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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.

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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).

Un, dos, tres

Over at ABC, 3 new drama pilots have been picked up.
And guess what, out of the three, one of them is brought to you by Jerry Bruckheimer TV and the other by McG.

The Bruckheimer-produced one is currently untitled and is penned by Mark Friedman.
I’m sure you’re on the verge of your seat, waiting for me to reveal the content of this amazing ground-breaking show.
Don’t hold your breath on that last one there.
The show is about a team of amateur detectives resolving cases around unidentified victims.
Sounds mysterious and edgy.

The McG one is called Limelight and is written by Gossip Girl‘s K.J. Steinberg.
The show centers around teachers and students of a performing arts college in NYC.
Limelight is supposed to be loosely based on Pharrell Williams’ life.
Fame meets Un Paso Adelante meets hip-hop, right?

As for the third one, by Michael Seitzam, the show is called Empire State and is about a modern-day Romeo and Juliet where two families on each end of the social ladder, one blue collar, the other very wealthy, clash when a romance occurs.
Hasn’t this been tried before?

Speaking of ABC, Bill Lawrence has confirmed that Scrubs will stop after its eight season (that means this one).
We will also learn the Janitor’s name in the finale, and if you want to know what it is right here right now, go google the name of Clone High‘s janitor.
It’s the same.

Oh, and if you’re still not on board for Leverage, read TV Squad’s ten reasons why it is the best new show this season.