Vancouver: Pilot season is well underway with a half-dozen projects boiling over in Vancouver, including Cooking Lessons, a one-hour dramedy for CBS.

Elizabeth Lackey (Just Cause) and Paula Marshall (Snoops) star in the series proposal about a female food critic. Constance Zimmer (Good Morning, Miami) also stars in the project, directed by Ivan Reitman.

Also at CBS, Sudbury is a one-hour series proposal (with Warner Bros.) based on the 1998 feature film Practical Magic about sisters with a knack for witchcraft. Sandra Bullock, who starred in the original feature, acts as executive producer along with business partner Denise Di Novi and writer Becky Hartman-Edwards (American Dreams). Production wraps April 2 after two weeks. Tapped to star are Kim Delaney (NYPD Blue), Kat Dennings (Raising Dad) and Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager). Bryan Spicer (Tru Calling) directs.

At ABC, Doing It is a one-hour coming-of-age story of three teenagers. Billed as My So-Called Life-meets-American Pie, Doing It stars an ensemble cast including Sean Faris (Smallville), Jon Foster (Judging Amy), Kelly Osbourne (The Osbournes) and Canadian Missy Peregrym (Black Sash). Two weeks of production in Vancouver wrapped March 25.

Another ABC project is the one-hour drama Kat Plus One, about a New York publicist (Marisa Coughlan, who appeared in Star Troopers) who must raise her suddenly orphaned, six-year-old nephew. Heather Burns (Two Weeks Notice) and Wendie Malick (Just Shoot Me) costar in the project locally managed by veteran PM Warren Carr. Rodman Flender (The O.C.) directs.

Inspired by the realtime action of thriller 24, ABC (with 20th Century Fox Television) is also working up a realtime series proposal called 43 minutes, a romantic comedy starring John Stamos that captures a couple’s first date. Madchen Amick (Twin Peaks) costars and production of the pilot is scheduled for April in Vancouver.

WB Network and 20th Century Fox Television wrapped two weeks of production March 17 on the pilot episode for The Robinsons: Lost in Space, a remake of the 1960s CBS series about a family marooned in the universe. Action king John Woo is on as director and executive producer for the proposed one-hour series.