Jeff Schaffer

After approximately 148 years on air, the fat lady has finally sung for American Idol, leaving a giant gaping 2-hour hole in Fox’s weekly schedule. This could be a boon for comedy showrunners, drama showrunners, or both. Let’s find out what’s in the pipeline with our preview of Fox’s 2016 Comedy Pilots.

Logline: Larry and his friend invest in an electric car company, which becomes a success and makes his friend extremely wealthy.

Pitched as being in the vein of Coming To America meets Trading Places, story sees Cohen in dual roles – a goat herder, and a deposed foreign dictator who look exactly alike get lost in the United States.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Schaffer brings new life to John Landis classic.

Logline: Follows a fired cop who still patrols the neighborhood administering his own brand of twisted justice.

Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of Coming To America meets Trading Places, story sees Cohen in dual roles — a goat herder, and a deposed foreign dictator who look exactly alike get lost in the United States.

Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of Coming To America meets Trading Places, story sees Cohen in dual roles — a goat herder, and a deposed foreign dictator who look exactly alike get lost in the United States.

Logline: When the US military needs two decoys to take a fall, bumbling government employees Cooper Harris and Louis Zalapski are made “super spies” and assigned to bring down a ruthless African dictator.