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BUENA VISTA INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION

Commander-in-Chief (ABC ABC
 in full American Broadcasting Co.

Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928.
)

Production Team: Rod Lurie, Marc Frydman

Format: One-hour drama The first female President of the U.S. moves into the White House

Criminal Minds (CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. )

Production Team: Mark Gordon Mark Gordon (born 10 October, 1956) is an American producer. He is originally from Newport News, Virginia. He has worked on numerous projects as both producer and executive producer including Speed, The Jackal, and Saving Private Ryan. , Ed Bernero, Jeff Davis, Deborah Spera

Format: One-hour drama Suspense thriller set in the FBI's Behavioral Sciences behavioral sciences,
n.pl those sciences devoted to the study of human and animal behavior.
 Group

Crumbs (ABC) (midseason)

Production Team: Marco Pennette, Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins, Joe Davola

Format: Half-hour comedy Two estranged es·trange  
tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es
1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate.

2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations.
 brothers (one is a real Don Juan Don Juan (dŏn wän, j`ən, Span. dōn hwän), legendary profligate. , the other a close-ted gay man) make amends when their morn has a psychotic breakdown

Ghost Whisperer (CBS)

Production Team: John Gray, Kim Moses, lan Sander

Format: One-hour drama Inspired by the work of psychic James Van Praagh; a newlywed communicates with the dead

In Justice (ABC) (midseason)

Production Team: Robert King, Michelle King, Stu Bloomberg

Format: One-hour drama Legal drama about lawyers who attempt to help the wrongly convicted

Inconceivable (NBC NBC
 in full National Broadcasting Co.

Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network.
)

Production Team: Marco Pennette, Oliver Goldstick, Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins, Joe Davola

Format: One-hour drama About the doctors, psychologists and lawyers in a fertility clinic

The Miracle Workers (ABC) (midseason)

Production Team: Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, David Garfinkle, Jay Renfroe, Bill Guttentag

Format: One-hour reality An elite team of physicians performs modern-day miracles

The Night Stalker (ABC) Production Team: Frank Spotnitz, Daniel Sackheim

Format: One-hour drama Remake of '70s series; a detective faces the supernatural

Welcome to the Neighborhood (ABC)

Production Team: Rob Lee, Chuck Bangert, Lou Gorfain, Jay Blumenfield, Tony Marsh

Format: One-hour reality A diverse group of families compete to live in a brand new house in an upscale neighborhood

What About Brian What About Brian is an American dramatic television series created by Dana Stevens and co-produced by J.J. Abrams' company Bad Robot Productions. The series premiered on April 16, 2006 on ABC, as a midseason replacement and concluded on March 26, 2007.  (ABC) (midseason)

Production Team: J.J. Abrams, Thorn Sherman, Bryan Burk, Joe & Anthony Russo, Dana Stevens

Format: One-hour drama A 30-something single guy amongst his married friends

CARSEY-WERNER INTERNATIONAL

The Scholar (ABC)

Production Team: Steve Martin, Joan Stein, Jon Murray, Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner

Format: One-hour reality Winner will be sent to a top-rated university

CBS PARAMOUNT INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION CBS Paramount International Television (CPITV) was a multinational television production/distribution arm of CBS Paramount Television and owned by CBS Corporation that was formed in 2004 by Viacom, as a result of a merger between two television companies,  

Everybody Hates Chris Everybody Hates Chris is an African-American sitcom, on The CW Television Network. It is inspired by the teenage experiences of comedian Chris Rock (who narrates the show), while growing up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.  (UPN UPN User Principal Name (Microsoft Windows 2000)
UPN United Paramount Network
UPN Unión del Pueblo Navarro (Navarrese People Union)
UPN Umgekehrte Polnische Notation
)

Production Team: Chris Rock, Ali LeRoi, Howard Gewirtz, Michael Rotenberg, Dave Becky

Format: Half-hour comedy Narrated by Chris Rock; inspired by his life growing up in Brooklyn in the early 1980s

Everything I Know About Men (CBS) (midseason)

Production Team: Fred Barton

Format: Half-hour comedy Based on BBC BBC
 in full British Broadcasting Corp.

Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927.
 series According to Bex According to Bex is a short-lived British sitcom starring Jessica Stevenson that lasted for only one series in 2005. It was written by Katie Douglas, Julia Barron and Fred Barron, who also created My Family and After You've Gone. , about a woman with lots of men in her life

Love, Inc. (UPN)

Production Team: Adam Chase, Mark Burg, Warren Littlefield, Andrew Secunda, Oren Koules

Format: Half-hour comedy Profiles a woman who helps men talk to women

Out of Practice (CBS)

Production Team: Joe Keenan, Christopher Lloyd

Format: Half-hour comedy A family of single doctors

Sex, Lies & Secrets (UPN)

Production Team: Michael Gans, Richard Register, Jonathan Axelrod, Kelly Edwards

Format: One-hour drama Ensemble set in Hollywood

South Beach (UPN) (midseason)

Production Team: Jennifer Lopez, Tony Krantz Krantz is the name of two persons:
  • Kermit E Krantz Physician and inventor
  • Grover Krantz Bigfoot researcher
, Simon Fields, Philip Levens

Format: One-hour drama Three young and single adults with big dreams; set in Miami

Threshold (CBS)

Production Team: Brannon Braga, David Heyman, David Goyer

Format: One-hour drama A government analyst and her team's engagement with an alien life form

Wanted (TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene.
TNT
 in full trinitrotoluene

Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene.
)

Production Team: Aaron Spelling, E. Duke Vincent, Jorge Zamacona, Robert Palm, Mel Efros, Kim Clements, Jonathan Levin

Format: One-hour drama An elite team of crime fighters from various agencies track down L.A.'s most wanted

CHANNEL 4 INTERNATIONAL

Brat Camp (ABC)

Production Team: Allison Grodner, Arnold Shapiro, Peter Casely-Hayford, Jamie Isaacs, Claudia Milne

Format: One-hour reality Difficult kids go to a wilderness survival camp to change their ways

GRANADA INTERNATIONAL

Hell's Kitchen (Fox)

Production Team: Paul Jackson, Arthur Smith, Kent Weed

Format: One-hour reality Restaurant boot camp with famous chef Gordon Ramsey

GRB GRB Gamma Ray Burst(er)
GRB Graduate Recruitment Bureau
GRB Grid Resource Broker
GRB Grootschalig Referentiebestand (Dutch: large scale mapping program)
GRB Gharb
 WORLDWIDE

Princes of Malibu (Fox)

Production Team: Gary Benz, Brant brant or brant goose, common name for a species of wild sea goose. The American brant, Branta bernicla, breeds in the Arctic and winters along the Atlantic coast.  Pinvidic, Spencer Pratt

Format: One-hour reality Follows music producer David Foster and his 20-something step-kids

NBC UNIVERSAL TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION NBC Universal Television Distribution (NUTD) is a TV distribution arm of the NBC Universal Television Group in the United States, and is a subsidiary of General Electric. It was previously known as NBC Enterprises, MCA TV, Avco Embassy Television, Multimedia Entertainment, PolyGram  

Curious George (PBS PBS
 in full Public Broadcasting Service

Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural,
)

Production Team: Universal Home Entertainment Production, Imagine Entertainment

Format: Half-hour animated A curious little monkey gets into trouble under the Man with the Yellow Hat's watch

Fathom (NBC)

Production Team: Josh Pate, Jonas Pate

Format: One-hour drama A marine biologist marine biologist

specialist in the biology of marine life.
 discovers a new deep-sea species

Sons & Daughters (ABC) (midseason)

Production Team: Fred Goss, Nick Holly, JoAnn Alfano, Lorne Michaels

Format: Half-hour comedy A wacky improvisational comedy about adult siblings

Thick and Thin (NBC) (midseason)

Production Team: Paula Pell, JoAnn Alfano, Lorne Michaels

Format: Half-hour comedy A woman lost a tremendous amount of weight; her friends and family didn't

Three Wishes (NBC)

Production Team: Andrew Glassman, Jason Raft

Format: One-hour reality Host Amy Grant grants three wishes to townspeople in need of a little help

SONY PICTURES TELEVISION Sony Pictures Television, Inc. (SPT) is an American television production and distribution company. It is a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment. In turn, the latter is part of the Japanese conglomerate Sony.  INTERNATIONAL

Barbershop (Showtime)

Production Team: John Ridley, Robert Teitel, George Tillman Jr., Ice Cube

Format: Half-hour comedy Single-camera comedy that picks up where the feature films left off--at the barbershop in a gentrifying Chicago neighborhood

Beautiful People (ABC Family)

Production Team: Paul Stupin, Michael Rauch

Format: One-hour drama Two sisters and their mother move from New Mexico to New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
 

Boondocks (Cartoon Network)

Production Team: Aaron McGruder

Format: Half-hour animated Based on the politically-charged comic strip of the same name

Emily's Reasons Why Not Emily's Reasons Why Not was a television series starring Heather Graham. The show, which was based on the novel of the same name, was cancelled by its brodcaster, ABC, after airing only one episode on January 9, 2006.  (ABC) (midseason)

Production Team: Gavin Polone, Vivian Cannon, Robin Schiff, Emily Kapnek

Format: Half-hour comedy A self-help author struggles to practice what she preaches

TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION

Beauty and the Geek For the UK version of the show, see .

Beauty and the Geek is a reality television show, first aired by The WB on June 2 2005. It has been advertised as "The Ultimate Social Experiment" and is produced by Ashton Kutcher, Jason Goldberg and Nick Santora.
 (WB)

Production Team: Nick Santora

Format: One-hour reality "Sociological experiment" in which seven beauties and seven geeks move in together

Bones (Fox)

Production Team: Barry Josephson, Hart Hanson

Format: One-hour drama About a forensic anthropologist/novelist

Deviant Behavior/The Gate (working title) (Fox)

Production Team: Josh Berman

Format: One-hour drama Follows a team that tracks serial killers in San Francisco

Freebirds (Fox) (midseason)

Production Team: Rob Roy Thomas

Format: Half-hour comedy A partially improvised comedy about a guy who graduates from college in California and moves back to the Midwest

Head Cases (Fox)

Production Team: Bill Chais, Jeff Rake, Barry Josephson

Format: One-hour drama A lawyer who had a nervous breakdown nervous breakdown
n.
A severe or incapacitating emotional disorder, especially when occurring suddenly and marked by depression.


nervous breakdown 
 partners with a lawyer who has anger management issues

How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother (HIMYM) is a CBS sitcom that premiered on September 19, 2005. Created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays, the show received generally positive reviews.  (CBS)

Production Team: Carter Bays, Craig Thomas

Format: Half-hour comedy A retrospective look at a single guy in search of his future wife

The Inside (Fox) (carried over from last year)

Production Team: Tim Menear, Brian Grazer, David Nevins

Format: One-hour drama A member of the FBI's Violent Crimes Unit is murdered and a rookie FBI agent joins the team

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FX)

Production Team: Rob McElhenney

Format: Half-hour comedy Four friends try to balance their friendships and keep their bar in business

Kitchen Confidential (Fox)

Production Team: Darren Star, David Hemingson

Format: Half-hour comedy A bad-boy chef at a top New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 restaurant

The Loop (Fox) (midseason)

Production Team: Pam Brady, Will Gluck

Format: Half-hour comedy College grad straddles fence between slacker and working man

Misconceptions (WB) (midseason)

Production Team: Brian Grazer, David Nevins, Michael Saltzman, Jeff Kleeman

Format: Half-hour comedy A woman and her mother meet her father for the first time; he was a sperm donor

My Name is Earl My Name Is Earl is an Emmy Award-winning American sitcom created by Greg Garcia. It is produced by 20th Century Fox Television. It is currently in its third season and is broadcast on the NBC television network Thursdays at 8:00 PM Eastern time.  (NBC)

Production Team: Greg Garcia

Format: Half-hour comedy A thief wins the lottery and vows to change his ways

Over There (FX)

Production Team: Steven Bochco, Chris Gerolmo

Format: One-hour drama Ensemble drama about a U.S. Army unit in Iraq

Pepper Dennis (WB) (midseason)

Production Team: Gretchen Berg, Aaron Harberts, Shawn Levy

Format: One-hour drama A driven tv reporter and her newly-divorced sister move in together

Prison Break (Fox)

Production Team: Paul Scheuring, Dawn Parouse, Marty Adelstein, Neal Moritz

Format: One-hour drama A man goes to jail to break out his imprisoned im·pris·on  
tr.v. im·pris·oned, im·pris·on·ing, im·pris·ons
To put in or as if in prison; confine.



[Middle English emprisonen, from Old French emprisoner : en-
 brother

Stacked (Fox)

Production Team: Steven Levitan, Jeffrey Richman

Format: Half-hour comedy A bookstore worker is sick of her non-stop party lifestyle and penchant for bad boys

Starved (FX)

Production Team: Eric Schaeffer

Format: Half-hour comedy A mockumentary about four 30-something friends with eating disorders eating disorders, in psychology, disorders in eating patterns that comprise four categories: anorexia nervosa, bulimia, rumination disorder, and pica. Anorexia nervosa is characterized by self-starvation to avoid obesity.  

Thief (FX)

Production Team: Norman Morrill

Format: One-hour drama The leader of a robbery crew faces professional and personal challenges

The Unit (CBS) (midseason)

Production Team: David Mamet, Shawn Ryan

Format: One-hour drama A special military unit travels abroad to keep people safe on U.S. soil

WARNER BROS. INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION Warner Bros. International Television (also known as Warner Bros. Worldwide Television and Warner Bros. International Television Distribution) is the Global television arm of Warner Bros. Television and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment formed in 1996.  

The Bedford Diaries (WB) (midseason)

Production Team: Barry Levinson, Tom Fontana, Jim Finnerty, Julie Martin

Format: One-hour drama Ensemble drama set in a NYC NYC
abbr.
New York City


NYC New York City
 college; organized around a human sexuality seminar

Close to Home (CBS)

Production Team: Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, Jim Leonard, Simon West

Format: One-hour drama A new mom prosecutes suburban crimes

The Comeback (HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO)
A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber.

Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy
)

Production Team: Michael Patrick King For other uses, see Michael King (disambiguation).

Michael Patrick King (born September 14, 1954) is an Emmy winning director, writer and producer for television shows.
, Lisa Kudrow, John Melfi, Dan Bucatinksy

Format: Half-hour comedy Totally scripted comedy about a desperate former B-list celeb ce·leb  
n. Informal
A celebrity.
 who turns to the world of reality TV

The Dark (TNT)

Production Team: Stephen Cannell

Format: One-hour drama An elite FBI team must apprehend the most dangerous and baffling baf·fle  
tr.v. baf·fled, baf·fling, baf·fles
1. To frustrate or check (a person) as by confusing or perplexing; stymie.

2. To impede the force or movement of.

n.
1.
 criminals

E-Ring (NBC)

Production Team: Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, David McKenna, Taylor Hackford

Format: One-hour drama Focuses on the inner workings of the Pentagon

The Evidence (ABC) (midseason)

Production Team: Gary Fleder, Sam Baum, Dustin Thomason

Format: One-hour drama Police procedural that begins by unveiling all of the evidence

Four Kings (NBC) (midseason)

Production Team: David Kohan, Max Mutchnick

Format: Half-hour comedy Four childhood best friends live together in New York after one pal inherits an apartment from grandma

Freddie (ABC)

Production Team: Bruce Helford, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Bruce Rasmussen, Deborah Oppenheimer

Format: Half-hour comedy A Puerto Rican man raised in household of women finds himself amongst them once again

Hot Properties (ABC)

Production Team: Suzanne Martin

Format: Half-hour comedy About four female real estate brokers in New York

Invasion (ABC)

Production Team: Shaun Cassidy, Thomas Schlamme

Format: One-hour drama Strange things start happening in a Florida town post hurricane (read: other life forms)

Just Legal (WB)

Production Team: Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, Jonathan Shapiro

Format: One-hour drama An 18-year-old prodigy partners with a cynical, ne'er-do-well lawyer

Modern Men (WB) (midseason) Production Team: Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, Marsh McCall, Ross McCall, Aaron Peters Format: Half-hour comedy 20-something men turn to female life coach to help them with relationships

Related (WB)

Production Team: Marta Kauffman, Steve Pearlman, Andrew Plotkin, Liz Tuccillo, Mimi Leder

Format: One-hour drama Four Italian-American sisters in NYC

Reunion (Fox)

Production Team: Jon Harmon Feldman Jon Harmon Feldman is an American screenwriter and director.

He has created and worked on TV series Tru Calling, Reunion, and Big Shots (Pilot).
, Andew Plotkin, Steve Pearlman

Format: One-hour drama Tracks 20 years in the lives of six high-school classmates Classmates can refer to either:
  • Classmates.com, a social networking website.
  • Classmates (film), a 2006 Malayalam blockbuster directed by Lal Jose, starring Prithviraj, Jayasurya, Indragith, Sunil, Jagathy, Kavya Madhavan, Balachandra Menon, ...
 (1986-2006)

Supernatural (WB)

Production Team: McG, Eric Kripke, David Nutter

Format: One-hour drama Horror/drama about brothers who travel the country hunting down supernatural beings

Twins (WB)

Production Team: David Kohan, Max Mutchnick

Format: Half-hour comedy Two twin sisters with nothing in common work for the family lingerie business

The War at Home (Fox)

Production Team: Mindy Schultheis, Michael Hanel, Rob Lotterstein

Format: Half-hour comedy Hypocritical parents struggle to maintain dominance over their kids

INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTOR T.B.A.

The 9/11 Project (NBC)

Production Team: Grahm Yost, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, David Nevins

Format: Miniseries Explores the events leading up to September 11th

The Apprentice: Martha Stewart (NBC)

Production Team: Mark Burnett, Donald Trump, Jay Bienstock, Conrad Riggs, Kevin Harris

Format: One-hour reality The domestic diva takes a shot at hiring and firing young apprentices

So You Think You Can Dance There are several local versions of the reality television show So You Think You Can Dance:
  • So You Think You Can Dance (US); to date there have been three seasons of the US version of So You Think You Can Dance
 (Fox)

Production Team: Simon Fuller, Nigel Lythgoe, Allen Shapiro

Format: One-hour reality Dance competition, like American Idol.

PILOTS IN ALPHA ORDER

The 9/11 Project (tba)

The Apprentice: Martha Stewart (tba)

Barbershop (Sony)

Beautiful People (Sony)

Beauty and The Geek (20th Century Fox)

The Bedford Diaries (Warner Bros) (midseason)

Bones (20th Century Fox)

Boondocks (Sony)

Brat Camp (Channel 4 International)

Close to Home (Warner Bros.)

The Comeback (Warner Bros.)

Commander-in-Chief (BVITV BVITV Buena Vista International Television )

Criminal Minds (BVITV)

Crumbs (BVITV) (midseason)

Curious George (NBC Universal)

The Dark (Warner Bros.)

Deviant Behavior/The Gate (working title) (20th Century Fox)

E-Ring (Warner Bros.)

Emily's Reasons Why Not (Sony) (midseason)

Everybody Hates Chris (CBS Paramount)

Everything I Know About Men (CBS

Paramount) (midseason)

The Evidence (Warner Bros.) (midseason)

Fathom (NBC Universal)

Four Kings (Warner Bros.) (midseason)

Freddie (Warner Bros.)

Freebirds (20th Century Fox) (midseason)

Ghost Whisperer (BVITV)

Head Cases (20th Century Fox)

Hell's Kitchen (Granada)

Hot Properties (Warner Bros.)

How I Met Your Mother (20th Century Fox)

In Justice (BVITV) (midseason)

Inconceivable (BVITV)

The Inside (20th Century Fox)

Invasion (Warner Bros.)

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (20th Century Fox)

Just Legal (Warner Bros.)

Kitchen Confidential (20th Century Fox)

The Loop (20th Century Fox) (midseason)

Love, Inc. (CBS Paramount)

The Miracle Workers (BVITV) (midseason)

Misconceptions (20th Century Fox) (midseason)

Modern Men (Warner Bros.) (midseason)

My Name is Earl (20th Century Fox)

The Night Stalker (BVITV)

Out of Practice (CBS Paramount)

Over There (20th Century Fox)

Pepper Dennis (20th Century Fox) (midseason)

Princes of Malibu (GRB Worldwide)

Prison Break (20th Century Fox)

Related (Warner Bros.)

Reunion (Warner Bros.)

The Scholar (Carsey-Werner)

Sex, Lies & Secrets (CBS Paramount)

So You Think You Can Dance (tba)

Sons & Daughters (NBC Universal) (midseason)

South Beach (CBS Paramount)

Stacked (20th Century Fox)

Starved (20th Century Fox)

Supernatural (Warner Bros.)

Thick and Thin (NBC Universal) (midseason)

Thief (20th Century Fox)

Three Wishes (NBC Universal)

Threshold (CBS Paramount)

Twins (Warner Bros.)

The Unit (20th Century Fox) (midseason)

Wanted (CBS Paramount)

The War at Home (Warner Bros.)

Welcome to the Neighborhood (BVITV)

What About Brian (BVITV) (midseason)
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