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As Modern Familygrows old, the Big Four networks desperately seek the next all-ages comedy hit as THRBy Bryn Elise Sandberg and Michael OConnell

TV Pilot Seasons Family Affair

Is this nondogfamily extra

dysfunctional?

THEY SAY

THE DARNDEST

THINGS

CBS UntitledStephnie Weir

or CBS What Goes

AroundComes Around

or ABCs Speechless

or ABCs Chunk

and Bean

CANT LIVE

WITH OR

WITHOUT EM

ABCs Hail Mary or

NBCs UntitledVladimir Caamano or

NBCs UntitledPoehler/Grandy

Two roads diverged in a pitch meeting and you took the one less traveled. Of

the 44 comedies being made this season,a mere 17 are notfamily-focused.

Does it star a34-year-old

woman playing a14-year-old boy?

Theres no typecasting on Foxs

Chad: An American Boy, in which SNLalumNasim Pedradtackles the pubescent role.

THE

HYBRIDS

Foxs The Enforcers or

NBCs UntitledTracey WigfieldCould it also

be describedas a workplace

comedy?

Is your

fictionalfamilyathletically

inclined?

ABCsDownward

Dog

GO SPORTS!

CBS The Kicker

or ABCsThe

Dream Team

Is one-half of thisfamily a talking-

dog narrator?

PARENTAL

PROBLEMS

NBCs Untitled Matt Hubbard or

NBCs Sebastian

or CBS Untitled Butler/

Hope/OShannon

Did these

kids come outof nowhere,

BabyBoom-style?

INSTANT

PARENT

Foxs The Mick

or Foxs Untitled

Chris Case or ABCs

Untitled Goldberg/Guarascio

Oh, so itsa Mom show?

Well, is thecomedic foil a pairof aging parents?

Are the kidsas prominently

featured

as the adults?

But thekids still are

a pain inthe ass, right?

KUDOS!

Your family comedy isABCs Square Roots, whichfollows a gaggle of logic-

driven engineers and theson who uses his gift to

help them whatever theheck that means!

MOMMIES DEAREST

ABCs The Second FattestHousewife in Westport

or

ABCs Pearl

YES YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

SUBURBAN STRUGGLES

CBSIm Not

YourFriend*

FoxsSon ofZorn*

CBSUntitled

KevinJames*

NBCsMarlon

ABCsThe

FluffyShop

?

CandiceBergen

Pedra

d

MattLeBlan

c

Nie

cyNa

sh

GeoffStu

lts

*Projects that alreadyhave receiveda series commitment.

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