2007-2008 Season New Series*

* By international distributor

CBS Paramount International Television

Californication (Showtime)
Production Team: Tom Kapinos, David Duchovny, Stephen Hopkins
Format: One-hour drama
About a novelist whose obsession with honesty and self-destructive behavior — drinks, drugs and relationships — are simultaneously destroying and enriching his career

Cane (CBS)
Production Team: Cynthia Cidre, Jonathan Prince, Jimmy Iovine, Polly Anthony
Format: One-hour drama
Drama about a multi-generational Cuban-American family running a successful rum and sugar business in Florida

Kid Nation (CBS)
Production Team: Tom Forman
Format: Reality
40 kids — separated from parents and teachers — will have 40 days to build up a ghost town in New Mexico

Life is Wild (CW)
Production Team: Michael Rauch, Charlie Pattinson, George Faber
Format: One-hour drama
An American family moves to South Africa to run a wild game preserve

Online Nation (CW)
Production Team: David Hurwitz, Paul Cockerill
Format: Reality
Showcases the best online videos of the week

Swingtown (CBS) (midseason)
Production Team: Mike Kelley, Alan Poul
Format: One-hour drama
Married couples in 1970s suburbia discover mate-swapping

Disney-ABC International Television

Army Wives (Lifetime)
Production Team: Mark Gordon Deborah Spera
Format: One-hour drama
Four individuals share a common bond: they all love a soldier who could die at any moment

Carpoolers (ABC)
Production Team: Bruce McCulloch, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank, David Miner, Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Format: Half-hour comedy
Tells the tales of four very different men who carpool to work together

Cavemen (ABC)
Production Team: Daniel Rappaport, Guymon Casady, Will Speck, Josh Gordon
Format: Half-hour comedy
Cavemen deal with prejudice in modern-day Atlanta (based on the Geico insurance ads)

Dirty Sexy Money (ABC)
Production Team: Craig Wright, Greg Berlanti, Peter Horton, Matt Gross, Bryan Singer
Format: One-hour drama
A lawyer inherits his father’s clients — a colorful NY family with legal (and sometimes illegal) needs

Eli Stone (ABC) (midseason)
Production Team: Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Ken Olin
Format: One-hour drama
A 30-something attorney discovers that he might be a spiritual prophet

Greek (ABC Family)
Production Team: Piller/Segan, Sean Smith
Format: One-hour drama
Viewers are invited inside the social minefield that is the fraternity/sorority scene at Cyprus-Rhodes University

Miss/Guided (ABC) (midseason)
Production Team: Ashton Kutcher, Jason Goldberg, Karey Burke, Caroline Williams, Gaby Allan
Format: Half-hour comedy
An ugly duckling returns to her high school as a guidance counselor, only to have her former nemesis join her as a teacher

Private Practice (ABC)
Production Team: Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers, Marti Noxon, Mark Gordon
Format: One-hour drama
Revolves around Grey’s Anatomy’s Dr. Addison Montgomery Shepard

Reaper (CW)
Production Team: Michelle Fazekas, Tara Butters, Mark Gordon, Deb Spera, Tom Spezialy, Kevin Smith
Format: One-hour drama
Comedic drama about the devil’s bounty hunter, who reclaims souls that have escaped from hell

Sam I Am (ABC)
Production Team: Donald Todd, Peter Traugott
Format: Half-hour comedy
An amnesiac wakes up from a coma to learn that she was an awful person

Slacker Cats (ABC Family)
Production Team: Kevin Cecil, Andy Riley
Format: Half-hour comedy
Two buddy cats, Buckley and Eddie, slack their way through various unimpressive adventures in this animated series

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The Search for the Next Great American Band (Fox)
Production Team: Simon Fuller, Nigel Lythgoe, Ken Warwick, Cecile Frot-Coutaz
Format: Reality/Competition
A musical competition that sets out to do for musical groups what American Idol does for individual singers

NBC Universal International TV Distribution

The Bionic Woman (NBC)
Production Team: David Eick, Laeta Kalogridis, Jason Smilovic
Format: One-hour drama
A modern take on the classic series about a woman with extraordinary powers

Destination Truth (Sci Fi)
Production Team: Neil Mandt, Michael Mandt
Format: Reality
An eager truth-seeker travels the globe to investigate the unexplained

Flipping Out (Bravo)
Production Team: Lauren Lexton, Tom Rogan
Format: Reality
Follows an obsessive-compulsive, yet extremely successful businessman who flips multimillion-dollar houses

Hey Paula! (Bravo)
Production Team: Scott Sternberg
Format: Reality
A fly-on-the-wall series about the former pop star and American Idol judge

The IT Crowd (NBC) (midseason)
Production Team: Moses Port, David Guarascio, Joe Port, Joe Wiseman, Graham Linehan, Steve Tao
Format: Half-hour comedy
Based on a U.K. show about a company’s IT staff

Life (NBC)
Production Team: Rand Ravich, Far Shariat, David Semel
Format: One-hour drama
An ex-cop rejoins the police force after being wrongly imprisoned for years

Lipstick Jungle (NBC) (midseason)
Production Team: DeAnn Heline, Eileen Heisler, Candace Bushnell
Format: One-hour drama
Based on the book by Candace Bushnell, about power-hungry New York women

The Steve Wilkos Show (Syndicated)
Production Team: Richard Dominick
Format: One-hour talk show
The former Jerry Springer Show bodyguard doles out tough love

RHI Entertainment

Killer Wave (ION)
Production Team: Michael Prupas, Irene Litinsky, Robert Halmi Sr.
Format: Miniseries
After a tidal wave strikes the American East Coast, a team of scientists confers to learn the reason behind the devastating phenomenon

Sony Pictures Television International

Canterbury’s Law (Fox) (midseason)
Production Team: Denis Leary, Jim Serpico, Mike Figgis
Format: One-hour drama
A brash female attorney faces moral dilemmas while defending innocent clients

Cashmere Mafia (ABC)
Production Team: Gail Katz, Darren Star, Kevin Wade, Peyton Reed
Format: One-hour drama
Revolves around a group of high-powered NYC-dwelling female executives who have been friends since business school

Damages (FX)
Production Team: Todd Kessler, Daniel Zelman, Glen Kessler
Format: One-hour drama
A rising star lawyer crosses paths with a cutthroat veteran attorney who will stop at nothing to win her cases

Power of 10 (CBS)
Production Team: Michel Davies
Format: Reality/Game show
Drew Carey hosts this series in which a contestant must guess the behaviors, opinions and lifestyle choices of the American public for a chance to win $10 million

Viva Laughlin (CBS)
Production Team: Hugh Jackman, John Palermo, Bob Lowry, Paul Telegdy, Peter Bowker
Format: One-hour drama
Musical drama about a family that runs a casino in Laughlin, Nevada; based on BBC show Viva Blackpool

Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution

Anchorwoman (Fox)
Production Team: Brian Gadinsky
Format: Reality
A model and ex-WWE star becomes an anchorwoman at a small Texas news station, without any previous broadcast experience

Back to You (Fox)
Production Team: Steve Levitan, Christopher Lloyd
Format: Half-hour comedy
Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton star as former TV news co-anchors who reunite at a local TV station

Burn Notice (USA)
Production Team: Matt Nix, Mikkel Bondesen
Format: One-hour drama
A spy gets a burn notice and, determined to find out why he’s been laid off, becomes a PI

Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants (CW) (midseason)
Production Team: Laurie Girion
Format: Reality/Competition
Mother-and-daughter teams compete in beauty pageants for $100,000

Journeyman (NBC)
Production Team: Kevin Falls, Alex Graves
Format: One-hour drama
About a man who can travel back in time to right wrongs

K-Ville (Fox)
Production Team: Jonathan Lisco
Format: One-hour drama
A group of cops in post-Katrina New Orleans face the challenges of enforcing the law in a city where law is no more

National Bingo Night (ABC)
Production Team: Andrew Glassman
Format: Game show
An interactive game show where rounds of the game are played between contestants and the studio audience

New Amsterdam (Fox)
Production Team: Allan Loeb, Christian Taylor, Steven Pearl
Format: One-hour drama
About a police detective who is secretly centuries old

The Return of Jezebel James (Fox) (midseason)
Production Team: Amy Sherman-Palladino, Dan Palladino
Format: Half-hour comedy
After learning that she cannot conceive, a single children’s book editor asks her estranged sister to carry her baby

The Rules for Starting Over (Fox) (midseason)
Production Team: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Bradley Thomas, Brad Johnson
Format: Half-hour comedy
A group of divorced men counsel other men about to jump back into the dating pool

Saving Grace (TNT)
Production Team: Nancy A. Miller, Artie Mandelberg, Gary A. Randall, E. Duke Vincent, Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
Format: One-hour drama
About a morally conflicted female police officer destined for hell until she meets her final-chance angel

When Women Rule the World (Fox)
Production Team: Jean Michel-Michenaud, Chris Cowan, Charles Duncombe
Format: Reality/Competition
Smart and sexy women govern a society where chauvinistic men act as their slaves

Women’s Murder Club (ABC)
Production Team: Joe Simpson, James Patterson, Elizabeth Craft, Sarah Fain
Format: One-hour drama
Four female friends solve tough murder cases

Warner Bros. International Television

Aliens in America (CW)
Production Team: Tim Doyle, Moses Port, David Guarascio
Format: Half-hour comedy
An unpopular 16-year-old boy bonds with the Pakistani Muslim exchange student who comes to live with his family

The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
Production Team: Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady
Format: Half-hour comedy
Brilliant theoretical physicists learn how to hook up with women who are way out of their league when a hot woman moves in next door to them

Big Shots (ABC)
Production Team: Jon Harmon Feldman
Format: One-hour drama
About competitive CEOs gone wild

Chuck (NBC)
Production Team: Josh Schwartz, McG, Chris Fedak
Format: One-hour drama
A computer geek moonlights as the government’s most powerful weapon

CW Now (CW)
Production Team: Lisa Gregorisch, Mike Miller
Format: Reality/Magazine
A pop culture magazine series

Gossip Girl (CW)
Production Team: Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Bob Levy, Leslie Morgenstein
Format: One-hour drama
The world of rich New York teens told from the perspective of a mysterious blogger

Heartland (TNT)
Production Team: David Hollander
Format: One-hour drama
A recently divorced couple works both sides of the heart transplant surgery trade

Moonlight (CBS)
Production: Rod Holcomb, Joel Silver, Ron Koslow, Trevor Munson, Gerard Bocaccio
Format: One-hour drama
A vampire rises above his carnal needs and works as a PI

Pushing Daisies (ABC)
Production Team: Dan Jinks, Bruce Cohen, Barry Sonnenfeld, Bryan Fuller
Format: One-hour drama
A quirky romantic drama about someone who can bring back the dead

The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Fox) (midseason)
Production Team: Josh Friedman, David Nutter, James Middleton, Mario Kassar, Andrew Vajna, Joel Michaels
Format: One-hour drama
Terminator character fights attackers from the future

Side Order of Life (Lifetime)
Production Team: Dan Jinks, Bruce Cohen, Margaret Nagle
Format: One-hour drama
A photojournalist begins to re-evalute her life and upcoming wedding thanks to a friend living with cancer

State of Mind (Lifetime)
Production Team: Greer Shephard, Michael Robin
Format: One-hour drama
An inside look at the private and professional lives of therapists to find out who’s crazier — them or their patients

World Moves (NBC) (midseason)
Production Team: Randy Jackson, Rob Lee, Howard Schwartz, Karen Schwartz, Harriet Sternberg
Format: Reality/Competition
A live TV event where dance teams around the world compete for an international touring contract

Zeal Television

The Singing Bee (NBC)
Production Team: Phil Gurin and Robert Horowitz
Format: Reality/Competition
A karaoke contest that will have viewers singing in their seats

International Distributor TBA

Baby Borrowers (NBC) (midseason)
Production Team: Richard McKerrow
Format: Reality
Based on a U.K. format where young people get some hands-on experience at what it means to bring a baby into this world and be responsible for it

Farmer Wants a Wife (CW) (midseason)
Production Team: Cecile Frot-Coutaz, Adam Cohen, Cara Tapper, Joanna Vernetti
Format: Reality
A farm boy looks for the city girl of his dreams

Fat March (ABC)
Production Team: Nick Emmerson, Julie Laughlin, Kirsty Robson
Format: Reality
A group of obese people set out on a challenge: to walk 500 miles across the U.S.

Kitchen Nightmares (Fox)
Production Team: Arthur Smith, Pat Llewellyn, Kent Weed, Gerry McKean, Curt Northrup
Format: Reality
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay helps turn around restaurants facing crises

Nashville (Fox)
Production Team: Gary Auerbach, Julia Auerbach
Format: Reality
A docu-soap revolving around musicians in Nashville, Tennessee: “The biggest small town in America”

Oprah’s Big Give (ABC)
Production Team: Oprah Winfrey, Ellen Rakieten, Harriet Seitler, Jonathan Sinclair, Bertram van Munster, Elise Doganieri
Format: Reality/Competition
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