Primetime Pilot Panic News

2026 may get a spot in broadcast history as the year NBC brought pilot season back. The network this year ordered eight pilots, five dramas and three comedies, the most any broadcast network has done in a cycle since the pandemic. Even more importantly, NBC is doing it in the traditional January…

Hulu is not moving forward with Group Chat, its comedy pilot starring and executive produced by La La Anthony, written and executive produced by Kenya Barris and executive produced by Kim Kardashian. Longtime close friends Kardashian and Anthony are back at Hulu with a new comedy series project…

Hulu continues to lean into pilots with a greenlight for drama Durango, from writer Eliza Clark (FX’s Y: The Last Man), 20th Television and Media Res. The streaming wars ushered in a rise of the straight-to-series orders which became the default model in the new medium. A year and a half ago…

NBC is keeping the momentum with a third drama pilot in as many days. The network has given a green light to an untitled one-hour from The Brave creator Dean Georgaris, longtime Davis Entertainment President John Fox and Universal Television. Written by Georgaris and Fox, the untitled series is…

NBC is hitting the ground running with a second pilot order less than two weeks into January. The network has greenlighted drama Protection, from Quantico creator Josh Safran, Today with Jenna & Sheinelle‘s Jenna Bush Hager and Universal Television. Protection joins a reboot of The Rockford File…

EXCLUSIVE: ABC has handed a pilot order to Do You Want Kids?, a single-camera comedy starring Rachel Bloom in her return to broadcast TV after co-creating and headlining the CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Bloom co-wrote the pilot script for the 20th Television-produced Do You Want Kids with her husband…

Good news for Ghosts fans: The executive producers of CBS' hit comedy have landed a pilot order for another fantasy laugher. CBS has given Eternally Yours, a single-camera comedy, a pilot order, nearly a year after ordering a development room. Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, who are under an…

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…

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…

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…

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…