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Bryan Fuller exited the writing staff of “Heroes” in mid-June to write two pilots for NBC, and he’s finally offering details on the projects.

Neither pilot script appears to have a sci-fi or fantasy component -- a shift for Fuller, who got his start on “Star Trek: Voyager” and earlier this decade scripted excellent failed pilots based on Stephen King’s “Carrie” and Mike Mignola’s “The Amazing Screw-On Head.”

Fuller (creator of “Dead Like Me,” “Wonderfalls” and “Pushing Daisies”) and director Bryan Singer (“X-Men,” “X2,” “Superman Returns,” “Valkyrie,” “House”) are collaborating on a proposed hourlong project based on Augusten Burroughs’ 2000 novel “Sellevision,” which deals with, among other things, a home-shopping channel host driven to a Valium addiction by a fan’s critical e-mail.

Fuller’s second NBC pilot script is for a prospective workplace sitcom titled “No Kill,” about an animal shelter that doesn’t destroy its tenants.

Major digression! I am hugely amused by the Fuller/Singer collaboration because at one time I had difficulty remembering which of the two Bryans (they’re both successful Hollywood fortysomething sci-fi homosexuals) was which. (During this same general era I kept confusing also Singer’s heterosexual “X-Men”/”Superman Returns” sci-fi singer-actor James Marsden with heterosexual “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” sci-fi singer-actor James Marsters.) End major digression!

Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.

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