tv pilot season's family affair
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7/24/2019 TV Pilot Season's Family Affair
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As Modern Familygrows old, the Big Four networks desperately seek the next all-ages comedy hit as THRBy Bryn Elise Sandberg and Michael OConnell
TV Pilot Seasons Family Affair
Is this nondogfamily extra
dysfunctional?
THEY SAY
THE DARNDEST
THINGS
CBS UntitledStephnie Weir
or CBS What Goes
AroundComes Around
or ABCs Speechless
or ABCs Chunk
and Bean
CANT LIVE
WITH OR
WITHOUT EM
ABCs Hail Mary or
NBCs UntitledVladimir Caamano or
NBCs UntitledPoehler/Grandy
Two roads diverged in a pitch meeting and you took the one less traveled. Of
the 44 comedies being made this season,a mere 17 are notfamily-focused.
Does it star a34-year-old
woman playing a14-year-old boy?
Theres no typecasting on Foxs
Chad: An American Boy, in which SNLalumNasim Pedradtackles the pubescent role.
THE
HYBRIDS
Foxs The Enforcers or
NBCs UntitledTracey WigfieldCould it also
be describedas a workplace
comedy?
Is your
fictionalfamilyathletically
inclined?
ABCsDownward
Dog
GO SPORTS!
CBS The Kicker
or ABCsThe
Dream Team
Is one-half of thisfamily a talking-
dog narrator?
PARENTAL
PROBLEMS
NBCs Untitled Matt Hubbard or
NBCs Sebastian
or CBS Untitled Butler/
Hope/OShannon
Did these
kids come outof nowhere,
BabyBoom-style?
INSTANT
PARENT
Foxs The Mick
or Foxs Untitled
Chris Case or ABCs
Untitled Goldberg/Guarascio
Oh, so itsa Mom show?
Well, is thecomedic foil a pairof aging parents?
Are the kidsas prominently
featured
as the adults?
But thekids still are
a pain inthe ass, right?
KUDOS!
Your family comedy isABCs Square Roots, whichfollows a gaggle of logic-
driven engineers and theson who uses his gift to
help them whatever theheck that means!
MOMMIES DEAREST
ABCs The Second FattestHousewife in Westport
or
ABCs Pearl
YES YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
SUBURBAN STRUGGLES
CBSIm Not
YourFriend*
FoxsSon ofZorn*
CBSUntitled
KevinJames*
NBCsMarlon
ABCsThe
FluffyShop
?
CandiceBergen
Pedra
d
MattLeBlan
c
Nie
cyNa
sh
GeoffStu
lts
*Projects that alreadyhave receiveda series commitment.
or or or or