UPDATE: Bryan Fuller tweeted “NBC just informed me the Deadline article regarding #MockingbirdLane was Dead Wrong. Stay tuned for updates!”
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Deadline is reporting that NBC is close to passing on "Mockingbird Lane," although the decision is not final as of yet. The show was put together by Bryan Fuller, who is best known for his short-lived, yet beloved television series "Pushing Daisies." The pilot was directed by Bryan Singer ("X-Men") and it received strong praise for it's visuals from the few critics that viewed it.
Don't feel too bad for Fuller as he has his hands full with another series "Hannibal." That show is about Hannibal Lector, a character made famous in "Silence of the Lambs." Where as "Mockingbird Lane" couldn't get past the pilot stage, "Hannibal" already has a 13-episode midseason order.
The pilot, written by Bryan Fuller and to be directed by Bryan Singer, is described as a reinvention of the 1960s sitcom about The Munsters, a family of “monsters” — vampires, werewolves and Frankenstein, and their “plain” cousin (Charity Wakefield) — that will feature striking visuals in the vein of Fuller’s ABC dramedy Pushing Daisies. O’Connell will play family patriarch, the handsome and gangly Herman Munster, a great dad and devoted husband. He is married to Lily, a vampire, with whom he has fathered a 10-year-old boy, Eddie (Mason Cook). Strong but sentimental, Herman works at a funeral home, and worries that Eddie’s transformation into a werewolf and burgeoning awareness of his family’s origins will crush the boy’s spirit.
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