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2020 ABC Pilots - Comedies

Adopted

ORDERED TO PILOT

Genre: Single-camera and Family

Description: When a Green Beret returns home to Texas from military service, he and his family struggle with the challenges of adopting his new brother, a 12-year-old Russian boy.

Series Creator: Shawn Vance, Daril Fannin, Jimmy Kimmel.

Based on: the life story of Shawn Vance.

Pilot Director: Marc Buckland.

Producers: Jimmy Kimmel, Shawn Vance, Daril Fannin, Brent Montgomery.

Studios: Kimmelot, Wheelhouse Entertainment.

Bossy

ORDERED TO PILOT

Genre: Multicamera

Description: Employees must deal with a boss who is vocal in her stance against working parents—and torments those colleagues—until she herself becomes one when she adopts a child, throwing the office into chaos. As she navigates being a new mother, the supervisor soon realizes she must turn to those she once chastised for parenting advice, finding a confidante in her assistant, an overworked mother of three.

Pilot Cast: Lucy Liu, Hayes MacArthur, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Hayley Magnus.

Series Creator: Shana Goldberg-Meehan.

Pilot Director: Christine Gernon.

Producers: Shana Goldberg-Meehan.

Studios: CBS Television Studios, 20th Television.

Call Your Mother

(Also known as My Village)
ORDERED TO SERIES

Genre: Multi-camera and Family

Description: An empty-nester mom who wonders how she ended up alone while her children live their best lives thousands of miles away decides her place is with her family. As she reinserts herself into their lives, her kids realize they might actually need her more than they thought.

Pilot Cast: Kyra Sedgwick, Rachel Sennott, Joey Bragg, Emma Caymares, Austin Crute.

Series Creator: Kari Lizer.

Pilot Director: Pamela Fryman.

Producers: Kari Lizer.

Home Economics

ORDERED TO PILOT

Genre: Single-camera and Family

Description: About three adult siblings: one in the 1 percent, one middle-class, and one barely holding on.

Pilot Cast: Topher Grace, Karla Souza, Caitlin McGee, Sasheer Zamata.

Series Creator: Michael Colton, John Aboud, Jason Wang.

Pilot Director: John Aboud.

Producers: Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum, Michael Colton.

Studios: Lionsgate, The Tannenbaum Company.

Prospect

ORDERED TO PILOT

Genre: single-camera and western

Description: An idealistic young woman moves to the frontier to be a schoolteacher, but her ideals quickly are tested when she learns that her students are rowdy ranch hands, not children.

Pilot Cast: Hunter King, David Alan Grier, Diana Maria Riva, Dale Dickey.

Series Creator: Sherry Bilsing-Graham, Ellen Kreamer.

Pilot Director: Randall Einhorn.

Producers: Randall Einhorn, Sherry Bilsing-Graham, Ellen Kreamer.

Untitled Nate Bargatze Pilot

PILOT REJECTED

Genre: Multicamera and Family

Description: Nate and his wife choose to move from California to Nate’s native Tennessee, where his parents still live, to raise their six-year-old daughter. They find the pursuit of a simple life to be much more complicated than they imagined.

Pilot Cast: Nate Bargatze, Katie Aselton, Debra Jo Rupp, Kurtwood Smith.

Series Creator: Nate Bargatze, Dan Shaki, Ari Katcher, Jerrod Carmichael.

Pilot Director: Drew Goddard.

Producers: Drew Goddard, Jerrod Carmichael, Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, Ari Katcher, Nate Bargatze.

Studios: 20th Television, Brillstein Entertainment.

Valley Trash

PILOT ORDER CANCELED

Genre: Family and Single-camera

Description: The Harmans, a scrappy, blue collar family living in the deep Valley, suddenly experience a major culture clash when their fourteen-year-old daughter, Abby, gets accepted to a prestigious LA private high school filled with students and parents who want nothing to do with her, her family or their 818 area code.

Pilot Cast: Jason Lee, Lulu Wilson.

Series Creator: Niki Schwartz-Wright.

Producers: Jason Lee, Nahnatchka Khan, Niki Schwartz-Wright.

Studios: Universal Television, 20th Television, Fierce Baby.

Wild Child

ORDERED TO PILOT

Genre: Single-camera and Romantic

Description: New York City teenager Lennon Cochrane's life is turned upside down when she stumbles on a family secret.

Pilot Cast: Quintessa Swindell.

Series Creator: Emily Kapnek, Dean Holland.

Producers: Emily Kapnek, Dean Holland.

Studios: Specifica Productions.

Work Wife

ORDERED TO PILOT

Genre: Single-camera

Description: The story of a platonic male-female team whose professional success, personal friendship and ability to share deodorant makes their lives work. Set in the world of real estate, Dani and Scott have taken the leap to start their own team. Now feeling the stress of being the boss, they have to rely on the yin-yang of their dynamic more than ever to keep their professional and personal lives afloat.

Pilot Cast: Angelique Cabral, Tone Bell, Christopher Gorham, Matt Shively , Maile Flanagan, Annapurna Sriram.

Series Creator: David Windsor, Casey Johnson.

Pilot Director: Todd Holland.

Producers: Kelly Ripa, Ryan Seacrest, Mark Consuelos, David Windsor, Casey Johnson, Todd Holland, Nina Wass, Albert Bianchini.

Studios: Ryan Seacrest Productions, Milojo Productions.

2020 ABC Pilots - Dramas

Big Sky

ORDERED TO SERIES

Genre: Thriller and Crime

Description: Private detective Cassie Dewell partners with ex-cop Jenny Hoyt on a search for two sisters who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana. When they discover that these are not the only girls who have disappeared in the area, they must race against the clock to stop the killer before another woman is taken.

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Pilot Cast: Kylie Bunbury, Katheryn Winnick, Ryan Phillippe, Natalie Alyn Lind , Jade Pettyjohn, John Carroll Lynch, Dedee Pfeiffer, Brian Geraghty, Jesse James Keitel, Valerie Mahaffey.

Series Creator: David E. Kelley.

Based on: The Highway, the first book in C.J. Box’s Cassie Dewell series of novels

Pilot Director: Paul McGuigan.

Producers: Ross Fineman, David E. Kelley.

Studios: 20th Television.

The Brides

PILOT ORDER CANCELED

Genre: Soap, Family, Horror, and Supernatural

Description: A vampire soap about empowered, immortal women and the things they do to maintain wealth, prestige, legacy — and their nontraditional family.

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Pilot Cast: Gina Torres, Erin Richards, Katherine Reis, Goran Višnjić, Chris Mason, Sophia Tatum, Charlie McElveen.

Series Creator: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.

Based on: Bram Stoker's character

Pilot Director: Maggie Kiley.

Producers: Greg Berlanti, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Sarah Schechter.

Studios: Warner Bros. TV, Berlanti Productions.

Harlem's Kitchen

(Also known as Rice)
ORDERED TO PILOT

Genre: Family and Soap

Description: Ellis Rice, an Executive Chef and patriarch, runs a successful Harlem restaurant with his wife and three daughters. But an unexpected death thrusts the family into turmoil and puts the restaurant’s future in jeopardy as long-buried secrets are revealed.

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Pilot Cast: Delroy Lindo, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Clare-Hope Ashitey, Adrianna Mitchell, Pepi Sonuga, Miguel Gomez.

Series Creator: Zahir McGhee.

Pilot Director: Stephen Williams.

Producers: Laurie Zaks, Zahir McGhee, Marcus Samuelsson, Todd Lieberman, David Hoberman.

Studios: Mandeville Television.

National Parks Service

AWAITING PILOT ORDER

Genre:

Description: About the elite special agents of the Investigative Services Branch who are tasked with solving the most complex and heinous crimes committed within the diverse and majestic National Parks of the ISB’s Pacific West region.

Series Creator: Kevin Costner, Aaron Helbing.

Producers: Kevin Costner, Aaron Helbing, Rod Lake, Ken Halsband, Ivan Cohen, Jon Baird.

Studios: 20th Television, Territory Pictures.

Rebel

ORDERED TO SERIES

Genre: Legal, Soap, and Biopic

Description: Annie "Rebel" Bello is a blue-collar legal advocate without a law degree. This funny, messy, brilliant and fearless woman cares desperately about the causes she fights for and the people she loves. When Rebel applies herself to a fight she believes in, she will win at almost any cost.

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Pilot Cast: Katey Sagal, Andy Garcia, John Corbett, James Lesure, Tamala Jones, Kevin Zegers, Sam Palladio, Lex Scott Davis, Ariela Barer.

Series Creator: Krista Vernoff, Tara Weyr.

Based on: the life of Erin Brockovich today

Producers: Erin Brockovich, Krista Vernoff, John Davis, Alexandre Schmitt, John Fox.

Studios: Davis Entertainment, Trip the Light.

Thirtysomething(else)

PILOT ORDER CANCELED

Genre: Family and Soap

Description: This revival of the 1980s series Thirtysomething revolves around the children of the characters from the original show, who are now 30-something themselves. Raising children never ends, but who could have known how hard it would be to raise parents?

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Pilot Cast: Odette Annable, Chris Wood, Auden Thornton, Patrick Fugit, Kendrick Sampson, Ken Olin, Mel Harris, Patricia Wettig, Timothy Busfield.

Series Creator: Marshall Herskovitz, Ed Zwick.

Based on: ABC's 1987 drama series Thirtysomething

Pilot Director: Ed Zwick.

Producers: Marshall Herskovitz.

Studios: MGM Television.

Triage

ORDERED TO PILOT

Genre: Medical

Description: The story of a pioneering surgeon, Finley Briar, over three distinct decades at the same hospital. With the evolution of medicine as the backdrop, the show explores the interconnected careers, friendships and romances of Finley and her colleagues and their tenuous relationship with time.

Pilot Cast: Parisa Fitz-Henley, Michael Ealy, Andrew Richardson, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Kathleen Robertson, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Gabriel Sloyer.

Series Creator: David Cornue.

Pilot Director: Steven Marrs, Caitlin Foito, Courtney Hazlett.

Producers: Erica Messer, David Cornue.

Studios: 20th Television, OutEast Entertainment.

Women of the Movement

ORDERED TO SERIES

Genre: Miniseries, Anthology, and History

Description: The story of Mamie Till Mobley, who devoted her life to seeking justice for her son Emmett Till following his brutal killing in the Jim Crow South. An anthology chronicling the civil rights movement as told by the women behind it.

Pilot Cast: Adrienne Warren.

Series Creator: Marissa Jo Cerar.

Based on: the book Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement by Devery S. Anderson.

Pilot Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood.

Producers: Marissa Jo Cerar, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Will Smith, Jay-Z, James Lassiter, Aaron Kaplan, Dana Honor.

Studios: Kapital Entertainment, Overbrook Entertainment, Serendipity, The Middleton Media Group.

Wreckage

ORDERED TO PILOT

Genre: Thriller and Adventure

Description: On the surface, Lillian Linden looks like a brave survivor of a plane crash. But she’s been lying to her family, her friends, and the whole world since rescue helicopters scooped her and her fellow survivor, Dave Hall, off a deserted island in the South Pacific. Missing for almost four years, the castaways are thrust into the spotlight after their rescue, becoming media darlings overnight. But they can’t tell the real story—so they lie.

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Series Creator: Jacquie Walters.

Based on: Emily Bleeker’s book of the same name

Pilot Director: Marc Webb.

Producers: Jacquie Walters, Sarah Timberman, Carl Beverly, Mark Martin, Marc Webb, Keith Samples.

Studios: Black Lamb Productions, Timberman-Beverly Productions.

2019 ABC Pilots - Dramas

The Baker and the Beauty

ORDERED TO SERIES

Genre: Romantic Dramedy

Description: Noa Hollander has it all: she’s the most famous woman in the country, the beautiful daughter of a real estate magnate, a successful model with an international career and, up until now, one half of a Hollywood power couple. The son of Cuban immigrants, Daniel Garcia, is a simple guy who still lives with his parents and works at the family bakery. A chance encounter at a fancy restaurant leads to unexpected sparks. Can their love survive her jet-setting lifestyle, her overbearing agent, his unworldly family, both their exes and the media?

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Pilot Cast: Nathalie Kelley, Victor Rasuk, Dan Bucatinsky, Lisa Vidal, Carlos Gomez , Belissa Escobedo.

Series Creator: Dean Georgaris.

Pilot Director: David Frankel.

Producers: Dean Georgaris, David Frankel, Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman, Peter Traugott, Rachel Kaplan.

Studios: Universal Television, Keshet Studios.

Emergence

ORDERED TO SERIES

Genre: Mystery Thriller

Description: Jo, the sheriff of a small town, takes in a young child that she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child’s identity is at the center of it all. Determined to discover the truth and to protect herself and her her family, she takes all the risks.

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Pilot Cast: Allison Tolman, Alexa Skye Swinton, Donald Faison, Owain Yeoman, Robert Bailey Jr, Ashley Aufderheide, Zabryna Guevara.

Series Creator: Michele Fazekas, Tara Butters.

Pilot Director: Paul McGuigan.

Producers: Paul McGuigan, Robert Atwood, Michele Fazekas, Tara Butters.

Studios: Fazekas & Butters Productions.

For Life

(Also known as Untitled Hank Steinberg Project)
ORDERED TO SERIES

Genre: Legal

Description: Once wrongly convicted as the kingpin behind one of the largest drug distribution networks in New Jersey, the true story of a man who now practices law in the same courtroom where he was sentenced to life behind bars. His quest for freedom is driven by his desperate desire to get back to the family he loves and reclaim the life that was stolen from him.

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Pilot Cast: Nicholas Pinnock, Indira Varma, Joy Bryant, Dorian Missick, Mary Stuart Masterson.

Series Creator: Hank Steinberg.

Pilot Director: George Tillman Jr..

Producers: Alison Greenspan, Doug Robinson.

Studios: G-Unit Film & Television, Doug Robinson Productions.

Heart of Life

PILOT REJECTED

Genre: Family and soap

Description: Two sets of adult siblings from wildly different worlds discover they’re related and must reassess everything they thought they knew about their shared father. As they explore the mystery of their separate childhoods, they’ll experience the difficulty in overcoming the sins of the past, and learn the joys of reuniting with long-lost family.

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Pilot Cast: Dave Annable, Jessica Stroup, Harry Shum Jr., Katie Findlay, Nick Thune, Ming-Na Wen.

Series Creator: Ben Queen.

Based on: John Mayer’s song

Pilot Director: Anne Fletcher.

Producers: Ben Queen, Melvin Mar, Paul Weitz, John Mayer.

Studios: 20th Television.

The Hypnotist’s Love Story

PILOT REJECTED

Genre: Soap

Description: After a string of failed romance, a successful hypnotherapist named Ellen is optimistic about her current boyfriend, a charming widower. Then he reveals a disturbing truth: he has a stalker ex-girlfriend who has been following him and his son for years. Ellen finds herself intrigued and oddly thrilled by the stalker, entirely unaware that they’ve met.

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Pilot Cast: Juliet Rylance, Heather Graham, Adan Canto, Jane Seymour, Liza Lapira, Skye P. Marshall.

Series Creator: Katie Wech.

Pilot Director: Francesca Gregorini.

Producers: Katie Wech, Heather Graham, David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Laurie Zaks.

Studios: Mandeville Television.

New York Undercover

PILOT REJECTED

Genre: Crime Detective

Description: Detectives Nat Gilmore and Melissa Ortiz investigate New York City’s most dangerous criminals from Harlem to Battery Park.

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Pilot Cast: Toby Sandeman, Otmara Marrero, Anna Enger, Octavio Pizano, MC Lyte, Fat Joe, Malik Yoba, Luna Lauren Vélez.

Series Creator: Dick Wolf, Ben Watkins.

Based on: The 90s series

Pilot Director: Anthony Hemingway.

Producers: Peter Jankowski, Arthur Forney.

Studios: Universal Television, Wolf Films.

NYPD Blue (2019)

PILOT REJECTED

Genre: Cop Drama

Description: Andy Sipowicz’s son, Theo, tries to earn his detective shield and work in the 15th squad while investigating his father’s cold case when new information arises. Theo seems to have taken after his father as he too is a hard-drinking, hard-headed and quick-witted cop.

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Pilot Cast: Fabien Frankel, Alona Tal, Kim Delaney, Bill Brochtrup, Rick Gomez, Ashley Thomas .

Series Creator: Matt Olmstead, Nick Wootton.

Pilot Director: Jesse Bochco.

Producers: Dayna Bochco, Jesse Bochco, Matt Olmstead, Nick Wootton.

Studios: 20th Century Fox.

Stumptown

Genre: Detective Drama

Description: Inspired by the spirited graphic novel, Stumptown follows Dex Parios, a sharp tongued, whip smart, down on her luck, making-it-up-as-she-goes-along, hot mess of a P.I., working in Portland, Oregon. It’s a distinct world populated by oddball characters where seemingly simple cases unfold with surprising turns, emotional stakes, and a healthy dose of humor. At its heart, our reluctant heroine solves other people’s messes with a blind eye toward her own. Dex usually gets it right … but not until all other options have been exhausted.

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Pilot Cast: Cobie Smulders, Jake Johnson, Michael Ealy, Camryn Manheim, Mark Webber, Adrian Martinez.

Series Creator: Jason Richman.

Based on: Greg Rucka's graphic novel Stumptown

Pilot Director: James Griffiths.

Producers: Jason Richman, Ruben Fleischer, Dave Bernad, Greg Rucka, Matthew Southworth, Justin Greenwood.

Triangle

ORDERED TO PILOT

Genre: Fantasy Adventure

Description: What if the Bermuda Triangle was not a watery grave in the middle of the ocean, but a land lost in time that has trapped travelers over the course of human history? When a family is shipwrecked in this strange land, they must band together with a group of like-minded inhabitants — from throughout history — to survive and somehow find a way home.

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Pilot Cast: Mike Vogel, Mallory Jansen, Matt Passmore, Edwin Hodge, Lorenzo Richelmy, Sibongile Mlambo, Diana Bermudez, Amit Shah, Sarah Catherine Hook.

Series Creator: Jon Harmon Feldman, Sonny Postiglione.

Pilot Director: McG.

Producers: Jennifer Gwartz.

Studios: Random Hill.

Until the Wedding

PILOT REJECTED

Genre: Romantic and Soap

Description: One couple’s decision to get married affects everyone in their lives, as friends and family are forced to reckon with their own romantic lives and come to terms with the realities of love and marriage.

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Pilot Cast: Olivia Thirlby, E.J. Bonilla, Britt Lower, Michael Stahl-David, Trent Garrett, Christian Coulson, Vered Blonstein, Christian Borle, Liza Colon-Zayas, Michael Benjamin Washington.

Series Creator: Becky Mode.

Pilot Director: Susannah Grant.

Producers: Becky Mode, Susannah Grant, Alon Aranya, Avi Zvi, Ami Amir, Carl Beverly, Sarah Timberman.

Studios: Matar Productions, Reshet 13, Paper Plane Productions.

2019 ABC Pilots - Comedies

Happy Accident

PILOT REJECTED

Genre: Sngle Camera and Family

Description: Two Pittsburgh families — a father with three adult daughters, and a hotel lounge singer with her med student son — are forced together after a decades-old secret is revealed.

Pilot Cast: Vanessa Williams, Matt Walsh, JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Kether Donohue, Elliot Knight, Robert Smith, Jessie Pinnick, Jon Pollack, Abraham Higginbotham.

Series Creator: Abraham Higginbotham, Jon Pollack.

Pilot Director: Kat Coiro.

Producers: Abraham Higginbotham, Jon Pollack.

Studios: 20th Television.

Mixed-ish

ORDERED TO SERIES

Genre: Single Camera and Family

Description: Blackish spin-off around young Bow not fitting in at school and her mom Alicia going to work for her rich grandfather Harrison at Johnson and Johnson Esquire.

Pilot Cast: Arica Himmel, Tika Sumpter, Gary Cole, Peter Saji.

Based on: Black-ish

Pilot Director: Anton Cropper.

Producers: Kenya Barris, Peter Saji.

Studios: Principato-Young Entertainment.

Nana

PILOT REJECTED

Genre: multi-camera and family

Description: After the death of his wife, an obsessive, overprotective dad is forced to invite his brash and bawdy mother-in-law into his home to help raise the two granddaughters she barely knows.

Pilot Cast: Katey Sagal, Ben Lawson, Bill Bellamy, Kimberly Quinn, Gemma Allen, Andy Ackerman, Lon Zimmet.

Series Creator: Lon Zimmet.

Producers: Katey Sagal, Laura Lancaster, Ted Melfi, Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson.

Studios: 20th Television, Alcon Entertainment, Goldenlight Films.

Pastorized

PILOT REJECTED

Genre: multi-camera and family

Description: Leslie and Hope are joint pastors at a young, hip, diverse church in Los Angeles. Through their services, online streams and books they are experts at uniting people across different races, genders, orientations and opinions. But when it comes to uniting the people in their blended family, they are way out of their comfort zone and as a result, the teachers often find themselves the pupils.

Pilot Cast: Leslie Odom Jr., Kelly Jenrette, Hailey Kilgore, Lilah Richcreek, Alexis Field, Saladin K. Patterson.

Series Creator: Saladin K. Patterson.

Pilot Director: Fred Savage, Pilar Savone.

Producers: Kerry Washington, Leslie Odom Jr..

Studios: Simpson Street.

United We Fall

ORDERED TO SERIES

Genre: multi-camera and family

Description: Based on writer Julius Sharpe’s life, the parents of two young kids struggle to achieve the ordinary. When two people with young children and overzealous extended families truly love each other, barely anything is possible.

Pilot Cast: Will Sasso, Christina Vidal, Jane Curtin, Jason Michael Snow.

Series Creator: Julius Sharpe.

Pilot Director: Mark Cendrowski, Julia Gunn, Seth Gordon.

Producers: Julius Sharpe.

Studios: Exhibit A.

Untitled Jessica Gao Project

PILOT REJECTED

Genre: single-camera and comedy

Description: About Janet Zhao, a first generation Chinese-American woman who struggles to set healthy boundaries with her crazy, exhausting family. When her wealthy grandmother dies and names Janet the sole inheritor, she suddenly finds herself the unwilling new matriarch of the family she’s spent her life trying to keep at arm’s length.

Pilot Cast: Holly Chou, Cindy Cheung, Kelly Hu, Stephen Park, Helen Hong, John Gemberling.

Series Creator: Jessica Gao.

Pilot Director: Jude Weng, Samie Kim Falvey.

Producers: Jessica Gao, Francie Calfo, Brian Grazer.

Studios: CBS Television Studios, Imagine Television.

Woman Up

PILOT REJECTED

Genre: single-camera and family

Description: About two former teen moms who have worked their asses off to see their daughters all the way through high school graduation; and now, at 35, they’re ready to make up for the youth they never had.

Pilot Cast: Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Tawny Newsome, Bryce Charles, Tate Moore.

Series Creator: Zoe Lister-Jones.

Pilot Director: Zoe Lister-Jones, Jon Radler, Jason Winer.

Producers: Zoe Lister-Jones, Liz Meriwether.

Studios: 20th Television, Small Dog Pictures, Elizabeth Meriwether Pictures, Lister Films.