This is the week that U.S. network television executives decide which shows will be canceled and which current and new series will air in the fall and/or mid-season.
Here’s what we know so far at ABC:
Canceled:‘V’, ‘No Ordinary Family’
Picked up/Renewed: ‘Once Upon A Time’ (Sun/8pm), ‘Charlie’s Angels’ (Th/8pm), ‘The River’ (Midseason)
Dead Pilot:‘Poe’
Charlie’s Angels: From Alfred Gough (‘Smallville’), Miles Millar (‘Smallville’), Nancy Juvonen (‘Charle’s Angels’, ‘Donnie Darko’) and starring Annie Ilonzeh (‘Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief’), Minka Kelly (‘Friday Night Lights’), Rachael Taylor (‘Transformers’), Ramon Rodriguez (‘Battle: Los Angeles’), Robert Wagner (‘Hart to Hart’), ‘Charlie’s Angels’ is a reboot of the 1970s classic estrogen-soaked detective saga that takes a “modern spin” on the Angels, with the action set in Miami.
Once Upon A Time:From Edward Kitsis (‘Lost’), Adam Horowitz (‘Lost’), and starring Jennifer Morrison (‘Star Trek’), Jared Gilmore (‘Mad Men’), Lana Parrilla (‘Lost’, ‘Medium’), Ginnifer Goodwin (‘Big Love’), Robert Carlyle (‘Stargate Universe’), Jamie Dornan (‘Marie Antoinette’), Josh Dallas (‘Thor’,”Doctor Who’), Raphael Sbarge (‘Independence Day’,’ No Ordinary Family’), ‘Once Upon A Time’ follows a young boy who purports to be Anna’s son when he shows up on her doorstep, Anna is then drawn into a town where the magic and mystery of fairy tales may be real and hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her troubled past.
Poe: From Chris Hollier (‘Alias’), Brad Kern (‘Human Target’), Dan Lin (‘Terminator Salvation’), and starring Chris Egan (‘Kings’, ‘Resident Evil: Extinction’), Natalie Dormer (‘The Tudors’), Kevin McNally (‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ series), Leslie Odom Jr. (‘Threshold’,’CSI: Miami’), Tabrett Bethell (‘Legend of the Seeker’), ‘Poe’ is a crime procedural following Edgar Allan Poe, the world’s very first detective, as he uses unconventional methods to investigate dark mysteries in 1840s Boston.
The River: Oren Peli (‘Paranormal Activity’ films), Michael Perry (‘Dead Zone’), Michael Green (‘Heroes’), Jason Blum (‘Paranormal Activity’ films), Darryl Frank (‘Falling Skies’, ‘Terra Nova’), Justin Falvey (‘Falling Skies’), and starring Joe Anderson (‘The Crazie’), Bruce Greenwood (‘Star Trek’,’Young Justice’), Leslie Hope (’24’), Eloise Mumford (‘Lone Star’), Paulina Gaitan (‘Days of Grace’), Shaun Parkes (‘No Ordinary Family’), Paul Blackthorne (‘The Dresden Files’), Daniel Zacapa (FlashForward’), Thomas Kretschmann (‘The Cape’), ‘The River’ is a horror drama in the mold of Paranormal Activity that centers on a family that travels to deep in the Amazon region to locate and rescue their missing father.