Ranking The Potential Of 5 New TV Pilot Commitments
There were two huge TV pilot committments announced yesterday: J.J. Abrams action drama for Fox, which will pair L.A. police officers with androids, and Kurt Sutter’s clown assassin comedy (which may...
View ArticleRZA Will Co-Star In A Pilot Written By The Mind Behind The 'Fast & Furious'...
Apparently someone went ahead and made today my damn birthday, because Wu-Tang Clan mastermind RZA has been cast in a new Fox pilot that’s being written by Chris Morgan, the mind behind the last three...
View ArticleThe Year’s 21 Television Pilots Most Likely To Get A Greenlight
There have been over 100 pilots announced this television season, but as usual, most of them sound dreadfully generic: Lawyers, doctors, procedurals, friends hanging out together, single-moms, blah...
View Article'The Millers' Showrunner Doesn't Want His Show To Be Known As The Fart Show
Will Arnett has gone from being the star of the failed NBC Thursday night comedy Up All Night to the star of the CBS Thursday night sitcom, The Millers, and based on CBS’ track record, that’s probably...
View ArticleWatch Sarah Silverman’s Very Funny, Very Topless Failed NBC Pilot
There are very few things we, the Internet, can agree on. Basically, the list is: corgis are the best, Nickelback is the worst, and when writing about Sarah Silverman’s unaired NBC pilot, the banner...
View ArticleSo That ‘How I Met Your Mother’ Spin-Off Is Now A Reality
We previously mentioned how CBS wanted a ‘HIMYM‘ spin-off and wouldn’t stop until all of the blood had been squeezed from the stone. Well success, CBS, because now ‘How I Met Your Father‘ is...
View ArticleNBC Picked Up A Pilot From ‘Happy Endings’ Creator David Caspe
First the good news: NBC has picked up the pilot for a new comedy from Happy Endings creator David Caspe, according to Deadline. Marry Me, a single-camera sitcom, doesn’t sound like the most original...
View ArticlePredicting The 5 Best (And 10 Worst) TV Pilots For 2014-2015 Based On Premise...
Would you believe me if I told you that this time next year, you might not only be watching, but ENJOYING a sitcom called Fatrick? That’s a terrible, awful, no-good name for anything, but the show...
View ArticleLife Before The Bat Revealed! Details Of Fox’s ‘Gotham’ Pilot Have Emerged.
Via Flickr Millions of eyes will be looking toward Gotham this fall. Details about the upcoming Fox series have been leaking slowly out. We know the basic premise, some of the featured characters, and...
View ArticleJimmy Kimmel Sold A Pilot About Carson Daly’s Life To ABC
Getty Image With each video of his people humiliating clueless hipsters at huge events, Jimmy Kimmel grows significantly stronger. The host of Jimmy Kimmel Live has not only sold his first sitcom pilot...
View ArticleNBC Is Resurrecting ‘Problem Child’ As A New Sitcom
Universal Pictures Universal Pictures had a certified hit with the 1990 comedy Problem Child, as the story of the world’s most obnoxious red-headed kid earned $72 million at the global box office....
View ArticleABC Is Turning Tom Hanks’‘Bachelor Party’ Into A TV Series That Sounds...
20th Century Fox Bachelor Party doesn’t get enough credit. The Tom Hanks starring film could have been a B-movie debacle that drowned in exposed flesh, Tawny Kitaen’s hair, and low-brow humor. Instead,...
View ArticleNBC Is Teaming Up With The Showrunner From ‘Supernatural’ To Reboot ‘Frequency’
New Line Cinema I like to think that there is a great big spinning wheel with the title of each and every successful and semi-successful movie from the last 30 years on it, and every time a TV...
View ArticleA Horrible Alien Baggage Handling Show Nearly Cost Matthew Perry His Role On...
Share This Video When we talk about the great dodged bullets of American sitcom history, we should really include the failed pilot for LAX 2194. It was a show about Los Angeles International Airport...
View ArticleAmy Poehler’s Production Company Sold Three Pilots In Just A Week
Getty Image Even though she may have been unjustly shut out at the Emmys (but remaining a gangsta anyway), Amy Poehler continues to do her thing and do it well. Her production company, Paper Kite...
View ArticleJean Smart replaces Jane Adams in NBC’s Craig Robinson comedy pilot
ABC NBC is staying in the Jean Smart business. Following Jane Adams’ (“Hung”) exit from the network’s untitled Craig Robinson comedy pilot following last week’s table read, Smart has stepped in to fill...
View Article‘Smash’s’ Katharine McPhee lands female lead in CBS genius drama ‘Scorpion’
AP Photo Katharine McPhee is taking another stab at series television. The “Smash” alum has signed on for the female lead in CBS's Scorpion,” a drama pilot centering on an “eccentric genius” named...
View ArticleA Guide To The Pilots That Could Be Next Season’s Big Shows
Shutterstock Before we begin, a quick reminder of what it means when a pilot is picked up. It means that a network sees enough promise in the idea of a show to order one episode. Based on that one...
View ArticleABC PILOT MOVES SUPERHEROES INTO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
Prepare to be blown away with innovation*, because the geniuseseseses over at ABC have just developed their next reinvention of the pilot season wheel: a drama about a family of superheroes...
View ArticleSYFY TO WHIP OUT THREE INCHES SUPERHERO PILOT
SYFY is jumping on the TV superhero bandwagon with a newly greenlit pilot for a superhero series called Three Inches. The official announcement describes it as: In Three Inches, professional daydreamer...
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