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nurdboy42 t1_j1xg8fr wrote

Any lost pilots?

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ItsMeSatan t1_j1xxgur wrote

Amelia Earhart comes to mind

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downonthesecond t1_j1y3ilz wrote

Too soon.

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Triskan t1_j1z5x24 wrote

Eeeeh, it's been almost a century. Time flies too. Or even better actually.

Anyways, I did hope we'd get the never-aired GoT pilot but I guess HBO really want to keep that one in the dark.

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Vergenbuurg t1_j1z9v59 wrote

"Amelia Earhart flew a lot of airplanes, except for that one time when she didn't come back...

...and then there's Maude!"

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XS4Me t1_j1ycufl wrote

Mods!!! BAANNNN!!!

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Niick t1_j1yayw3 wrote

No Masters of Doom which is a shame. Hopefully it'll show up someday.

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logicalnoise t1_j1xd1vk wrote

This is really pretty cool.

EDIT: Grabbing these, there's bound to be sometjhing cool right?

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HRJafael OP t1_j1xdw38 wrote

I already have lol. There's the "Gilded Lilys" pilot from ABC trying to make an American Downton Abbey, the "Big Thunder" pilot also from ABC based off the Disney park ride, and "Drew" which was CBS' attempt to make a Nancy Drew show a few years before the CW made theirs.

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crowfort t1_j1xqbep wrote

Ha. I worked on the gilded Lilys pilot. I’m actually excited to be able to see it. It was shot in Boston.

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HRJafael OP t1_j1xqqv3 wrote

Was this pilot an earlier attempt at "Gilded Age" that ended up on HBO or a completely separate thing?

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ElectricPeterTork t1_j1xrpnm wrote

A quick google shows it was Shonda Rhimes does Downton in the US starring Captain Jack Harkness.

Julian Fellowes wasn't involved, so it wasn't the actual Downton prequel that morphed into The Gilded Age.

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HRJafael OP t1_j1xs15s wrote

Interesting to know. Should be an interesting watch.

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crowfort t1_j1xw3ay wrote

Yeah, as far as I remember it really was just an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of downton Abby but in America.

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ElectricPeterTork t1_j1xgd5b wrote

It would've sold if Drew had been CBS's attempt to make Drew Carey as Nancy Drew.

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samebatchannel t1_j1xhi9e wrote

Hear me out. Drew Carey solving Nancy drew mysteries and nobody bats an eye that he’s an older man

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janzeera t1_j1xw3u0 wrote

That and periodically characters in the show ask him if that’s his real name or is that something bullies called him in HS.

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degggendorf t1_j1xtss6 wrote

Isn't that kinda like Dicktown?

[genuine question, I've only half-watched one of them, but i think that's what I remember it being from hearing promos for it]

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samebatchannel t1_j1xwjvt wrote

Sort of. You owe it to yourself to watch dicktown. This show with drew Carey would be live action

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d0nttweet t1_j1xo4wp wrote

That the one with Sarah Shahi that they declined because it was too "female-leaning (audience-wise)"?

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CptNonsense t1_j1zt69p wrote

Like.. who did they think was going to be the audience for Nancy Drew when they put money into a pilot?

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logicalnoise t1_j1xe1km wrote

Yeah, very least I have something to watch while high.

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Micahman311 t1_j1xqips wrote

I wonder if they have the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend pilot that was shot for Showtime and had Michael MacDonald (MADTV - Stewie) as Daryl.

I absolutely love Pete Gardner, so I am happy he replaced Michael, but I'd still love to see that pilot.

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Maninhartsford t1_j1xaqm8 wrote

I bet the CBS pilot "Friend Me" from 2012 is a real winner

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nayrlladnar t1_j1xcsk5 wrote

Made me remember God Friended Me...

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comped t1_j1xomtt wrote

Did the account ever turn out to actually be god?

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stringrandom t1_j1xsysd wrote

I stand by the idea that god was The Machine from Person of Interest, and that the whole show is an extension of PoI.

(But officially, it ends without explicitly showing the answer.)

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IOnlyLiftSammiches t1_j1ycpc7 wrote

This is the best explanation I've seen and I'll be adopting it myself. Thank you!

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bros402 t1_j1zk0oz wrote

that was my fanwank for the show

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inkista t1_j21fry9 wrote

Yup. That was my mental framework for watching God Friended Me: that the Machine from POI was fanfic/LARPING Early Edition. :)

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uselessartist t1_j2046q5 wrote

Huh I never heard of this show. I actually had a pretty popular God account on Facebook back in the day.

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anotheranonaccount5 t1_j1y97fu wrote

Didn't expect to see Cousin Greg, McLovin, and the spokesman of Corncob TV in an awful sitcom together.

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Sonicfan42069666 t1_j1yywen wrote

Oh, pilot season...

Remember when Greta Gerwig was attached to star in How I Met Your Dad?

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GavinBelsonsAlexa t1_j1zn9ic wrote

I just tried it because, well, what a cast. Turns out that the only thing I hate more than multi-camera sitcoms with audience laughter are multi-camera sitcoms with audience laughter that are so bad they didn't make it to series.

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HRJafael OP t1_j1xcjko wrote

I don't know the background of this one. What makes this a standout from the list?

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Maninhartsford t1_j1xde0i wrote

I was being sarcastic, they're clearly trying to do satirical commentary on being friended on Facebook half a decade late

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Calcutec_1 t1_j1ymz6r wrote

actually that would have been spot on timely as 2012 was the time parents & grandparents really got into Facebook.

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flickh t1_j1zs40a wrote

Precisely the instant it stopped being cool

I can’t wait for the r/oldpeoplefacebook series

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TemporalAlchemy t1_j1z1mkc wrote

Tbh, it wouldnt be the first time a sitcom with a trashy social media fellow kids style title turned out to be surprisingly okay.

Oh, Selfie...

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youarockandnothing t1_j20rz4c wrote

It was ordered to series but then abruptly shut down after the sudden death of its co-creator.

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youarockandnothing t1_j20rjm8 wrote

That show did get a season pickup but was shelved. It's very morbid but I still want to know if that show was really shelved because of the co-creator's death or if there were other reasons. I'm not sure how morale on the set would've been if they were forced to keep shooting so maybe that really is why. Pretty tragic story as the guy was pretty well-liked in the sitcom industry.

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AmericanHistoryXX t1_j1y04ur wrote

Long live Internet Archive. I'd been wanting to watch the Gone Hollywood pilot, and they deliver again.

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HalloweenBlues t1_j1y09q7 wrote

Damn I was hoping the Tremors pilot with Kevin Bacon would be on there.

Also "Under Suspicion- The Retarded Witness" wow, that's something

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BelowDeck t1_j1ya77p wrote

Me too. The trailer looked so good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWU3GpKmIvw

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steeeeeeee24 t1_j1z8ni4 wrote

Wtf. I didn’t know this was a thing and now I am mad I do. Why didn’t this happen. They make so much garbage tv now why not some fun garbage that has a instant fan base

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nimcau2TheQuickening t1_j1zf1bd wrote

I don’t understand why this pilot and the later Tremors films almost entirely disregarded the original graboid designs.

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olgil75 t1_j1z72qv wrote

That was the one I was going to immediately check for as well.

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Doom_Art t1_j1xgq3h wrote

Longshot but any chance Game of Thrones: Bloodmoon is in this leak?

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clain4671 t1_j1xix21 wrote

i mean theres still no footage of the initial failed pilot for the main show.

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spyson t1_j1zz9qd wrote

Parts if it are in the refilmed pilot

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ohmydefy t1_j238c8e wrote

Reddit, for the last time

A pilot that gets negative feedback and requires changes is not a failed pilot, that’s exactly what it’s there for.

GOT bad, upvotes to the left

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horseren0ir t1_j1yhnvl wrote

Yeah I really want to see that, it must’ve been terrible

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JapaneseViolinist t1_j1xd0s5 wrote

This is great news, /r/datahoarder and /r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH will be happy to hear this

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HRJafael OP t1_j1xhoa8 wrote

I think r/lostmedia might be interested too.

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Pool_Shark t1_j1xwuqf wrote

Would be right up r/failedpilots alley but I see Reddit removed that sub

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HRJafael OP t1_j1xxh1b wrote

Dang it. This would have been an instant subscribe for me. I wonder if there's any sub like it lurking around beyond the ones mentioned already.

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meltingsunz t1_j1y0nap wrote

/r/ripilots but not active

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HRJafael OP t1_j1y2cy2 wrote

That's a shame that it's not active considering all the stuff that's already out there. Too niche of an interest I guess.

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strangway t1_j1yk4zh wrote

Please tell me Fox Force Five is here 😎

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DippySwitch t1_j1xtjwn wrote

I would shit myself if Fincher’s Utopia pilot was on there but alas it is not

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O868686 t1_j1xwut8 wrote

I dont think that was ever shot. They pulled the plug right before production was about to begin.

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DippySwitch t1_j1xxpw9 wrote

Oh ok I didn’t realize that. I though they had already shot a bit of it before they pulled the plug

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rammo123 t1_j1y7c2c wrote

The irony of "Most Likely To Succeed - 2010 Unaired Pilot" featuring on the list.

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catcrapmakesmevomit t1_j1xz37b wrote

Daddy tomato, mommy tomato and baby tomato are walking down the street...

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lonelygagger t1_j1xv9t2 wrote

I was crossing my fingers for Charlie Kaufman's How & Why, but no dice.

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MrX16 t1_j1zl3ea wrote

This is what I was looking for. A holy grail of lost pilots

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safe-word t1_j1yqu4p wrote

During the mid 2000s, I remember pilot episodes would end up on torrent sites. Usually around the beginning of summer. I recall watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. The leaked version was slightly different.

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nibor t1_j21jdm2 wrote

Same with the Bionic woman remake where the sister was a deaf girl, that was 2007.

I think I only recall this because the lead was a UK soap actress Michelle Ryan who got a US break and then the show flopped.

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Kevbot1000 t1_j1y6n6s wrote

I tried doing a YouTube series a number of years back where we reviewed unaired TV pilots. Shot 4 episodes, but only released 2. Really wish I kept up with it, this day would have been fantastic.

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nimcau2TheQuickening t1_j1zf7su wrote

Are people aware there’s a link to click on with the entire list? Why are they asking what’s on the list?

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tecphile t1_j1zlswd wrote

I wait for the day when we can see the unadulterated disaster of the GoT original pilot. Y'know, the one where it was too stupid dark to see anything (a harbinger of things to come) and Dany and Catelyn were played by Tamzin Merchant and Jennifer Ehle respectively.

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VinylmationDude t1_j1xfrqy wrote

Immensely disappointed that 20 Questions isn’t about the game

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PlayedUOonBaja t1_j1zgpry wrote

That first one, 1% on HBO, is interesting. It's from the same year Sons of Anarchy premiered and the shows look very similar with a bunch of actors that would later appear on Sons. I wonder which show inspired the other? Just browsing through it I can see why they dropped it. seems like just 3 or 4 scenes of the bikers sitting around eating in various places. Also Sons definitely had better casting for the main crew. These guys just look too much like actors playing a part. Kurt was smart to hire a few real bikers to fill out his cast.

Also no "Open" pilot which is a major bummer. Who the fuck casts Anna Torv on a raunchy artsy HBO show about Sex and Lesbians and then cancels it before airing the pilot!?!

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kwelch66 t1_j1zklw6 wrote

I'm gonna check for the Wonder Woman (2011) pilot .

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2635northpark t1_j1xif8z wrote

New Car Smell? That was the title of a Homeland episode .

Biker Chef? Don't want to know what's cooking...

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mouse6502 t1_j1yadc0 wrote

New Car Smell Pilot:

We spray everything with Ozium-D. Let it de-ionize, vacuum the spray out with a de-ionizing machine. Hit it with high pressure compressed air, then wet-dry vac it to extract the remaining liquids. We top it off with one of our seven air fresheners - in your case, I would recommend the Jasmine, or the Potpourri.

me: Wow, what kind of guy would the (well established car wash)* attendant assume would take Jasmine or Potpourri? Is he a single, thin, neat man? Is he indifferent to his friends lives? Is he childlike with a particular affection towards Superman? Is he a.. funny guy? I'm picking up such a vibe just from the first moment here

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Hooterdear t1_j20l2lx wrote

The Mastersons of Manhattan- 2007 Molly Shannon sitcom

TaxMan - 2010 Martin Short sitcom

Single with Parents- 2008 Alyssa Milano, Lloyd Bridges , Annie Potts comedy

Wright vs Wrong - Patrick Fugit, Cheryl Hines, Debra Messing, Carrie Fischer! comedy, Funny!

Reckless - 2010 Patrick Fugit espionage drama

Under Suspicion: The Retarded Suspect - staring my brother.

It Take a Village - 2010 Leah Ramini comedy, Funny!

Kings of Van Nuys - John Leguizamo, Christopher Lloyd sitcom

Married Not Dead - 2009 Matthew Lillard, Leah Ramini, Jonathan Silverman sitcom

Matadors - David Strathaim legal ensemble drama

Secrets Froma Small Town - Jack's Dad from Lost, another guy from Lost, Denise Richards

World of Trouble - Idris Elba action

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WhenRobLoweRobsLowes t1_j1z2c0h wrote

Man, this is wild. "Drew" might be worth a watch.

I was hoping "Exit Strategy" was on there (Ethan Hawke leads a CIA team that helps agents with blown covers escape bad scenarios) but no dice.

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bros402 t1_j1z81qw wrote

yeah I am definitely gonna check out Drew

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HRJafael OP t1_j1zxptp wrote

I watched "Drew" last night. It deviates greatly from the books and uses the character names. Still, it was an interesting watch and it did give off the vibe of "The Nancy Drew Files" which was a books series in the 1980s that was darker and grittier than the classic books. Not sure about the NYC detective angle but I guess they didn't want to do another small town mystery series yet again (not that the NYC choice was any better).

This was passed over by CBS who decided to pick up "Doubt" instead, which was another pilot written by the same people who wrote "Drew". That ended up being cancelled so it's up in the air whether or not "Drew" would have done better or not.

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bros402 t1_j22jslm wrote

I just watched the pilot of Drew and that was actually a pretty good pilot!

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bros402 t1_j22ju01 wrote

Just watched Drew - definitely worth a watch... and now I am pissed that CBS passed on it

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Quiggold t1_j1zltyp wrote

I wonder if we'll ever get the infamous original GoT pilot

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SmurfyX t1_j21fbx7 wrote

God I would bet no, I think pretty much everyone who worked on it agreed it was ass bad, like the original cut of Star Wars. Maybe someday deep in a physical release but I doubt anyone who worked on it is clamoring for it to see the light of day.

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jblanch3 t1_j21i9gr wrote

The documentary filmmaker Michael Moore was involved in the development of a series in the 90s called Better Days, which took place in a midwestern town where their auto plant went under. I believe it was to star Jim Belushi and Chris Elliot? He talked about it once on his podcast. It sounded interesting and seemed set to have the social commentary that Moore was known for. Which was a problem. He said it was set to air in the fall, CBS I believe was going to pick it up, the audience scores were really good. Then top advertisers threatened to pull their advertising since it wasn't going to be a corporate friendly show and CBS deep-sixed it. I'd always wanted to see that pilot.

Pity, just checked and it's not on there.

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jnhf24 t1_j1xok2b wrote

Nice. Thanks for this.

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Detective_Dietrich t1_j1z7x0c wrote

I was hoping to find "Dear Diary", the Bebe Neuwirth failed pilot that was shown in theaters and won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film. No luck.

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HRJafael OP t1_j1xax4u wrote

Looks like there's something here for everyone.

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Redditer51 t1_j1xfv8w wrote

Even the Boondocks pilot?

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NiceMental69 t1_j1ysj9h wrote

Is there the game of thrones one?

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jfstompers t1_j1zbczv wrote

Still looking for the US version of The IT Crowd

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Evening_Major_8184 t1_j208xqh wrote

for any greg giraldo fans "gone hollywood" is a talk show pilot of his

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RoShamPoe t1_j218sq0 wrote

Still sad over the loss of Global Frquency

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bflaminio t1_j21q9o6 wrote

The one I want to see is the Agents of SHIELD spinoff Most Wanted. Still hoping that one surfaces someday...

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reddig33 t1_j21sxi2 wrote

“The Coven” turned out to be a bad Charmed knock off. Has some good actors in it, including Illyana Douglass. But the show is very CW paint by numbers. Stuff like this makes me think of all the hard working people in Hollywood who get so excited when they land a pilot.

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reddig33 t1_j22doo2 wrote

“The Way” is another witchcraft-centered pilot with some pretty big names. Jane Alexander, Peter Strauss, Andrew McCarthy, all slumming it in some corporate intrigue nighttime soap opera where rival corporations are owned by different families of actual witches. Weird concept. Felt very ABC but actually appears to be a Paramount/Sony coproduction? Not sure where the fad came from that every show needed to be about witches.

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bros402 t1_j22jykd wrote

I just watched the pilot of Drew and I am pissed that CBS didn't pick it up, I want more of it. Fuck.

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reddig33 t1_j26swoy wrote

“Life On The Hill”: not too bad for a sitcom. Surprised it didn’t get picked up (though hopefully they would have dumped the voiceover).

Wendy Malick plays a Nancy Pelosi like figure on Capitol Hill, and Mark Moses from Desperate Housewives is her foil from across the aisle. Plot is focused mostly on the misadventures of the younger subordinates who try to keep things working in her office. Think Spin City meats HIMYM. Also features Michelle Trachtenberg of Buffy fame. Humor could have been just a touch more cynical. Fun potential for additional humorous caricatures of lobbyists, senators, etc. as the show went on.

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TheSeventhAnimorph t1_j1xnqn9 wrote

And they'll probably be down by tomorrow due to this post drawing attention to it...

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