pursues every legal option to secure her release. But when he’s stymied by the U.S. government in the name of diplomacy, David is forced to consider less-than-legal options — entering a world of political intrigue, dangerous alliances and high emotional stakes.
Cast:
Team: W Chris Black (Mad Men, Red Widow); EP Martin Campbell (Casino Royale)
Studio: ABC Studios
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The Returned
Logline: What happens when the people you have mourned and buried suddenly appear on your doorstep as if not a day’s gone by? The lives of the people of Aurora Arcadia are forever changed when their deceased loved ones return.
Cast:
Team: W/EP Aaron Zelman (Criminal Minds)
Studio: ABC Studios, Brillstein Entertainment, Plan B
Location:

S.H.I.E.L.D.
Logline: Based on Marvel Comics’ secret intelligence organization that has appeared in countless titles including Iron Man, Captain America and The Ultimates since being introduced in the 1960s. The military law-enforcement agency’s moniker stands for Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistic Directorate, which also has evolved over time in the comics.
Cast: Ming-Na, Clark Gregg, Brett Dalton, Elizabeth Henstridge, Ian De Caestecker, Chloe Bennet
Team: W/EP/D Joss Whedon; W/EP Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, EP Jeffrey Bell, Jeph Loeb,
Studio: ABC Studios, Marvel TV
Location: Los Angeles

Venice
Logline: A soap about the haves and the have-not’s of California’s most seductive city, Venice. The drama will focus on two rival families and a forbidden and dangerous romance emerging between them as the two families battle for control of Venice.
Cast:
Team: W/EP Byron Balasco (Without a Trace); McG, Peter Johnson; D McG
Studio: Warner Bros. Television, Wonderland Sound and Vision

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