While we’ve already taken a withering peek at the sitcoms ABC has in development, there are many, many other series the networks are fretting over that no doubt merit similar umbrage. Variety has a full list of pilots in production (subscription required), but in a staggering act of selfless community service (and no celebrity DUI to prompt it!), Your Mayor has surveyed the wares, divvied them into categories and summarily found them not terribly original.

First, a little quiz: What do these shows taken together sound like?

Fox’s “Untitled Liz Meriwether Project:� “Four single women post-college.�

ABC’s “Cashmere Mafia:� “Four successful female executives, friends since college, rely on each other as they juggle the demands of career, family and high ambitions in New York City.�

ABC’s “Women's Murder Club:� “Four girlfriends solve tough murder cases.�

A: An effort to cut down on costs caused by sprawling casts.
B: “Four women� is the new black.
C: Thinly veiled variations on “Desperate Housewives.�
D: All of the above.

Add to those: Fox’s “Nurses,� NBC’s “Lipstick Jungle� (powerful women lock horns in NYC) and ABC’s “Football Wives� (version of the lurid British soap “Footballer’s Wives,� only transposed from the world of soccer to professional football), “Judy’s Got a Gun� (single mom solves crimes); “Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office� (“Lipstick Jungle,� only focusing on one “nice girl�) and “See Jayne Run� (woman balances career and motherhood). The networks are trying turning to the Oxygen cable channel for inspiration.

Of course, in ABC’s case, it makes sense, as its two biggest hits are “Grey’s Anatomy� and “Desperate Housewives.� But how many of those “balancing career/family� things have we seen in the past, and don’t most of them sort of feel fairly resolved by the end of the pilot, when the character solves the crime and still manages to get to the bake sale/school play on time, earning a fervent hug from her child, and if she doesn’t it’s OK because the media are still tailing her for a quote and the kid understands because Mommy is a hero and on television, to boot?

But the networks are developing some testosterone-charged shows, as well. Every year, it seems, the networks produce a couple of pilots about bounty hunters; every year, said pilots fail to earn a place on the fall schedule.

But hope springs eternal, and we have a couple more in the works this year: CBS’s “Skip Tracer,� about a “charming rogue� from a couple of “Sopranos� staff writers, and The CW’s “Reaper,� which offers a piquant variation on the theme, focusing on “the devil's bounty hunter, who reclaims souls that have escaped from hell.�

Which brings us to the requisite paranormal offerings: Fox’s “Terminator� spinoff “Sarah Connor Chronicles� and “Them,� about alien spies infiltrating Earth, and CBS’s “zombie dramedy� “Babylon Fields� and “Twilight,� about a private eye who’s also a vampire in love with a mortal. Alas, David Boreanaz is already gainfully employed.

Meanwhile, wheelchairs figure into two new sitcoms: Fox’s “Playing Chicken,� about different brothers who move in together after one suffers an accident, and NBC’s “I’m with Stupid,� in which a guy moves into a group home after meeting a man in a wheelchair. Because nothing says comedy like paralysis. Oddly, according to Variety, “I’m with Stupid� is NBC’s only sitcom in development; they must be praying that “Andy Barker, P.I.� will do boffo business when it debuts in “30 Rock’s� timeslot next month.

And, as usual, cop shows dominate the development landscape. Just a few:

The CW’s “Gravity,� about L.A. rookie cops (hmm, wasn’t that once called “The Rookies?�) and “The World According to Barnes,� billed as an “‘Animal House’-like comedic drama about a pair of crime-solving Princeton students.� How can it be “Animal House�-like if it’s a comedic drama? And didn’t the “Animal House� students commit the crimes, not solve them?

Also: Fox’s “K-Ville,� about post-Katrina New Orleans cops, and “New Amsterdam,� about a cop “who is secretly centuries old.�

NBC has “Ft. Pit,� from “Rescue Me’s� Peter Tolan and Denis Leary, only about cops instead of firemen, and “Life,� in which a wrongly imprisoned policeman rejoins the force.

CBS, which may not be happy until its entire schedule is saturated with crime procedurals, has “Protect and Serve,� which rather banally concerns “Cops living in the Los Angeles suburbs (who) deal with the stresses of police life on and off the job.�

Equally uninspired-sounding is ABC’s “Untitled Cop Project,� “a workplace comedy about the eccentric characters in a police precinct.�

And yet, passed over once again by every broadcast network was “Untitled Mayor of Television Project,� “a workplace comedy about the eccentric characters dealing with the stresses of trying to balance personal and professional lives while hunting down in wheelchairs souls who have escaped hell and plague Television with reality series.�