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It is always difficult to predict the fortunes of TV shows, as Aaron Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, hailed as a masterpiece by critics, was dead in the water by mid-year, while Heroes, a sci-fi drama with what most industry cynics saw as limited geek appeal, became the unexpected wonder boy.
The annual May screenings started in Los Angeles last week, with of the US television studios.
It follows a week of network and where they will be in the US schedule.
this year from its US studio relationships. It will pick up about a young man with the ability to restore life, and New York lawyer Patty Hewes.
four career women in New York, stars Australians Miranda Otto and Frances O'Connor and will go to Nine. Big Shots (Warners Bros) is a male take of the concept. It follows four competitive male company executives, stars Michael Vartan and Dylan McDermott and goes to Nine.
Finally, there's Lipstick Jungle from Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell.
the smart money is on Cashmere Mafia. Star, who produced Sex and the City, has a stronger instinct for television than Bushnell, who simply wrote the book on which the original series was based.
The two Australians in the cast will be a serious advantage for Nine when it launches the series here.
part of the NBC Universal output deal. The fine print on NBC Universal's contract with Ten allows Seven to cherry-pick a show, leaving Ten with the rest.
Whether Seven will pick Lipstick covered by the deal, including the comedy The IT Crowd, Seven's fortunes look shakier than Nine's, although it picks up Practice and Heroes: Origins. The former shifts Walsh) into her own McDreamy-less show, while the latter introduces new story threads to the Heroes storylines. Unusually, the becomes enmeshed with a wealthy, decadent New York family.
It is generating a lot of buzz, largely because of its film-star cast - Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin and Jill Clayburgh - and sharp writing.
The post-Friends comedy landscape is bleak. Most US impossible to launch.
Ten has what looks to be the strongest half-hour on the block, Back To You, a dark comedy about Christina Applegate as a woman with amnesia.
acquisition, the hit BBC series Torchwood, a big-budget Australian actors are more prominent in the pilots, with Otto solves crimes, which will go to Nine.
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