He Said: As the undeclared winner of the award for the longest television show title ever, that’s really all this show has going for it. Logline: A recent divorcée, with a daughter in tow, must move in with her kooky and sexually adventurous parents.Ĭast: Sarah Chalke, Brad Garrett, Elizabeth Perkins, Orlando Jones, John Dore, Rachel Eggleston, Rebecca Delgado Smith.
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How to Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) (Midseason Tuesday at 8 p.m.) It’s unfortunate that Leah Remini chose this project to return to comedy. There aren’t any laughs here, just a lot of predictable shtick. She Said: You can’t blame Kyle Bornheimer for trying, but this just isn’t going to be the show to give him a permanent gig. They needed to dive deeper into the toolbox with this one. Based on a British comedy that was canceled after two seasons, The Family Tools strives for laughs but doesn’t cut it, with every joke set-up and physical gag visible from a mile away. He Said: Poor Kyle Bornheimer can’t catch a break, and this lackadaisical sitcom isn’t cutting it either. Simmons, Leah Remini, Edi Gathegi, Johnny Pemberton, Danielle Nicolet Logline: A perpetual screw-up must take over his ailing father’s handyman business.Ĭast: Kyle Bornheimer, J.K. The Family Tools (Midseason Tuesday at 8:30 p.m.) I wouldn’t move in to The Drake, but I’d visit. David Annabel and Rachael Taylor are also very believable as an in-love couple that moves in and are hired to manage the building. So far, O’Quinn isn’t doing anything we didn’t see John Locke ( Lost) do and Williams has brought her fabulous diva out for the third time, but they have a delicious spark. It’s genius casting to pair Terry O’Quinn and Vanessa Williams as the married owners of a very mysterious fancy schmancy Manhattan building. She Said: I really enjoyed all the spooky fun of this. The supernatural elements don’t really scare, but I will say this: it did make me nervous to step on an elevator for a day or so… but didn’t make me want to watch another episode. Rourke but with a short temper and a fondness for contracts. O’Quinn makes a better villain when he at least seems-on the surface-to be a good guy, but his Gavin Doran is written so overtly devilish that it doesn’t charm or intrigue. While the showrunners have source material to pull from (it’s based on a novel by Gabriella Pierce), I wasn’t all that thrilled by where the show is going. Logline: A young couple moves from the Midwest and takes up residence as the live-in managers of a luxury Manhattan apartment building, where not everything is as it seems.Ĭast: Terry O’Quinn, Vanessa Williams, Dave Annabel, Rachael Taylor 4) Not all of the midseason pilots were sent out by the networks some, such as NBC’s Hannibal and Crossbones, to name two, haven’t even been shot yet CBS again opted not to send out its midseason offerings while Fox isn’t letting us see The Goodwin Games just yet. 3) We reserve the right to change our initial opinions upon seeing final review copies of these pilots-not to mention a few more episodes.
2) All pilots-from music and dialogue to casting, etc.-are subject to change, so what airs next season may, in fact, be drastically different than what was seen here.
So what did we think? First, a few caveats: 1) The opinions below should be considered “first impressions” of the pilots that were made available by the broadcast networks and not reviews.
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But there are also a few bright spots: a fading country music star (played by Friday Night Lights’ Connie Britton, y’all!), the crew of a nuclear sub gone rogue, a 1960s cattle rancher turned Vegas sheriff, a romantic comedy-obsessed ob-gyn, a serial killer inducting cult members via social networking, another modern-day Sherlock Holmes, and the beloved Carrie Bradshaw. It was a Herculean feat to make it through the pile of screeners this year-it was not overall the best pilot season-to offer our first takes on the dramas and comedies that are headed to the fall and midseason schedules of ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, and the CW.Įvery year, the networks present their usual takes on the familiar doctor-lawyer-cop tropes, and this year is no exception. (Sometimes networks change their minds, and, if we’re honest, there are a few shows we’d love to see disappear altogether.)
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While some of you may have jetted off on summer vacations in the last few weeks, we’ve spent the first part of the summer wading through pilots for more than 30 new scripted shows that likely will be on the air next TV season.
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