Pilot Season 2010-2011

[thecomedian]

I'll be DVRing Big Bang as long as it airs on Thursdays. Kinda bummed that Riggle's show didn't get picked up.

[scamboogah]

I'm hoping that by posting this here, it will undo whatever TheComedian did to it that makes it constantly show as having an unread post.

Also, Paul Reiser was never funny.

[mueXog]

The Jason Jones comedy "How to be a Better American" might still have a shot afterall
http://www.deadline.com/2010/06/abcs...-another-shot/

[BillBrasky]

The Futon Critic has started writing reviews of some of the pilots for the 2010-2011 season, including some of the ones that didn't get picked up.

Wright Vs. Wrong

Nolan Knows Best

Happy Endings

Bleep My Dad Says

This Little Piggy

Paul Reiser Show

Better Together

Mr. Sunshine

[spriest]

Also, Paul Reiser was never funny.

I liked the 20 seconds he did in Funny People about doing a short 5 minutes of material around the house for your kids and how it's mostly 'where are you from' type stuff.





.... I'm not sure if it was important for me to get that out.

[BillBrasky]

Seems kind of strange that it's almost August and no pilots have leaked out yet. In years past it seems like a lot of them had already leaked out by now.

I would have expected to have at least seen "Outsourced", "Running Wilde", "Raising Hope", or some of the other single-camera sitcoms, because those seem like they're pretty much finished with and have been sent out to critics. (The Andy Daly version of RW anyway)

[BillBrasky]

Looks like preair pilots are finally starting to leak out; unfortunately, the first one is ABC's "No Ordinary Family":

http://www.rlslog.net/no-ordinary-fa...reair-xvid-ld/

[BillBrasky]

From Deadline:

EXCLUSIVE: Fox is prepping a primetime sketch comedy series for midseason from Oscar winner and In Living Color alum Jamie Foxx. The network has handed out a 12-episode order to the half-hour comedy, tentatively titled The Jamie Foxx Project. Foxx, Fox TV Studios and producers Eric and Kim Tannenbaum were behind a sketch comedy pilot for Fox this past development cycle. I hear the new project will be different and the original pilot won't be used. Rising sketch comedian/actor Affion Crockett (The Boondocks), who co-starred in the pilot, will star on the series and produce. One of the pilot's co-writers, Carl Jones also will stay on as writer/co-executive producer.

In the vein of Fox's 1990s sketch/variety series In Living Color, which gave Foxx his break, The Jamie Foxx Project will take on pop culture, spoofing movie trailers, commercials, TV shows, music videos and celebrities, with a diverse cast of young new comedians. FtvS, Foxx/King Entertainment and The Tannenbaum Co. are producing the series, with Foxx, Marcus King and Jaime Rucker King, Foxx's managers and producing partners at Foxx/King Entertainment, Eric Tannenbaum and Kim Tannenbaum executive producing.

[BillBrasky]

Fox is taking a second stab at launching a U.S. version of the British comedy series Outnumbered. The network has handed out an off-cycle pilot order to the single-camera comedy from writers Barbara Wallace and Thomas R. Wolfe. It's being produced by 20th TV, Chernin Entertainment, and Hat Trick Prods, the British company behind the original series created by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin. Inspired by the BBC sitcom, Outnumbered revolves around one set of parents who are often overwhelmed by their three children. Wallace and Wolfe executive produce with Peter Chernin, Katherine Pope and Jimmy Mulville. Fox, whose own hit single-camera comedy Malcolm In the Middle had a similar premise, first tried to adapt Outnumbered during the 2007-08 development season when the project was picked up to pilot written by Larry Levin and produced by MRC and Hat Trick. The pilot starring Ken Marino and Brooke Bloom didn’t go to series. Since then, ABC successfully launched a documentary-style single-camera family comedy, last season's hit Modern Family. Like Modern Family, the British Outnumbered has a mockumentary feel as it is semi-improvised and the kids’ lines are generally not scripted. Fox is launching a single-camera family comedy this fall, Greg Garcia’s Raising Hope, which, like Outnumbered, was originally ordered as a pilot off-cycle last summer.

[BillBrasky]

Haha, I bet you didn't expect to see this thread resurrected, did you?

Kind of like what they did with "100 Questions", NBC is planning to air "Friends with Benefits" over the next few weeks until the end of summer. If all goes to plan, 12 of the 13 produced episodes will air.

If you recall, this was another relationship-based sitcom, similar to "Perfect Couples" and "Happy Endings", this one has Ryan Hansen from "Party Down" and Zach Cregger from The Whitest Kids U Know in it. Executive producers are Bryan Grazer and David Dobkin ("Wedding Crashers"), who directed the pilot.

[BillBrasky]

Oh yeah, and here's an ad for the Jamie Foxx sketch show. I didn't recognize this guy by name, but I remember him from the movie "Dance Flick":