Now that they’ve gotten their mid-season shows off the ground, it’s pilot-buyin’ time for the major networks. That means that, in the past few weeks, we’ve been deluged with news about shows in development, with headlines featuring such names as Louis C.K., Mindy Kaling, J.J. Abrams, and Roseanne Barr. Thankfully, for those of us who’ve had some trouble keeping up, The Hollywood Reporter was kind enough to post a full list of what we can look forward to from ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, and The CW in the 2012-13 season. Since that roundup is still pretty daunting, we’ve narrowed the list to the 11 shows we’re most looking forward to; check them out and find out why we can’t to see them after the jump.

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1. When the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum opens this morning at 10 am, it will be the first time since 2001 that the public will be able to enter the World Trade Center grounds. [via The Daily Beast]

2. Cyndi Lauper messed up the lyrics to the national anthem while performing at the US Open yesterday; funny enough, she had trouble with the same lines that Christina Aguilera did earlier this year. As she later explained on Twitter: “I got choked up in the middle remembering 9/11. I hope I didn’t mess up too bad. I wanted it to be comforting.” [via Guardian]

3. Russian director Alexander Sokurov’s film Faust won the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival. Said jury head Darren Aronofsky, “There are some films that make you cry, there are some films that make you laugh, there are some films that change you forever after you see them; and this is one of them.” [via BBC]

4. Married couple Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are teaming up on a multi-camera comedy for NBC about a pair of dueling sisters; DeGeneres will executive produce the project, and it will star de Rossi. [via Deadline]

5. It’s official: The CW is about to close a deal for a script based on The Carrie Diaries, Candice Bushnell’s prequel to Sex and the City that explores Carrie Bradshaw’s high school years; if the pilot is picked up, the show could begin airing as early as next fall. [via EW]

Bonus Buzz: Jim Carrey Covers Radiohead’s “Creep”

In case you haven’t been following along, over the past few days we’ve taken a look at NBC’s 2011-2012 comedies and their Fox counterparts, as well as what we consider to be the only show relevant to our general interests in CBS’s fall lineup. Now, The CW has released clips from four of their new shows coming out this fall. Click through to find out which one (if any!) of these shows belongs in the guilty pleasures portion of your DVR.

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Today at Flavorpill, we wished that we had letterhead as cool as Batman creator Bob Kane’s was. We saw proof of how tech tools transformed New York’s sex trade over the past 20 years. We stopped by Andy Warhol’s old Upper East Side digs. We surprised that monkeys know how to facepalm. We wondered if a new Josh Schwartz show called Georgetown could be the next Gossip Girl. We tried to imagine a world where Jennifer Aniston was a cast member of Saturday Night Live instead of Friends. We were confused by the fact that Harlequin is trying to (or pretending to try to… it’s kind of unclear) patent kissing. We looked at the first stills from the upcoming film adaptation of On the Road. We watched Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” as seen through ripples in milk. We wanted to play a round of The Oregon Trail in real life. And finally, we thought that this list of ten recipes you can make in your coffee pot might come in handy sometime — particularly the chocolate fondue.

Spotted: Bass, far from a lass? Entertainment Weekly‘s Michael Ausiello reports in a exclusive that Gossip Girl‘s most lascivious character (“I’m Chuck Bass.”) will lock lips with a guy this season. Scandal! Actually, it’s not that exciting: it sounds like the kiss is merely a ploy in one of Blair’s tiresome world domination schemes. Still, the very definition of louche, Chuck lost his virginity to the crazyface Georgina in seventh grade, so we’re actually surprised it took his character this long to experiment with another guy. And that it’s NYU’s head of freshman affairs, no less. Go Fighting Violets! Read More »

Before he was creating popular TV series like The O.C. and Gossip Girl, Josh Schwartz used to perform stand-up comedy as a student at USC. You know him as the force behind Star Trek, Alias, and Lost, but J.J. Abrams also composes music. Jenny Lewis had her artistic debut in a Jell-O commercial, and Beck works on collages and drawings with his grandpa, Al Hansen. Michel Gondry was the drummer in a band called Oui Oui back in the ’80s, and Stephen Colbert once fronted a Rolling Stones cover band. Read More »

The only thing that surprises us about the upcoming debut of NYC Prep, Bravo’s not-so-thinly-veiled reality version of Gossip Girl, is that it took this long for them to roll out the idea.  As early disciples of Josh Schwartz (btw, congrats on your wedding!) will recall, it was GG forerunner The O.C. that originally begat The Real Orange County: Laguna Beach, thus kicking off the “quasi-reality based on fiction” craze. Now the network that spawned The Real Housewives of [Insert Location] is poised to bring us a show that promises a peek into the lives of real Upper East Side prepsters and the public school outcasts that circle them. The show won’t premiere until June 23, but Hulu just put up a twenty-minute sneak peek, and we have to say, it’s good. Read More »

The writers over at Daily Intel may still love Gossip Girl, but this New Yorker has lost all interest in the heavy-breathing teen angst fest. Even if Georgina is returning in tonight’s episode. Last year at this time, the show was my everything. But some around December my interest began to wan, and now even the phrase “Good Morning Upper East Siders” elicits an involuntary eye roll. But instead of turning this into a diatribe, I’ve decided to make explanatory list. Perhaps if creator Josh Schwartz can rouse himself from the pungent aroma of loads and loads of money to read these, he’ll be able to catch the GG shark mid-jump. Read More »

According to MTV News, Harold Ramis says that plans for a Groundhog Day musical are moving forward. Contrary to popular cult opinion, we’ve always found that repetitive flick incredibly annoying, so we can only imagine what a Broadway version — especially with music from Stephen Sondheim — would do to us. Bleeding from the eyes and ears? It’s almost as silly as adapting a Green Day album for the stage. Oh wait. That one is happening too. Read More »

It’s official: Rather than starring Jenny Humphrey, the forthcoming Gossip Girl spin-off will be a prequel, focusing on the character of Lily van der Woodsen in her teen years. Big phew. Per this post on the Deadbolt: “Although the young version of Lily van der Woodsen is yet to be cast, CW staple Krysten Ritter has been tapped to co-star as Lily’s sister. The new Gossip Girl spin-off will focus on Lily and her fall from lavish grace at a Montecito boarding school and her move to a public school in the San Fernando Valley where she eventually meets Rufus Humphrey.”

Maybe we’re just suckers for any series with Josh Schwartz’s name attached to it, but this sounds like the opposite of The Office sort of spin-off. (We saw the promo the other night. We love Amy Poehler. LOVE. But it looks really bad. See for yourself.) In other words: awesome.