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Fox Greenlights Filming Six TV Pilots: THE GOONIES Re-enactment, BLOOD RELATIVE, THE CLEANING LADY, & More

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Fox Greenlights the filming of Six TV Pilots

All six of the pilot orders Fox previously gave will all be filmed. There was uncertainly due to the Coronavirus (Covid-19) but that has been dispelled with this Fox announcement. Those pilot orders include: Pivoting, This Country, The Big Leap, Blood Relative, The Cleaning Lady, and Untitled Film Re-Enactment Project.

All six of these pilot scripts will be written by women and because of the pilots (and potential for series orders), Fox “has extended the cast options for all of these pilots.”

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The Six Pilot Episode Orders Fox Greenlit

Comedies:

Pivoting (Single-camera)
Studios: Warner Bros. Television, Fox Entertainment, Kapital Entertainment
Team: Liz Astrof (EP/W), Tristram Shapeero (EP/D), Aaron Kaplan (EP), Dana Honor (EP)
Logline: Pivoting follows three women after the death of their childhood best friend. Faced with the reality that life is short, in desperate attempts to find happiness, they make a series of impulsive, ill-advised and self-indulgent decisions, strengthening their bond proving it’s never too late to screw up your life.
Cast: Eliza Coupe, Ginnifer Goodwin, Tommy Dewey

This Country (Single-camera)
Studios: Lionsgate, BBC Studios, Fox Entertainment, Feigco Entertainment
Team: Jenny Bicks (EP/W), Paul Feig (EP/D), Angie Stephenson (EP), Charlie Cooper (EP), Daisy May Cooper (EP), Dan Magnante (Co-EP), Cathy Mason (P), Rachel Mason (P)
Logline: In this half-hour comedy inspired by the BBC format, a documentary crew goes to a small town to study young adults and their current concerns. Their focus is the daily lives of cousins Kelly and Shrub Mallet and their idiosyncratic surroundings. We follow the cousins as they pursue their dreams, confront challenges, and fight each other for frozen pizza. These two don’t have much, but they do have each other.
Cast: Seann William Scott, Chelsea Holmes, Sam Straley, Taylor Ortega, Krystal Smith

Dramas:

The Big Leap
Studios: 20th Century Fox Television, Fox Entertainment
Team: Liz Heldens (EP/W), Jason Winer (EP/D), Sue Naegle (EP)
Logline: Inspired by UK format, Big Ballet, The Big Leap is a funny and contemporary tale about second chances, chasing your dreams and taking back what’s yours. The show centers on a group of diverse underdogs from all different walks of life who compete to be part of a competition reality series that is putting on a modern, hip remake of Swan Lake.
Cast: Teri Polo, Scott Foley, Ser’Darius Blain, Ray Cham, Jon Rudnitsky, Simone Recasner

Blood Relative
Studios: Paramount Television Studios, Anonymous Content, Fox Entertainment
Team: Chris Levinson (EP/W), James Renner (EP/W), Phillip Noyce (EP/D), Liza Chasin (EP)
Logline: Genetic genealogy is the best new tool in crime scene forensics, and nobody knows it like Louise Kelly. Too bad she’s impossible to deal with. Based on James Renner’s article Beyond the Jungle of Bad: The True Story of Two Women from California Who Are Solving All the Mysteries.
Cast: Melissa Leo, Tate Donovan, Tyrone Marshall Brown, Dascha Polanco

The Cleaning Lady
Studios: Warner Bros Television, Fox Entertainment
Team: Miranda Kwok (EP/W), Melissa Carter (EP/Showrunner), Michael Offer (EP/D), Shay Mitchell (EP)
Logline: Based upon Argentine series, The Cleaning Lady is a darkly aspirational character drama about a whip-smart doctor who comes to the U.S. for a medical treatment to save her ailing son. But when the system fails and pushes her into hiding, she refuses to be beaten down and marginalized. Instead, she becomes a cleaning lady for the mob and starts playing the game by her own rules.
Cast: Elodie Yung, Adan Canto, Vincent Piazza, Ginger Gonzaga

Untitled Film Re-Enactment Project
Studios: Warner Bros. Television, Fox Entertainment, Amblin TV
Team: Sarah Watson (EP/W), Greg Mottola (EP/D) Gail Berman (EP), Lauren Shuler Donner (EP), Richard Donner (EP), Justin Falvey (EP), Darryl Frank (EP)
Logline: After failing to make it in New York and carrying a heavy secret with her, Stella Cooper returns to her distressed automotive hometown to substitute teach. She finds inspiration, hope, and ultimately salvation when she agrees to help three students who are pursuing their filmmaking dreams by putting on an impossibly ambitious shot-for-shot remake of one of the student’s favorite movies, The Goonies. Over the course of the season, their passion will inspire a town in desperate need of hope in this love letter to the power of cinema, storytelling, and dreams.
Cast: Ramon Rodriguez

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Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, TV show, short film, Blu-ray, and 4K-Ultra reviews. His reviews are published in IMDb's External Reviews and in Google News. Previously you could find his work at Empire Movies, Blogcritics, and AltFilmGuide. Now you can find his work at FilmBook.
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