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With a writers strike averted, the broadcast TV business’ attention — which had been divided for the past month between pilot production and WGA negotiations — is focusing squarely on the ongoing pilot season, now in its final stage heading into the May 15-18 upfronts. Pilots are being screened this week, followed by pickup and scheduling decisions that will be made over the next 10 days. Here is the latest edition of Deadline’s Pilot Buzz on where I hear the various pilots stand:

ABC’s needs may have changed significantly since it ordered 23 pilots — the most of any broadcast network — in January and early February. In the past few weeks, the network went aggressively after American Idol and is in final negotiations for a reboot, which would take up a lot of real estate on the midseason schedule, and it also is negotiating for the upcoming revival of the classic ABC sitcom Roseanne.

“A dark hero will rise,” touts a new promo for the return of Fox’s Gotham (on Monday, April 24 at 8/7c).

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In the spring premiere, “Heroes Rise: How The Riddler Got His Name,” “Nygma convinces himself that he doesn’t need Penguin to succeed and begins to introduce himself to Gotham as The Riddler,” per the official description. Meanwhile, “Bullock and Lucius Fox get caught up in Nygma’s mind games, Gordon learns troubling news about his father’s death and the Court of Owls reveals its next move.

Exclusive: CBS has made a major cast change on the multi-camera comedy pilot Brothered Up. Comedy veteran D. L. Hughley has been set as the co-lead opposite Adhir Kalyan in the buddy cop sitcom from CBS TV Studios. He replaces Romany Malco who was originally cast in the role. The decision was made after the pilot’s table read last week. Actor-comedian Hughley previously headlined the multi-camera comedy series The Hughleys, which ran for four seasons on ABC and Upn. …...

Dreams do come true: USA Network has renewed the thriller Falling Water — which explores the power of dreams — for Season 2.

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Additionally, Rémi Aubuchon (Falling Skies) has joined the series as showrunner for the new season, which follows three unrelated people who discover they can manipulate dreams — and by extension, the dreamers. Now they have to decide how to use their gifts after realizing the fate of the world rests with them.

Falling Water stars David Ajala (Fast & Furious 6), Will Yun Lee (Hawaii Five-0...

Scrubs alum John C. McGinley is set to co-star opposite Romany Malco and Adhir Kalyan in Brothered Up, CBS' multi-camera buddy cop comedy from CBS TV Studios. The deal allows McGinley to be a key series regular on Brothered Up while also continuing on Stan Against Evil. McGinley is the star of the IFC comedy-horror series, on which he also serves as a producer. It begins filming its second season in May in Atlanta. Written and executive produced by Mark Gross, with sitcom…...

Merrin Dungey is headed over to CBS. TVLine reports the Conviction star has joined the network's new pilot Brothered Up.Dungey is the latest Conviction star to move on to another project. Fellow cast members Hayley Atwell, Emily Kinney, and Manny Montana have all booked other roles on different series, heavily suggesting ABC will not renew the legal drama.Read More…...

The ubiquitous Merrin Dungey, who recently starred on ABC’s Conviction, will stand behind her man in blue in the CBS multi-camera sitcom pilot Brothered Up.

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The culture-clash comedy tells the tale of two policemen — Calvin (Weeds‘ Romany Malco), an emotionally guarded African-American cop, and Farooq (Rules of Engagement‘s Adhir Kalyan), an emotionally available Pakistani cop — who are forced to find a way to work together to patrol the streets of a Detroit neighborhood.

Per our sister site Deadline, Dungey is set to play Calvin’s wife Desri,...

Conviction‘s Merrin Dungey is set to co-star opposite Romany Malco and Adhir Kalyan in Brothered Up, CBS’ multi-camera buddy cop comedy from CBS TV Studios. To do Brothered Up, Dungey has been released from Conviction, which has not been officially canceled but is not coming back for a second season. She is the third series regular from the freshman ABC drama to book a new series regular gig, joining Manny Montana, cast in the NBC drama pilot Good Girls, and Emily Kinney…...

Romany Malco (Weeds) has been cast as the co-lead opposite Adhir Kalyan in Brothered Up, the network's multi-camera buddy cop comedy from CBS TV Studios. Also cast as a regular in the project is Nishi Munshi (The Originals). Written and executive produced by Mark Gross, with sitcom veteran James Burrows directing and exec producing, Brothered Up centers on Calvin (Malco), an emotionally guarded African-American cop who is partnered with Farooq (Kalyan), an emotionally…...