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Lifetime Picks Up Three Pilots
by Jason Hughes, posted Jun 24th 2010 12:00PM
It looks like new Lifetime president Nancy Dubuc has a clear vision for her network. In her first pilot season, she's picked up no less than three police procedurals, according to Deadline.Series hoping to make the grade now that they've been picked to pilot include 'Against the Wall,' about a sister cop in Chicago who causes rifts with her three cop brothers when she joins Internal Affairs.
Meanwhile, Josh Berman, who's already brought the network success with 'Drop Dead Diva,' brings a new pilot spotlighting police partners in San Diego -- one, a mother of two nearing divorce, and another who is newly engaged.
A Crime-Solving Magician Is Just What NBC Needs
by Scott Harris, posted Oct 29th 2009 5:00PM
Move over, David Blaine, because there's a new magician coming to town who will preform a real trick: capturing criminals. According to Variety, NBC is teaming with Universal Media Studios to develop a series about a agoraphobic magician who is recruited by a government organization to help them solve especially tricky crimes. The project, which was created by producer David Percelay and director Jon Amiel, will be penned by Dan Fesman, whose writing credits include 'NCIS' and 'Dead Like Me'.
Is CBS playing it too safe?
by Joel Keller, posted May 17th 2006 2:29PM
Two days, two upfronts, two completely different programming strategies. On Tuesday, ABC introduced fifteen new shows, with all but five scheduled to premiere this fall. Today, on the other hand, CBS, secure in its first place position, introduced only seven new shows, four of which will bow in the fall. You heard that number right. This is the fewest number of fall premieres I've seen a network introduce in many, many years, and it seems that CBS has decided to use the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" axiom. They're in first place, so they have the right. But that schedule is built on the strength of procedural shows that don't seem to be all that different from one another. I mean, really: three CSIs, NCIS, Without A Trace, Close to Home, Cold Case, etc. It's pretty much the entire schedule. And, of the new shows introduced, only two -- The Class and Jericho -- look like they may hold my interest.
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