Fall Pilots 2012: ABC
Here is the full list of the ABC fall pilots.
666 PARK AVENUE (WBTV, Alloy Entertainment)
Based on the book by Gabriella Pierce about a young couple who manages one of the most historic apartment buildings in New York City and unwittingly experience supernatural occurrences that complicate and endanger the lives of everyone in the building.
AMERICANA (ABC Studios)
Soap set around a legendary fashion designer and his family and business.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (ABC Studios and Mojo Films)
A fantasy re-imagining of the classic Beauty and the Beast tale, wherein an embattled princess discovers an unlikely connection with a mysterious beast.
DEVIOUS MAIDS (ABC Studios)
Based on the Mexican format, this soap follows four maids with ambition and dreams of their own while they work for the rich and famous in Beverly Hills.
GILDED LILYS (ABC Studios)
An epic love story, a vicious rivalry and a scandalous secret unfold against the backdrop of the opening of New York’s first luxury hotel.
GOTHAM (20th Century Fox Television)
After pursuing a seemingly unsolvable case, a female cop discovers a magical world that exists within New York City. A world that goes unseen by normal humans, and takes all of the familiar NY landmarks and reinvents them in a magical otherworldly manner.
LAST RESORT (Sony Pictures Television)
Renegade crew of a nuclear submarine go on the run after defying an order given under strange and suspicious circumstances to deploy their weapons. They seek refuge at a NATO listening post and declare themselves the world's smallest sovereign nation with nuclear capability. They then face the challenges of creating a new society while monitoring the movements of the world's militaries.
NASHVILLE (ABC Studios and Lionsgate)
A family soap set against the backdrop of the Nashville music scene that follows one star at her peak and one on the rise.
PENOZA (ABC Studios in association with Endemol Studios)
Based on the Dutch format, PENOZA centers on the widow of an assassinated criminal who is forced to adopt her husband’s role in a crime syndicate in order to protect her family.
SCRUPLES (Flame Ventures LLC in association with WBTV)
Based in the 1978 bestselling book, centers on a rich and powerful clothes designer in a world of sex, revenge and scandal.
UNTITLED EMMERICH & KLOSER PROJECT (ABC Studios)
An astrophysics grad student in NYC learns that he is the chosen one to destroy the forces of evil.
ZERO HOUR (ABC Studios)
A bizarre twist of fate pulls a man who’s spent 20 years as the editor of a skeptic magazine into one of the most compelling conspiracies in human history.
AMERICAN JUDY (ABC Studios)
Centers on a cosmopolitan woman who gets married and becomes a fish out of water in the suburbs having to juggle step-kids, her mother-in-law, and the ex-wife of her husband who also happens to be the town sheriff.
COUNTER CULTURE (Sony Pictures Television and ABC Studios)
Three aging sisters who run their family diner together in West Texas find that sibling dynamics are always getting in the way of getting the job done.
DUSTY GOES TO AWESOMETOWN (F/N/A UNTITLED ADAM SZTYKIEL PROJECT) (20th Century Fox Television)
A raw, hilarious peek behind the curtain of modern 20-something relationships.
HOW TO LIVE WITH YOUR PARENTS FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE (20th Century Fox and Imagine Television)
Polly, a recently divorced single mom, moves in with her eccentric parents, Elaine and Max, a couple who's full of life but knows no boundaries.
MALIBU COUNTRY (ABC Studios)
After her "good 'ol boy" rock star husband cheats on her and burns through most of their money, Reba divorces him and moves her three lods and mom from Nashville to the only asset they have left - a little house in Malibu. There, she'll try to reignite her own singing career and keep herself and her three kids from being corrupted by the materialistic and rarified Malibu world she now calls home.
ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES (ABC Studios)
Based on the British format, the show follows the misadventures of two streetwise brothers who scrape by selling unreliable goods believing that at any moment they could become millionaires.
PRAIRIE DOGS (ABC Studios)
Neil, an uncool cubicle worker ("prairie dog") at one of the coolest companies in the world, is victim of identity theft. When he discovers the thief has created a much more fulfilling, kick ass life with his identity than he ever has, he engages the charismatic conman to help him change his life.
THE SMART ONE (A Very Good Production in association with Warner Bros. Television)
Portia de Rossi stars as a brilliant and successful woman who begrudgingly goes to work for her less-brainy but more popular sister -- a former beauty queen, weather girl…and now big-city Mayor.
UNTITLED DAN FOGELMAN PROJECT (ABC Studios)
Family moves into a beautiful, surprisingly affordable gated community in New Jersey only to discover that all the neighbors are literally from another planet.
UNTITLED KARI LIZER PROJECT (WBTV)
Hilary Pfeiffer-Dunne, a high-powered executive who has dominated corporate America for years, faces the biggest challenge of her life when she finds herself unemployed and acting as a full-time mom to her two teenagers.
UNTITLED MANDY MOORE PROJECT (20th Century Fox Television)
Newlyweds Annie (Mandy Moore) and Ben get the opportunity of a lifetime to run a hip, new restaurant in Annie’s hometown bringing her closer to her needy and high maintenance family.
WHITE VAN MAN (ABC Studios)
Based on the British format WHITE VAN MAN, the show centers on a man who is forced to put his dreams on hold in order to take over the family handyman business from his father.