ABC Pilots Update: Comedy ‘Adopted’ Not Moving Forward

ABC has begun making calls on pilots that are not getting picked up to series. I hear the producers and cast of comedy Adopted have been notified that the network has passed on the project. There will be a lot more news on series pickups and pilot passes tomorrow.

The single-camera comedy pilot Adopted was co-written and executive produced by Jimmy Kimmel and The Green Beret’s Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse creators, executive producers and stars Shawn Vance and Daril Fannin, both military veterans.

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Vance, whose life inspired the show, starred in the pilot as himself, along with Bruce Campbell and Wendie Malick. In Adopted, produced by ABC Signature and Kimmelot. when a Green Beret (Vance) returns home to Texas from military service, he and his family struggle with the challenges of adopting his new brother, a 12-year-old Russian boy (Maxim Swinton).

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