New Roseanne Barr Pilot Leads NBC's Newest Pilot Pick-Ups

OK, so "Roseanne's Nuts" showed that perhaps reality TV isn't Roseanne Barr's forte.

Depending on just how ga-ga you went over watching Barr harvest macademia nuts and raise livestock in Hawaii, that's either good news or bad news. The undeniably encouraging news from The Hollywood Reporter is that being freed up from a Lifetime reality show that only lasted from July-September 2011 freed Barr up to take part in a pilot that The Hollywood Reporter says has been picked up by NBC.

Like a lower-middle class version of "Midnight Train To Georgia," Roseanne's leaving a show that didn't pan out behind and coming back to a simple life she once knew: playing a brassy, ballsy woman just trying to make ends meet in her new sitcom home "Downwardly Mobile." It's the produce of Barr's former "Roseanne" executive producer Eric Gilliland and it has Barr playing a mobile home park mother that acts as a sort of surrogate to all her tennants in a downtrodden economy.

Barr, Gilliland and John Argent will all write and executive produce the new series, with a multicamera format.

While Barr is making her first stop on the home of the Peacock, "Friends" and "Joey" writer Scott Silveri is coming home bearing a new pilot from Universal Television, "Go On." It's a single-camera comedy following a charming sportscaster who life, love and a generous dose of loss has landed in group therapy.

And finally, with "The Office" showing its age, there's room for another witty workplace comedy alongside "Parks And Recreation." Enter "Animal Kingdom," a single-camera comedy from "The Hangover Part II" writer Scot Armstrong about pet-loving, owner-hating veterinerians.

These three pilots will all be given a swing at a pick-up alongside previously added pilots "The Sarah Silverman Project," "Isabel," "Save Me" and an untitled Kari Lizer. On the less-light side of life, NBC has also picked up dramatic pilots from Jason Katims of "Friday Night Lights" and "Law & Order" legend Dick Wolf.

Well, look at that, NBC! Now you can't claim that cancelling "Whitney" is right out of the question because you don't know what would go there. Take your pick! Cancel the damn show!