Fox has boosted development to cover American Idol’s exit and fill nearly 40 hours or programming. So this year’s order of 11 pilots is up from last year’s 6. That said, Fox isn’t really looking to take risks. Let’s take a look at what’s in the works in our preview of Fox’s Drama Pilots.
Helen Hunt
Lucas Till lands the role of MacGyver in CBS’s action pilot while ABC’s Shots Fired adds Helen Hunt, Richard Dreyfuss, and Stephen Moyer.
Kept under wraps.
Logline: A brilliant young woman with autism escapes her care home and embarks on a road-trip of a lifetime to enter her script into a Hollywood competition.
A mother travels cross-country to California to be with her son after he decides to drop out of school and become a surfer.
Logline: True story of a high school volleyball player who died unexpectedly and how her team rallied in her honor to “Live Like Line” and win the championship.
Logline: The true story of the first woman who believed and proved there could be a breast cancer gene.
The true story of the first woman who believed and proved there could be a breast cancer gene.
Logline: A former ladies man becomes a local celebrity when his dreams of future events start coming true.
Story centers on a man who, after living with polio for years, decides to make arrangements with a sex surrogate to finally lose his virginity.
Logline: Story follows the romantic and artistic conflicts between four lively people.
Christina Hendricks and Samantha Morton are also on board to star.
Logline: Story follows a strong-willed mother who follows her 20-year-old son to L.A., after he quits college at NYU to become a surfer.
Hunt signs on to indie drama.
Logline: The true story of the first woman who believed and proved there could be a breast cancer gene.
Logline: Story centers on a man who, after living with polio for years, decides to make arrangements with a sex surrogate to finally lose his virginity.
Logline: Follows the extraordinary true story of Bethany Hamilton, the Hawaiian surfer who returned to surfing after losing her left arm in a shark attack.
