Primetime Pilot Panic News

We have a broadcast pickup — but not the kind one would expect the week before the upfronts. ABC has given a pilot order to RJ Decker, a drama from Elementary creator Rob Doherty based on the 1987 novel Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen. While atypical for the traditional broadcast development…

EXCLUSIVE: New Amsterdam star Ryan Eggold rounds out the series-regular cast of FX’s drama pilot Seven Sisters. He joins Elizabeth Olsen, Cristin Milioti, Meredith Hagner, Odessa Young, Zoë Winters, Bridget Brown and Carolyn Kettig, who play the titular sisters; Philip Ettinger, who plays their…

Jenn Lyon (Claws) has been cast as the lead of Stumble, Jeff Astrof and Liz Astrof’s single-camera cheerleading comedy pilot for NBC. Underlining just how tight the job market is post-peak TV with well-paying series-regular role opportunities few and far between, there were six well known…

CBS has opted not to proceed with the proposed Equalizer spinoff starring Titus Welliver, Deadline has learned. The project had flown largely under the radar, with the final decision made after the planted spinoff episode of The Equalizer, guest starring Welliver and co-lead Juani Feliz, aired this…

CBS has made a decision on its standalone pilots, handing series orders to comedy DMV, starring Colin From Accounts‘ Harriet Dyer, from creator Dana Klein and Kapital Enteratnment; and drama Einstein, headlined by Criminal Minds alum Matthew Gray Gubler, from the Monk duo of Andy Breckman and Randy…

For a third year in a row, CBS will be the first broadcast network to present its schedule for next season ahead of upfront week. With the 2025-26 lineup reveal day, May 7, fast approaching, CBS is ready to make its final decisions on new and returning series for fall and beyond. (Under the network’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-winner Jeff Blitz (The Office, Review) is set to direct and executive produce Stumble, a single-camera comedy pilot from writers/executive producers Liz Astrof (Pivoting) and Jeff Astrof (Shining Vale) and executive producers Monica Aldama and Dana Honor. Written by the Astrof…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has greenlighted The Husbands, a comedic drama starring Juno Temple (Ted Lasso, Fargo). The eight-episode series, from A24, lead writer Miriam Battye (Succession, Beef) and lead director Craig Gillespie (Your Friends & Neighbors, Pam & Tommy) is adapted from author and games…

EXCLUSIVE: American Dad! is coming home. According to sources, the comedy, created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman, would air on Fox starting with its upcoming 20th season, marking the second MacFarlane animated series to return to the network following a break after Family Guy did…

The Snowfall spinoff series we exclusively revealed to be in early development in 2023, has officially received a pilot order by FX, Deadline has confirmed. Gail Bean and Isaiah John are set to reprise the roles of Wanda and Leon Simmons, respectively. As previously revealed, the spinoff is a…

EXCLUSIVE: There has been a change of plans for the FBI spinoff with a CIA twist in the works at CBS. Originally announced as a planted spinoff, the project, tentatively titled FBI: CIA — a title I hear is expected to change — was to be introduced in an episode of the mothership series this spring…

EXCLUSIVE: NBC has given a pilot order to Stumble, a single-camera comedy from writers/executive producers Liz Astrof (Pivoting) and Jeff Astrof (Shining Vale) and executive producers Monica Aldama and Dana Honor. As Deadline reported earlier this month, the cheerleading half-hour had been…