ABC isn't moving forward with drama pilot Murder in Manhattan.
However, the drama about a mother (Annie Potts) and daughter (Bridget Regan) who team as amateur sleuths will be shopped to cable networks.
According to multiple sources, the pilot will be shopped to other networks and cablers through ABC Studios' lower-cost programming unit. (Tracy Underwood was tapped to run the latter in fall 2012.)
As broadcast network executives sit behind closed doors poring over focus group testing results on a whopping 100 pilots, scores of showrunners are on stand-by as the decisions on which comedies and dramas will land slots on the 2013-14 schedules are expected to come starting Wednesday.
The Hollywood Reporter dialed up industry insiders and has compiled 10 of the thrillers, soapy procedurals, comic adaptations and family and workplace comedies that stand the best shot of earning series pickups.
Just days after winning the top spot at the box office with their action feature Pain & Gain, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Mark Wahlberg are back at it.
The duo are teaming up for a half-hour dramedy pilot set up at HBO about the lives of retired athletes living in Miami, The Hollywood Reporter has learned, with Johnson attached to star.
A version of this story first appeared in the May 10 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
ABC is looking to the success of Shark Tank for a new spin on the talent competition series.
The network home to Dancing With the Stars has ordered to pilot You're Booked, an America's Got Talent-type competition series from Sony Pictures Television and 310 Entertainment, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Based on an Israeli format co-created by Reshet TV and Tanin Productions' Gili Golan, Adi Golan and Harel Joseffson, Money Pump is a high-pressure game show where contestants compete against an enormous money pump for $1 million.
Kevin Durand -- who played Charles Widmore's henchman Martin Keamy on ABC's Lost -- has been tapped to co-star in the Guillermo del Toro and Carlton Cuse pilot, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
John Mulaney is welcoming a familiar face to his NBC pilot.
The former Saturday Night Live writer has enlisted SNL alum and Late Night host Jimmy Fallon for his upcoming semiautobiographical comedy pilot, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
After fielding multiple offers this pilot season, House of Cards breakout star Corey Stoll has landed at FX.
The actor, who was offered several broadcast drama pilot leads, has been tapped to star in FX's adaptation of Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's The Strain, the network announced Thursday.
AMC is moving forward with a drama project from Brotherhood's Blake Masters.
The cable network has green-lighted a pilot order for Line of Sight, centered on a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator who survives a mysterious plane crash. Masters will write and serve as executive producer.
Production on the Fox TV Studios/AMC Studios-produced pilot will begin later this year.
The Barden Bellas and Treblemakers are finally on the same team: TBS.
Alexis Knapp is reuniting with her Pitch Perfect co-star Skylar Astin, booking a series regular role in the cable network's Bill Lawrence comedy pilot Ground Floor, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The streaming service, looking to make noise through the crowded marketplace that includes Netflix and Hulu as well as broadcast and cable networks with more than 100 pilots in the mix, has added all 14 of its pilots online.
Fox's upcoming Dads series is staging a Ted reunion.
Giovanni Ribisi has been tapped to replace Tommy Dewey as the star of the comedy from Seth MacFarlane and the creative team behind Ted, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Spike TV is going big, unveiling a nonscripted development slate featuring 11 pilots in genres including cooking, real estate and automotive.
As the Viacom-owned cabler aims to court what it dubbed a "more general audience" including women, the network will team with production companies behind The Biggest Loser and Hatfields & McCoys, among others.
