Body Politic (TV pilot)

Body Politic
Created by	Bill Robinson Jason Rothenberg
Starring	Minka Kelly Jason Dohring Gabrielle Union Brian Austin Green Jay Hernandez Jenny Wade Brandon Scott Tim Matheson
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	44 minutes

Body Politic is a television pilot that starred Minka Kelly, Gabrielle Union, Jason Dohring, and Brian Austin Green. It was produced by CBS Television Studios for The CW.

After much speculation on the show's status, the show did not appear in the CW's fall schedule in early 2009. However, on May 21, 2009, in an interview with Dawn Ostroff, the CW's CEO stated the show was still in consideration for midseason. On August 4, 2009, Dawn Ostroff announced that the project was officially dead for the CW.

Body Politic focuses on a young woman (Minka Kelly) who moves to Washington to work for a senator and the other eager up-and-comers with whom she becomes friends. Kelly played Frankie, an all-American girl who leaves her life in Michigan after the death of her mother and heads to D.C., where her long-lost dad, Sen. Webster (Tim Matheson), has just been appointed Attorney General, and takes a job on his staff.

The show was produced by CBS Productions, one of The CW's two parent companies. The filming started in March 2009 in Washington, D.C.

Critics were positive enough with the 14–20 minute pilot presentation. E! Online describe it as the "Best Pilot you may never see" and that "if the CW ever wants us to take it seriously as a trademark network of our generation, it needs to branch out from its usual routine of picking up shows geared for a younger audience. The Body Politic is a cure to that problem".

After the CW didn't pick up the pilot, the producers tried to promote the potential series to other networks including NBC and ABC. It was reported that NBC liked what they saw, but didn't have space for it and ABC was considering the series for midseason.

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