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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:
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Here are the latest projects being picked up to series for the 2016-17 season (via press release):
BULL (CBS)
Logline: A drama inspired by the early career of Dr. Phil McGraw as the founder of one of the most prolific trial consulting firms of all time. Brilliant, brash and charming, Dr. Bull (Michael Weatherly) is the ultimate puppet master as he combines psychology, human intuition and high tech data to learn what makes jurors, attorneys, witnesses and the accused tick.
Cast: Michael Weatherly as 'Dr. Jason Bull', Freddy Rodriguez, Geneva Carr, Chris Jackson, Jaime Lee Kirchner, Annabelle Attanasio (Deadline.com)
THE GREAT INDOORS (CBS)
Logline: An adventure reporter (Joel McHale) must adapt to the times when he becomes the boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of the magazine.
Cast: Joel McHale, Stephen Fry, Chris Williams, Shaun Brown, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Christine Ko, Susannah Fielding (Deadline.com)
MACGYVER (CBS)
Logline: A reimagining of the television series of the same name, following a 20-something MacGyver as he creates a clandestine organization where he uses his knack for solving problems in unconventional ways to help prevent disasters from happening.
Cast: Lucas Till as 'MacGyver', George Eads (Deadline.com)
MAN WITH A PLAN (Formerly Untitled Filgos Project/I'm Not Your Friend) (CBS)
Logline: A contractor (Matt LeBlanc) whose wife goes back to work starts spending more time with his kids and discovers the truth every parent eventually realizes: his little angels are maniacs.
Cast: Matt LeBlanc, Jessica Chaffin, Matt Cook, Grace Kaufman, Hala Finley, Matthew McCann (Deadline.com)
PURE GENIUS (Working Title) (formerly Bunker Hill) (CBS)
Logline: BUNKER HILL follows a young Silicon Valley tech titan (Augustus Prew) who enlists a veteran surgeon with a controversial past in starting a hospital with a cutting edge, "new school" approach to medicine.
Cast: Augustus Prew, Dermot Mulroney, Brenda Song, Reshma Shetty, Ward Horton, Aaron Jennings, Odette Annable (Deadline.com)
SPEECHLESS (ABC)
Speechless tells the story of the DiMeo family, a gang who's pretty good at dealing with the challenges it faces,
and absolutely fantastic at creating new ones.
At the heart of the action are Maya, a mom on a mission who will do anything for her family, and JJ, her whip-smart
teen son with special needs. Maya's a no-holds-barred fighter of injustices both real and imagined. In her orbit are
dry and smarter-than-he-seems husband, Jimmy, her no-nonsense jock daughter, Dylan, and middle child, Ray.
Ray's the lone adult in the family, the voice of reason, the brains of the operation... if you ask him, that is.
Our story begins as the family tours a run-down shack the kids learn will be their new home. This move, another in
a long list of them in pursuit of the "perfect" situation for JJ, transports them from their middle-class roots to the
upscale town next door. The very worst house in the neighborhood, with the freeway noise and cell tower in the
yard to prove it. The DiMeos take to the move with gusto; there seems to be something for everyone at the new
school. JJ will be assigned a full time aide, giving him independence and a spot in a mainstream class for the first
time; for Dylan, there's a new, gazillion dollar track facility... But world-weary Ray begs Mom and Dad to stay, sure
as he is that this move will disappoint just like the dozen others that came before.
Ray's proven right, and quickly. Upon arrival, Maya's horrified to learn the "perfect" school turns out to have no
wheelchair access, save a ramp in the back usually reserved for trash disposal. ("Oh, great! A garbage and my
son ramp!") Throwing gasoline on Maya's fire is school groundskeeper, Kenneth, the most rare of creatures in
Maya's universe: someone who's not afraid of her. JJ, too, sours on the place immediately, thanks to the drip of an
aide he's been assigned and a classroom full of self-satisfied fellow students, all too eager to "celebrate" him. For
uber-athlete, Dylan, no number of dollars poured into a track can make up for the indignity of a new, touchy-feely
coach who goes waaaay too easy on Dylan's soft new teammates. After one day, all the DiMeos are ready to bail
on the place and move on - all of them except Ray, who finds himself on the outs again. He wants - needs - to
stay and give the place a shot, drawn by the siren song of the school's astronomy club and the girl-of-his dreams,
Jillian, who counts herself as its sole member.
Things come to a head when Ray defies Maya and sneaks out after he takes a stand and demands that the family
stay put. For him, for once. JJ finds an unlikely new "voice" in Mom's adversary, Kenneth. In a way, Ray, in
standing up, finds a voice for himself as well. In another far more real way, though, he better never do that again
or he'll be grounded until he's thirty. Cast: Minnie Driver, Micah Fowler, Mason Cook, Kyla Kenedy, Cedric Yarbrough
TRAINING DAY (CBS)
Logline: A crime thriller that begins 15 years after the events of the feature film left, about an idealistic young police officer (Justin Cornwell) who is appointed to an elite squad of the LAPD where he is partnered with a seasoned, morally ambiguous detective (Bill Paxton).
Cast: Bill Paxton, Justin Cornwell, Drew Van Acker, Katrina Law, Lex Scott Davis, Julie Benz (Deadline.com)
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