Then there was Unit Zero, which saw Toni Collette as a determined woman working within the male-dominated CIA; ABC passed.
In the past few years, Kenya Barris has had 4 different ABC projects in contention for pick-up, with varying degrees of success and failure.
The black-ish spinoff grown-ish was originally set up at ABC before being passed over to Freeform.
The politically angled family comedy Libby and Malcolm had the star power of Felicity Huffman and Courtney B. Vance and a story of people falling in love across party lines, but it didn’t move forward.