Posted May 22, 200916 yr THE CW Melrose Place A remake of the 1990s series featuring singer-turned-actress Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Supernatural star Katie Cassidy. Laura Leighton, who starred in the original, is reprising her role as Sydney Andrews for the remake. The Beautiful Life The Beautiful Life, starring Mischa Barton, revolves around a group of models living together in a co-ed residence in New York. Elle Macpherson plays Claudia, the owner of Focus Models and former '80s supermodel who is still in great shape and runs her business with the efficiency and toughness of a dictator. The show also stars Sara Paxton, Ben Hollingsworth, Ashley Madekwe and Nico Tortorella and is executive produced by Ashton Kutcher. The Vampire Diaries Based on L.J. Smith's books of the same name, the show revolves around a young woman, Elena (Nina Dobrev), who is torn between two vampire brothers. Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley have been cast as the brothers, and Steven R. McQueen, Zacj Roerig and Kayla Ewell also star. Parental Discretion Advised This humourous drama follows main character Lux when she decides to become an emancipated minor following 15 years of bouncing from one foster home to another. Britt Robertson, Kerr Smith and Shirli Appleby star. CBS Miami Trauma The series, by Jerry Bruckheimer, will revolve around a team of surgeons in Miami who work on critically ill patients. The Tudors star Jeremy Northam plays a likeable but enigmatic new doctor on the trauma ward. NCIS: Los Angeles NCIS, which debuted in 2003, follows a team of Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents in Washington D.C. The spinoff will focus on a team of officers situated on the other side of the country. The Bridge The Bridge, a Canadian drama, is described as "a twist on the cops and cons procedural" and follows police battling corruption at the highest levels of power. Three Rivers The project, which stars Julia Ormond, Alex O'Loughlin, Katherine Moennig and Daniel Henney, is about organ transplants seen from three points of view: the doctors, the donors and the recipients. The Good Wife The drama will centre around Julianna Margulies's character, a defence lawyer married to a politician. Matt Czuchry also stars as a handsome Harvard graduate who lands a job at the same law firm NBC Mercy The show follows three nurses, Veronica, Sonia and Chloe (Gossip Girl's Michelle Trachtenberg), who are bound together by friendship during professional - and personal - highs and lows. Veronica, played by Taylor Schilling, has just returned from Iraq a changed woman and got herself embroiled in a complicated love-triangle. Day One The show is set in the aftermath of a global event that devastates the world's infrastructures. A small band of survivors strives to rebuild society and unravel the mysteries of why the event took place and what the future has in store. Trauma Trauma is an intense, action-packed look at one of the most dangerous medical professions in the world: first responder paramedics. When emergencies occur, the trauma team from San Francisco General is first on the scene, traveling by land, by sea or by air to reach their victims in time. Derek Luke, Cliff Curtis and Anastasia Griffith star. (I could of swore I read Michelle Trachtenberg was in this) Parenthood This is the story of the Bravermans, Sarah, Adam, Crosby and Julia, four grown siblings sharing the headaches, heartaches and unexpected joys of being a parent. The series, which stars Peter Krause, Dax Shephard and Monica Potter, is based on the 1980s movie of the same name. 100 Questions Sophie Winkleman stars as Charlotte, a woman who is looking for love. Yet to meet Mr Right, Charlotte joins a popular online dating site where she must take a compatibility test, forcing her to recall a poignant and humorous time in her life. Elizabeth Ho, Joy Suprano and David Walton also star. Community Community focuses on a band of misfits, at the centre of which is a fast-talking lawyer (Joel McHale) whose degree has been revoked. They form a study group and, in Breakfast Club fashion, end up learning a lot more about themselves than they do about their course work. ABC Flash Forward As previously announced, ABC has ordered this sci fi drama, which is billed as the new Lost. The show, which stars Sonya Walger and Jack Davenport, focuses on the chaos which ensues after everyone on the planet blacks out for two minutes and seventeen seconds. The Forgotten The Jerry Bruckheimer drama, starring Rupert Penry-Jones, is a mystery series about a group of amateur detectives who work on identifying John and Jane Does. Reiko Aylesworth, Anthony Carrigan, Michelle Borth and Bob Stephenson also star. Happy Town Happy Town, from the creators of October Road, is a mystery set in the hamlet of Happy Town, which had enjoyed a seven-year peace after a series of kidnappings until it is hit by another crime. V The 4400 co-creator Scott Peters wrote the script for a reinvention of the cult series, which follows Homeland Security agent Erica Evans and her son as they combat an invasion from lizard-like aliens. Eastwick Loosely based on 1987 movie The Witches Of Eastwick, the TV series focuses on three women who discover that they have supernatural abilities after a new man arrives in their hometown. The Deep End A new midseason drama charting the difficult first year of four young lawyers working at one of LA's most prestigious law firms. Cougar Town Written by Scrubs duo Bill Lawrence and Kevin Biegel, this comedy sees Courteney Cox play a single mother to a 17-year-old son. The show focuses on her life as she adapts to being newly single. Hank Kelsey Grammer stars as Hank Pryor, a successful man who suddenly finds himself jobless, practically penniless and forced to adapt to a more domestic life with his wife and kids. The Middle The Middle introduces us to The Hecks, a middle class family living in the middle of Indiana. Patricia Heaton stars as wife and mother-of-three in this comedy, about raising a family and lowering your expectations. FOX Human Target Based on the DC Comics title, this drama centres on a mysterious freelancer, Christopher Chase, who assumes the identities of people in danger. Fringe's Mark Valley plays the protagonist, and Battlestar Galactica's Tricia Helfer has been cast as his potential love interest. Past Life As previously announced, the network has bagged Past Life, a drama which follows a team of detectives using the theory of reincarnation. Kelli Giddish, Nicholas Bishop, Richard Schiff and Ravi Patel have all signed up to appear. Sons Of Tucson The show is about three brothers who hire a man to act as their father while their real one serves time in prison. Tyler Labine has been cast as the fake father, while Davis Cleveland, Frank Dolce and Troy Gentile will play the brothers. Glee The man behind Nip/Tuck, Ryan Murphy, is also responsible for this new musical comedy. The show focuses on a Spanish teacher called Will - played by Matthew Morrison - who is tasked with reviving the fortunes of a failing glee club in Ohio. The Cleveland Show This animated comedy is a spinoff of Family Guy, focusing on Cleveland Brown. The show follows Peter Griffin's slow-talking neighbour and his son as they move from Rhode Island to Virginia and introduces two new characters, a single mother and daughter, voiced by Sanaa Lathan and Nia Long respectively. Brothers A retired NFL player (Michael Strahan) and his wheelchair-bound brother (Darryl Mitchell) take centre stage in this comedy, which also stars Colton Dunn and Carl Weathers. The show follows Strahan character as he leaves the high life in New York City and returns to his Houston hometown in a bid to reconnect with his disabled brother. Modern Family From writer-producers Steve Levitan and Christopher Lloyd, this is a mockumentary about three suburban couples: one traditional, one gay, and one mixed-race. Obviously these are the ones from the major networks only. There's quite a lot of buzz for a few of them...
May 22, 200916 yr I'm looking forward to the Vampire Diaries (huge potential), Day One, V, Flash Forward (this has got huge potential), The Forgotten and Human Target are all looking very good from what I read about them. And why are we getting a remake of Melrose Place the last 2 series of the original series were major flops, it just died out, the stories were drying out, this is gonna major flop on its ass.
May 22, 200916 yr Author which ones are getting hyped up? Flash Forward has got a lot of buzz about it, same goes for Vampire Diaries. The best way to look at it is to see where the networks place them on their time schedule. Both those shows for example are being shown on Thursday which is the highest day for ratings in America. The CW have broken up the Smallville-Supernatural partnership which did really well for them on Thursdays and are now putting Vampire Diaries-Supernatural instead. It's a bit of a gamble, but they must think Vampire Diaries has potential (and as well it will have the Twilight effect to it). The CW actually have a good set of pilots this year for once. All 3 will do pretty well imo. Hank will get a bit of buzz about it because of whose in it too. All the pilots should hopedully find their way onto the internet in the next month or so.
May 23, 200916 yr Im looking forward to The Vampire Diaries and The Beautiful Life from the CW. Also Glee looks v. good in the same vain as Popular. The Cleveland Show im not too sure on... I will watch and see how it goes, FOX have already ordered 2 seasons so they must be pretty sure of it!
May 23, 200916 yr Can we update this each time one of the pilots leaks onto the net? :P The ones I'm looking forward to most are The Beautiful Life and Cougar Town, but I've only watched the CW and ABC trailers. Hank looks like it has potential, as does Modern Family. Melrose Place 2.0 looks incredibly boring; they should follow 90210's lead and make it completely laughable and ridiculous! Eastwick looks hilariously tacky.
May 23, 200916 yr Melrose Place wouldve benefited from having Mark Schwahn as the writer -_- But oh well! More creativity for One Tree Hill :magic:
May 25, 200916 yr im looking forward to V and Flash Forward. Same. They're the only 2 that interest me really.
May 25, 200916 yr There is for once a few that have potential Melrose Place, The Beautiful Life and Parental Discretion Advised Three Rivers and The Good Wife Mercy, Day One, Parenthood, 100 Questions and Community Flashfoward, Happy Town, The Deep End, Cougar Town and The Middle Modern Family
May 26, 200916 yr Flash Forward has got a lot of buzz about it, same goes for Vampire Diaries. The best way to look at it is to see where the networks place them on their time schedule. Both those shows for example are being shown on Thursday which is the highest day for ratings in America. The CW have broken up the Smallville-Supernatural partnership which did really well for them on Thursdays and are now putting Vampire Diaries-Supernatural instead. It's a bit of a gamble, but they must think Vampire Diaries has potential (and as well it will have the Twilight effect to it). The CW actually have a good set of pilots this year for once. All 3 will do pretty well imo. Hank will get a bit of buzz about it because of whose in it too. All the pilots should hopedully find their way onto the internet in the next month or so. I'm so glad SV is getting the boot, Supernatural needs an interesting show before it, SV just dragged it down especially this season.
May 27, 200916 yr Author I'm so glad SV is getting the boot, Supernatural needs an interesting show before it, SV just dragged it down especially this season. Well they're going for the Supernatural theme on Thursday nights now. If Supernatural was on a bigger network it would get SUCH good ratings seriously. It's a shame really. To be fair Supernatural does get vvv.good demo ratings though.
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