Genre: Romantic
Description: The epiction of love, hatred, desire, monogamy, marriage and divorce through the lens of a contemporary American couple
Pilot Cast: Jessica Chastain, Oscar Isaac.
Series Creator: Hagai Levi.
Based on: Ingmar Bergman’s classic miniseries
Producers: Hagai Levi, Michael Ellenberg, Daniel Bergman, Amy Herzog, Lars Blomgren.
Studios: Endeavor Content, Media Res.
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Description: Sam is a true Kansan on the surface but beneath it all struggles to fit the hometown mold. As she grapples with loss and acceptance, singing is Sam’s saving grace and leads her on a journey to discover herself and a community of outsiders that don’t fit in but don’t give up. Somebody Somewhere shows finding your people, and finding your voice, is possible. Anywhere. Somewhere.
Pilot Cast: Bridget Everett.
Series Creator: Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen.
Pilot Director: Jay Duplass.
Producers: Bridget Everett, Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen, Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass, Patricia Breen, Carolyn Strauss.
Studios: The Duplass Brothers.
Genre: Limited, Thriller, and Crime
Description: A tale of vengeance set amid Oslo’s brutal hierarchy of corruption. The story follows Sonny Lofthus, an escaped convict: an opioid addict who can’t recall his past, on the run from the law toward an unknown truth.
Pilot Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal.
Series Creator: Lenore Zion.
Based on: Jo Nesbo's novel The Son
Pilot Director: Denis Villeneuve.
Producers: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, Lisa Joy, Athena Wickham, Lenore Zion, Riva Marker.
Studios: Kilter Films, Nine Stories.
Genre: Comedy
Description: Set in the future, mostly in space.
Pilot Cast: Hugh Laurie, Josh Gad, Rebecca Front, Zach Woods, Suzy Nakumura, Lenora Crichlow, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ethan Phillips.
Series Creator: Armando Iannucci.
Producers: Armando Iannucci.
Genre: Sports and Dramedy
Description: Follows a diverse group of young women navigating their lives through the predominantly male oriented world of skateboarding in New York City.
Pilot Cast: Dede Lovelace, Moonbear, Ajani Russell, Nina Moran, Rachelle Vinberg.
Series Creator: Crystal Moselle, Lesley Arfin.
Based on: inspired by Moselle’s 2018 Sundance film Skate Kitchen
Pilot Director: Crystal Moselle, Jason Weinberg.
Producers: Lesley Arfin, Crystal Moselle, Igor Srubshchik.
Studios: HBO Studios, RT Features, Bow & Arrow Entertainment, Untitled Entertainment .
Genre: Period Drama
Description: Set against the politically tumultuous and sexually charged court of Russian empress Catherine the Great. She wielded supreme power throughout Russia for nearly half of the 18th century; strong-minded, independent, brilliantly intelligent and sexually liberated, she was the definition of the modern woman.
Pilot Cast: Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke.
Series Creator: Nigel Williams.
Pilot Director: Philip Martin.
Producers: Nigel Williams, Philip Martin.
Studios: Origin Pictures, New Pictures.
Genre: Drama
Description: Set in an alternate timeline, Confederate imagines a world where the southern states have successfully seceded from the Union, giving rise to a nation in which slavery remains legal and has evolved into a modern institution. The story follows a broad swath of characters on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Demilitarized Zone – freedom fighters, slave hunters, politicians, abolitionists, journalists, the executives of a slave-holding conglomerate and the families of people in their thrall.
Series Creator: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss.
Producers: Nichelle Tramble Spellman, Malcolm Spellman, Bernadette Caulfield, Carolyn Strauss, David Benioff, D.B. Weiss.
Genre: Sci-fi Fantasy Drama
Description: About a family — consisting of a mother who works as a scientist, her husband and their young daughter — who get into a terrible car crash. When the the mother winds up in a coma, her daughter digs through her experiments in the basement and transports to another land amid a world’s battle against a monstrous, oppressive force. Her father soon follows her into this new world.
Series Creator: J.J. Abrams.
Producers: J.J. Abrams, Kira Snyder, Rand Ravich, Far Shariat.
Studios: Warner Bros. TV, Bad Robot, HBO Studios.
Genre: Teen Drama
Description: A group of high school students attempt to cope through drugs, sex and violence in an effort to make sense of an uncertain future, one year after one of their own was found dead in a cornfield. Lost and hurt, vulnerable and thrill-seeking, they become a community in a town of lonely individuals. Their story is told by a lying, drug-addicted, f*cked-up 17-year-old girl named Rue
Read the Pilot Script ReviewPilot Cast: Zendaya, Eric Dane, Storm Reid, Maude Apatow, Barbie Ferreira, Hunter Schafer, Austin Abrams.
Series Creator: Sam Levinson.
Based on: Israeli series of the name name
Pilot Director: Augustine Frezzel.
Producers: Drake, Sam Levinson, Ron Leshem, Daphna Levin, Tmira Yardeni, Hadas Mozes Lichtenstein, Mirit Toovi, Yoram Mokadi, Gary Lennon.
Studios: HBO Studios, Teddy Productions, A24.
Genre: Period and Soap
Description: on a period of immense economic change in America, of huge fortunes made and lost, and the rise of disparity between old money and new, the story begins in 1882 – introducing young Marian Brook, the orphaned daughter of a Southern general, who moves into the home of her rigidly conventional aunts in New York City. Accompanied by the mysterious Peggy Scott, an African-American woman masquerading as her maid, Marian gets caught up in the dazzling lives of her stupendously rich neighbors, led by a ruthless railroad tycoon and his ambitious wife struggling for acceptance by the Astor and Vanderbilt set. Will Marian follow the established rules of society, or forge her own path in this exciting new world that is on the brink of transformation into the modern age?
Pilot Cast: Christine Baranski, Carrie Coon, Cynthia Nixon, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Morgan Spector, Taissa Farmiga, Jack Gilpin, Thomas Cocquerel.
Series Creator: Harry Richardson, Simon Jones, Julian Fellowes.
Pilot Director: Michael Engler.
Producers: Julian Fellowes, Gareth Neame.
Studios: HBO Studios, Universal Television.
Genre: Sci-fi and Fantasy
Description: Set 300 years before the events of Game of Thrones, tells the story of House Targaryen.
Pilot Cast: Paddy Considine.
Series Creator: Ryan Condal, George R.R. Martin, Vince Gerardis.
Based on: Game of Trones' Fire & Blood book series
Producers: Ryan Condal, Miguel Sapochnik, George R.R. Martin.
Studios: HBO Studios.
Genre: Family Drama Limited Series
Description: Explores the American identity by following the parallel lives of twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey through the latter half of the 20th century.
Pilot Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Kathryn Hahn, Juliette Lewis, Melissa Leo, Rosie O'Donnell, Archie Panjabi, Imogen Poots.
Series Creator: Derek Cianfrance.
Based on: Wally Lamb's novel
Pilot Director: Derek Cianfrance.
Producers: Derek Cianfrance, Ben Browning, Mark Ruffalo, Glen Basner, Lynette Howell-Taylor, Anya Epstein, Gregg Fienberg.
Studios: FilmNation Entertainment.
Genre: Dramedy
Description: explores the question of sexual consent in contemporary life and how, in the new landscape of dating and relationships, we make the distinction between liberation and exploitation.
Pilot Cast: Michaela Coel, Weruche Opia, Paapa Essiedu, Adam James, Sarah Niles, Ann Akin, Aml Ameen.
Series Creator: Michaela Coel.
Producers: Michaela Coel, Roberto Troni, Phil Clarke.
Studios: HBO Studios, FALKNA Productions, Various Artists.
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Description: About ambitious twenty-somethings struggling to secure their futures in the cutthroat world of international finance. The characters compete for a limited set of permanent positions at a top investment bank in London — but the boundaries between colleague, friend, lover, and enemy soon blur as they immerse themselves in a company culture defined as much by sex, drugs, and ego as it is by deals and dividends.
Pilot Cast: Myha’la Herrold, Marisa Abela, Harry Lawtey, Nabhaan Rizwan, Freya Mavor, Ken Leung, David Jonsson, Will Tudor.
Series Creator: Mickey Down, Konrad Kay.
Pilot Director: Lena Dunham, Lachlan MacKinnon, Ryan Rasmussen.
Producers: Lena Dunham, Jane Tranter, Ben Irving.
Studios: Bad Wolf.
Genre: Thriller and True crime
Description: The story of killers Susan and Christopher Edwards. Colman will play Susan Edwards. The pair, a mild-mannered couple from Mansfield in the UK, killed Susan’s parents and buried them in their back garden. The crime remained undiscovered for over a decade. It is a blackly comic true-crime drama based on extensive research, hours of interviews and direct access to the accused, who have always protested their innocence of murder.
Pilot Cast: Olivia Colman.
Series Creator: Ed Sinclair.
Based on: real events.
Pilot Director: Alexander Payne, Serena Thompson.
Producers: Jane Featherstone.
Genre: Fantasy Drama
Description: Chronicles the world’s descent from the golden Age of Heroes into its darkest hour. From the horrifying secrets of Westeros’ history to the true origin of the White Walkers, the mysteries of the East to the Starks of legend, only one thing is for sure: it’s not the story we think we know.
Pilot Cast: Naomi Watts, Josh Whitehouse, Jamie Campbell Bower, Naomi Ackie, Toby Regbo, Denise Gough, Alex Sharp, Ivanno Jeremiah, Georgie Henley, Sheila Atim.
Series Creator: Jane Goldman, Brian Helgeland , Bryan Cogman , Max Borenstein, George R.R. Martin.
Pilot Director: S.J. Clarkson.
Producers: Jane Goldman, Brian Helgeland , Max Borenstein, S.J. Clarkson, Jim Danger Gray, Bryan Cogman , James Farrell, Chris Symes, Carly Wray, Daniel Zelman, George R.R. Martin.
Studios: HBO Studios.
Genre: Comedy
Description: Set in a dreamy version of present day Mexico City, Los Espookys follows a group of friends obsessed with horror films and monster makeup.
Pilot Cast: Fred Armisen, Bernardo Velasco, Julio Torres, Ana Fabrega.
Series Creator: Julio Torres, Ana Fabrega, Fred Armisen.
Pilot Director: Fernando Frias.
Producers: Fred Armisen, Julio Torres, Ana Fabrega, Alice Mathias, Lorne Michaels, Andrew Singer.
Studios: Broadway Video, Más Mejor.
Genre: Horror Anthology
Description: After his father goes missing, Atticus Black joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find him. Thus begins a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.
Pilot Cast: Jonathan Majors, Aunjanue Ellis, Abbey Lee, Courtney B. Vance, Michael K. Williams.
Series Creator: Misha Green.
Based on: Matt Ruff’s novel
Pilot Director: Yann Demange.
Producers: Jordan Peele, J.J. Abrams, Ben Stephenson, Misha Green.
Studios: Warner Bros. TV, Bad Robot.
Genre: Police, Thriller, and Supernatural
Description: A killer in uniform has uncaged mayhem upon the streets of Los Angeles. Paranoia leads to social disorder as a city wrestles with the mystery of the exterminator in blue – is he mere mortal, or a supernatural force?
Based on: the cult classic film franchise
Pilot Director: Nicolas Winding Refn, John Hyams.
Producers: John Hyams, Nicolas Winding Refn.
Studios: byNWR Originals.
Genre: Thriller and Detective
Description: a small-town Pennsylvania detective's life crumbles around her as she investigates a local murder.
Pilot Cast: Kate Winslet, Julianne Nicholson, Jean Smart, Evan Peters, David Denman, Sosie Bacon, Ben Miles, Angourie Rice, Joe Tippett.
Series Creator: Cailee Spaeny, Gordon Gray.
Pilot Director: Gavin O’Connor, Paul Lee.
Producers: Kate Winslet, Gavin O’Connor.
Studios: wiip.
Genre: Dramedy
Description: An empty-nest mom and her college-student son embrace their newfound freedom with mixed results.
Pilot Cast: Kathryn Hahn, Owen Teague, Casey Wilson, Jackson White, Jen Richards.
Series Creator: Tom Perrotta.
Based on: Tom Perrotta's book
Pilot Director: Nicole Holofcener.
Producers: Tom Perrotta, Nicole Holofcener, Jessi Klein, Sarah Condon.
Studios: HBO Studios.
Genre: Sci-Fi Drama
Description: A gang of Victorian women find themselves with unusual abilities, relentless enemies and a mission that might change the world.
Pilot Cast: Laura Donnelly, Olivia Williams, James Norton, Tom Riley, Ben Chaplin, Ann Skelly, Denis O'Hare, Nick Frost.
Series Creator: Joss Whedon, Doug Petrie, Jane Espenson.
Pilot Director: Joss Whedon.
Producers: Joss Whedon, Jane Espenson.
Genre: Supernatural Drama
Description: A seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a local boy leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to question everything they believe to be real, after an insidious supernatural force edges its way into the case.
Pilot Cast: Ben Mendelsohn, Marc Menchaca, Derek Cecil.
Series Creator: Richard Price.
Based on: The book by Stephen King
Pilot Director: Jason Bateman.
Producers: Richard Price, Jason Bateman, Stephen King, Jack Bender, Marty Bowen , Ben Mendelsohn.
Studios: Aggregate Films, Temple Hill Entertainment.
Genre: Legal Drama Limited Series
Description: Reboot of the 1957-1966 series about an unorthodox investigator/defense attorney named Perry Mason.
Pilot Cast: Matthew Rhys, Tatiana Maslany.
Series Creator: Rolin Jones, Ron Fitzgerald.
Based on: Erle Stanley Gardner’s book series
Pilot Director: Tim Van Patten.
Producers: Robert Downey Jr, Susan Downey, Joe Horacek, Rolin Jones, Ron Fitzgerald.
Studios: Team Downey.
Genre: Drama Limited Series
Description: Imagines an alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey, as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism.
Pilot Cast: Jacob Laval, Azhy Robertson, Winona Ryder, John Turturro, David Krumholtz, Ben Cole, Zoe Kazan.
Based on: Philip Roth’s novel
Producers: David Simons, Ed Burns, Nina Doble, Sue Naegle, Dennis Stratton, Susan Goldberg, Joe Roth.
Studios: Annapurna Television.
Genre: Comedy
Description: The story of the world-famous Gemstone family televangelists and their long tradition of deviance, greed and charitable work, all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Pilot Cast: John Goodman, Danny McBride, Edi Patterson, Adam Devine, Cassidy Freeman, Tony Cavalero, Tim Baltz, GregAlan Williams.
Series Creator: Danny McBride.
Pilot Director: Danny McBride.
Producers: Danny McBride, Jody Hill, David Gordon Green.
Studios: HBO Studios.
Genre: Comedy
Description: A woman living a humdrum existence gets a text inviting her to fulfill a youthful pact, promising true love and self-reinvention, by stepping out of her life to take a journey with her oldest flame
Pilot Cast: Merritt Wever, Tamara Podemski, Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Series Creator: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Vicky Jones.
Pilot Director: Kate Dennis.
Producers: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Vicky Jones, Kate Dennis, Emily Leo.
Studios: DryWhite, Entertainment One Television, Wigwam Films.
Genre: Sci-fi Romantic Drama
Description: The story of Clare and Henry, and a marriage with a problem: time travel.
Series Creator: Steven Moffat.
Based on: Audrey Niffenegger's book
Producers: Steven Moffat, Brian Minchin, Sue Vertue.
Studios: Hartswood Films, Warner Bros. TV.
Genre: Drama Limited Series
Description: Grace Sachs is a successful therapist on the brink of publishing her first book. She has a devoted husband and a young son who attends an elite private school in New York City, but suddenly a chasm opens in her life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations.
Pilot Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, Donald Sutherland.
Series Creator: David E. Kelley.
Based on: Jean Hanff Korelitz’s book
Pilot Director: Susanne Bier.
Producers: David E. Kelley, Bruna Papandrea, Nicole Kidman, Per Saari, Susanne Bier.
Studios: Blossom Films, David E. Kelley Productions, Made Up Stories.
Genre: Drama
Description: Based on the real-life torrent of violence that followed the disappearance of three Israeli teens during the summer of 2014, this series follows an idealistic investigator for the Shin Bet (the Israeli equivalent of the FBI) as he deals with the ramifications of violent reactions on both sides of the escalating conflict. A new command position thrusts him into a confrontation that undermines his faith and worldview, leading to a dramatic conflict between his values and the actions of those closest to him.
Series Creator: Hagai Levi, Noah Stollman.
Pilot Director: Joseph Cedar.
Producers: Hagai Levi, Noah Stollman, Michael Lombardo, Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman, Karni Ziv, Peter Traugott, Rachel Kaplan, Joseph Cedar.
Studios: HBO Studios, Keshet Studios, Movie Plus.
Genre: Superhero Drama
Description: A satirical and dystopian take on the superhero genre, Watchmen is set in an alternate history in the year 1985 at the height of the Cold War between the U.S. and Soviet Union. It revolves around a group of mostly retired American superheroes who investigate the murder of one of their own and in the process uncover a conspiracy that could change the course of history as we know it.
Pilot Cast: Regina King, Jeremy Irons, Tim Blake Nelson, Louis Gossett Jr., James Wolk, Jean Smart, Don Johnson, Andrew Howard, Tom Mison, Adelaide Clemens.
Series Creator: Damon Lindelof.
Based on: Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons’ comic series
Pilot Director: Nicole Kassell.
Producers: Damon Lindelof, Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons.
Studios: Warner Bros. TV, White Rabbit.
Genre: Romantic
Description: American teenagers living on a U.S. military base in Italy Fraser Wilson and Caitlin Harper become close until Fraser’s youthful development leads to questions about his identity. Eventually, he develops romantic feelings toward an older soldier, and the teenage drama examines friendship, love, and overall confusion
Pilot Cast: Chloe Sevigny, Jack Dylan Grazer, Francesca Scorsese, Kid Cudi, Alice Braga, Spence Moore II, Sebastiano Pigazzi, Tom Mercier, Corey Knight.
Series Creator: Luca Guadagnino, Francesca Manieri, Paolo Giordano.
Pilot Director: Luca Guadagnino.
Producers: Luca Guadagnino.
Genre: Political
Description: The true story of how Nixon’s own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy accidentally toppled the Presidency they were zealously trying to protect.
Pilot Cast: Woody Harrelson, Justin Theroux.
Series Creator: Alex Gregory, Peter Huyck.
Based on: public records and the book Integrity by Egil “Bud” Krogh and Matthew Krogh.
Pilot Director: David Mandel.
Producers: Justin Theroux, Woody Harrelson, Ruben Fleischer, Alex Gregory, Peter Huyck, David Mandel, Paul Lee.
Studios: The District, wiip.
Genre: History and Sports
Description: The professional and personal lives of the 1980s Lakers, one of sports’ most revered and dominant dynasties — a team that defined its era, both on and off the court.
Pilot Cast: John C. Reilly, Jason Clarke, Quincy Isaiah, DeVaughn Nixon , Solomon Hughes, Hadley Robinson, Molly Gordon, Michael Shannon.
Series Creator: Max Borenstein.
Based on: Jeff Pearlman’s nonfiction book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s.
Pilot Director: Adam McKay.
Producers: Max Borenstein, Kevin Messick, Jason Shuman, Jim Hecht, Adam McKay.
Studios: Hyperobject Industries.
Genre: Limited
Description: Set at an exclusive tropical resort and follows the exploits of various guests and employees over the span of a week.
Pilot Cast: Connie Britton, Molly Shannon, Murray Bartlett, Alexandra Daddario, Jennifer Coolidge, Jake Lacy, Steve Zahn, Brittany O’Grady, Jolene Purdy, Fred Hechinger, Natasha Rothwell, Sydney Sweeney, Jon Gries.
Series Creator: Mike White.
Pilot Director: Mike White.
Producers: Mike White, Nick Hall, David Bernad.