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There are question marks over how the two cycles, which essentially keep projects in various stages of development longer than before the old pilot beauty parade in May, will affect talent.īut ABC believes that flexibility will allow it to entice stars that may have been shooting other projects such as feature films or limited series and will tie them in on a case-by-case basis. That’s one of the big reasons this is an advantageous strategy for us,” she added. Milo would not have been available to shoot with us during a traditional pilot season because he was wrapping This Is Us so because we waited for a second cycle for him, we were able to have a new show with him this coming season, which is the first season after This Is Us season ended, which is really exciting. “ The Company You Keep and Milo is the definition of why we do this. RELATED: ‘A Million Little Things’: Final-Season Decision Coming Soon Sethi says the project wouldn’t have worked in the traditional system because of Ventimiglia’s commitment to This Is Us. The project, which is based on a Korean format, was handed a pilot order in March 2022 and a series order in August 2022, and will debut midseason on ABC at the start of 2023. She points to The Company You Keep, starring and exec produced by Milo Ventimiglia, as an example of a “second cycle” project. That “second cycle” will start sometime around January.
Once the fall pilot orders are made, Sethi will then turn her focus to the midseason 2023-24 crop. RELATED: ‘Grey’s Anatomy’: Simran Sethi On Future Of ABC Drama Amid Ellen Pompeo Pullback & New Cast Additions
She added that the number of pilots is somewhat “fluid” and depends on the material that comes in, with the number of pilot orders being spread evenly over fall and midseason cycles.īut it’s clear that the linear networks will not return to the pre-pandemic levels of pilot orders and will be hoping for a higher hit rate for the ones that they do order.
“It’s about a first cycle and batch of pilots like the Drew Goddard, which will be for fall of 2023 and we’ll continue with those pickups over the course of the fall,” said Sethi. The project is being targeted for a potential fall 2023 launch as one of the first to come out of its “first cycle” of development.ĭeadline understands that the Goddard project, which comes from his Goddard Textiles and ABC Signature, is one of two or three that are being lined up for pilot orders, with the others having a mid-October script delivery deadline. “We really tried to create that nomenclature to separate ourselves from this idea of year-round development, which I think in a lot of circumstances historically has just kind of been endless and shapeless, and ours is very strategically pointed,” she said.įor instance, last month, ABC handed a pilot order to a drama series from Drew Goddard, based on French detective drama HIP (High Intellectual Potential). Simran Sethi, EVP, Programming and Content Strategy, ABC Entertainment, tells Deadline that it is promoting these cycles to clarify how it eyes development moving forward.
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