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Pilot Scorecard: New Broadcast Drama, Comedy and Unscripted Orders for 2021-22 Season

After months of development, production and fine-tuning, it’s decision time for dozens of broadcast pilots hopeful of getting the greenlight to series for the 2021-2022 TV season.

As the major studios rack up series orders over the coming week of network upfront presentations, it’s time to tally the wins and losses. The clear theme of the series orders unveiled to date are franchises, built-in IP and procedural dramas in a year when the total volume of development was down significantly due to pandemic-related disruptions.

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Here’s a breakdown by conglomerate and studio imprint of new comedy, drama and unscripted series orders to date, to be updated regularly as broadcast, cable and streaming programming executives tout their wares in the coming days.

This year, virtual programming presentations will be held May 17-19 in lieu of the traditional razzle-dazzle mounted at Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall and other New York City venues.

DISNEY

20th Television

  • Abbott Elementary (ABC) Comedy

  • Maggie (ABC) Comedy

  • The Wonder Years (ABC) Comedy

  • The Big Leap (Fox) Drama

  • Ordinary Joe (NBC) Drama

  • Our Kind of People (Fox) Drama

ABC Signature

  • Queens (ABC) Drama

FOX CORP.

Fox Entertainment

  • Dan Harmon Project (Fox) Comedy

  • This Country (Fox) Comedy

  • Pivoting (Fox) Comedy

  • Accused (Fox) Drama

  • The Big Leap (Fox) Drama

  • The Cleaning Lady (Fox) Drama

  • Fantasy Island (Fox) Drama

  • Monarch (Fox) Drama

  • Our Kind of People (Fox) Drama

LIONSGATE

  • Ghosts (CBS) Comedy

  • This Country (Fox) Comedy

NBCUNIVERSAL

Universal Television

  • American Auto (NBC) Comedy

  • Grand Crew (NBC) Comedy

  • FBI: International (CBS) Drama

  • La Brea (NBC) Drama

  • Law & Order: For the Defense (NBC) Drama

  • Ordinary Joe (NBC) Drama

Universal Television Alternative Studio

  • American Song Contest (NBC) Unscripted

  • LA Fire and Rescue (NBC) Unscripted

  • That’s My Jam (NBC) Unscripted

VIACOMCBS

CBS Studios

  • Smallwood (CBS) Comedy

  • CSI: Vegas (CBS) Drama

  • 4400 (CW) Drama

  • FBI: International (CBS) Drama

  • Good Sam (CBS) Drama

  • NCIS: Hawai’i (CBS) Drama

SONY PICTURES TELEVISION STUDIOS

Sony Pictures TV

  • Accused (Fox) Drama

  • Fantasy Island (Fox) Drama

WARNERMEDIA

Warner Bros. TV

  • Abbott Elementary (ABC) Comedy

  • Pivoting (Fox) Comedy

  • The Cleaning Lady (Fox) Drama

Warner Bros. Unscripted Television

  • Home Sweet Home (NBC) Unscripted

  • The Wheel (NBC) Unscripted

  • Who Do You Think You Are? (NBC) Unscripted

BBC STUDIOS

  • Ghosts (CBS) Comedy

  • This Country (Fox) Comedy

BLUMHOUSE STUDIOS

  • The Thing About Pam (NBC) Drama

FREMANTLE

  • AGT: Extreme (NBC) Unscripted

KAPITAL ENTERTAINMENT

  • American Auto (NBC) Comedy

  • Pivoting (Fox) Comedy

  • Women of the Movement (ABC) Drama

(Pictured: “Ordinary Joe,” produced for NBC by 20th Television and Universal Television)

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