NBC Shakes Things Up For Pilot Season

Posted Saturday, January 29th, 2011 09:04 am GMT -4 by 0

With newly installed broadcast entertainment chiefs Bob Greenblatt and Paul Lee, NBC has ordered pilots for a number of shows that will have genre television fans sitting on the edge of their seats in anticipation.

According to Deadline, in addition to the just ordered David E. Kelley reboot of ‘Wonder Woman’ pilot, NBC has picked up ‘Grimm’. Described as a dark but fantastical cop drama about a world in which characters inspired by Grimm’s Fairy Tales exist, the series was created by ‘Angel’ co-creator David Greenwalt and the show’s writer Jim Kouf (‘National Treasure’, ‘Angel’).

In addition, the network has also ordered Ronald Moore’s (‘Battlestar Galactica’, ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’) ’17th Precinct’, which is a cop drama set in a town where magic rules over science.

NBC also has a pilot order for the very surprising, but interesting sounding ‘Poe’. Set in 1840s Boston, the crime procedural series features macabre poet Edgar Allan Poe.

Let’s hope the new chiefs have the guts to put these new series on the fall schedule.

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  • Solahpmo

    Didn’t Poe live in Baltimore? Pretty sure he was out of Boston by the 1820′s. Oh well. If they can set a show called “Murder 187″ (which is the criminal code section for murder in Ca) in Chicago, I guess they can do this.

    • http://www.sciencefiction.com Dirk Van Tilborg

      I believe you’re right about Baltimore being the home he’s recognized for. Lets just hope the show is good and makes it to the fall schedule.

  • Docwho2100

    The Grimm show sounds a little like the world in the Fable comics…???

    • http://www.sciencefiction.com Dirk Van Tilborg

      It does. And interestingly, the Fables comic book was set up at NBC in 2005 but never made it to pilot. But this new one is credited to David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf.

  • Anonymous

    Well this is interesting. The only show I’d watched on NBC in years was The Event, which they then canceled. I took a look at the fall line up for ABC, CBS, and FOX. There were intriguing shows on all of them. I’d written off NBC’s fall season as nothing more than their usual dismal and brainless “comedy” routine. This might make me take another look.