Way to really skim over the exciting story of how the civil lawyer became a beauty-pageant coach, CW.Ī comedic drama set 400 years in the future that follows the adventures of the Orville, a not-so-top-of-the-line exploratory ship in Earth’s interstellar Fleet. The CW’s Insatiable When a disgraced, dissatisfied civil lawyer-turned-beauty pageant coach takes on a vengeful, bullied teenager as his client, he has no idea what he’s about to unleash upon the world. Half the show will probably be along the lines of: “I bet everything will be better when I’m older” followed by a smash cut to when he’s older and things are just the same. The show will focus on three distinct periods in his life – as a 14-year-old in 1991, a 40-year-old (Bobby Moynihan) in the present day, and a 65-year-old (John Larroquette) in 2042. The thing I like about this pitch is that it starts off fine but then takes a hard left turn right at the moment when you hit “(Jeremy Piven).”ĬBS’s Me, Myself & I A single-camera comedy examining one man’s life over a 50-year span. How quickly did the ABC executives start drooling upon hearing the words “based on the podcast of the same name?”ĬBS’s Wisdom of the Crowd Based on the Israeli format of the same name, and inspired by the notion that a million minds are better than one, a tech innovator (Jeremy Piven) creates a cutting-edge crowdsourcing hub to solve his own daughter’s murder, as well as revolutionizing crime solving in San Francisco. This whole thing feels like a real misuse of government resources, which all clearly should have gone to stopping the preexisting threat of Sharknados.ĪBC’s Start Up Based on the podcast of the same name, the project follows Alex Schuman (Zach Braff), an inquisitive journalist, husband, and father who dives headfirst into the brave new world of entrepreneurship when he quits his stable job and starts his own business. But when a catastrophe ripped from the pages of the missing doomsday book occurs, the team is brought back years later to prevent the disasters of their own making. The ideas they invented were so dangerous that the list was sealed and the program shut down. government instituted a secret think tank composed of the most creative minds in science and entertainment, tasked solely with dreaming up man-made disaster scenarios and their possible solutions. Direct, we’d really be talking.ĪBC’s Doomsday In the aftermath of 9/11, the U.S. Now, if you’d made the lead a woman and called the show Ms. He’ll become the world’s first consulting illusionist, helping the government solve crimes that defy explanation and trap criminals and spies by using deception. In honor of the latest batch of shows that may just grace your TV screen, here are the ten most absurd pitches:ĪBC’s Deception When his career is ruined by scandal, superstar magician Cameron Black (Jack Cutmore-Scott) has only one place to turn to practice his art of deception, illusion, and influence - the FBI.
#Logline for tv shows full#
As Mindy Kaling once parodied, these pilot loglines are written in a strange pseudo-English full of buzzwords only truly comprehensible to people in executive suites.
And among the roughly 70 pilots the networks have in contention ( EW has helpfully tabulated them here) there are a handful that sound utterly ludicrous. The major broadcast networks - ABC, CBS, the CW, Fox, and NBC - have started to assemble their pilots for the fall season in advance of upfronts, when they present their offerings to advertisers. Time to pack up all your “X meets Y, but this time they’re in Z” pitches for the year.
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