ABC has given the green light to three drama pilots, Sixty Minute Man, Day Break, and Brothers & Sisters.
Sixty Minute Man centers on a suburban family man who begins to suspect he might be the key player in a major conspiracy after realizing he has no recollection of his actions during one hour of each day.
Day Break is an action-thriller about a cop on the run trying to find out who framed him for murder.
Brothers & Sisters is a family soap revolving around adult siblings.
Additionally, ABC has given the go-ahead to Our Thirties, a comedy pilot about San Francisco friends navigating the life-changing events of their 30s. ABC previously mined San francisco for it's comedic potential with their Ted Knight sitcom Too Close for Comfort.
Depending on the cast and writers, they all could be good. The problem with Sixty and Day is that it will be pretty irritating to wait how many years to find out either where this guy is for an hour and who framed the cop. Look at Lost and Prison Break. Great for a while, but they are already on the verge of irritating people because the stories are dragging on. Brothers and Thirties on the other hand could be good as well, but of course they they sound like they have been done many times before. Overall, the actors and writers will be the determining factor.
Sixty Minute Man and The (cop) Fugitive sounds interesting. I'd give them a shot.
I think that these shows might be great but we will not know until they premire.
I would watch Sixty Minute Man,<br />
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Day Break = The Fugitive with a cop instead of a doctor<br />
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Our Thirties = Thirtysomething with a less cool name
Sixty Minute Man sounds good.
The problem with shows like "Emily's Reasons Why Not" isn't that it was a comedy: but because it was bad. "According to Jim" and "Hope and Faith" are also absolute crap. By focusing on dramas, they may be "focusing on their strengths" but they also are avoiding making a good comedy.