Pilot approvals: FOX, ABC, NBC, AMC, Warners.

There have been a number of Pilots recently approved in the US.

They are as follows:

FOX
–Traffic Light from The Wedding Crashers co-writer Bob Fisher (Married with Children, The Trouble with Normal) revolves around three male friends in different stages of relationships.

– Breakout Kings from writers/executive producers Matt Olmstead and Nick Santora (Prison Break), a closed-ended procedural about a team of marshals and ex-cons who work together to apprehend criminals who break out of prison.

– Strange Brew, from Will & Grace creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick is set at a family-owned brewery.

– Nevermind Nirvana is described as Everybody Loves Raymond with Indian Americans. It is an ensemble multicamera comedy about two grown-up sons, their Indian immigrant parents and their friends, including one of the son’s Caucasian girlfriend.

– The Odds is a buddy cop show set in Las Vegas where the cops are just as outrageous as the crimes they solve.

– Happy Endings centres on a couple that breaks up at the altar, forcing them and their group of friends to figure out how to maintain their friendships after the split.

–Midland is a soap set against the backdrop of an oil business that centers on a polygamist living a double life.

– (Untitled) An Adam Goldberg single-camera comedy, from Sony Pictures TV / Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison, revolves around twentysomething geniuses who crack computer security systems.

ABC
– Matadors from Sony TV and writer/executive producer Jack Orman (ER), centres on two feuding families, one in the Chicago district attorney’s office and the other opposing them in the city’s most influential private law firm.

– True Blue is a soap described as The Big Chill set in a homicide squad. It centers on a group of San Francisco homicide detectives who reunite to solve the murder of one of their own and, in the process, revive old passions, rivalries and friendships.

– The Whole Truth from producer Jerry Bruckheimer chronicles the building of a case from the perspective of both the defense and prosecution.

– Cutthroat is a dramedy about an ambitious single mother who finds running her own international drug cartel is perfect training for navigating the cutthroat world of Beverly Hills high society.

– Generation Y is a documentary style drama that follows a group of people in the present with flashbacks to 10 years ago when they were in their senior year of high school.

– Off the Map is executive produced by Shonda Rhimes (Grey’s Anatomy) and revolves around three doctors, each anxious for a fresh start. They leave the comfort of the States to work at an isolated tropical clinic, where they face both exotic and unusual medical challenges as well as personal ones.

– Body of Evidence is a procedural that centers on Megan Hunt, a former neurosurgeon-turned-medical examiner who brings a unique and crime-solving perspective to the ME’s office that often puts her at odds with her superiors.

NBC
– The Strip, from Reno 911 co-creators/stars Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, centres on a former child star (Lennon) who now owns a Hooters-type restaurant in a strip mall on the outskirts of Vegas.

AMC
– Walking Dead, chronicles the months and years following a zombie apocalypse and focuses on a group of survivors, led by policeman Rick Grimes, who travels in search of a secure home. Frank Darabont is writer, director and executive producer of the project.

– The Killing, based on the Danish series Forbrydelsen, chronicles the investigation of a young girl’s murder through the perspective of the police, the victim’s family and the mayor’s office.

WARNER BROS
– Edgar Floats centres on a police psychologist who becomes a bounty hunter.

Source: Hollywood Reporter