..."Dancers desperate to find grace and beauty in an otherwise ugly world..." No, it's not the tagline for , but the pitch for the new pilot the CW has commissioned from Marta Kauffman, co-creator of Friends (and lyricist of the show's catchy theme song), as the net looks for a reason to watch beyond America's Next Top Model.

The one-hour comedy pilot, for now being called Steps, is Kauffman's first pilot since the NBC series that gave her wheelbarrows full of money. It's set in a family-run dance studio, but she says it's not based on any particular dancing family-- not even her own family, even though she says her mother danced for the Mafia during the Depression and later opened her own dance studio.