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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).

Get the lights

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).

In the meantime, enjoy this:

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.