Broadcast Pilot Buzz – Summer 2022 Edition
deadline.comIt’s pilot season in July! The lasting impact of the pandemic on the traditional broadcast pilot cycle continues to be felt as production and pickup decisions on a sizable number of broadcast pilots has shifted off-cycle.
ABC and NBC have five and six off-cycle pilots this year, respectively, while CBS has a decision to make on a project with a pilot production commitment, and Fox is eying more script-to-series orders.
As usual, information is scarce and not always reliable early on but here is what I am hearing about various pilots. Keep in mind that not all projects are on the same timetable so if they are not mentioned, that could mean that there is not enough feedback on them yet.
I hear NBC is ahead of ABC in the pilot evaluation process and may start making pickup decisions as early as this week. The networks have a little bit more time as most pilot cast options are believed to expire at the end of August.Drama pilot Will Trent, starring Ramon Rodriguez as Special Agent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations, emerged as an early frontrunner among the the off-cycle crop of ABC pilots weeks ago and is looking very stromg.
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