2010 was the worst
network pilot season for women writers and showrunners.
Not exact matches
Both Friedlander and Straczynski said Netflix puts a lot of trust in creators since the company commissions entire
seasons of shows at once, rather than just a
pilot episode like traditional TV
networks.
With
pilot season coming to an end many shows were saved and cancelled from
network's lineups.
(Fox is yet to film two drama
pilots ordered this
season, The Passage and The Beast, and the
network is said to have high hopes for The Passage as a potential midseason entry.)
It's a sure sign that spring is on the verge of emerging when the
networks start to let slip the names, premises, and attached actors for all of the
pilots under consideration for the next TV
season.
The upcoming
Season 7 finale of USA
Network's Suits will serve as a backdoor
pilot for a potential spinoff starring Gina Torres and centered around her Suits character, the powerhouse lawyer Jessica Pearson.
Bypassing the status of its much - ballyhooed X-Files revival — whose potential second
season is still an open question — the
network has announced that it's giving a
pilot order to a new «X-Files-like» comedy series, starring comedy...
Not containing the wit to be smart, thrilling sci - fi nor the chutzpah to embrace a fun, B - movie shlock vibe, it unfortunately feels like an uninspired TV
pilot that any other
network would've permanently locked in a vault... At first, it has the feeling of being dropped into a
season finale with characters we should know more about, then after the bland exposition, muddled motivations, and nonsensical developments, one realizes they'd never want to watch what came before anyways.
Fargo has spawned two American television versions: a rejected
pilot for an ABC series, eventually aired in 2003 as a «TV movie», starring Edie Falco as Marge; 6 and a highly popular series on the FX
network, set to begin its third
season in April, 2017.
It's been barely a week - and - a-half since I wrote about the best
pilot of the fall
network TV
season [No More good days, the
pilot for ABC's Flash Forward].
Pilot season has given rise to a bumper crop of freshman
network series.
This is the second put
pilot commitment at CBS for ABC Studios, which has been very aggressive in selling to outside
networks this
season, along with a multi-camera comedy from Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky and Danny Chun.