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Recently, Fox served up the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Bones" episode 2 of season 11, and it turns out that we're going to see some pretty interesting stuff go down as a surprise FBI scientist shows up on the scene while the Jeffersonian crew gets closer to discovering where in the hell Booth disappeared to, and more! The episode is titled, "The Brother in the Basement." In the new, 2nd episode press release: The Team Gets Closer To Uncovering Booth's Whereabouts On An All-new "Bones" Thursday, October 8, On Fox. Press release number 2: Another layer is going to get added to the mystery of Booth's whereabouts and the state of his physical condition when the team discovers that FBI Agent Miller (guest star Kim Raver) has not been entirely truthful with the FBI and the Jeffersonian, keeping vital information from them that could lead them to Booth. In the meantime,...

Official episodic photos from Bones season 11 episode 2, "The Brother in the Basement," airing Thursday, October 8.

From Fox: "Another layer is added to the mystery of Booth?s whereabouts and the state of his physical condition when the team learns that FBI Agent Miller (guest star Kim Raver) has not been entirely truthful with the FBI and the Jeffersonian, keeping vital information from them that could lead them to Booth. Meanwhile, the Jeffersonian gets a surprise visitor, FBI digital forensic scientist Dr. Benjamin Metzger (guest star Josh Casaubon), who works with Angela to try to decode the information the team has been able to uncover regarding Booth?s location and the circumstances surrounding his disappearance. Also, Arastoo makes a major decision that affects his and Cam?s personal and professional relationship."...

Blessed with good looks, a winning smile, hippie parents, and a sunny California upbringing, life has been relatively easy for Logan Wood so far. After nearly four decades of coasting along through countless women and random jobs, he now teaches yoga to the hot moms, trophy wives and aspiring celebrities of Santa Monica and Venice Beach.

But when Logan breaks up with his successful older girlfriend Amanda (Paget Brewster), who happens to be the owner of the yoga studio, things start to get complicated for the first time.

Down Dog is a satirical comedy pilot written by Robin Schiff (Are You There Chelsea?) that stars Josh Casaubon (I Just Want My Pants Back), Lyndsy Fonseca (How I Met Your Mother), Will Greenberg (Halt and Catch Fire), Andrea Savage (The Life and Times of Tim), Amir Talai (American Dad), Alysia Reiner (Orange is the New Black) – with Kris Kristofferson (Lone Star...

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Down Dog, Season 1, Episode 1: “Pilot”

Written by Robin Schiff

Directed by Brad Silberling

Released January 15, 2015 by Amazon

Writer Robin Schiff, while perhaps best known for her work on Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, has also been a noticeable presence on television, writing for shows such as Party of Five, Are you there, Chelsea?, and Super Fun Night. Amazon’s latest round of pilots sees Schiff delve into creating her own show, as she writes the pilot for Down Dog, about a yoga instructor who finds his life suddenly thrown into turmoil. Unfortunately, the pilot stumbles out of the gate and never recovers, as a combination of conflicting messages about the lead character and unmemorable or reductive secondary characters make this potential show one with little to no promise.

The episode seems oddly confused about how to feel about the lead character and his actions, which...

Get ready to watch, rate and review Amazon’s just-released pilots – a slate of 13 original comedy, drama, docuseries and kids offerings now available on Amazon Instant Video.

The pilots come from a talented creative roster that includes both newcomers discovered through Amazon Studios as well as highly-acclaimed veterans such as Ridley Scott (Blade Runner), Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files), Carlton Cuse (Lost), Randall Wallace (Braveheart), Shawn Ryan (The Shield), Brad Silberling (Jane the Virgin, Lemony Snickets…), Mark Waters (Mean Girls), Academy and Emmy Award winning director Alex Gibney (The Armstrong Lie), Angela Santomero (Blue’s Clues), and Carol Greenwald (Arthur).

Over the course of the next four weeks, viewer feedback will ultimately help to decide which of them get picked up to full series. So your opinions matter! You could help choose the next Golden Globe-winning series, after all.

Check out the synopsis of each of them below, and start watching them here today.

Amazon Studios’ first pilot season of 2015 will debut Thursday, Jan. 15, unveiling seven drama and comedy projects as well as a half-dozen kid-centric pilots.

Already due to debut via Amazon Studios this year are the first full seasons of Bosch, Hand of God and Red Oaks, plus Season 2 of Transparent. (Chris Carter’s The After meanwhile just had its series order scrapped.)

The dramas and comedies are as follows (click photos to zoom):

Cocked | Created by Samuel Baum (Lie to Me) and Sam Shaw (Manhattan), this drama stars Sam Trammell (True Blood) as a man who 20 years ago left his...

Get ready for our first pilot season of 2015, launching January 15th, when seven new primetime and six new kids pilots will debut on Amazon Instant Video. As with previous pilot seasons, viewers in the Us, UK and Germany will be invited to watch, rate and review them all over the course of four weeks, ultimately helping to decide which of them get picked up to full series.

The new pilots come from both highly-acclaimed and newly-discovered creators, and a legion of talented actors, directors and producers signed on to bring the pilots to life. Here’s a brief summary of each:

Primetime Pilots

The Man in the High Castle – Based on Philip K. Dick’s award-winning novel, and executive produced by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner), The Man in the High Castle explores what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States.

Amazon Studios announced a slate of seven new pilots Wednesday, including one set in West L.A. and another being produced from a script selected through its open submissions process. Amazon has become known for shooting its pilots and series in Los Angeles, where TV production has been on the decline in recent years. For instance, author Michael Connelly insisted that every scene of “Bosch,” a series focused on a Los Angeles police detective, be shot locally. Now, “Down Dog” is set to join Amazon’s L.A.-centered scripted lineup. The pilot stars Josh Casaubon as a “dashing, happy-go-lucky L.A. yoga instructor [who] has breezed through life, women and jobs, but when he breaks up with the woman who runs his yoga studio, he’s finally forced to face obstacles, and has to learn how to transcend himself,” according to Hollywonk, the Amazon Studios blog. “Our first pilot season...

As Netflix continues to assert itself as a major television company with such acclaimed series as House of Cards and Orange is the New Black, Amazon Studios is racing to catch up by ordering series it hopes will be equally well-received. So far, Amazon has scored one big hit in the form of Jeffrey Tambor-led dramedy Transparent, and it hopes to find some more in the new lineup of pilots, which will be made available for viewing as part of the company’s first pilot season of 2015.

Enclosed are descriptions of all seven pilots, courtesy of Deadline. The talented involved on all of them is impressive, to say the least. Mad Dogs comes from Cris Cole (The Bill) and Shawn Ryan (The Shield), while The Man In The High Castle hails from Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files). Carlton Cuse (Lost, The Strain) and Randall Wallace (Braveheart) are behind Point Of Honor,...

A close-up look at a family torn apart by the start of the Civil War. An adaptation of Phillip K. Dick’s alternate history of the United States post-World War II. A satire of new age yoga culture in west Los Angeles. And a docu-series based on America’s most award-winning magazine.

Get ready for our first pilot season of 2015, when seven new series will debut their first episodes in January on Amazon Instant Video in the U.S. and U.K.. As with previous pilot seasons, you’ll be invited to watch each of them and provide feedback on the ones you’d like to see become full series.

The seven new pilots come from both highly-acclaimed and newly-discovered creators, and an impressive roster of talented actors have signed on to bring each pilot to life. Here’s a brief summary of each:

Cocked — A big city corporate lapdog...

Amazon is entering pilot season strong with seven pilots for shows with big names attached. The pilots will include hour-long shows Cocked, Mad Dogs, The Man in the High Castle, and Point of Honor, half-hour shows Down Dog and Salem Rogers, and the half-hour docu-series The New Yorker Presents. Cocked is the hour-long dark comedy from Lie to Me's Sam Baum and Manhattan's Sam Shaw. It stars Sam Trammell as Richard Paxson, a man who returns to his rural Virginia family after leaving acrimoniously 20 years ago. Now, Paxson returns with his liberal family to the dysfunctional family he left behind,...

Jane the Virgin director Brad Silbering is staying put at CBS TV Studios. News of his overall deal comes just a day after the CW announced the critically-acclaimed dramedy, which he also executive produces, was granted a full season order. Silbering helmed the pilot for CW's sophomore entry Reign, too, also at CBS TV Studios. More recently, Silberling directed the half-hour Amazon pilot Down Dog, with Bob Cooper producing. The half-hour entry centers on a surfer (Bad Teacher's Josh Casaubon) devoid of ambition and described as a Peter Pan who has been sliding through life on his

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Lyndsy Fonseca will soon be stretching her boundaries as an actress — quite literally, at that.

The Nikita and How I Met Your Mother alumna has signed on to Amazon’s comedy pilot Down Dog, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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Penned by Robin Schiff (Almost Perfect), the series centers on Logan (One Life to Live vet Josh Casaubon), a charming surfer who is left in charge of his ex-girlfriend’s yoga studio. Fonseca will play Winter, an instructor who becomes a love interest for Logan.

The series also stars Paget Brewster as Logan’s ex,...

Earlier this summer, rumors floated around the web about Amazon Studios ordering a new comedy series called Down Dog. Today, it seems they’ve finally started working on the series as they’ve cast Lyndsy Fonseca in a lead role. The Hollywood Reporter first wrote about the Nikita star’s new role in the pilot, which will introduce viewers to the character Logan (played by Bad Teacher’s Josh Casaubon), a deadbeat guy simply getting by on his “charisma, charm and good looks” until he’s forced to run his ex-girlfriend’s yoga studio. Fonseca will star opposite Casaubon, playing a yoga teacher named Winter who’s “described as stunning if bedraggled, waif and unreliable and always late — and a love interest for Logan.” Down Dog was created by Robin Schiff of Are You There, Chelsea? and the pilot starring Casaubon and Fonseca will be directed by Brad Silberling, director...

“Nikita” star Lyndsy Fonseca could be headed back to television, joining Amazon’s comedy pilot “Down Dog”, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The comedy follows Logan (Josh Casaubon), a man who is left to run the yoga studio his ex-girlfriend once owned. Problem is the surfer has lived his life without taking responsibility for his actions. Now he must change his ways to run a business, whether he is ready or not. Brad Silberling will direct the pilot, written by show creator Robin Schiff. Fonseca has been cast as Winter, a yoga teacher at Logan’s new studio and his love interest. [...]

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Nikita star Lyndsy Fonseca has found her next TV gig. The actress has been tapped to co-star in Amazon's comedy pilot Down Dog, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Down Dog centers on Logan (Bad Teacher's Josh Casaubon), a surfer devoid of ambition and described as a Peter Pan who has been sliding through life on his charisma, charm and good looks who is forced to take life seriously when he's left in charge of his ex-girlfriend's yoga studio. Fonseca will play Winter, one of the yoga teachers at the studio. The character is described as stunning if bedraggled, waif and unreliable and always late —

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Criminal Minds alum Paget Brewster is getting her “Om” on, joining the cast of Amazon’s yoga-centric comedy pilot Down Dog, TVLine has learned exclusively.

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Written by Almost Perfect‘s Robin Schiff, Down Dog centers on Logan (One Life to Live grad Josh Casaubon), a laid-back, charming surfer who is left in charge of his ex-girlfriend’s yoga studio.

Brewster will play said ex, Amanda.

Since exiting Criminal Minds as a series regular, Brewster has shown the funny in gigs on Modern Family and Community, as well as recent passed-on ABC comedy pilots Spy and Saint Francis.

Travis (Zac Badasci) grabs a package from the delivery man, but he tells him his parcel hasn't arrived yet. Delivery guy pays a visit to a woman for more than just a delivery and she will see him again tomorrow, as will many others. He is killed in his truck. Horatio (David Caruso) notes the presence of ligature marks on his neck. He was also stabbed repeatedly by box cutters. Horatio no longer gets any witty one-liners. Ryan: "Do you think it might have been personal?" Horatio: "It usually is Mr Wolfe, it usually is." On the Vic, Doug's (Josh Casaubon) list of deliveries is a Marcus Trejo (Raymond Cruz) whom Ryan (Jonathan Togo) and Delko (Adam Rodriguez) question. Already Delko throws his weight around and Marcus denies killing him. He did however confront him for making a move on his girlfriend. So any fibres found will be a result of this altercation.

After spending untold amounts of cash on hundreds of dramas and comedies — most of which will never make it to your living rooms — the five broadcast networks will begin announcing in New York next week which projects are good enough to earn a coveted fall pickup. (NBC and Fox will present their fall schedule to advertisers on Monday, followed by ABC on Tuesday, CBS on Wednesday and the CW on Thursday).

Buzz is already strong for several projects (for more on the hot ones, click here). But every year, we always wonder what diamond-in-the-rough was left on the cutting room...

And they’re off! Casting is all but completed and production has already begun on scores of pilots for the five broadcast networks. But not every comedy and drama will go the distance. Which project has the right stuff? What pilot already has you feeling like you popped a Lunesta? Check out the mammoth slate for fall consideration. (And remember, all projects are whittled down in late April/early May before the nets present their fall slates to advertisers in New York):

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The Doctor (Rina Mimoun, David Nutter). A mother (Christine Lahti) reconnects with her adult children when...