These concepts have not been ordered to series, and there’s a good chance we’ll never see them reach the light of day. But here they are.
Based on the U.K. series of the same name, "Eleventh Hour" has been ordered by CBS, and is being produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The show revolves around Jacob Hood (Rufus Sewell) as a science advisor to the government. He and his bodyguard work to save people from abuses of science.
J.J. Abrams has created "Fringe," a drama for Fox. It’s about an FBI agent played by Anna Torv who finds herself dealing with unexplained phenomena, and has to work with an institutionalized scientist whose life’s work may be at the center of the problem. However, the leaked script of the pilot has been severely bashed on the Internet. It didn’t sound good, but with a rewrite, and actual performances attached.
"Life on Mars." It’s being produced for ABC by David E. Kelley. This show is about current day detective Sam Tyler (Jason O’Mara) who finds himself working as a cop in the 1970s after a car crash. Also starring are Colm Meaney as Gene Hunt and Rachelle Lefevre as Annie Cartright.
The U.K. version of this show was a television masterpiece. Kelley hiring Colm Meaney as Gene Hunt is inspired casting, and I can see him capturing the essence of the character. This pilot has been taking forever to get off the ground, and given that it’s been on the shelf so long, I’m surprised it hasn’t gotten stale. I loved the original, but don’t see this idea taking off on American TV. I think it would be too confusing for the average viewer.(I agree with this author's comment here - mr sledgeka)
The Meant To Be’s" is a pilot ordered by CBS about a young woman who dies, but before she can cross over, she has to return to Earth and help people. Every few years a series pops up with a similar concept, and you’ll notice, there aren’t any on TV right now. That’s because they don’t tend to last. This one has a nice twist in the fact that it’s a formerly dead person who has to do the life fixing.
The Oaks" is a pilot ordered by Fox. It’s a drama about three couples who live in the same house in three different time periods -- 1967, 1987 and 2007. Their stories are tied together by the ghosts who haunt the house.
HBO has ordered a pilot for "Patient 2344," a story set in a medical research institute in the near future.
"Revolution" is a pilot ordered by the SciFi Channel. Let me quote directly from the Sci Fi Channel press release for this one:
"New America is a colony settled by the now-named 'United State of America' on a planet resembling our own, located 50 light years away. Echoing many contemporary issues and themes, it is a futuristic version of a new world's passionate fight for freedom. The expansive drama centers on the Hart family one of the founding families of New America. Tom, a former military man turned industrialist, is the patriarch of the family facing great pressure from the government to increasingly tax the colonists already heavily burdened. His two sons have struggles of their own with one rebelling against his industrialist grandfather and the old America, the other more radical one heading toward revolution. His 16-year-old daughter is simply trying to find her way in this world. Add to this a new local governor torn between her allegiance to the colony and her desire for peace, and a young ambitious bureaucrat looking to bring the colony back under control."
Rockne O’Bannon of "Farscape" fame is producing "Warehouse 13" for the SciFi Channel. Again, let me just quote the press release.
"After saving the life of the president, two FBI agents find themselves abruptly "promoted" and relocated to windswept South Dakota. Their new top-secret location is Warehouse 13 a massive, secret storage facility that houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and supernatural souvenir ever collected by the U.S. government over the centuries. In addition to searching the country for several missing objects discovered stolen from the Warehouse, their job is to monitor for new reports of supernatural and paranormal activity that could indicate the presence of another object they must investigate and safely bring back to the vaults of Warehouse 13."
And finally, we have a concept by producer Dan Fogelman for Fox. It’s a comedy about a family that moves into an exclusive gated community only to find that everyone else who lives there is an extraterrestrial. |
