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Pilot Season Picks Up Steam

  • Variety, Wednesday, January 20, 2010 11:16 PM
Pilot season is picking up speed. ABC OK'd two dramas and one comedy project Monday, Fox and NBC added comedies and CBS is circling a drama. ABC's pickups include a project from Shonda Rhimes' Shondaland banner and ABC Studios. "Off the Map" is about three doctors who work in a medical clinic in a tropical setting.

Fox has greenlit a 20th Century Fox TV pilot penned by Ajay Sahgal revolving around two brothers from a traditional Indian background. One defies his family's expectations by dating a Caucasian woman, while the other agrees to enter an arranged marriage. NBC ordered sitcom "The Strip" from Universal Media Studios and "Reno 911" duo of Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon.

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