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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Broadcast Nets Still Seeking New Projects for Next Season

With fall schedules still in tremendous flux due to the writers' strike, broadcasters continue to seek out new projects that could work on their schedules--sometime next season.

To wit: ABC has ordered a pilot presentation from Victor Fresco (Andy Richter Controls the Universe). Produced by 20th Century Fox TV, the single-cam comedy project is about a moral guy in an amoral world.

And speaking of amorality, comic Louis C.K., whose last TV series was HBO's ribald family sitcom Lucky Louie, is writing a new half-hour comedy project for CBS. In fact, C.K., will reunite with his Lucky co-star Pamela Adlon, to write and star in the project, another family comedy, this time produced by CBS Paramount Network TV.

NBC, meanwhile, has signed David Eick--executive producer of Sci Fi's Battlestar Galactica--to a two-year overall deal at Universal Media Studios. Earlier this season, Eick helped shepherd NBC's high-profile remake of The Bionic Woman, which ultimately failed to draw viewers. Among other projects, Eick currently is working on Sci Fi's Galactica prequel Caprica.

http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003791383

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