Think TV has produced some stinkers? Here's what they didn't even bother making this year.
TaskmasterJack Send a noteboard - 17/05/2011 12:46:29 AM
It's weird, but totally understandable, to see how common certain themes are in some of these pitches.
According to New York magazine, the networks were pitched thousands of series for the latest season, and bought scripts for 429 of them. Of those, we've culled the 30 that seem as if they would have contained sci-fi, fantasy and horror elements.
Check them out and let us know whether you think the big TV brains made a mistake and they should have picked up one of these rather than Grimm or Once Upon a Time.
ABC
Human Alien being occupies a person's body.
Ghostworld Couple can see future and supernatural worlds.
Inhuman Great criminals have been psychologically cloned; investigators must find them.
CBS
Untitled Larry Kaplow Project Time travel.
Untitled Matthew Federman & Stephen Scaia Project Time travel.
Untitled Kam Miller Project Based on Charlaine Harris' Harper Connelly mysteries, in which Harper speaks to the dead.
Untitled Susannah Grant Project Surgeon takes instruction from his dead ex-wife; Jonathan Demme directs.
FOX
Untitled Kevin Cecil & Andy Riley Project Fifties family travels to present day.
Fail Siblings are beaten down by life as their father narrates from beyond the grave.
Magical Law Legal-supernatural procedural.
Untitled Rick Eid Project Ambitious D.A. is aided by a ghost.
Black Chapter CIA unit uses paranormal means.
Untitled David Hubbard Project Prosecutor finds herself caught between two realities.
Smokers Alien exterminators in space.
NBC
Untitled Mo Mandel Project Meteor is headed for Earth.
Emerald City Group of New York twentysomethings, each a character from The Wizard of Oz.
Wonder Woman David E. Kelley's reboot.
SFX Special-effects house works with the CIA to solve crimes.
Untitled Bryan Fuller Project Modern-day version of The Munsters.
Untitled Michael Green Project Cops use artificial intelligence.
Mission to Mars NASA-like agency plans the trip.
Untitled Mark Frost Project Cop with artificial intelligence.
Ritual Crime Unit Paranormal-crime investigators.
S.A.N.D. Men Inception-like show about dreams.
Vines Horror show set at a winery.
Nine Lives Supernatural thriller about people who've had near-death experiences.
The Dark Tower Based on Stephen King's novels. King executive-produces.
Echoes Young woman, when touching an object, experiences the thoughts of people who have touched it before.
Ghost Angeles Young L.A. woman realizes that she can talk to the dead.
Zombies vs. Vampires Humans, zombies, and vampires all co-exist.
According to New York magazine, the networks were pitched thousands of series for the latest season, and bought scripts for 429 of them. Of those, we've culled the 30 that seem as if they would have contained sci-fi, fantasy and horror elements.
Check them out and let us know whether you think the big TV brains made a mistake and they should have picked up one of these rather than Grimm or Once Upon a Time.
ABC
Human Alien being occupies a person's body.
Ghostworld Couple can see future and supernatural worlds.
Inhuman Great criminals have been psychologically cloned; investigators must find them.
CBS
Untitled Larry Kaplow Project Time travel.
Untitled Matthew Federman & Stephen Scaia Project Time travel.
Untitled Kam Miller Project Based on Charlaine Harris' Harper Connelly mysteries, in which Harper speaks to the dead.
Untitled Susannah Grant Project Surgeon takes instruction from his dead ex-wife; Jonathan Demme directs.
FOX
Untitled Kevin Cecil & Andy Riley Project Fifties family travels to present day.
Fail Siblings are beaten down by life as their father narrates from beyond the grave.
Magical Law Legal-supernatural procedural.
Untitled Rick Eid Project Ambitious D.A. is aided by a ghost.
Black Chapter CIA unit uses paranormal means.
Untitled David Hubbard Project Prosecutor finds herself caught between two realities.
Smokers Alien exterminators in space.
NBC
Untitled Mo Mandel Project Meteor is headed for Earth.
Emerald City Group of New York twentysomethings, each a character from The Wizard of Oz.
Wonder Woman David E. Kelley's reboot.
SFX Special-effects house works with the CIA to solve crimes.
Untitled Bryan Fuller Project Modern-day version of The Munsters.
Untitled Michael Green Project Cops use artificial intelligence.
Mission to Mars NASA-like agency plans the trip.
Untitled Mark Frost Project Cop with artificial intelligence.
Ritual Crime Unit Paranormal-crime investigators.
S.A.N.D. Men Inception-like show about dreams.
Vines Horror show set at a winery.
Nine Lives Supernatural thriller about people who've had near-death experiences.
The Dark Tower Based on Stephen King's novels. King executive-produces.
Echoes Young woman, when touching an object, experiences the thoughts of people who have touched it before.
Ghost Angeles Young L.A. woman realizes that she can talk to the dead.
Zombies vs. Vampires Humans, zombies, and vampires all co-exist.
This message last edited by TaskmasterJack on 17/05/2011 at 02:55:09 AM
Think TV has produced some stinkers? Here's what they didn't even bother making this year.
- 17/05/2011 12:46:29 AM
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Most of those I'm glad didn't get picked up.
- 17/05/2011 02:06:06 AM
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Re: Think TV has produced some stinkers? Here's what they didn't even bother making this year.
- 17/05/2011 01:10:41 PM
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but lots of good shows would sound crazy when summarized (Lost, Firefly) *NM*
- 17/05/2011 02:33:25 PM
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Damn you, NBC!!!! This is why I haven't bothered to watch networks for a long long while ...
- 18/05/2011 01:19:40 PM
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