It is Pilot Season in television land. Whether it is LA, New York, Toronto or Vancouver, it arrives every spring, just like our beloved Cherry Blossoms and early blooming Daffodils.
This year we have a whopping nine pilots gearing up for production that can turn into potential series and hopefully call Vancouver home for a full season. The CW dominates the field but ABC and CBS has a few good looking pilots. Click on the title for a link to more information on each pilot.
Arrow
It is a adaptation of DC comics Green Arrow.
March 10 to March 30
CW Series casts Katie Cassidy as lead.
Beauty and The Beast
Another adaptation to the original story with a modern day twist.
A CW science fiction romance casts Kristen Kruek as the lead.
March 18 to April 5
Cult
The CW orders pilot from the creators of Gossip Girl.
The pilot will center on a female production assistant on a television series titled "Cult." She teams with a journalist to investigate fans of the series, whom she suspects of committing copycat crimes that they've seen on the show.
March 20 to March 20
Dakota
aka Joey Dakota
Amber Stevens stars as the lead.
Another CW series pilot said to be a romantic time traveling musical.
March 28 to April 5
First Cut
CW series First Cut lands Justin Hartley for the lead.
Described as a Grey's Anatomy - esque medical drama.
Justin Hartley is known as the Green Arrow from Smallville series. Nice to see the CW putting so many Smallville and Supernatural alum back to work in Vancouver.
March 21 to April 1
Midnight Sun
Story of the disappearance of Midnight Sun, a group of people in a cult-like commune living in Alaska.
Julia Stiles as a lead FBI agent and David Harbor who runs the local coast guard.
March 12 to March 29th
Penoza
An ABC Drama, Luke Coss stars as the lead in this pilot written and produced by Melissa Rosenberg.
A woman has to take her husbands place in a mob syndicate to protect her family.
March 20 to April 3
Quean
Warner Bros and CBS team up for this pilot about a hacker girls who teams up with detectives to solve crimes.
March 16 to April 3
The Selection
Another CW pilot will be filming around Vancouver. Gossip Girl alum Ethan Peck, grandson of Oscar winner Gregory Peck will work opposite Aimee Teegarden. It is described as being somewhat parallel to The Hunger Games. Poor girl wins a lottery to compete to win a chance of becoming a queen.
March 15 to March 29