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ABC is making some big decisions about the future of some of its pilots.

The network has passed on the Revenge reboot, Thirtysomething sequel, The Brides, and Valley Trash.

Ahead of the Covid-19 pandemic forcing production to halt on all scripted series in the U.S., the Thirtysomething(else) was considered a shoo-in on the network's 2020-21 schedule.

The potential series first entered development earlier this year, with ABC later ordering a pilot presentation.

Here's the official logline:

Apparently, raising children -- even grown children -- never ends, but who could have known how hard it would be for them to raise their parents?

Reboot of the 1987-91 series 'Thirtysomething,' with emphasis on the original cast's children -- the new generation of thirtysomethings.

Returning original cast members include Ken Olin (Michael Steadman), Mel Harris (Hope Murdoch), Timothy Busfield (Elliot Weston), and Patty Wettig (Nancy Weston).

Chris Wood and...

A trio of ABC pilots received bad news on Monday: thirtysomething(else), Brides and Valley Trash will not be moving forward at the network, TVLine has learned.

thirtysomething(else) would have served as a sequel to the Alphabet Net’s 1987 drama thirtysomething, with original series creators Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick back to write and direct. With a cast that included Supergirl alumni Chris Wood and Odette Annable, Outcast‘s Patrick Fugit and This Is Us‘ Auden Thornton — as well as several stars of the original show — the potential series planned to follow adult versions of the thirtysomething children.

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Charlie McElveen (The Deuce) is set as a series regular opposite Katherine Reis, Gina Torres and Erin Richards in The Brides, ABC’s Brides of Dracula drama pilot from Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros Television. Written by Aguirre-Sacasa and directed by Maggie Kiley, The Brides, a sexy contemporary reimagining of Dracula, is a family drama with a trio of powerful female leads at its heart — Cleo (Torres), Renée (Richards), and Lily (Reis). With strong horror elements, The Brides is a vampire soap about empowered, immortal women and the things they do to maintain wealth, prestige, legacy — and their nontraditional family. McElveen will play Arthur Seward. An ambitious young news reporter, Arthur works the graveyard shift at his paper, covering news of the bizarre. He becomes infatuated with Lily (Reis), a striving singer in New York City — unaware that she is, in fact, an immortal vampire. McElveen made his...

Two beloved TV Fanatic favorites are possibly returning to the small screen.

We'll start with Scott Foley.

The Scandal and Whiskey Cavalier grad is headed to Fox to lead the cast of The Big Leap.

The series is a journey of self-acceptance, body-positivity and empowerment at any age, it follows a diverse group of underdogs from all different walks of life compete to be part of a competition reality series that is putting on a modern, hip remake of Swan Lake.

What they lack in the traditional dancer body type, they make up for with their edge, wit and desire to reimagine an iconic story to fit their own mold. Inspired by the UK format Big Ballet.

Deadline first revealed the casting news, revealing that Foley is on board to play Nick Smart, the executive producer of the show within a show.

He joins previously cast Simone Recasner, Jon Rudnitsky,...

The weird sisters of Bram Stoker’s Dracula are doing it for themselves. Greg Berlanti and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who brought the devil out of Riverdale to spawn Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, are shooting pilot for The Brides for ABC.

The project goes back to 2015, when NBC put in an order for a script. For ABC’s desanguinated re-incarnation, the script will be written by Aguirre-Sacasa, who will executive produce alongside Berlanti and his head of production company, Sarah Schechter. This new series promises to move “stronger into horror and sexuality as it reimagines the classic vampire characters.” The pilot will be directed by Maggie Kiley. ABC Studios and Warner Bros. Television will coproduce the series.

The project was announced back in January. The Brides is technically ABC’s first pilot order of the 2020-21 broadcast season. It is the first shot across the bow for Karey Burke, who as ABC’s...

Erin Richards and ABC are tying the knot: The Gotham actress has signed on to play one of Dracula’s three Brides in the network’s soapy drama pilot, TVLine has learned.

The potential series, from Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, is a “sexy contemporary reimagining” of the classic Dracula story with “strong horror elements,” centering on the legendary vampire’s three brides (played by Suits‘ Gina Torres, Claws‘ Katherine Reis and Richards).

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Erin Richards has been cast in the final of the three lead roles in the ABC drama pilot “The Brides,” Variety has learned.

Richards will now star as one of the titular brides alongside Gina Torres and Katherine Reis, with Sophia Tatum, Chris Mason, and Goran Visnjic also set to star in the pilot. It is described as a contemporary reimagining of “Dracula” with a trio of female leads. The show would follow these immortal women and the things they do to maintain wealth, prestige, legacy, and their nontraditional family.

Richards will play Renée Pélagie. One of the three Brides of Dracula, Renée is the head of a top modeling agency in New York City, known for her torrid affairs with her beautiful female models. In her former life, she was the wife of the Marquis de Sade when she invited Dracula into her “house of pain” and asked to be “turned” by him.

Gotham alumna Erin Richards has landed the remaining title role opposite Gina Torres and Katherine Reis in The Brides, ABC’s Brides of Dracula drama pilot from Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros Television.

Written by Aguirre-Sacasa and directed by Maggie Kiley, The Brides, a sexy contemporary reimagining of Dracula, is a family drama with a trio of powerful female leads at its heart — Cleo (Torres), Renée (Richards), and Lily (Reis). With strong horror elements, The Brides is a vampire soap about empowered, immortal women and the things they do to maintain wealth, prestige, legacy — and their nontraditional family.

Richards’ Renee is the head of a top modeling agency in New York City, known for her torrid affairs with her beautiful female models. In her former life, she was the wife of the Marquis de Sade when she invited Dracula (Goran Višnjić) into her “house of pain” and asked to be “turned” by him.

Some TV Fanatic favorites are lining up their returns to the small screen.

Timeless veteran Goran Visnjic is set to play the iconic role of Count Dracula in the ABC drama pilot The Brides.

The in-the-works series is a “sexy contemporary reimagining” of the classic Dracula story with “strong horror elements,” coming from Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.

The series is set to focus on Dracula's three brides. Two of them have already been cast in Suits alumna Gina Torres and Claws actress Katherine Reis.

Reis is playing Lily Stevens, the youngest of Dracula's three brides, “whose relationship to a news reporter threatens to tear apart her marriage to her ‘sisters,'” per the official description.

“In her former life, she braved the streets of Jack the Ripper’s London, until being ‘rescued’ by Dracula.”

Torres is on board as Cleo Phillips, the leader of the three brides, who some would call a queen.

“Timeless” alum Goran Višnjić has been cast as Count Dracula in ABC’s “The Brides” drama pilot, a spokesperson for the broadcast network tells TheWrap.

He joins Gina Torres and Katherine Reis on the potential series, which hails from “Riverdale” creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and is described as “a sexy contemporary reimagining of ‘Dracula.'”...

Timeless alum Goran Višnjić is set to star as Count Dracula opposite Gina Torres and Katherine Reis in The Brides, ABC’s Brides of Dracula drama pilot from Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros Television.

Written by Aguirre-Sacasa and directed by Maggie Kiley, The Brides, a sexy contemporary reimagining of Dracula, is a family drama with a trio of powerful female leads at its heart — Cleo (Torres), Renée, and Lily (Reis). With strong horror elements, The Brides is a vampire soap about empowered, immortal women and the things they do to maintain wealth, prestige, legacy — and their nontraditional family.

Višnjić’s Count Dracula is the powerful, ageless, and iconic King of Night who “turned” each of his three brides, Dracula is left for dead at his destroyed castle in the Carpathian mountains while his three wives — Cleo, Renée, and Lily — flee to start a new life together.

In addition to Torres and Reis,...

Coming up necks for Timeless‘ Goran Visnjic: The iconic role of Count Dracula in the ABC drama pilot The Brides.

The potential series, from Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, is a “sexy contemporary reimagining” of the classic Dracula story with “strong horror elements,” centering on the legendary vampire’s three brides (played by Suits‘ Gina Torres and Claws‘ Katherine Reis; the third bride is not yet cast).

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ABC's vampire drama The Brides has found its Dracula.

Former ER and Timeless star Goran Višnjić will play the iconic character in the pilot from Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, prolific producer Greg Berlanti and Warner Bros. TV.

The Brides is a contemporary reimagining of the Dracula story. It centers on a trio of empowered, immortal women — the brides of Dracula — and the things they do to maintain wealth, prestige legacy and their nontraditional family. Gina Torres (Suits, Firefly) and Katherine Reis will play two of the brides; the third has yet to be cast. Chris Mason and Sophia Tatum also star.

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With pilot season well underway, several beloved TV stars are lining up their small screen returns.

Kylie Bunbury, who blew fans away with her performance on Pitch, has lined up a lead role on ABC's The Big Sky, starring oppossite Vikings' alum Katheryn Winnick.

This show has a straight-to-series order at ABC.

The Big Sky centers on a private detective named Cassie Dewell and ex-cop Jenny Hoyt (Winnick), who join forces to search for two sisters that were kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana.

“But when they discover that these are not the only girls who have disappeared in the area,” the official logline reads, “they must race against the clock to stop the killer before another woman is taken.”

Ryan Phillippe, John Carroll Lynch, and Dedee Pfeiffer are also a part of the expansive cast.

Bunbury's Cassie is an ex-rodeo rider who sets her...

Katherine Reis has been cast as a co-lead opposite Gina Torres in ABC’s supernatural drama pilot The Brides. Chris Mason (Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists) and Sophia Tatum (I Am Not Okay With This) also have joined the project, from Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros Television.

Written by Aguirre-Sacasa and directed by Maggie Kiley, The Brides, a sexy contemporary reimagining of Dracula, is a family drama with a trio of powerful female leads at its heart — Cleo (Torres), Renée, and Lily (Reis). With strong horror elements, The Brides is a vampire soap about empowered, immortal women and the things they do to maintain wealth, prestige, legacy — and their nontraditional family.

Reis’ Lily Stevens is the youngest of the three Brides of Dracula, a striving singer in New York City whose relationship to a news reporter threatens to tear apart her marriage to her “sisters.

ABC is continuing to build out the cast of “The Brides,” the vampire soap opera pilot from the team behind “Riverdale.”

Katherine Reis, Sophia Tatum, and Chris Mason have all been cast in the pilot. It was announced on Monday that Gina Torres would play one of the lead roles as well.

The project is described as a contemporary reimagining of “Dracula” with a trio of female leads. The show would follow these immortal women and the things they do to maintain wealth, prestige, legacy, and their nontraditional family.

Reis will star as Lily Stevens. The youngest of the three Brides of Dracula, Lily is a striving singer in New York City whose relationship to a news reporter threatens to tear apart her marriage to her “sisters.” In her former life, she braved the streets of Jack the Ripper’s London, until being “rescued” by Dracula.

Tatum will play the...

It’s getting awfully crowded in Dracula’s coffin: A day after Gina Torres signed on to star in ABC’s soapy drama pilot The Brides, three more actors have joined the cast as series regulars, TVLine has learned.

The potential series, from Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, is a “sexy contemporary reimagining” of the classic Dracula story with “strong horror elements,” centering on the iconic vampire’s three brides. Claws veteran Katherine Reis will play aspiring singer Lily Stevens, the youngest of Dracula’s three brides “whose relationship to a news reporter threatens to tear apart her marriage to her ‘sisters,...

"Mister - superheroes don't fly, or look like Jesus. They drive broken down cars..." Gravitas Ventures has debuted a trailer for an inspirational indie drama titled All We Had, the feature directorial debut of actress Katie Holmes, who also stars in the film. It's about a troubled mother and her young teenage daughter, named Ruthie played by Stefania Owen, who end up in a small town after attempting to live out of their car. They've always lived on the edge of poverty, but here they might've found an unlikely family working at a local diner. Also starring Richard Kind, Eve Lindley, Mark Consuelos, Katherine Reis, Judy Greer and Luke Wilson. This premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and is based on a novel of the same name. It looks like there's some strong performances in this, with her daughter being the most memorable. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for...

Team Experience is at the Tribeca Film Festival. Here's Manuel on All We Had.

To say Rita Carmichael is Katie Holmes’s best role and best performance to date seems almost like a backhanded compliment. After all, Joey Potter aside, what else comes close to that description? Nevertheless, there’s no denying that Holmes has thrown herself into the role of this drunk single mother whose solution to her problems is putting “all we had” into their car and driving away, hoping the signs (on the road and, you know, of the universe) lead her to where she needs to be.

Holmes is a prickly presence on screen as Rita, finding ways of making her sunken eyes and oft-mimicked mouth quirks work to her advantage to sketch out this clearly broken woman who’s trying her darndest to offer her teenage daughter (a solid Stefania Owen in white trash Rory...