Pilot-free series doing poorly

November 30, 2008 Partly by choice and partly by necessity because the WGA strike cut short the pilot season, this year was supposed to be the dawn of a new era for series development. [...] after getting a lot of bad rap for their exorbitant costs and failure to realistically represent what the potential series might be, pilots seem to be making a quiet comeback. Several more direct-to-series shows -- NBC's "Kings" and "The Philanthropist," ABC's "In the Motherhood" and "The Goode Family" and Fox's "Dollhouse" -- are on tap for midseason.

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