Fox has ordered five new series, with 'Office" alum Mindy Kaling scoring a comedy too, according to Variety. A trio of comedies and two dramas are the first announced for the 2012-13 season on Thursday. Variety reported that "Ben & Kate" and "The Goodwin Games" were ordered from 20th Century Fox TV, the studio confirmed, as was "It's Messy" from Universal Television, a starring series for Kaling. A female surgeon who balances her career and her debt to the South Chicago mob is the new drama "The Mob Doctor," starring Jordana Spiro, from Sony Pictures Television and executive producers Josh Berman and Robert Wright. Also ordered was the drama "The Following" from Warner Bros. with Kevin Bacon as...
- 5/10/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
There are so many pilots potentially coming your way for the 2012-13 season that Zap2it is trying to help you weed through them all. Here are the Fox pilots that might make it to your TV screen later this year.
Dramas
"The Asset": Ali Larter is photographer who is also a highly specialized CIA operative. Hamish Linklater plays her handler. Bradley Whitford and Jamie Chung have also been cast.
"Guilty": A false-accused defense attorney (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is found guilty and stripped of his license to practice. So he goes about solving cases his own way, while looking to exact revenge on the man who set him up. Jay Harrington, Eva Amurri and Julian Morris also star.
Untitled Josh Berman/Robert Wright drama: Jordana Spiro plays a thoracic surgeon who works at a hospital and moonlights for the mob in Chicago. Zach Gilford, William Forsythe and Jaime Lee Kirchner...
Dramas
"The Asset": Ali Larter is photographer who is also a highly specialized CIA operative. Hamish Linklater plays her handler. Bradley Whitford and Jamie Chung have also been cast.
"Guilty": A false-accused defense attorney (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is found guilty and stripped of his license to practice. So he goes about solving cases his own way, while looking to exact revenge on the man who set him up. Jay Harrington, Eva Amurri and Julian Morris also star.
Untitled Josh Berman/Robert Wright drama: Jordana Spiro plays a thoracic surgeon who works at a hospital and moonlights for the mob in Chicago. Zach Gilford, William Forsythe and Jaime Lee Kirchner...
- 3/17/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Mark Itkin, Peter Roth, Nancy Tellem and Bob Wright have been named recipients of NATPE's fifth annual Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards.
The awards are set to be handed out Jan. 28 during the NATPE's 2008 Conference & Exhibition at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The recipients were selected by NATPE's Executive Committee.
Itkin is executive vp and worldwide co-head of television and a member of the board of directors at WMA.
Roth became president of Warner Bros. Television in 1999 and last year expanded his duties to include heading the newly created Warner Horizon Television.
Tellem was promoted to the newly created position of CBS Paramount Network Television Entertainment Group president in September 2004, overseeing the network and production studio as well as CBS' interests in the CW.
Wright, former chairman and CEO of NBC Universal, is vice chairman of the board, executive officer and a member of the Corporate Executive Office of its parent company General Electric.
The awards are set to be handed out Jan. 28 during the NATPE's 2008 Conference & Exhibition at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The recipients were selected by NATPE's Executive Committee.
Itkin is executive vp and worldwide co-head of television and a member of the board of directors at WMA.
Roth became president of Warner Bros. Television in 1999 and last year expanded his duties to include heading the newly created Warner Horizon Television.
Tellem was promoted to the newly created position of CBS Paramount Network Television Entertainment Group president in September 2004, overseeing the network and production studio as well as CBS' interests in the CW.
Wright, former chairman and CEO of NBC Universal, is vice chairman of the board, executive officer and a member of the Corporate Executive Office of its parent company General Electric.
- 10/17/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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