Raw deals: ABC like dailies show
By Nellie Andreeva

Feb 8, 2008

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Add series pickups based on dailies to the list of tweaks to the pilot season this year imposed by the prolonged writers strike. In order to be able to present its fall schedule to advertisers in May, ABC is considering ordering some of their new series based on raw footage from the shooting of the pilots.

Because of what is expected to be a truncated pilot season following the strike, some pilots won't be finished until the end of May or even later. That is one reason why CBS and the CW are opting to do a lot more presentations in lieu of full-blown pilots this year, especially on the drama side.

In addition to the pickup-off-dailies model, ABC also is said to be exploring forgoing pilots and ordering some projects straight to series, a strategy that has been actively pursued by NBC. ABC made the most drastic strike-related development cuts of all nets, terminating about one-third of its scripts.


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STRIKE ZONE: Latest news and updates
http://www.thr.com/strike
the list of tweaks to the pilot season
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/new...0b57f9f04f190aacab31




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Thanks Z -- I think this is good news, because hopefully it will mean many of the shows I am high on get a pickup. I don't know if you saw my proposed Fall lineup in the other thread, but I'm hoping for pilots like Life on Mars, Literary Superstar, Section 8, Leap, Boundaries, and Cedric the Entertainer's untitled comedy stand a good chance to be picked up, as should the scripts for Cupid and Damon Wayans' untitled comedy. Have you heard any more buzz on any of the above? Are there any others in the mix that have stronger buzz than the ones mentioned above?