The Fabricator

An Iraqi man fabricates intelligence against a wanted terrorist to secure asylum for his threatened family; but the botched follow-up leaves his neighbors dead in their home. Now, the US Army and the Iraqi police want answers, while his neighbors' relatives and the terrorist himself want him dead.

Dr. Feldman, FBI

A malfunctioning hearing aid enables a dentist to overhear a terrorist plot at Newark Airport, where he is drawn into a web of intrigue, enjoying the excitement more than he'd have thought -- until his batteries run out.

The Clean

Industry has so poisoned the environment that cancer is as widespread as the common cold, except in the gated preserves called The Clean, where none but the extreme rich can afford to live. When Sarah Hawthorne, a chute operator in a power plant, discovers that she's pregnant, she vows to bear her child there, at any cost.

Top Bidder

Having lost almost everything to her ebay addiction, Margaret Baskin auctions off intangibles to make ends meet -- things like blessings, and, later, deliverance. When the top bidder for that turns out to be an Army chaplain in Iraq, Margaret has to come up with a way to deliver the goods.

Therefore Choose Mike

Security technician Mike Banff -- good with radios, bad with people -- does his high-tech best to convince superstitious Christie Fingel that her dead mother is telling her to go out with him. Things comes to a head when Mike's buddy Nate, himself smitten with Christie, appears as the voice of Christie's late father, telling her to leave Mike immediately; Christie, still in rebellion, decides to bear Mike's children.

Rain Dance

A small town in Arkansas, facing a devastating drought without the possibility of state or federal aid, turns to its last surviving native shaman (a school bus driver who they forced into retirement) for a traditional remedy: a rain dance; but, as he tells them, if they want their wish granted, they'll have to do the same for him.

Field Trip to America

A group of impatient, high-powered New Yorkers, stranded in Idaho on a ski vacation when their chartered helicopter breaks down, are so surprised that people are nice to them that they decide to quit the city and stay. They're hard put to prove their worth when, to their equal surprise, people expect them to be nice back.

Beating Aimee Bundt

Emily Jabotinsky can't compete with Aimee Bundt on grades, athletics, looks, or popularity; but she can compete on sheer competitiveness, and she might be able to beat her at chess. Emily dedicates herself to unseating Aimee at the head of the Boromir Junior High Girls' Chess Team, and in the All-County championships to come.

Minor Year

1991. A young man from a decent family dives into the half-light of pre-Internet New York City. He wants to be an artist. Befriended by an HIV-stricken pianist old enough to be his father, he becomes the musician's lover, then helper, and soon survivor and heir.

Feeding Eddy

On a class trip to the Port of Long Beach, geeky Eddie Robinson picks up a mysterious disease that makes him so hungry, he can eat his body weight in pizza, in a day, without gaining an ounce. Spread by kissing, the affliction makes Eddy a must-date commodity (but only up to first base); while, soon, teen carriers threaten to devour the entire town -- residents and all.

The Swarm

Climate change afflicts NYC with a plague of mosquitoes. When the Mayor orders wholesale spraying, only the smart survive. Noticed only by an expert on machine learning, they form a singular intelligence that may be the city's ruin, but may also be something new under the sun.

Opening Up

Guitarist Forbes Reiner hasn't spoken a word in his 33 years -- and won't, either, until Melissa Cone walks into his hotel lobby gig and into his life, wanting only one thing: to sing with Forbes.

The Man Without Pride

Aliens take over a New Jersey town, by being so critical that no one's self esteem can survive. The only man who can stop them is someone who never had any to begin with, and learned to get along: Regis, the man without pride.

Phoning It In

Gary Blender hasn't been to the office in two years. Now he's up for promotion. The new boss who likes his work is the guy Gary hit last year at the hockey rink, with a Zamboni.

samurabbi

Ikiru Berkowitz has enough trouble reconciling his split Jewish-Japanese heritage, but when an assassin crashes his bar mitzvah, he'll need all the strength of both just to stay alive.

clean sweep

Bobbi Ann Lushinski's plan to escape the mean streets by joining a convent is foiled when she falls in love with the janitor.

Breakfast of Geniuses

Elliot Goldspice, 13, disappointed with his breakfast options and struggling in school, concocts Goldbots, a cereal that measurably improves the standardized test scores of those who eat it. The discovery brings him lucrative celebrity, an idyll soon fractured by questions of SAT doping and cereal addiction. Elliot replies to the accusations with anger, causing a rift with the most important person in his life: his mother, the school principal.

Here Ghost Nothing

We all have skeletons in our closets, but when Sarah and Barry move into a new place together, the ghosts that haunted their old apartments come along, too. When the ectoplasmic pair square off, the living lovers must find a way to make peace between them before the supernatural snarkfest ruins their relationship.

Chasing Babi

Joleen, an anthropologist, struggles with the morality of her new boyfriend's inevitable murder of her two children, even as she is frustrated in her attempts to obtain classified information on the social structures of the now-extinct African baboon.

Love and Theft

When Myrtle goes out for panty hose, it isn't to look good at her and Harry's grandson's wedding -- it's for them to pull over their heads when they rob a bank on the way to the rehearsal dinner. But with thirteen grandkids by five do-gooder children, how else can two retirees afford to pick up the tab?

Core Router

(web series) The Internet's Core Routers are not, as we previously thought, a rack of terrifyingly expensive, gunmetal-gray Cisco boxes in a hardened, multiply-redundant facility, but a klatch of old-fashioned telephone switchboard operators and overweight computer nerds in an industrial park outside Boise. This virtual clip show consists of real and invented Web footage and political scandals, intercut with the operators' and sysops' ironic commentary on the state of the 'net.

Belonging

Andrew, 30, is developmentally disabled, to the lasting frustration of his high-powered family. Though instructed to the last detail how to behave at his brother's wedding, out of their hopes of averting a behavioral breakdown, it's the unexpected acceptance he finds in the family of his brother's new bride that changes his world forever.

The Trans-Pacific Railroad

Having achieved six impossible things in his long life, a trillionaire inventor decides for his final act to build a railroad from Los Angeles to Tokyo. Convinced he's gone senile, his grown children scheme to stop him before he squanders their inheritence on what they're sure will be his failure.

Luigi's Place

After years of getting kicked around in other people's restaurants, Luis -- aka Luigi -- opens his own. It becomes a neighborhood place, even though the food kind of sucks -- until the customers take over the kitchen.