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In production ... 2006-07 network-commissioned pilots *.


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.
 

Comedy

52 Fights

Focuses on the transition from dating to marriage; based on a book

A Day in the Life

Each episode focuses on different points-of-view on one wedding

The Guys

A group of men become unlikely friends because of their kids

Help Me Help You

Begins with introductions at a group therapy session

Him & Us

A fictional gay rock star (based on Elton John Sir Elton Hercules[1] John CBE[2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March, 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. ), and the people around him

In Case of Emergency

A group of friends reunites after going through a crisis together

Mr. Nice Guy

A guy keeps trying to do the right thing, but keeps coming off wrong

Notes from the Underbelly Notes from the Underbelly is an American sitcom that debuted on ABC as a midseason replacement. The series is produced by Eric and Kim Tannenbaum (previously producing Two and a Half Men) for Warner Bros. Television.  

About a group of friends; told through the point-of-view of a pregnant, married couple who just found out about the baby

Our Thirties

Follows the lives of a group of San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden  30-somethings

Pink Collar

Explores the nature of female relationships in the workplace

Southern Comfort

A geeky billionaire comes back home, butts heads with his jock brother

Untitled Bonnie Hunt

A recent divorcee di·vor·cée  
n.
A divorced woman.



[French, feminine past participle of divorcer, to divorce, from Old French, from divorce, divorce; see divorce.
 is also a private eye

Untitled Danny Comden

An egotistical real estate agent decides to change his life

Untitled Donal Logue Donal Francis Logue (born February 27, 1966[1][2]) is a Canadian actor. Biography
Early life
Logue was born in Ottawa, Ontario. His father was once a Catholic missionary in Africa where he met Donal's mother, Elizabeth, where they
 

A group of blue-collar guys choose to rob a celebrity

Untitled Patricia Heaton Patricia Heaton (born March 4, 1958 in Bay Village, Ohio) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress best known for playing lead character and Ray Barone's wife Debra Barone on the CBS television sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond.  

A recent widow finds friends and a new life through the PTA PTA or parent-teacher association: see parent education.  

Untitled Sister Project

Two sisters who had very different childhoods come together

What Happens on a Bus

Follows a young news reporter on a presidential campaign trail

Women of a Certain Age

A recent widow begins her life again with the help of her two best friends

Drama

Brothers & Sisters

A family soap about adult siblings

Day Break

A cop is on the run after being framed for murder and simultaneously tries to prevent another murder

Drift

A NYC NYC
abbr.
New York City


NYC New York City
 detective hallucinates after the sudden death of his daughter

Enemies

Two childhood friends find themselves at opposite ends of the law

Hollis & Rae

About a female prosecutor and a female cop who are best friends

A House Divided

A farming community's conflict with the government will lead to civil war

Men in Trees Men in Trees is a romantic television dramedy series starring Anne Heche. The series is centered around relationship coach Marin Frist's misadventures upon relocation to the fictional town of Elmo, Alaska.  

A cuckolded female psychiatrist moves to Alaska and finds suitors

October Road

Post-murder, a small town holds both funny and sad secrets

Six Degrees

Ensemble soap about the interweaving lives of a group of strangers

Sixty Minute Man

A man cannot recall his actions during one hour of every day, and must risk his life to uncover a conspiracy

The Traveler

Two men are on the run and are considered terrorists

Twenty Questions

A low-level researcher for U.S. Intelligence gets drawn into a conspiracy

Ugly Betty Ugly Betty is an Emmy-winning[1] American television comedy-drama series starring America Ferrera, Eric Mabius, Rebecca Romijn and Vanessa Williams. The series premiered on September 28, 2006, on ABC in the United States and on Citytv in Canada.  

An unattractive secretary is hired for a fashion magazine

Untitled Steinberg Project

A group of strangers goes through a bank robbery The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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Bank robbery is the crime of robbing a bank.
 together

Women in Law

Follows female lawyers working together

CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast.  

Comedy

The Angriest Man in Suburbia

A father moves to suburbia and struggles with petty annoyances

The Big Bang Theory big bang theory
n.
A cosmological theory holding that the universe originated approximately 20 billion years ago from the violent explosion of a very small agglomeration of matter of extremely high density and temperature.

Noun 1.
 

Two geniuses meet a woman who shows them how to enjoy life

The Class

Revolves around a bunch of people, friends since third grade

Generations

A grandfather and grandson live in a retirement community

Play Nice

An odd couple brother and sister run a family toy company

Sex, Power, Love and Politics

A group of friends who work in the world of D.C. politics

Untitled Paul Reiser Paul Reiser (born March 30, 1957) is an American actor, author and stand-up comedian, best known for his role in Mad About You. Biography
Born to a Jewish-American family, Reiser attended the East Side Hebrew Institute on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and
 Project

A guy takes over his family's Queens, NY car dealership

Untitled Port and Wiseman Project

A young couple moves back home, has to deal with her extended Family

Untitled Tom Hertz Project

Different perspectives of relationships presented by a married couple, an engaged couple and a single guy

The Weekend

About three male friends whose lives revolve around the weekends

Welcome to the Jungle Gym

A high-powered woman chooses to spend more time at home

You've Reached the Elliots

A C-list celeb ce·leb  
n. Informal
A celebrity.
 tries to spend more time with his family before his kids leave home

Drama

Company Town

About a small D.C. neighborhood populated by government agents

Edison

John Leguizamo stars as a con man-turned-undercover cop

Jericho

A small, isolated Kansas town must deal with the aftermath of nuclear war

Orpheus

A young man journeys into a modern-day cult for a woman

Shark

A cutthroat attorney tries high profile L.A. cases

Smith

A band of criminals provides points-of-view during high-stakes heists

Ultra

A single, city-dwelling comic book super hero

Untitled Carol Mendelsohn

A group of savvy lawyers argue moral, ethical and legal issues

Untitled Peter Ocko

A brilliant surgeon can't heal his own mind

Waterfront

About the wildly charismatic and unethical Mayor of Providence, R.I.

The Way

A New England family turns to witchcraft to further their business

Reality/Competition

Creature Comforts

Human interviews are superimposed su·per·im·pose  
tr.v. su·per·im·posed, su·per·im·pos·ing, su·per·im·pos·es
1. To lay or place (something) on or over something else.

2.
 on animal footage

A Hero's Welcome

People are reunited with a person who saved their lives--includes re-enactments and reunions

Untitled Dave Ramsey Project

Radio host and financial know-how personality Dave Ramsey helps struggling families get out of financial ruts

The CW

Comedy

The Game

A Girlfriends spin-off; focuses on wives of pro football players

She Said, He Said

Different sides of male-female communication are explored

Drama

Aquaman

A Smallville spin-off with a fish-out-of-water hero

Palm Springs

A soapy drama set in the California resort town

Runaway

An entire family goes into hiding after the dad is accused of murder

Split Decision

A teenager's first day of school; life turns out differently depending on where she sits

Reality/Competition

Fountain of Youth Fountain of Youth

legendary fountain of eternal youth. [World Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 432]

See : Unattainability
 

20-somethings and senior citizens compete in a mad dash across the U.S.

FOX

Comedy

The 12th Man

About a pro ball player who spends most of his time warming the bench

The Adventures of Big Handsome Guy and His Little Friend

The name says it all

Bash (working title)

Everyday people get roasted

Happy Hour

Odd couple buddy comedy about two guys in between relationships

If You Lived Here (working title)

Revolves around a group of people living in the same temporary housing complex

Julie Reno, Bounty Hunter Name for a category of persons who are offered a promised gratuity in return for "hunting" down and capturing or killing a designated target, usually a person or animal.  

About a female bond enforcement agent

More, Patience

Focuses on a female 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.
 psychiatrist

Take Me to Your Leader

A buddy comedy about an alien and a high school has-been on a journey to meet the President of the U.S.

That Guy

A guy realizes he's not like his friends--he has no family, no minivan

Til Death

A newlywed couple moves next door to a long-married couple

Union Jackass jackass: see ass.  

A cranky crank·y 1  
adj. crank·i·er, crank·i·est
1. Having a bad disposition; peevish.

2. Having eccentric ways; odd.

3.
 Brit is forced to move to the U.S.

The Winner

A 40-something guy looks back on the past decade, when he lived with his parents

Worst Week of My Life

Traces the week prior to a couple's wedding, and prior to other major life events

Drama

13 Graves

A man's search for his missing brother leads him on a treasure hunt across the U.S.

American Crime

A group of L.A.-based lawyers handle high-profile cases

Beyond

Based in a NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
NASA
 in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Independent U.S.
 jet propulsion lab

Damages

Examines the lives and relationships of a group of attorneys

Drive

A soap about contestants in an illegal, stakes-filled, cross-country road race; explores the competition's mysterious origins and its puppet-master

Faceless

A federal prosecutor goes undercover in the world of organized crime

Primary

A procedural drama about two hostage negotiators

Southern Comfort (working title)

A mobster's wife takes over his business while he's in the slammer A worm that caused a billion dollars worth of damage on the Internet on January 25, 2003. Slammer infected computers all over the Internet by generating random IP addresses and causing the computer's buffer to overflow with its own instructions that replicate itself and start the process  

Vanished

Investigation following a Senator's wife's disappearance

The Wedding Album

Revolves around a wedding photographer and his assistant

Reality/Competition

Talk Show with Spike Feresten (working title)

Half-hour comedy sketch/talk show hybrid

MyNetworkTV

Drama

Desire

Two brothers, on the run from the mafia, fall in love with the same woman; based on a telenovela A telenovela is a limited-run television serial melodrama of the type made famous in Latin America. The word is a portmanteau of tele, short for television, and novela ("novel/soap opera"). Telenovelas are essentially soap operas in miniseries format.  

Secrets

An in-depth look at the fashion industry; based on a telenovela

Reality/Competition

America's Brainiest

A quiz show that looks to identify the country's smartest people

Catwalk

A supermodel search

Celebrity Love Island

Six celebrities and six non-celebrities are thrown into a Fantasy Island-type locale

On Scene

Investigative show that looks at all the angles and evidence of compelling crimes (from FOX News)

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.
 

Comedy

Alpha Mom

A woman desperately tries to balance her home and office lives

Andy Barker P.I.

Stars Andy Richter as an accountant who works at a former P.I. office, takes on jobs

Community Service

A former real-estate developer finds himself doing forced community service

Lipstick Jungle

Three NYC business women stop at nothing to get ahead

Prodigy/Bully

A bona-fide genius uses his brains to get whatever he wants

The Singles Table

A bunch of relationships begin at a wedding's "Singles' Table"

Studio 60 on Sunset Strip

Behind-the-scenes look at a weekly sketch comedy show

Twenty Good Years Twenty Good Years was an NBC sitcom starring Jeffrey Tambor, John Lithgow, Heather Burns and Jake Sandvig that ran from October 11 2006 until November 1 2006

The series had also been slated to air on CTV in Canada
 

Two 50-year-old men choose to live the next 20 years better

Untitled Chris Sheridan Project

Two brothers live next door to each other; one's an FBI agent, one's a criminal

Untitled Richdale/Brennan Project

A guy and his roommate, who happens to be his much-younger brother

Untitled Tina Fey Project

A workplace comedy; takes place behind-the-scenes of a TV show

Drama

The Black Donnellys

A crime serial about an Irish family

Friday Night Lights

Inspired by the football movie of the same name

Haskett's Chance

A politician dies and gets a second chance at life

Heroes

A group of seemingly normal people discover they have superpowers

Kidnapped

The son of a wealthy 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
 family is kidnapped and everyone's a suspect

Raines

A cop uses his psychic powers to speak to the dead and solve crimes

Reality/Competition

Treasure Hunters

A treasure hunt competition

Untitled Simon Cowell Series

A search for the next Vegas headliner

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