In 1972, the first Black female FBI agent heads to the Southwest and recruits a gutsy getaway driver in a bold effort to take down a growing crime syndicate.

Olga Dies Dreaming is the story of a Nuyorican brother and sister from a gentrifying Sunset Park, Brooklyn, reckoning with the absent, politically radical mother and their glittering careers among New York City's elite in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

On her deathbed, Esperanza's mother, Isabel, begs Antonio Uribe to take care of her teenage daughter. Because Isabel was the only woman he ever truly loved, Antonio agrees to raise Esperanza as his own child. She comes to live in the Uribe household, where she meets Antonio's son, Luis Gustavo. Soon Esperanza and Luis Gustavo develop a profound and beautiful love between them--a love that Luis Gustavo's mother, Consuelo, will not tolerate because of the hatred she has always felt for Isabel. Stopping at nothing to end the youngsters' budding reationship, she succeeds in separating them. Ten years later, Luis Gustavo and Esperanza meet again, only to discover that the feelings they had for each other are as intense as ever and now they're determined to fight for their love.

No longer in development http://www.thefutoncritic.com/devwatch/obliterated/listings/ 

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Love And… is described as a unique and emotional drama that explores not just romantic love, but all love around the world through a large ensemble of multi-generational characters.

Good Vibes Only is a coming of age story set to the timeless music of The Beach Boys. It is a show about a blended group of misfit foster kids who form a secret band to escape the challenges of school and the drudgery of their dead-end town, and end up becoming Insta-famous. Along the way, they become more than a band, they become what they always really wanted — a true family.

See - https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/70212/the-long-shadow

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Wild Seed is a love (and hate) story of two African immortals who travel the ages from pre-Colonial West Africa to the far, far future. Doro, a killer who uses his power to breed people like livestock, encounters Anyanwu, a healer who forces him to reassess his millennia of cruel behavior: for centuries, their personal battles change the course of our world as they struggle against the backdrop of time — master vs slave, man vs woman, killer vs healer.

dupe of https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/60740/hodejegerne-den-forste-lognen

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The galaxy's favorite scoundrel, Lando Calrissian, will return in Lando, a brand-new event series for Disney+. 

No longer in development http://www.thefutoncritic.com/devwatch/control-cbs/ 

This story is a female version of a play "The Taming of the Shrew" by Bernard Shaw, where the indomitable is Maria Fernanda. She is a rich, spoiled girl, but she has good feelings, and she is fair. She lives at "Vila Paradiso" with her father Gonzalo and her friend Cristina. Their economic situation is disastrous and she marries Miguel for interest, because he can save them from the ruin. He doesn't know the truth about his wife's feelings because now Maria Fernanda loves him intensely. But some people obstruct this love: Sofia, who is Miguel's friend; Gerardo, who is Maria Fernanda's ex boyfriend; Adele who is Miguel's mother. At the end, Maria Fernanda stays with Miguel, Cristina leaves Tomas and prefers Pedro, finding her lost son: Grillo, the little orphan who lived with Maria Fernanda's family.

Jiang Cheng is an exemplary youth who excels in his studies. He was adopted since young, but was abandoned by his foster family and moved back with his father. Faced with an unfamiliar surrounding and a gambler father, he develops a rebellious character. His life took a change when he meets Gu Fei, a roguish and tough guy. As they get to know each other, they develop a close friendship and thus begin a journey of redemption as they help each other heal and grow through their pains.

A Fool's Dream follows the life of two families of different cultures meeting in the twilight of their parents and becoming one family. 

Kings of America tells the stories of three powerful women whose lives were inextricably intertwined with the world's largest company: a Walmart heiress, a maverick executive and a longtime Walmart saleswoman and preacher who dared to fight against the retail giant in the biggest class action lawsuit in U.S. history.

Dupe: https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/56189/lie-with-me

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Detective Toni Alma is assigned to investigate a suspicious car accident in Perdar Theendar, the Indigenous community she left as a child and has had little to do with over the years. As the clues lead back to her own family, Toni must navigate her way between past and present, the complexities of the Indigenous art world and her own self-doubt, to find a killer who is way too close to home.

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Overlook, inspired by and featuring iconic characters from King's The Shining, explores the untold, terrifying stories of the most famous haunted hotel in American fiction.Series order rescinded by HBO max on 8/4/21; confirmed as in development at Netflix on 5/25/22.

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Swedish soap opera, taking place in the art circuit of Stockholm.

Westwood Park weaves the story of the Dusoleil and Gunn-Munroe families, whose affluent lifestyles and picture-perfect smiles become less than idyllic on closer inspection. The manipulative and power-hungry Herbert dominates the Gunn-Munroe clan, while the conscientious and upstanding Jonathan heads the Dusoleil family. Set in lush and luxurious locations rarely seen in Caribbean dramas, Westwood Park is driven by the universal topics of love, hate, power, lust, greed, corruption, romance, heartbreak and the strive for social justice and consciousness.

The legend of a team called MIT secretly protecting Sheng Ying University was never publicly acknowledged but nonetheless spread wildly among the student body. For some reason, the team had disappeared and evil began to wreck havoc in the school. The last remaining member of MIT, Teacher Cherry, decided to recruit the baddest of all bad students, 007, 187, 747 and Tian Mo Xing, to form a new generation of MIT who would solve the crimes and restore the school to its former glory.

Azusa Noyama is a 12-year-old girl student, taking 5th grade, but everyone knows her as Azuki-Chan, nickname that she dislikes. Yuunosuke Ogasawara, a new student, asks her about her nickname, saying that he likes it. Azuki falls in love with him, and they start going out together. They share a diary, and become boyfriend and girlfriend.

Firekeeper's Daughter follows an 18-year-old Native girl as she reluctantly goes undercover in a police investigation on her Ojibwe reservation.

dupe of https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/50374/time

Passed over by ABC https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tv-pilots-2019-complete-guide-1172633

First version of a successful telenovela about an innocent mother unfairly jailed for a crime, who decades later out of prison needs to discover who was the real murderer. How? By becoming the stepmother of her own children.

Pandora's Box and Ship follows the selfish and sarcastic, Lou Tucker, who is a grifter and her latest scam is stealing from packages at the Box and Ship where she works to make ends meet. But, when she opens a package that contains Pandora's actual Box, she inadvertently unleashes all of the mythological evils of the ancient world into our modern one. And, unfortunately for humanity, it's going to be up to her, a bookish Professor of Greek Mythology, and a group of unqualified misfits to put them all back in.

same series, name changed https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/44654/the-house-of-ho

Seems like a never ending project. Was suppose to air in 2016 and postponed by year after year. I think it is fair to say that this won't be airing anytime soon and no info has been given to an approximate airing date.

Based on Karen Thompson Walker's novel, The Dreamers is placed in a small college town, transformed by a mysterious illness that locks victims in perpetual sleep and triggers extraordinary, life-altering dreams.
 

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A prime-time serial drama aimed at adults, Certain Women started life as a six-part mini-series with each episode telling the story of a different female member of the Stone/Lucas family. Created by writer Tony Morphett in an attempt to address the paucity of good roles for women on Australian television, the mini-series proved so successful that the format was converted to an ongoing serial which ran from 1973 to 1976. The serial is played out against the backdrop of an era that strongly influenced these women's stories: the immediate post-Vietnam War years, the tumultuous rise and fall of the Whitlam Labor Government and the feminist movement of the early 1970s.

Season 2 of https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/35546/flower-ever-after

In Repeat, the opportunity to travel back 10 months to relive their pasts seems like an incredible gift to a group of strangers, giving them the chance to right wrongs, undo mistakes, and set their lives on a better path, but their new choices have unforeseen results as they unravel a larger conspiracy with deadly consequences.

The Shelley Society is described as a Victorian X-Files. Young author Mary Shelley leads a band of Romantic outlaws—among them, her lovers Percy and the Lord Byron—against all manner of supernatural threats and monsters…including Shelley's own iconic Creature.

Marimar is a very poor and naive woman who lives in a beach hut with her dog, Pulgoso, and her grandparents. Sergio, the son of the Ibañez estate, falls in love with Marimar. The two get married, not realizing the hostility of Sergio's family to the marriage and their unbounded determination to separate them.

Barbarita is a sweet and modest young woman who works as a seamstress at a renowned fashion boutique in Miami. When she is asked to do a fitting for the well-known society widow Ricarda Thomson, Barbarita has no clue that this will be the beginning of a tortuous relationship between her and this millionaire family. At the estate, she fortuitously meets Valentino, Ricarda's oldest son. Single, dishonest, spoiled and accustomed to always getting his way, Valentino decides to seduce the beautiful Barbarita, who soon succumbs to his charms. However, for the first time in his life, Valentino feels more than physical attraction and discovers that he has fallen in love for real.

Showtime is developing the limited series Blackbird: Lena Horne and America, based on the life of incomparable entertainer and activist Lena Horne. Blackbird: Lena Horne and America will be executive produced by Horne's granddaughter, Jenny Lumet (Rachel Getting Married, Star Trek(R): Discovery), and Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek: Picard, The Comey Rule), who together will write the first few episodes. The series will be produced by CBS Television Studios and Secret Hideout. Heather Kadin will serve as an executive producer on this project. Titled after Horne's favorite poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, Blackbird: Lena Horne and America will span 60 years of her life, from dancing at the Cotton Club when she was 16, through World War II and stardom of the MGM years, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement and her triumphant return to Broadway. The series will encompass her deepest relationships: Paul Robeson, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Joe Louis, Billie Holiday, Hattie McDaniel, Ava Gardner and Orson Welles, to name a few. A direct descendant of slaves and their enslavers, Horne had to navigate stardom during Jim Crow. She laid herself down and made herself a bridge for everyone who came after her, and finally achieved her own liberation to become one of America's greatest legends.

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A story like no other, which shares the tale of two brothers, Gael (Jericho Rosales) and Carlos (Paulo Avelino), who were bound by their promise but separated by an unfortunate tragedy. Then love bridges the distance between Gael and Carlos as they both fall for one woman — Mia (Maja Salvador), a club dancer who happens to be Gael's greatest love and the woman who healed Carlos' broken heart. Will their love for Mia be the ultimate test to their brotherhood? In the end, will love be the cure, or will it create an irreconcilable gap that will tear them apart permanently?

After the death of his wife, Peter Sisk, a police officer, moves from Mülheim to Munich and takes over a homicide.

Perfect People is a ripped-from-the-headlines thriller and family drama set in the world of genetically-engineered children who, as they hit puberty, are revealed to be not as "perfect" as their designers had intended.

Bright Young Things centers on Ellie Brown, a 15-year-old girl from a working-class town in West Virginia who earns a scholarship to the most elite boarding school in the country. When idealistic Ellie realizes the deck is already stacked against her, she finds herself lying, cheating, and stealing her way through the hallowed halls of the school — anything to claim a piece of the American dream denied to her friends and family back home.

Blacksmith centers on Alex Malloy, known in the intelligence community for building high-tech weapons for U.S. government agencies. When he discovers some of the files containing his weapon designs have fallen into the wrong hands, he sets off on a journey to recover the files before his weapons are used for harm.

On their 29th birthday, an estranged brother and sister discover they're Midnighters, a chosen few born at the stroke of midnight, with access to a magical 25th hour each day that their kind can use to dramatic, comedic and poignant advantage. Ultimately, they learn their destiny is to protect the world from an ancient evil that has been trapped inside the 25th hour for centuries and is about to break free.

All Our Wrong Todays tells the story of Tom Barren, who lives in a world where technology has solved all of humanity's problems — there's no war, no poverty, no under-ripe avocadoes. However, Tom isn't happy, because he's lost the girl of his dreams. So, what do you do when you're heartbroken and have a time machine? You end up in an alternate reality, obviously.

No. Longer in developmeny http://www.thefutoncritic.com/devwatch/american-fighter/listings/ 

dupe https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/46375/boundless 

Tahir Kemal is the experienced, legendary chief of the murder table. After serving in Urfa for many years, he can not stand the despair of her 8 year-old daughter and his divorced wife. Ferit Caglayan is a young and honest commissioner who is trying to prove himself on the murder scene. He's very handsome and a little flimsy. He has been with Melike, her schoolmate since her school years. Chief Commander Tahir removes Ferit from duty. When Ferit is removed from his favorite profession by the man he sees as his idol, a chaos that nobody wants starts to slip.

Ellis Rice, Executive Chef and patriarch, runs a successful restaurant in Harlem with his wife and three daughters. But an unexpected death thrusts the family into turmoil and puts the restaurant's future in jeopardy as long-buried secrets are revealed.

No news since 2019, seems to be dead.

The Uninhabitable Earth is an anthology series, comprised of stand-alone fictional stories covering a wide range of genres and possible futures that could result from the rapid warming of our planet.

Dwarfina is a telefantasya produced by GMA Network. The show premiered on January 10, 2011 and starred Heart Evangelista in the title role of Dwarfina and Dennis Trillo as Lyndon, the leading male protagonist. It had a successful 83-episode run.

dupe of https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/36281/wir-sind-die-welle

The series follows the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast, a sprawling, decaying, gothic-like structure with a raft of characters including Titus, the heir to the throne of the House of Groan, scheming kitchen boy Steerpike and twin sisters Cora and Clarice.

No longer in development http://www.thefutoncritic.com/devwatch/home-reyes/ 

Victoria Gromova, the daughter of a police General Gromov, had just graduated from the police school in Chicago and really wants to work in the investigations division, but dad, of course, against. The second candidate for the "flight" was the old detective — Paul Gariboldi Raouche, named dragon. But unfortunately for leadership, they are the most sensible investigation staff, and deftly applying the deductive method and the latest technology and innovation, disclose any "visyaki" Department...

Brottscentralen (Crime Center) is a Swedish televised-crime program which addresses current violations by Lennart Ekdal and Thabo Motsieloa. The program premiered on Aftonbladet TV in September 2013. Between autumn 2015 and 2016 broadcast program is also on Investigation Discovery. In 2017 it moved the program from Aftonbladet to Expressen TV.

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A gripping horror story about two warring sisters – one human, one monster – who must unite to reverse a supernatural pact gone horribly wrong, and with it mend their grief-stricken family.

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Political drama written by Martin Lawrence & Snoop Dogg.

Redcoats is a docusoap which ran for three series of half hour episodes, originally aired between 2001-2003, which follows the daily lives and activities of Redcoats working at Butlins Holiday Resorts in the UK.

dupe: https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/41563/le-bazar-de-la-charite

dupe: season 3 of https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/47355/diversant

Providence tells the story of 12-year-old Jon Bronson, who, ten years ago, vanished, along with five of his classmates. Reappearing as a grown man with no recollection of his adolescence, he attempts to re-enter life and to connect with his childhood crush, Chloe Sayers, who never lost hope that Jon was out there and would one day return. But unbeknownst to him, his time away has granted him — and the others that vanished — horrific supernatural abilities. Now Jon's own body won't allow him to get physically close to the love of his life. Jon must figure out what was done to him and the others — and why.

Tenacity, which is inspired by the eponymous J.S. Law novel, follows disgraced military detective Danielle ‘Dan' Lewis, who is sent to investigate a case when a dead submariner is discovered aboard the British nuclear submarine Tenacity. But when the case turns to murder, it puts her in conflict with Tenacity's crew, her Navy superiors, and into the crosshairs of an assassin who has infiltrated her nuclear base with an agenda that will not only destroy national security but kill Dan and everyone she loves.

https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/45190/sticks-and-stones

Maria de la Cruz (Maricruz) Olivares is a poor and illiterate girl who lives in the countryside with her grandparents and sister; Despite their extreme poverty, they are extremely happy. One day the handsome Aviator Octavio Narvaez meets and falls for her. Octavio, known to Maricruz, feels love and compassion for their poverty and illiteracy, but her sister-in-law, the terrible and evil Lucía Santibáñez de Narvaez, hates her.

No longer in development http://www.thefutoncritic.com/devwatch/vault/listings/ 

No longer in dev http://www.thefutoncritic.com/devwatch/ghost-abc/ 

The 20th century journey of a woman who started off as an actress and later became involved in the Second World War. Based on the biography of Hedy Lamarr.

The story of the Buendia family, who lived for a century in the town of Macondo.It will be the first time that Gabriel García Márquez's seminal novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is adapted for the screen, more than 50 years after it was originally published, in 1967.

Drama in which a frustrated Canadian detective who takes on a decades-old cold case in hopes of winning a confession and becoming a hero.

In I'm in Love with the Dancer from My Bat Mitzvah, after being romantically rejected by her best friend, a young woman becomes obsessed with a dancer from her bat mitzvah, leading her and her friends down a dangerous rabbit hole of criminal conspiracy.

Inspired by the life of actor Gbenga Akinnagbe, Lewisburg follows a young man whose only way out of East Baltimore is his wrestling talent. When he accepts an offer to join the nationally-ranked team at a university in central Pennsylvania, however, he winds up grappling with much more than he ever imagined, including issues of race, class, and the personal costs of confronting our most entrenched systems.

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Pilot was not picked up!L.A. Confidential follows three homicide detectives, a female reporter and a Hollywood actress whose paths intersect as the detectives pursue a sadistic serial killer through the seedy underbelly of glamorous 1950s Los Angeles.