JANUARY 27, 2014 08:37 AM PST Pilot Season 2014: Scoop on This Falls (Possible) New Shows and Whos Starring In Them BY TEAM TVLINE Get More: Casting News, Pilots MINI-FOX-logoBackstrom (Drama) — ORDERED TO SERIES EPs | Hart Hanson (Bones), Leif G.W. Persson, Niclas Salomonsson, Rainn Wilson, Josh Levy CAST | Rainn Wilson (The Office), Kristoffer Polaha (Ringer), Dennis Haysbert (24), Page Kennedy, Beatrice Rosen (Blue Mountain State), Thomas Dekker (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) Offensive, irascible Detective Everett Backstrom tries, and fails, to change his self-destructive behavior while leading his team, the Serious Crimes Unit, as they navigate Portland’s most sensitive cases. Cabot College (Comedy) EPs | Matt Hubbard, Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, Pam Fryman, David Miner DIRECTOR | Pam Fryman (How I Met Your Mother) CAST | Bonnie Dennison (Third Watch), Jack Cutmore-Scott, Brandon Jones, Margaret Cho (Drop Dead Diva) A women’s college begins accepting men for the first time in its history. Dead Boss (Comedy) EPs | Patricia Breen (Suburgatory), Sharon Horgan, Aaron Kaplan Based on the British series, it’s a comedic mystery that finds overachiever Helen Stephens wrongfully convicted of murdering her boss and forced to rely on her train wreck of a sister to prove her innocence. Empire (Drama) EPs | Danny Strong (The Butler), Lee Daniels (The Butler), Brian Grazer, Francie Calfo DIRECTOR | Lee Daniels (The Butler) A unique family drama set in the world of a hip-hop empire. Fatrick (Comedy) EPs | Nahnatchka Khan (Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23), Corey Nickerson, Jeff Morton DIRECTORS | Jim Rash and Nat Faxon (The Way Way Back) CAST | Zach Cregger (Guys With Kids), Marcia Cross (Desperate Housewives), Ray Ford, Dante Hoagland Realizing that his life isn’t quite where it should be, a thirtysomething moving man and formerly fat kid is forced to face the damage caused by years of being Fatrick: a chubby little kid just trying to survive. Gotham (Drama) EPs | Bruno Heller (The Mentalist), Danny Cannon (The Tomorrow People, Nikita) DIRECTOR | Danny Cannon (The Tomorrow People, Nikita) Explores the origin stories of Commissioner James Gordon from the Batman comics and films — who is still a detective and has yet to meet Batman — and the villains who made Gotham City famous. Hieroglyph (Drama) — ORDERED TO SERIES EPs | Travis Beacham (Pacific Rim), Peter Chernin, Katherine Pope, Miguel Sapochnik CAST | Reece Ritchie, Kelsey Chow, Condola Rashad A notorious thief is plucked from prison to serve the Pharoah, navigating palace intrigue, seductive concubines, criminal underbellies and even a few divine sorcerers. The Middle Man (Drama) EPs | Ben Affleck, Glenn Gordon Caron (Medium, Moonlighting), Chay Carter DIRECTOR | Ben Affleck Set in 1960s Boston, it follows the story of Rudy MacAteer, an FBI agent charged with taking down the Italian Mafia, and his confidential informant, Irish-American gangster Mickey Flood. MacAteer’s efforts inadvertently give rise to the Irish mob, as he finds himself bending the laws he is governed by. Mulaney (Comedy) – ORDERED TO SERIES EPs | John Mulaney (Saturday Night Live), Lorne Michaels (Saturday Night Live), Andrew Singer, Andy Ackerman, Dave Becky, David Miner CAST | John Mulaney (Saturday Night Live), Martin Short (How I Met Your Mother), Elliott Gould (Ray Donovan), Nasim Pedrad (Saturday Night Live), Seaton Smith, Zack Pearlman Follows an aspiring comedian coming of age in NYC under the influence of his over-the-top boss – who was a major stand-up comedian in the 1980’s and ’90s and now hosts a game show — his roommates and his neighbors. Sober Companion (Comedy) EPs | David S. Rosenthal (The Middle, 90210), Jennie Snyder Urman (Emily Owens, 90210) A charming but self-destructive attorney finds his world turned upside down when a court-appointed, and highly unconventional, sober companion takes control of his life. Untitled Ricky Blitt Project (Comedy) EPs | Ricky Blitt, Johnny Galecki, Stephen McPherson CAST | Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm in the Middle) A stunted, set-in-his-ways thirtysomething man living with his mom finds his perfectly organized world upended when his mother/roommate gets married, and her new husband moves in along with his three teenage children.
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