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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.

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Pilot season continues with another one at CBS and two over at The CW.

That ’70s Show‘s Jackie and Jeff Filgo have brought to CBS Big D, a show about an NYC couple moving to Dallas, the hometown of the husband. His Southern mother becomes the living hell of his wife, born and raised on the East Coast.
The concept has been deemed similar to another CBS pilot, The Karenskys.

Body Politic is one of the two CW pilot picked up this week. The show is about D.C. politicians and young staffers, with among them a young woman working for a Senator who has freshly moved to the capital. The pilot was written by The Sparrow‘s Jason Rothenberg and Bill Robinson.

The other pilot is from Dawson’s Creek‘s creator, Kevin Williamson, and Kyle XY‘s Julie Plec. The show is named Vampire Diairies and tells the story of a young heroine loved by two brother vampires, one good and the other evil, at war over her souls and that of the other inhabitants of her small town. The pilot is based on a series of novels dating back 15 years and written by L.J. Smith for Alloy Entertainment (Gossip Girl, Priviledged, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants).

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Not much news going on today except some pilot updates.

Regarding a few ABC pilots:
An American Family will be directed by This Might Hurt‘s Jason Winer and will co-star Knights of Prosperity‘s Sofia Vergara.
Eden Sher has been added to The Middle‘s cast as the middle child.
Galaxy Quest‘s Dean Parisot will shoot I, Claudia whilst V‘s director will be Bury My Heart‘s Yves Simoneau.
Finally, Empire State is going to be directed by The Pacific‘s Jeremy Podeswa.

Also, Bob Saget’s Surviving Suburbia has been saved by ABC who will air the CW show after Dancing With the Stars in April.

HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, which already stars Steve Buscemi and Michael Pitt, has another addition in the name of Gangs of New York‘s Stephen Graham as Al Capone in his early 20s.

The Emmy categories have also been expanded from 5 nominations to 6 (including Best Comedy and Best Drama).

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