Neue Serien braucht das Land. So sehen es zumindest die grossen US-Sender. Und so wurden auch dieses Jahr wieder hunderte von Pilotfolgen in Auftrag gegeben. Doch nicht alle haben grünes Licht bekommen. Hier sind zumindest all die Pilotfolgen in denen wir alte Bekannte aus guten alten Buffy- Angel- und Fireflyzeiten wiedersehen können:

Starten wir schön dem Alphabet nach mit ABC. Hier tummeln sich zwei Bekannte aus Firefly und möglicherweise auch die Jägerin persönlich.

Soccer Moms

Premise: Suburban moms moonlight as private eyes.

Studio: Touchstone TV

Production team: Don Todd ("life as we know it"), Marla Ginsburg ("Highlander"), Jeff Kline ("That Was Then")

Cast: Kristin Davis ("Sex and the City"), Gina Torres ("Firefly," "24"), Rob Estes ("Melrose Place")

Status: Pilot order


love life

Premise: A group of Philadelphia singles and their dating adventures.

Studio: Touchstone TV

Production team: Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont ("Can't Hardly Wait," "Surviving Christmas"), Jamie Tarses, Karey Burke

Cast: Julie Bowen ("Ed," "Jake in Progress"), Alan Tudyk ("Firefly," "Dodgeball"), Michael Landes ("Final Destination 2," "Hart's War"), Sophina Brown, Tom Everett Scott ("Philly"), Henry Simmons ("NYPD Blue")

Status: Pilot order


Freddie (möglicher Gastauftritt von Sarah! )

Premise: A single guy raised in a houseful of women has his life upheaved when they move back in with him.

Studio: Warner Bros. TV

Production team: Bruce Helford ("The Drew Carey Show"), Bruce Rasmussen ("Drew Carey"), Freddie Prinze Jr. ("She's All That"), Conrad Jackson, Deborah Oppenheimer

Cast: Freddie Prinze Jr. ("Boys and Girls," "She's All That"), Jaqueline Obradors ("NYPD Blue"), Chloe Suazo

Status: Pilot order
Weiter gehts mit CBS. Dort gibts es eine Ex-Hexe und zwei bekannte Angel-Gesichter.

How I Met Your Mother

Premise: A middle-aged man looks back on his life as a single guy 20 years earlier.
Studio: 20th Century Fox TV

Production team: Carter Bays, Craig Thomas ("American Dad," "Method & Red"), Rob Greenberg

Cast: Josh Radnor ("The Court"), Neil Patrick Harris ("Doogie Howser, M.D."), Jason Segel ("Freaks and Geeks"), Alyson Hannigan ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer")

Status: Pilot order


The Unit

Premise: The lives of special-forces soldiers and their families; based on book "Inside Delta Force" by Eric Haney.

Studio: 20th Century Fox TV

Production team: David Mamet ("Glengarry Glen Ross," "Heist"), Shawn Ryan ("The Shield")

Cast: Amy Acker ("Angel"), Scott Foley ("Felicity"), Dennis Haysbert ("24"), Michael Irby ("Line of Fire"), Regina King ("Ray," "Jerry Maguire"), Regina Taylor ("I'll Fly Away"), Robert Patrick ("The X-Files," "Terminator 2"), Max Martini ("Taken")

Status: Pilot order


American Crime

Premise: A prosecutor and new mother tries to balance work and family.

Studio: Warner Bros. TV, Jerry Bruckheimer TV

Production team: Jim Leonard ("Skin," "Thieves"), Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman ("CSI," "Without a Trace")

Cast: Jennifer Finnigan ("Committed"), John Carroll Lynch ("The Drew Carey Show," "The Brotherhood of Poland, N.H."), Christian Kane ("Angel"), David Starzyk ("Pacific Blue"), Kimberly Elise ("Diary of a Mad Black Woman")

Status: Pilot order
Weiter zu FOX. Dort heisst es abermals 1x Ex-Buffy, 2x Ex-Angel.

Kitchen Confidential

Premise: Based on Anthony Bourdain's book about the underbelly of the culinary world.

Studio: New Line TV, 20th Century Fox TV, Darren Star Productions

Production team: David Hemingson ("Just Shoot Me"), Darren Star ("Sex and the City," "Beverly Hills, 90210")

Cast: Bradley Cooper ("Alias"), John Francis Daley ("Freaks and Geeks"), Nicholas Brendon ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), Owain Yeoman ("Troy"), Jaime King ("Pearl Harbor"), Bonnie Somerville ("The O.C.", "Friends", "NYPD Blue"), Sam Pancake ("Legally Blonde 2")

Status: Pilot order


Bones (aka "Brennan")

Premise: A forensic anthropologist is called in to work crimes when other investigations have failed; based on the "Brennan" novels by Kathy Reichs.

Studio: 20th Century Fox TV

Production team: Hart Hanson ("Joan of Arcadia"), Barry Josephson ("The Ladykillers," "The Tick"), Kathy Reichs, Greg Yaitanes ("Lost," "House")

Cast: Emily Deschanel ("Boogeyman"), David Boreanaz ("Angel")

Status: Pilot order


Briar & Graves

Premise: A fallen priest and a doctor investigate religious phenomena.

Studio: 20th Century Fox TV, Adelstein-Parouse Productions

Production team: Paul Scheuring ("A Man Apart"), Dawn Parouse, Marty Adelstein

Cast: Elisabeth Rohm ("Law & Order", "Angel"), Charles Mesure ("Boogeyman")

Status: Pilot order

NBC hat einen Ex-Werwolf im Programm.

Four Kings

Premise: Four long-time friends share a New York apartment while trying to keep adulthood at bay.

Studio: Warner Bros. TV

Production team: David Kohan, Max Mutchnick ("Will & Grace")

Cast: Todd Grinnell, Seth Green ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "The Italian Job"), Kiele Sanchez ("Married to the Kellys"), Josh Cooke ("Committed")

Status: Pilot order
Bei UPN gibt es einen Ex-Schuldirex. Der Status ist allerdings noch unbekannt.

Triangle

Premise: After his wife vanishes on their honeymoon, a young doctor moves to the Caribbean and searches for her while curing people.

Studio: Paramount TV, Shore View Entertainment

Production Team: John Sakmar ("Boston Public"), Kerry Lenhart ("Ed"), Perry Simon

Cast: Ivan Sergei ("Hawaii," "Crossing Jordan"), D.B. Woodside ("24," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), Elize Du Toit

Status: Unknown
Und bei The WB gibt es schliesslich noch ein bekanntes Gesicht aus Firefly.

Halley's Comet

Premise: A young cancer survivor studies to be a doctor while dealing with her personal life.

Studio: 20th Century Fox TV, David E. Kelley Productions

Production team: Andrew Kreisberg ("Hope & Faith"), David E. Kelley ("Boston Legal," "Chicago Hope"), Jonathan Pontell ("Ally McBeal")

Cast: Audrey Marie Anderson ("Once and Again," "Going to California"), Adam LaVorgna ("7th Heaven"), Adam Campbell, Sean Maher ("Firefly"), Marika Dominczyk ("The Help")

Status: Pilot order
Alle anderen Piloten sind vollgestopft mit Stars aus Film und Fernsehen. Doch nur wenige werden durchkommen. Hoffen wir, dass es auch viele unserer Helden schaffen die zweite Season zu erreichen.

Hier alle Piloten im Überblick: Zap2It.com