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NBC has ordered four more comedies, including projects from Chelsea Handler, Hank Azaria and Amanda Peet. In addition, the network has picked up Chuck for a fifth and final season, and has canceled The Event, Law & Order: Los Angeles and Outsourced.Fall 2011 TV Scorecard: Which shows are returning? Which aren't?Based on Handler's best-selling book, Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (which TVGuide.com had spotlighted as one of its 11 Promising Pilots) centers on an outspoken, sexually aggressive young woman (Laura Prepon) who works in a bar, where she drinks away its profits, avoids her eccentric father (Lenny Clarke) and goes ...
NBC has ordered four more comedies, including projects from Chelsea Handler, Hank Azaria and Amanda Peet. In addition, the network has picked up Chuck for a fifth and final season, and has canceled The Event, Law & Order: Los Angeles and Outsourced.
Fall 2011 TV Scorecard: Which shows are returning? Which aren't?
Based on Handler's best-selling book,Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (which TVGuide.com had spotlighted as one of its 11 Promising Pilots) centers on an outspoken, sexually aggressive young woman (Laura Prepon) who works in a bar, where she drinks away its profits, avoids her eccentric father (Lenny Clarke) and goes home with the clientele. Handler will executive-produce.NBC picks up Prime Suspect, Christina Applegate and Debra Messing pilots
That order brings the total of NBC's pick-ups to 11: six comedies and five dramas. The network has already ordered Up All Night, starring Christina Applegate and written by Parks & Recreationwriter Emily Spivey, as well as a comedy from Whitney Cummings. On the drama side, the network invested in Steven Spielberg's Smash; Prime Suspect, starring Maria Bello;The Playboy Club; Grimmand Awake.Pilots that did not make the cut include the buzzed-about Wonder Woman, which NBC passed on Thursday. Also in the rejects pile: the dramas A Mann's World, Reconstruction and 17th Precinct; and comedies Lovelives, Brave New World, My Life as an Experiment and the Untitled Kari Lizer Project. Meanwhile, as expected, Chuck will be back for a 13-episode fifth and final season. It joins Parenthood and Harry's Law as returning dramas.Freshmen series The Event, Law & Order: Los Angeles and Outsourced, however, have been canceled.LOLA showrunner Rene Balcer released a video shortly afterward, urging fans to call NBC to renew the series, as the season ends with a cliff-hanger.