Pilots (Part Two): Laugh-track No More

March 02, 2007

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ABC is hoping “Sex and the City” creator Darren Star’s formula will work again and plans to make another dramedy about women in New York called “The Cashmere Mafia.” Another show highlights a single mom and private eye called “Judy’s Got a Gun.” “Grey’s Anatomy” creator Shonda Rhimes has been tapped for an undisclosed project about journalists. They’re also working with Rita Mimoun on a show about a new mother just starting out in her father’s law firm.

FOX is hoping to win big with “Canterbury’s Law,” in which a female defense attorney will do anything to win for her clients. They also hit on a medical drama about a young nurse working under her dad actually called, “Nurses.”

NBC is rebuilding the 70’s show “The Bionic Woman.” They’re also bringing Candace Bushnell’s novel about power-hungry cooperate ladies in the new “Lipstick Jungle.” And The X-Men’s lovely Famke Janssen is taking on a David Shore/Peter Blake drama about a female cop.

The CW is filling in the gap left by “The O.C.” with “Gossip Girl,” based on the book series about privileged youth on the East Coast. “Paige Armstrong” is a congressional aide who runs against her corrupt boss. Which may or may not be easier than being the main character in the untitled Maggie Friedman project, centered around a Manhattan witch who struggles to help people out and hold herself together at the same time.