Nick orders 'Monsters vs. Aliens' pilot

Nickelodeon has ordered a pilot from DreamWorks Animation for a series based on the firm's recent "Monsters vs. Aliens" movie, DWA CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg said Tuesday. Full story

NBC announces 2009-10 schedule

NBC presented a 2009-10 schedule Tuesday that included a new shared time-period strategy, a time-period change for "Heroes" and "Southland" moving to Fridays. Full story

'The Unit,' 'My Name Is Earl' canceled

After late-in-the-game saves for fan favorites like NBC's "Chuck" and Fox's "Dollhouse," CBS has canceled long-running Sunday night action-drama "The Unit" while NBC is putting an end to Thursday night comedy mainstay "My Name Is Earl." Full story

NBC loses 'Lost in the '80s'

By Nellie Andreeva

NBC's hourlong pilot "Lost in the '80s" is not going forward.

Despite the recent signings of P.J. Hogan to direct and Billy Campbell to star in the Sony TV-produced project, the network has decided not to proceed with it.

Written by Bob Brush, "Lost" centers on a family in the middle of the country and is described as "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" meets "The Ice Storm," an '80s version of "Wonder Years."

The project, exec produced by Brush and Tantamount's Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum and Mitch Hurwitz, was picked up to pilot in September, long before the December executive shakeup at the network that saw Angela Bromstad taking over NBC Entertainment.

Bromstad is said to be instrumental in the decision to pull the plug on "Lost."

Trio of helmers tapped for network pilots

"Friday Night Lights" director/executive producer Jeff Reiner is set to direct NBC's drama pilot "Trauma," lifting the contingency off the project. In other pilot-director signings, Simon West has been tapped for Fox's comic book adaptation "Human Target," and "House" co-exec producer/director Deran Sarafian has signed on for Fox's reincarnation project. Full story

More '80s fashion: NBC orders 'Parenthood'

NBC has given a pilot order to "Parenthood," a dramedy a based on Ron Howard's 1989 feature starring Steve Martin and Dianne Wiest that centered on a Midwestern family. Full story

NBC orders 'Day One' pilot

NBC has handed a pilot order to "Day One," a futuristic drama from "Heroes" writer-producer Jesse Alexander. Full story

ABC, NBC pilots set '80s invasion

ABC has given a pilot order to a new take on NBC's 1980s miniseries about an alien invasion. Meanwhile, NBC's comedy pilot "Lost in the '80s," originally picked up as director-contingent, has firmed up its order with the hire of "Confessions of a Shoaholic" helmer P.J. Hogan. Full story

'Trauma' makes two NBC medical pilots

NBC is serious about finding a successor to departing medical drama "ER." A day after the network greenlighted "Mercy," an hourlong pilot about the lives of three nurses, it handed out a director-contingent pilot order to another medical drama, "Trauma." Full story

ABC, NBC pick up drama pilots

Three modern-day witches and three hospital nurses have entered the fall 2009 fray as ABC and NBC handed out pilot orders to dramas "Eastwick" and "Mercy," respectively. Full story