ABC orders 12 new series

UPFRONTS: ABC’s fresh programming for next season will include seven dramas and five comedies, one of them American Idol host Ryan Seacrest’s first scripted show.

Ahead of the network’s Upfront presentation on Tuesday, the net has greenlit single-cam comedy series Mixology from Ryan Seacrest Productions and ABC Studios. It is about 10 people playing the dating game over one night in Manhattan and is written by the team behind The Hangover.

The Goldbergs, meanwhile, is a single-cam comedy from Happy Madison Productions and Sony Pictures TV, and is set in the 1980s. The show, formerly known as How the Hell Am I Normal, is from Adam Goldberg (Breaking In).

ABC has also greenlit Super Fun Night, centring on the social life of three female friends, from Warner Bros TV and Conaco Productions; and Back in the Game, from 20th Century Fox TV and Kapital Entertainment. The latter is a single-cam comedy about a divorcee who moves back home with her beer-swilling dad.

The fifth comedy ordered by ABC so far is Trophy Wife, a single-cam comedy about a woman who gets together with a guy who has three kids and two ex-wives. ABC Studios is producing.

The list of dramas ordered to series for next season includes ABC Studios’ Once Upon a Time spin-off titled Once Upon a Time in Wonderland; and Betrayal, about an unhappily married woman who starts an affair with a lawyer for a powerful family.

Lucky 7 has also been okayed for next season, a drama from ABC Studios, Amblin TV and UK-based Rollem Productions, based on the latter’s BBC1 series The Syndicate. Another new ABC show based on a foreign hit is Killer Women, from ABC Studios, Electus, Latin World Entertainment and Pol-Ka Productiones, based on Argentinian series Mujeres Asesinas on Canal 13.

Christian Slater vehicle Mind Games – about two brothers, one a bipolar genius, the other an ex-con – has been given the nod by ABC, and hails from 20th Century Fox TV. Supernatural drama Resurrection (fka The Returned) has been ordered to series from ABC Studios, Brillstein Entertainment, Plan B Entertainment.

ABC also tweeted yesterday it had picked up another drama, Marvel’s Agents of Shield, for next season. The show is from ABC Studios and Marvel TV, based on the Marvel Comics organisation of the same name.

In other news ahead of ABC’s Upfront presentation on Tuesday, renewals have been given to Nashville, Castle, Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, Once Upon a Time, Modern Family, The Middle, The Neighbours, Last Man Standing, Revenge and Suburgatory.