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Continuing on the pilot season coverage…

NBC has ordered to pilot another comedy, this time named 100 Questions for Charlotte Payne, by Coupling‘s Chris Moynihan. The show centers around Charlotte Payne, a young woman and her life in New York in the dating scene with her friends.

Updates regarding other pilots and their directors:
CBS’ Back will be directed by Cold Case‘s Mark Pellington.
FOX’s Maggie Hill is being shot by 24‘s Stephen Hopkins, and the Sons of Tucson have Malcolm in the Middle‘s Todd Holland as the director.

HBO’s Hung has as well some update, with the announcement of Anne Heche as the co-star (replacing Kristin Bauer).
With production starting mid-March for a 10-episode run, the show is expected to premiere around June.

More and more

Guess what?
Pilot season continues.

NBC has picked up State of Romance, a pilot by Barbara Wallace and Tom Wolfe described as a contemporary Pride & Prejudice in Chicago.

CBS also continues with its pilots by picking up five more.

First, The Good Wife, by In Justice‘s Robert and Michelle King. The story revolves around the wife of a politician pursuing her original career as a defense attorney.

Another drama pilot is Three Rivers, from Jericho/Judging Amy/Providence/Swingtown‘s Carol Barbee. The show is a medical drama about organ transplants, and will tell the story from three points of view: the doctor, the donor, and the recipient.

There’s also yet another Bruckheimer-produced show and yet another medical drama, this time named Miami Trauma (not this Trauma). The script was written by Jeffrey Lieber (the kind-of-but-not-really creator of Lost) and centers around a team of trauma surgeons trying to save critically-injured patients.

On the comedy side, we have Accidentally on Purpose, based on a novel by Mary F. Pols and adapted for TV by Cashmere Mafia‘s Claudia Lonow. The comedy tells the story of a San Fran movie critic pregnant of a much younger man with whom she had a fling.

And finally we have Die, penned by Mad TV‘s Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen. This buddy comedy revolves around two guys living a crappy life, even though for them they’re living the dream.

In its tracks

The week continues and the peeps over at THR just noticed that NBC did not air an ad for their upcoming drama, Kings, their first new drama this year.

What is even more interesting it that, despite not having the time to promote Kings (or their other mid-season shows like Parks and Recreation) during the game, they did seem to have the time to show an ad for USA Network as well as Leno’s move to primetime, which won’t happen until next fall.

The CW in the meantime has moved up Reaper‘s season premiere. The show will premiere March 3, 2 weeks before its previous premiere date.
Reaper is also swapping time with 90210.

On the pilot front, CBS has picked up 3 new pilots.

The first is a drama named House Rules and written by Michael Seitzman.
The show centers on a Washington freshman class as they begin their careers as congressmen and congresswomen.
This is Seitzman’s second pilot pick after last week’s Empire State by ABC.

Thirtysomething‘s creators Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick have also a new drama, A Marriage, a show that is supposed to dissect a working marriage.

The third one is a comedy pilot from King of Queens‘ creators Kathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith. The sitcom is called The Fish Tank and will be about a teenager having his parents’ house for himself five days a week.

Now a little follow-up on previous pilot pickups.

NBC’s Trauma has now got itself a director in the name of FNL/Caprica‘s Jeff Reiner.

Chez FOX, the same can be said about Human Target which will be shot by Dali‘s Simon West, whilst the still-untitled reincarnation project will be directed by House‘s Deren Sarafian.

Also, forget about that Lost in the ’80s drama, it’s not going forward.