Skinny Dip, Playing Dead, The End of the World as We Know It & Dead Inside - Pilots Passed by The CW
May 13, 2018
Pilot ShowsPer THR the remaining CW pilots have been passed on.
Dead Inside* -- PASSED OVER
Logline: After surviving an explosion that killed her hotshot detective big brother (Freddie Stroma, UnREAL), an underachieving beat cop (Lyndon Smith, Parenthood) starts seeing his ghost, flipping their sibling dynamic on its head and allowing her to truly live her life for the first time, as they work together to help crime victims both living and dead, and figure out the unfinished business keeping his spirit on Earth.
Cast: Freddie Stroma, Lyndon Smith Joey King, Hayley Marie Norman, Christine Ko, Erica Cerra, Myles Bullock
Team: W/EP Katie Lovejoy (Dracula); EP Bill Lawrence, Jeff Ingold; EP/D Michael Patrick Jann
Studio: Warner Bros. Television, Doozer Productions
Location: Vancouver
Playing Dead* -- PASSED OVER
Logline: A dysfunctional family dramedy about a mortician (Tyler Ritter) and his son whose lives are turned upside down when the woman (Clara Lago) who abandoned them 15 years ago returns and asks them to fake her death.
Cast: Tyler Ritter, Clara Lago, Luke Youngblood, Curran Walters, Sigrid Owen
Team: W/EP Rina Mimoun, Josh Reims (Hart of Dixie); EP Tariq Jalil, Lucas Carter
Studio: CBS Television Studios, Intrigue Entertainment
Location: Toronto
The End of the World as We Know It* -- PASSED OVER
Logline: When a prison spaceship carrying the universe's most deadly aliens crashes in Southern California, two young women (Gage Golightly) with bigger dreams than working at a kids' pizza place in the Valley are recruited by a space cop to hunt down the escaped criminals, who have camouflaged themselves as eccentric Angelenos. Based on the book The End of the World as We Know It by Iva-Marie Palmer.
Cast: Josh Helman, Gage Golightly, Quinta Brunson, Liam Garrigan
Team: W/EP Justin Halpern, Patrick Schumacker (Powerless); EP Rob Thomas, Danielle Stokdyk, Dan Etheridge, Leslie Morgenstein, Gina Girolamo; EP/D Glen Winter
Studio: Warner Bros. Television, Ehsugadee Productions, Spondoolie Productions, Alloy Entertainment
Location: Vancouver
Skinny Dip* -- PASSED OVER
Logline: After her husband (Ben Aldridge) tries to kill her on what she thought was a romantic cruise to celebrate their second wedding anniversary, a woman (Sarah Wright Olsen) teams with a jaded ex-cop (Matt Barr) to exact her own twisted brand of revenge on her cheating spouse, and winds up uncovering a wider conspiracy in the process. Based on the novel by Carl Hiaasen.
Cast: Sarah Wright Olsen, Matt Barr (Valor), Ben Aldridge, Richard Esteras, KJ Smith, Brent Sexton
Team: W/EP Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency); EP Peter Traugott, Rachel Kaplan, Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman
Studio: CBS Television Studios, Keshet Studios
Location:
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Friends-in-Law* -- PASSED OVER
Logline: Brian (Devere Rogers) and Jake (James Davis) are polar opposites who must quickly figure out how to coexist when their respective best friends decide to get married.
Cast: James Davis, Devere Rogers, John Gemberling, Nicole Parker
Team: W/EP Brian Gallivan (The McCarthys); EP Tom Werner; EP/D Pam Fryman
Studio: Warner Bros. Television
Format: Multicamera
Location: Los Angeles
Source: The Hollywood Reporter