2008-2009 Season’s New Series

By International Distribution Company

CBS STUDIOS INTERNATIONAL

Accidentally on Purpose (CBS)
Production Team: Lloyd Braun, Gail Berman, Gene Stein, Claudia Lonow
Format: Half-hour comedy Jenna Elfman stars in this comedy about a single woman who finds herself “accidentally” pregnant after a one-night stand with a much younger guy, and decides to keep the baby… and the guy.

Melrose Place (CW)
Production Team: Todd Slavkin, Darren Swimmer, Davis Guggenheim Format: One-hour drama An updated version of the 1990s series, centered on a group of tenants in the trendy Melrose neighborhood of Los Angeles.

NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS)
Production Team: Shane Brennan Format: One-hour drama A drama about the high-stakes world of undercover surveillance at the Office of Special Projects (OSP), a division of NCIS that is charged with apprehending dangerous and elusive criminals that pose a threat to national security.

Nurse Jackie (Showtime)
Production Team: Showtime Networks and Lionsgate Format: Half-hour comedy Dark comedy set in the emergency room of a New York City hospital.

Parental Discretion Advised (CW) (midseason)
Production Team: Liz Tigelaar, Gary Fleder Format: One-hour drama When a judge decides that 16-year-old Lux isn’t ready for emancipation and unexpectedly grants temporary joint custody to her estranged parents, they agree to get past the awkwardness and make a belated attempt to give Lux the family she deserves.

The Beautiful Life (CW)
Production Team: Ashton Kutcher, Jason Goldberg, Karey Burke, Mike Kelley, Carol Barbee Format: One-hour drama The life of a high-fashion model appears glamorous and sexy, but behind the beautiful façade is a world of insecurity and cutthroat competition.

The Good Wife (CBS)
Production Team: Tony Scott, Ridley Scott, Robert King, Michelle King, Dee Johnson, David Zucker Format: One-hour drama Julianna Margulies stars as a wife who must assume full responsibility for her family and re-enter the workforce after her husband’s very public sex and political corruption scandals land him in jail.

Three Rivers (CBS)
Production Team: Carol Barbee, Curtis Hanson, Carol Fenelon Format: One-hour drama A medical drama that goes inside the emotionally complex lives of organ donors, the recipients and the surgeons at the preeminent transplant hospital in the country.

DISNEY-ABC-ESPN TELEVISION

10 Things I Hate About You (ABC Family)
Production Team: Carter Covington Format: Half-hour comedy Single-cam high school series about two sisters with very different personalities.

Cougar Town (ABC)
Production Team: Bill Lawrence, Kevin Biegel, Courteney Cox, David Arquette Format: Half-hour comedy Courteney Cox stars as a recently divorced single mother exploring the honest truths about dating and aging in our beauty and youth-obsessed culture.

Flash Forward (ABC)
Production Team: David S. Goyer, Brannon Braga, Marc Guggenheim, Jessika Goyer, Vince Gerardis, Ralph Vicinanza Format: One-hour drama When a mysterious event causes the entire world to black out, humanity is given a glimpse into its near future, and everyone is forced to come to grips with whether their destinies can be avoided or fulfilled.

Happy Town (ABC)
Production Team: Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, Scott Rosenberg Format: One-hour drama In the wake of a small town’s first crime in seven years, some dark truths are revealed about some familiar faces. Make It Or Break It (ABC Family) Production Team: Holly Sorenson, Paul Stupin Format: One-hour drama Set in the world of competitive gymnastics, this series follows a group of teen Olympic hopefuls as they train.

Ruby & The Rockits (ABC Family)
Production Team: Shaun Cassidy, Marsh McCall Format: Half-hour comedy A former pop star who has chosen to lead a quiet life must help his former bandmate raise a teenage daughter.

E1 ENTERTAINMENT

The Bridge (CBS) (midseason)
Production Team: Craig Bromell, Adam J. Shully, Laszlo Barna, Alan Di Fiore, Robert Wertheimer Format: One-hour drama A tough and dedicated police officer becomes the union’s leader, and must battle criminals on the street as well as corruption among his own bosses.

NBC UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION

100 Questions (NBC) (midseason)
Production Team: Christopher Moynihan, Michelle Nader, Ron West, Kelly Kulchak Format: Half-hour comedy When a single girl joins an online dating site, she must recount past experiences in a hilarious attempt to answer 100 questions about love and compatibility.

Day One (NBC) (midseason)
Production Team: Jesse Alexander Format: One-hour drama Tells the story of life on earth following a global catastrophe that has devastated the world’s infrastructures.

Mercy (midseason) (NBC)
Production Team: Liz Heldens, Gretchen Berg, Aaron Harberts, Gail Berman, Lloyd Braun Format: One-hour drama Portrays the lives of the staff at Mercy Hospital as seen through the eyes of those who know it best — its nurses.

Parenthood (NBC)
Production Team: Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Jason Katims Format: One-hour drama Contemporary re-imagining of the blockbuster film about the four grown Braverman siblings and their shared headaches, heartaches and experiences as parents.

Trauma (NBC)
Production Team: Dario Scardapane, Jeffrey Reiner, Peter Berg, Sarah Aubrey Format: One-hour drama High-octane drama centered on a team of first-response paramedics.

Warehouse 13 (SY-FI)
Production Team: David Simkins, Jack Kenny Format: One-hour drama Two secret service agents are “promoted” to work at a remote government warehouse that stores unexplained objects in the middle of nowhere in South Dakota.

REVEILLE ENTERTAINMENT

Breakthrough with Tony Robbins (NBC) (midseason)
Production Team: Tony Robbins, Howard T. Owens, Mark Koops, Bruce Beresford-Redman, Noah Oppenheim, Tom Forman Format: One-hour reality Tony Robbins guides participants through complex challenges and personal obstacles while changing their lives and redefining their futures.

SONY PICTURES TELEVISION

Brothers (FOX)
Production Team: Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum, Mitch Hurwitz, Don Reo Format: Half-hour comedy Former NFL star Michael Strahan stars as a former big-city football star who returns to his mother’s house to get his life back on track.

Community (NBC)
Production Team: Dan Harmon, Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Russ Karnoff, Gary Foster Format: Half-hour comedy Comedy about higher education and lowered expectations centered around the motley crew of students at Greendale Community College.

Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime)
Production Team: Josh Berman, Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, Alex Taub Format: One-hour dramedy Model has a fatal car accident and returns to life in the body of a plus-size attorney.

Hawthorne (TNT)
Production Team: Jada Pinkett Smith, John Masius, Glen Mazzara, Jamie Tarses Format: One-hour drama Jada Pinkett stars as the chief nurse at a Virginia hospital and must juggle her career with her role as a single mother.

Shark Tank (ABC)
Production Team: Mark Burnett Format: One-hour reality Budding entrepreneurs are given the chance to become successful and wealthy business people, but first they must convince five tough multi-millionaire tycoons to invest in their ideas.

TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX TV DISTRIBUTION

Defying Gravity (tba)
Production Team: James Parriott, Michael Edelstein, Brian Hamilton, Michael Chechik Format: One-hour drama Eight astronauts from five countries undertake a mysterious space mission.

Glee (FOX)
Production Team: Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Dante Di Loreto, Ian Brennan, John Peter Kousakis Format: One-hour comedy Combines biting humor with a soundtrack of hit music both past and present to tell the story of an optimistic high school teacher who attempts to restore a glee club to its former glory.

Modern Family (ABC)
Production Team: Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd Format: Half-hour comedy Shot from the perspective of an unseen documentary filmmaker, this comedy takes a modern look at the complications that come with being a family in 2009.

Neighbors From Hell (TBS)
Production Team: Pam Brady, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Mireille Sora Format: Half-hour animated comedy A suburban family who is actually from hell, sent to Earth to steer humans away from an eternity of underwordly fire. Persons Unkown (tba) Production Team: Remi Aubuchon, Chris McQuarrie, Heather McQuarrie Format: One-hour drama A group of strangers awakens in a deserted town with no memory of how they arrived.

Sons of Tuscon (FOX) (midseason)
Production Team: Justin Berfield, Jason Felts, Harvey Myman, Todd Holland Format: Half-hour comedy Non-traditional family comedy about a charming but wayward schemer hired by three young brothers whose father is in prison.

The Cleveland Show (FOX)
Production Team: Seth MacFarlane, Rich Appel, Mike Henry Format: Half-hour animated comedy Everyone’s favorite soft-spoken Family Guy neighbor, Cleveland Brown, moves with his son back to his hometown in Virginia to settle down with his high school sweetheart and her unruly kids.

The Deep End (ABC) (midseason)
Production Team: David Hemingson Format: One-hour drama One of L.A.’s most prestigious law firms recruits four young lawyers from the finest law schools worldwide. The only way for them to survive is to support each other, even as they compete.

White Collar (USA)
Production team: Jeff Eastin Format: One-hour drama An ex-con turns consultant to help the FBI catch elusive criminals.

WARNER BROS INTERNATIONAL TV

Dark Blue (TNT)
Production Team: Jerry Bruckheimer Format: One-hour drama Intense police drama follows a team of undercover cops lead by broken, widowed Carter Shaw.

Eastwick (ABC)
Production Team: Maggie Friedman Format: One-hour drama Three very different women find themselves drawn together by a mysterious man who unleashes unique powers in each of them. Based on the John Updike novel, “The Witches of Eastwick.”

Hank (ABC)
Production Team: Tom Werner, Tucker Cawley, Kelsey Grammer, Mike Clements Format: Half-hour comedy Kelsey Grammer stars as a titan of industry who suddenly finds himself out of work, almost out of money and around a wife and kids for whom he’s never made much time.

Human Target (FOX) (midseason)
Production Team: Jon Steinberg, McG, Simon West, Brad Kern, Peter Johnson Format: One-hour drama Based on the popular DC Comics graphic novel, the series follows a unique private contractor who will stop at nothing to keep his clients alive.

Miami Trauma (CBS) (midseason)
Production Team: Jerry Bruckheimer, Jeffrey Lieber, Jonathan Littman Format: One-hour drama A team of expert surgeons works at one of the premier trauma facilities in the country, where only patients with life-threatening injuries are treated.

Past Life (FOX) (midseason)
Production Team: David Hudgins, Lou Pitt Format: One-hour drama Fast-paced emotional thriller about a gifted psychologist and a former NYPD detective who work together and unravel mysteries that must be solved in both the past and the present.

The Forgotten (ABC)
Production Team: Mark Friedman, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, KirstieAnne Reed, Danny Cannon Format: One-hour drama A team of dedicated amateurs works on cases involving unidentified victims. After the police have given up, this group works to give the deceased back their names.

The Middle (ABC)
Production Team: Eileen Heisler, DeAnn Heline, Werner Walian Format: Half-hour comedy The Hecks are a middle-class family living in the middle of Indiana, just trying to keep their heads above water. Patricia Heaton stars in this comedy about raising a family and lowering your expectations.

V (ABC)
Production Team: Scott Peters, Steve Pearlman, Jace Hall Format: One-hour drama A re-imagining of the 1980s miniseries about the world’s first encounter with an alien race called The Visitors.

The Vampire Diaries (CW)
Production Team: Kevin Williamson, Julie Plec, Leslie Morgenstein, Bob Levy Format: One-hour drama Two vampire brothers — one good and one evil — are at war for Elena’s soul and the souls of her friends, family and all the residents of the small town of Mystic Falls, Virginia. Based on the books by L.J. Smith.

INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTOR TBA

Arranged Marriage (CBS) (midseason)
Production Team: Jane Lipsitz, Dan Cutforth Format: One-hour reality Brings the tradition of arranged marriages to the U.S. Adults anxious to get married rely on their closest family and friends to pick a match for them and have the experience documented.

Undercover Boss (CBS) (midseason)
Production Team: Stephen Lambert Format: One-hour reality Follows high-level corporate executives as they slip anonymously into the lowest-level jobs within their companies.

The Marriage Ref (NBC) (midseason)
Production Team: Jerry Seinfeld, Ellen Rakieten, Nick Emerson, Jennifer O’Connell Format: One-hour reality A funny and revealing series about the unpredictable institution we call marriage.

Who Do You Think You Are? (NBC) (midseason)
Production Team: Alex Graham, Lucy Carter, Lisa Kudrow, Dan Bucatinsky, Don Roos, Bryn Freedman Format: One-hour reality Based on the BBC documentary, this series leads celebrities on a journey of self-discovery as they unearth their family trees that reveal surprising, inspiring, and even tragic stories that are often linked to crucial events in American history.