Logo text NBC executives Lisa Katz and Jeff Bader amazed some of their younger colleagues earlier this year with tales of past pilot seasons. “I said, ‘We used to do twelve dramas,’ and they went, ‘What?!,'” Katz, president scripted content for NBC and Peacock, said on a conference call ahead of Monday’s NBCUniversal upfront. Added Bader, president program planning strategy at NBC, “We used to do six for one [open] time period.” Those days are long gone, but NBC did order more scripted pilots — eight — than any single network had since 2022. Those eight projects resulted in four series pickups : dramas Line of Fire and The Rockford Files and comedies Newlyweds and Sunset P.I. Line of Fire and Newlyweds are set to premiere in the fall, while The Rockford Files and Sunset P.I. — both, coincidentally, centered on private investigators — will launch in early 2027. Katz had pushed to up the number of pilots NBC ordered this season, and NBCUniversal budgeted for the increased volume.…