Anatomy of a Pilot

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25 Years of Fox Pilots

Posted by: meekthegeek on: April 17, 2012

I have already blogged about enough Fox shows to keep the inhabitants of Omicron Persei 8 entertained until someone decides to reboot “Single Female Lawyer.” So, here’s a list in roughly chronological order.

Titus, or Picking your Pilot

Posted by: meekthegeek on: July 2, 2011

When comedian Christopher Titus got a development deal for a sitcom based on his stand-up routine, “Normal Rockwell is Bleeding” it could have been a slam dunk. Instead, his show “Titus,” despite getting decent reviews was cancelled after 3 seasons and some shark-jump-type changes that are usually a telltale sign of a show on the [...]

Cleopatra 2525

Posted by: meekthegeek on: September 10, 2010

Here’s the premise: a woman in 2001 went in for a boob job. Something went wrong with the anesthesia, and she was cryogenically frozen until they could find a cure (for anesthesia?) She is now waking up—spontaneously—in the year 2525. She’s been brought to a medical lab that looks like something out of Barbarella to be harvested for spare organs, wearing a costume reminiscent of the chick in The Fifth Element. Oh, and spoiler alert, she’s a stripper.

Firefly

Posted by: meekthegeek on: July 16, 2010

“Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal.”

Lamenting Cancelled Shows

Posted by: meekthegeek on: September 29, 2009

You feel a certain sense of ownership when you can say you just loved a show, and most people have never heard of it.


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