NBC ordered several pilots this afternoon for possible inclusion on their Fall 2013 schedule. The most interesting of these might be The Sixth Gun, which will be produced by LOST’s Carlton Cuse.
Here’s how the Oni Press website describes the graphic novel by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt (which you can purchase here):
During the darkest days of the Civil War, wicked cutthroats came into possession of six pistols of otherworldly power. In time, the Sixth Gun, the most dangerous of the weapons, vanished. When the gun surfaces in the hands of an innocent girl, dark forces reawaken. Vile men thought long dead set their sights on retrieving the gun and killing the girl. Only Drake Sinclair, a gunfighter with a shadowy past, stands in their way.
Apparently that one was in development as a Syfy miniseries at one point before landing at NBC.
Other pilot orders to come this afternoon include Holding Patterns, an “ensemble comedy about a group of friends whose lives completely change after they survive a plane crash;” an untitled show from DJ Nash where “a son who idolizes his blind father and is bemused by his mother’s newfound adolescence watches his family come closer together post-divorce;” Girlfriend In A Coma, from Dick Wolf, where “after almost two decades, a 34-year-old woman wakes up from a coma to find out she has a 17-year-old daughter from a pregnancy she was unaware of when her life was put on hold;” and Blacklist, where “the world’s most wanted criminal mysteriously turns himself in and offers to give up everyone he has ever worked with. His only condition is he will only work with a newly minted FBI agent with whom he seemingly has no connection.” (Ya think someone just saw The Following?)
As always, not every one of these new projects will end up on TV this Fall, but they have gotten the go-ahead for pilot shooting. More details about NBC’s new pilots can be found at THR.
