TV

2002 Fall Televison Pilot Season

Comedy \| Drama
Comedy

ABC

Project	Producers	Studio	Logline

DEXTER PREP	Paul Simms	Touchstone	Group of teachers at an all-male boarding school

8 SIMPLE RULES FOR DATING MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER	Tracy Gamble, Tom Shadyac, Flody Suarez, W. Bruce Cameron, Michael Bostick	Touchstone	Based on book of the same name, about a protective dad

THE FUNKHOUSERS	Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein, Danny DeVito, Stacey Sher, Michael Shamberg, John Landgraf	Touchstone/Jersey	Single-camera comedy about large eccentric close-knit family

LEGALLY BLONDE	Rachel Sweet, Marc Platt	MGM/Touchstone	Based on the hit movie about an unlikely woman attending Harvard

MAYOR OF OYSTER BAY	David Israel, Jim O'Doherty, Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner, Caryn Mandabach	Carsey-Werner-Mandabach	Man with a large ego becomes mayor of a small town

MY WONDERFUL LIFE	Jenji Kohan, Suzanne Bukinik	Touchstone/Granada	Woman tries to balance her career and her family

REGULAR JOE	David Litt, Gene Stein, Nina Wass	Touchstone	Happy couple's daughter moves back home with her baby

SUN GODS	Steve Pink, D.V. DeVincentis, Patrick O'Neill	Touchstone	Workplace comedy about people who sell solar paneling

UNTITLED BONNIE HUNT PROJ.	Bonnie Hunt, Don Lake	Touchstone	Bonnie Hunt stars in this family comedy

UNTITLED JOHN RIDLEY PROJ.	John Ridley, Gene Stein, Nina Wass	Touchstone	An interracial couple, husband deals with social wife and her family

UNTITLED MICHAEL JACOBS PROJ.	Michael Jacobs	Touchstone/NBC Studio	Workaholic husband attempts to reconnect with his family

UNTITLED TERRI MINSKY PROJ.	Terry Minsky, Gene Stein, Nina Wass	Touchstone	Plain office temp lands high-profile office job

UNTITLED COUPLES PROJECT	Jon Scherick, David Ronn, Nena Rodrigue	Touchstone	Single-camera comedy about three thirtysomething couples

UNTITLED SCHERICK/RONN PROJ.	Jon Scherick, David Ronn, Nena Rodrigue	Touchstone	Comedy about an unorthodox private eye

WHAT LEONARD COMES HOME TO	Alan Zweibel	Brad Grey/Touchstone	Single camera comedy about marriage from a husband's perspective

WITH YOU IN SPIRIT	Alan Cohen, Alan Freedland, Steve Levitan	Twentieth	College grad gets TV reporter job in new-age New Mexico town

CBS

Project	Producers	Studio	Logline

DRAGANS OF N.Y.	Hugh Laurie, Alex Taub	CBS/Regency	One-hour dramatic comedy about husband and wife gumshoes

GROWN MEN	Rob Greenberg	Warner Bros.	Father moves in with 20-year-old son after his divorce

JULIE LYDECKER	Jennifer Crittenden, Phil Rosenthal	Paramount	30-year-old woman and her mom

LIFE OF THE PARTY	Jeffrey Richman	Twentieth	Former actor becomes a congressman

LUNCHBOX CHRONICLES	Bill Diamond	Studios USA/CBS	Busy single working mom, cast-contingent

STILL STANDING	Diane Burroughs, Joey Guttierez	Twentieth/CBS	Blue-collar family finds it stands out in neighborhood

TWO FAMILIES	Chuck Lorre	Warner Bros.	Middle-aged widow and widower fall in love and bring their families together

UNTITLED JEFF STRAUSS PROJ.	Jeff Strauss	Twentieth/CBS/ACME	Minutiae of a young couple raising kids

UNTITLED LLOYD/.KEENAN PROJ.	Christopher Lloyd, Joe Keenan	Paramount	Father-daughter relationship

UNTITLED NIA VARDALOS PROJ.	Nia Vardalos, Marsh McCall	Brad Grey	Based on Vardalos' one-woman show about a big Greek-American family

FOX

Project	Producers	Studio	Logline

BEAT COPS	Don Woodard, Tom Maxwell, Conan O'Brien, Jeff Ross, Sam Seder	NBC Studios/Conaco	Single-camera laffer about N.Y. police officers new to the street beat

THE BIG FIX	David Sacks	Castle Rock/Warner Bros.	French Stewart as guy given the chance to go back and correct his mistakes

BS	Jeffrey Klarik, Tony Krantz, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer	Twentieth/Imagine	Ensemble about a Vermont-based all-girl boarding school

CEDRIC	John Bowman, Matt Wickline, Stan Lathan	Twentieth	Cedric the Entertainer stars in this sketch/variety show

THE GRUBBS	Josh Sternin, Jeff Ventimilia, Ann Johnson	Studios USA/Granada	Teen in a family of underacheivers falls in love with his teacher

LIFE ON PAROLE	Brent Forrester, Judd Apatow	Twentieth/DreamWorks	Single-camera comedy about a parole officer whose best friend is a parolee

NEXT	Bob Odenkirk, Bernie Brillstein	Twentieth	Bob Odenkirk and others in alternative/sketch news show

OLIVER BEENE	Howard Gewirtz, Steve Levitan	DreamWorks/Twentieth	Single-camera comedy about an 11-year-old living in the Cold War/Kennedy era

THE PITTS	Julie Thacker, Mike Scully	Twentieth	Unluckiest family ever is the literal descendent of Job

UNTITLED ALAN ZWEIBEL	Alan Zweibel	Regency	Multi-generational family living under one roof

UNTITLED ERIC GILLILAND PROJ.	Eric Gilliland	Studios USA	Son returns from the Peace Corps and clashes with conservative stepdad

UNTITLED RICKY BLITT PROJECT	Ricky Blitt	Twentieth	Single-camera laffer about an immature 37-year-old guy living with parents

WANDA AT LARGE	Bruce Helford, Les Firestein, Deborah Oppenheimer	Warner Bros.	Wanda Sykes as a D.C. TV reporter

NBC

Project	Producers	Studio	Logline

A.U.S.A.	Richard Appel	Twentieth/NBC Studios	Scott Foley as a young D.A.

CLASS OF '06	Adam Chase	NBC Studios/Paramount	Six freshman college friends who live together

GOOD MORNING MIAMI	David Kohan, Max Mutchnick	Warner Bros.	13-episode commitment; news guy takes over low-rated TV operation

HIDDEN HILLS	Peter Segal, Rick Swartzlander, Susanne Daniels, Kate Juergens	NBC Studios/Primarily Ent.	Single-camera ensemble comedy through the eyes of a married man

IN-LAWS	Mark Reisman, Kelsey Grammer	Paramount/Gramnet/NBC Studios	Guy must deal with his new wife's overprotective father

IT'S NOT ABOUT ME	Jonathan Groff, Vic Kaplan	NBC Studios	Guy quits high-pressure job to become a teacher

LIFE AT FIVE FEET	Maya Forbes, Gavin Polone	NBC Studios/Pariah	Average girl ghostwrites a column for a supermodel

ROMEO FIRE	Greg Malins	Warner Bros./NBC Studios	13-episode commitment; ensemble comedy about small-town firefighters

UNTITLED CHEVY CHASE PROJ.	Tom Leopold, Rick Dresser, Lorne Michaels	NBC Studios/Broadway Video	Three teenage daughters move back in with divorced dad

UNTITLED KEN FINKELMAN PROJ.	Ken Finkelman, Tony Krantz, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard	Twentieth/Imagine/NBC Studios	Single camera comedy about a newsman juggling his life

UNTITLED TIM DOYLE/GREG GIRALDO PROJ.	Tim Doyle, Conan O'Brien, Vic Kaplan, A.J. Morewitz	NBC Studios/Conaco	Greg Giraldo as a standup with a 2-year-old daughter

WB

Project	Producers	Studio	Logline

DO OVER	Rick Winer, Kenny Schwartz, Warren Littlefield	Paramount/Littlefield Co.	Single-camera comedy about a guy who relives his high school years circa 1980s

FAMILY AFFAIR	Bob Young, Gavin Polone, Sid & Marty Krofft, Randy Pop	Turner/Pariah	Updated version of the popular 1960s comedy

GENERATION GAP	Kayla Alpert, Tim O'Donnell	Paramount/Viacom	Crazy grandma and her multi-generational family

HOUSEBLEND	Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranburg	Paramount	Two friends - a man and a woman - combine households

IN MY OPINION	Lona Williams, Susanne Daniels, Kate Juergens	Turner/Primarily Ent.	Workplace comedy about a female newspaper columnist

JUST LIKE YOU	Peter Murrietta, Rob LaZebnik, Howard Klein, David Miner	Big Ticket	Comedy about a Latino family

THE O'KEEFES	Mark O'Keefe, Becky Hartman-Edwards	Turner	Single-camera comedy about home-schooled kids' return to public school

PREP	Tommy Lynch, Chad Fiveash, James Stoteraux	Turner	Single-camera comedy about a co-ed boarding school

ST. SASS	Ryan Murphy, Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins, Joe Davola, Diane Wilk	Warner Bros./Tollin-Robbins	Socialite (Delta Burke) is sentenced to work as a school headmistress

UNTITLED CALHOUN/SCHNEIDER PROJ.	Dan Schneider, Wil Calhoun, Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins, Joe Davola	Warner Bros./Tollin-Robbins	Amanda Bynes as a girl who moves in with her older sister

THE SUN SPOT	Rob Cohen	Warner Bros.	Improv show set in a hotel

WAYDOWNTOWN	Wendy Engelberg, Amy Engelberg, Peter Traugott, Becky Clemens	Turner/Brad Grey	Tori Spelling is one of two women living in the big city

Comedy \| Drama
Drama
ABC
Project	Producers	Studio	Logline

ASTRONAUTS	Todd Robinson, Ian Sanders, Nick Wechsler, Emile Levisetti, Kim Moses	20th / Industry Ent.	Men and women compete for a place on a mission to Mars

CAPITAL CITY	Rod Lurie	Touchstone / DreamWorks	Young, female congressional staffer runs against the senator she works for

CHANG FAMILY SAVES THE WORLD	Kevin Misher, John Ridley	Touchstone	Family of Wutan temple warriors battle evil

E.I.S.	Nina Wass, Gene Stein, Nena Rodrigue, Darren Lemke	Touchstone	Drama set in the Centers for Disease Control, investigating epidemics

HOMEWARD BOUND	Gabe Sachs, Jeff Judah, Danielle Stockdyk, Jennifer Gwartz	Studios USA	Lawyer loses her job at corporate office and moves back in with her parents

MIRACLES	Rich Hatem, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber	Touchstone / Spyglass	Spiritually conflicted seminarian works for the N.Y. branch of the Vatican

NANCY DREW	Kevin Brown, Ami Mann	Touchstone	Two-hour pilot based on the Nancy Drew books by Carolyn Keene

PARANORMAL GIRL	Pam Brady, Andy Fleming	Touchstone	A 15-year-old girl with paranormal abilities is recruited by the FBI

PUSH NEVADA	Ben Affleck, Sean Bailey, Chris Moore, Matt Damon	Touchstone / LivePlanet	Mystery drama set in a small town; viewers have a chance to play along

THAT WAS THEN	Jeff Kline, Jeremy Miller, Dan Cohn	Touchstone	A man travels through time to the time when everything went wrong in his life

THE OATH	Marc Platt, Gary Tieche	Touchstone	Two doctors fight the system at an HMO hospital

UNTITLED LARRY GELBART PROJ.	Larry Gelbart	Touchstone	John Larroquette, Martin Landau and others as an affluent media family

VERITAS	Patrick Massett. John Zinman, Bryan Spicer, Craig Zadan, Neil Meron	Touchstone / Storyline Prods.	Two-hour pilot about a father-and-son archeology team

CBS

Project	Producers	Studio	Logline

CSI: MIAMI	Jerry Bruckheimer, Ann Donahue, Anthony Zwicker, Carol Mendelson	Bruckheimer / CBS / Alliance Atlantis	22-episode order; CSI spin-off set in Miami

GEORGETOWN	Joseph Dougherty, Al Ruddy, Jerry Rafshoon	Big Ticket	The world of politics in Washington

HACK	Gavin Palone, David Koepp, Thomas Carter	CBSP/Big Ticket/Pariah	A former police officer looks for redemption through solving crimes

IN THE ECHO	Allison Anders, Kurt Voss, Bob Greenblatt, David Janollari	DreamWorks / Greenblatt - Janollari	Single, female probation officer adopts a gang member's child

JO	Mike Newell, Toni Graphia, Cam Jones, Denise DiNovi	CBSP/Spelling	Manhattan-based daughter reunites with mother in rural North Carolina

LEFTY	Sylvester Stallone, Cynthia Cidre, Brad Grey	Brad Grey / Big Ticket	Former Army man becomes a priest in a low-income neighborhood

PRESIDIO MED	John Wells, Lydia Woodard, Chris Chulack	Warner Bros.	13-episode order; Medical drama about a private practice in the Bay Area

QUEENS SUPREME	Kevin Fox, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Julia Roberts, Debra Schindler	Regency/CBSP	Dramedy about the behind-the-scenes world of court justices in Queens, N.Y.

R.U.S./H.	Paul Attanasio, Katie Jacobs	Studios USA	Mary Stuart Masterson and others star in drama about L.A. cops

UNTITLED MICHAEL MANN PROJ.	Barry Schindel, Michael Mann	Studios USA	High octane single lead cop show in the vein of "Heat"

WITHOUT A TRACE	Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, Hank Steinberg	Warner Bros. / Bruckheimer /CBS	Special unit of the FBI that handles missing persons

FOX

Project	Producers	Studio	Logline

EASTWICK	Jon Cowan, Robert Rovner, Jim Leonard	Warner Bros.	The three 15-year-old sons of John Updike's "Witches of Eastwick"

FAST LANE	McG, John McNamara, Daniel Rapaport	Warner Bros.	Multi-ethnic actioner in the vein of "Starsky & Hutch"

FIREFLY	Joss Whedon	Twentieth	13-episode order; Crew of a small spaceship set 500 years in the future

GIRLS CLUB	David E. Kelley	Twentieth/Kelley Prods.	Three single, female lawyers live and work in San Francisco

JOHN DOE	Brandon Camp, Mike Thompson, Mimi Leder	Regency	Mysterious man knows everything about the world -- except who he is

KEEN EDDY	Joel Wyman, Simon West, Warren Littlefield	Paramount/Littlefield Co.	An American cop goes to London and becomes a private investigator

SAVE THE LAST DANCE	Robert W. Cort, David Madden, Daniel Pyne, Toni Ann Johnson	Paramount	Based on the hit film of the same name

SECRET SERVICE	Jeff Rake	Twentieth	Up close and personal with the Secret Service

SEPTUPLETS	Kip Koenig	Stu Segall Prods.	Teenage sextuplets who live in a hotel owned by their parents

TIME TUNNEL	Kevin Burns, Rand Ravage, Todd Holland, Jon Jashni, Andrew Lazar	Twentieth/Regency	Based on the Irwin Allen TV series

NBC

Project	Producers	Studio	Logline

BOOMTOWN	Graham Yost	NBC Studios	Gritty L.A.-based crime drama in Rashomon style

KINGPIN	David Mills	Spelling/NBC Studios	Drama centering on the drug trade a la "Traffic"

MISTER STERLING	Lawrence O'Donnell	Studios USA/NBC Studios	Josh Brolin as idealistic guy a la "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"

MISS MIAMI	Michael Duggan	NBC Studios / Touchstone	Beautiful, unorthodox Latina FBI agent in Miami

ST. GEORGE	Tommy Lynch	NBC Studios	Family works on a game preserve in Africa

UNTITLED JONATHAN PRINCE PROJ.	Jonathan Prince	Studios USA/NBC Studios	Family drama set against the time and music of "American Bandstand"

WAR STORIES	Peter Noah, Keith Addis, Emile Levisetti	20th/Industry/NBC Studios	Ensemble about war correspondents

YOUNG ARTHUR	Remi Aubuchon, Graham Yost	NBC Studios	Low-budget fantasy project about the life of young King Arthur

ZERO EFFECT	Walon Green, Jake Kasdan	Warner Bros./Castle Rock	Series based on the movie

WB

Project	Producers	Studio	Logline

ACES	Leonard Dick, Greer Shephard, Michael Robin	Warner Bros./Regency	Card-playing dad and his teenage son

BIRDS OF PREY	Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins, Joe Davola, Laeta Kalogridis	Warner Bros./Tollin-Robbins	D.C. comics offshoot of Batman about three women battling villains in Gotham

BLACK SASH	Robert Kamen, Dylan Sellers, Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins, Joe Davola	Warner Bros./Tollin-Robbins	SF bounty hunter teaches martial arts to teens

HOME OF THE BRAVE	Winifred Hervey, Aaron Spelling, E. Duke Vincent	Spelling	Army sergeant returns home to his wife and four kids

EVERWOOD	Greg Berlanti, Mickey Liddell	Warner Bros.	Neurosurgeon moves his teenage kids to Colorado after his wife dies

IN MY LIFE	Ira Ungerleider, Francis Ford Coppola, Maira Suro	American Zoetrope/Turner	Group of boys comes of age in Louisiana during the civil-rights movement

THE LONE RANGER	Stacy Title, Jonathan Penner, Susanne Daniels, Kate Juergens, Eric Ellenbogen	Turner/Primarily Ent.	New take on the classic tale of the rebel Texas Ranger

LOST IN OZ	Joel Smith, Kevin Brown, Lawrence Bender, David Hayter	Warner Bros.	A young woman is trapped in Oz and leads a revolt

UPN

Project	Producers	Studio	Logline

EMPIRE	Francis Ford Coppola, Bob Greenblatt, David Janollari	American Zoetrope/Greenblatt-Janollari.	Two African-American brothers own a hip hop label

HAUNTED	Rick Ramage, Andrew Cosby, Emile Levisetti, Keith Addis	CBS/Viacom/Industry Ent.	PI uses information from the spirit world to solve missing persons cases

ONE FOR THE MONEY	Phoef Sutton, Mark Legan, Wendy Finerman, Janet Evanovich (author)	Col TriStar	Based on book about a bail bondswoman

THE TWILIGHT ZONE	Pen Densham, Mark Stern, John Watson	Trilogy/New Line	Remake of the legendary anthology series

THE LEGACY	Jonathan Littman, Jerry Bruckheimer, simon Kinberg	Warner Bros./ Bruckheimer	Guy inherits wristwatch, puts it on and becomes a superhero