Every Scripted TV Show On the Broadcast Networks Right Now

I did this as an exercise to get a better idea of what is on Network TV. Out of all the pitches, scripts, and pilots, this is what has survived to be on the air. I excluded animated shows because those are dumb.

ONE HOURS

HAWAII 5-0 – a special police team arrests people with large machine guns in Hawaii every week

THE DEFENDERS – sleazy, bloated lawyers in Las Vegas

CSI – Crime scene investigators in Las Vegas

CSI NY - Crime scene investigators in New York

CSI MIAMI - Crime scene investigators in Miami

BONES – CSI using bones

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES – housewives who are desperate to stay young

GREY’S ANATOMY – good looking doctors except for the asian one

THE EVENT – aliens are here

THE CHASE – procedural about US marshals that doesn’t star Timothy Olyphant

MY GENERATION - fake version of high school reunion

LAW AND ORDER: SVU - law and order with rapists

LAW AND ORDER: LOS ANGELES - law and order with Skeet Ulrich

NCIS - law and order with the navy

NCIS LOS ANGELES - law and order with Chris O'Donnell

DETROIT 1-8-7 – “NYPD Blue” in Detroit

HOUSE – a wacky doctor who solves medical cases by being a dick

GLEE – the Glee club at a wacky high school

UNDERCOVERS – a husband and wife are both spies and black

CRIMINAL MINDS – FBI profilers figure out criminal’s minds

THE MENTALIST – a guy can read normal people's minds

MEDIUM – “the Mentalist” but with an uglier dude

PRIVATE PRACTICE – doctors at a private practice

SUPERNATURAL – “the x files” without a girl

FRINGE – “the x files” with pacey

BLUE BLOODS – a NY police commissioner juggles work and his dumb kids

SMALLVILLE – Superman before all the cool stuff started happening

NO ORDINARY FAMILY – "the incredibles"

THE HUMAN TARGET – a security expert/bodyguard who helps people in danger

OUTLAW – Jimmy Smits wants more power to change things, so he quits the Supreme Court to become a lawyer

BROTHERS AND SISTERS – a large, wacky family

PARENTHOOD – large, wacky family

CHUCK – a good looking "shlub" gets implanted with a bunch of important spy info

CASTLE – a wacky novelist helps out a detective

THE GOOD WIFE – politician goes to jail so his wife has to do something with her life

ONE TREE HILL – "days of our lives" at night

GOSSIP GIRL – good looking gay people gossiping

VAMPIRE DIARIES – good looking vampires gossiping


HALF HOUR

MIKE AND MOLLY – fat romantic comedy

BETTER WITH YOU – “friends” with couples

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT - "friends" with couples

THE OFFICE – a fake documentary about a fake office

MODERN FAMILY – a fake documentary about a fake, wacky family

OUTSOURCED – American has to go to India to prove stereotypes are all true

TWO AND A HALF MEN – divorced guy with son has to live with his hooker loving, coke snorting brother

BIG BANG THEORY – 2 dorks live next to a hot girl

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER – “friends”

COMMUNITY – “friends” at a community college

COUGAR TOWN – older ladies complain about stuff

THE MIDDLE – an average family in average America with a mom who has had an extreme makeover

SHIT MY DAD SAYS – loser, twitter loving son moves in with his wacky dad

RAISING HOPE – young kid and his wacky family have to raise a baby

RUNNING WILDE – rich, wacky asshole falls in love with a poor, wacky environmentalist

30 ROCK – behind the scenes of a sketch show that never does sketches or a show