FOX has ordered to comedy pilots, Richard Lovely and Genius per Deadline.
Richard Lovely is a single-camera comedy from Billy Finnegan (Grace and Frankie, The Real O'Neals, Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23), Kat Coiro (The Mick, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and 20th Century Fox TV. Finnegan will pen the pilot.
Richard Lovely is described as a comedy in the vein of About a Boy. Richard Lovely follows a disgruntled author of the best-selling children's book series, Mr. Mouse. He doesn't hate children, but rather just everything about them. After a publicity fiasco involving an unexpectedly savvy 9-year-old kid, Mr. Mouse appears in Richard's real life as he is forced into an unlikely father/son relationship that will change his life forever.
Geniuses is a multi-camera comedy from Lon Zimmet (LA to Vegas, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Happy Endings) and 20th Century Fox TV. Zimmet will pen the pilot. Described as a blue-collar family comedy that is eyed as a potential companion to Last Man Standing per Deadline. It's also likened to one of FOX's signature comedy series, Malcolm In the Middle, per Deadline.
The family comedy is about a blue-collar couple in South Jersey trying to get by and raise four kids, three of whom just happen to be certified geniuses.
I hear scripts that have been heating up are dramas Prodigal Son, from Warner Bros. TV and Berlanti Prods., and Sisters, from Universal TV and Jason Katims' True Jack Prods.
