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Ordered To Series

Dollhouse: (According to Variety) Follows a top-secret world of people programmed with different personalities, abilities and memories depending on their mission. After each assignment -- which can be physical, romantic or even illegal -- the characters have their memories wiped clean, and are sent back to a lab (dubbed the "Dollhouse"). Show centers on Dushku's character, Echo, as she slowly begins to develop some self-awareness, which impacts her missions.Has been given a seven-episode order by Fox. Starring: Eliza Dushku. Executive Producer: Joss Whedon

Ordered To Pilot

Fringe: A drama about a young female FBI agent who, forced to confront the spread of powerful and unexplained phenomena, must work with an institutionalized scientist whose life's work may be at the center of the coming storm

Hackett: Meet Mr. THOMAS HACKETT, the new English teacher at Eleanor Roosevelt High. He's a teacher who gives a teenager his old collection of Playboys because "the problem with getting boys to read today is that you never accidentally stumble on that brilliant article by William Styron surfing adult content on the Web." A bitter, hard-living womanizer with an irrepressible charm and no small amount of sex appeal, Hackett loves to rankle The Powers That Be. He's the last person you'd want as a role model for your kids and possibly the first one you'd want teaching them. Hackett used to be a high-flying professor at Yale, where he acquired a reputation as "the last great defender of the Y chromosome" and his novels propelled him into the hot, bright center of the New York literati set. But eventually his very public personal life the affairs, the drinking, the outspoken tirades overwhelmed his professional life. And when a 26-year-old grad student with whom he was having a consensual affair sued him for harassment, Hackett's career at Yale was over as was his marriage. Under a legal cloud for unpaid child support and desperate to see his young kids again, Hackett finds a job teaching English in what he calls "the hallowed halls of mediocrity" a public school in suburban Arizona. Soon, no one, not the slackers, the Goths or the wannabes, is safe from his lacerating wit. But Hackett's real sporting interest is the hyper-sensitized, super-PC world of public education, exemplified by power-hungry metrosexual Vice Principal EUGENE WOLGEMOTH (Jim Rash, "Help Me Help You," "Reno 911!"). Only AUDREY DOVER, the school's young, smart principal with a troubled personal life, barely manages to stay one step ahead of him. It is precisely Hackett's brash honesty and strong world view to which the kids respond. The truth is, he's becoming a great teacher in spite of himself. And with the help of his new friendship with fellow teacher TAM, a lesbian with as many problems with women as Hackett, he may find some redemption. HACKETT is an uncompromisingly edgy character comedy from writer Denise Moss ("Murphy Brown," "The Wonder Years," "Frasier") about a man who has to fall all the way to the bottom to find up again.

The Oaks: A relationship drama which revolves around three different couples who inhabit the same house at three different times - a young couple who just lost a child in 1967, a family of four in 1987 and a pregnant couple in 2007 - but are connected by mysterious spirits that appear to haunt it. Starring: Bahar Soomekh, Gina Mckee, Matt Lanter, Jeremy Renner, Shannon Lucio, and Sienna Guillory.

Smile You're Under Arrest: A "Punk'd"-esque series in which non-violent criminal suspects with outstanding warrants are lured out of hiding with promises of riches and other rewards, only to discover that they've been duped by law-enforcement officials.

This Might Hurt: A partially improvised single-camera comedy about a private medical practice run by three partners.

Untitled Dan Fogelman Project: A comedy about a typical dysfunctional nuclear family that moves into a sought-after gated community only to discover that everybody who lives there is an alien.

Untitled Sam Braun Project: A drama procedural that centers on a former law enforcer with the uncanny ability to read people to determine if they're lying. He pairs up with a female clinical psychologist to open up an agency and put his skill to work.

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Prison Break Cherry Hill: Female-version of the original Prison Break.

Church Of Reggie (FOX): A comedy that revolves around Reggie Fender, a young man who has kept an optimistic look on life even after experiencing a number of personal struggles. His take on life eventually catches on with others -- and all of a sudden he finds himself preaching his own religion. Executive Producers: Chuck Tatham (Arrested Development) and Ron Howard (Arrested Development)

Drop Dead Diva (FOX): A dramedy about an uninspired model-in-training who suddenly dies and finds her soul entering an overweight, less attractive female attorney.

Queen B (FOX): A drama about a brilliant but ruthless woman who takes over a worldwide conglomerate as a CEO and corrupts a young girl with power by making her the exec's right-hand henchwoman.

The FBI (FOX): A drama about the agency's critical incidents response group - a division involved in a range of cases, including kidnappings, hostage negotiations, hostage rescue and evidence collection

Untitled Fresco Pilot (FOX): A comedy that focuses on Ted, a charming, likeable thirtysomething who’s morals are tested when he heads up the research and development department at a Fortune 500 company.



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Sal