Posts Tagged ‘pilots’
Family Guy: Back to the Pilot
Posted by: meekthegeek on: November 22, 2011
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If, like me, you have given up on Family Guy, you probably didn’t bother to watch the Nov. 20 episode. The show has become really repetitive and juvenile. They even managed to F up Star Wars–their Return of the Jedi episode, “It’s a Trap,” was terrible. Here is a good article from 2009 about the show’s decline.
Point of Attack, or Where to Start your Pilot
Posted by: meekthegeek on: November 12, 2011
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Anyone sitting down to write a story, whether it’s for television or any other medium, has to decide where to start. It seems like a simple question. You start at the beginning. A protagonist’s story arguably starts from the moment of his or her birth, or earlier. So for purposes of this discussion we’ll call [...]
Will It Fly?
Posted by: meekthegeek on: September 24, 2011
When I first heard that the movie Source Code, which I haven’t seen but which looks pretty cool, is being developed for TV, my instinctive first question was, “What network?” (The answer is CBS.) Because, with sci-fi and genre TV, the network is everything. It will largely determine how the material will be handled and [...]
Pilot-y Tidbits from Comic-Con
Posted by: meekthegeek on: July 27, 2011
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H+ This new web series, produced by Bryan Singer, was teased to minimal fanfare–actually, lumped together in a panel with Mortal Combat: Legacy–but it looks highly promising. The premise is that a good chunk of the world’s population has been tied into some futuristic version of the internet, where information is downloaded straight to your [...]
Pilot Titles
Posted by: meekthegeek on: June 3, 2011
How well do you know the titles of episodes of your favorite shows? Do you even give them a thought? Some shows get pretty creative. Some naming conventions are discussed here. Pilot episodes are usually just called “Pilot,” possibly because the creators don’t know quite where the show is headed. But some shows have really [...]
Pilots that Never Flew
Posted by: meekthegeek on: March 29, 2011
- In: 1960s | About Pilots | Comedies
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There are more pilots that never get picked up than most people ever stop to think about. It can be funny or horrifying, or in the case below, a bit sad, to imagine a show that the world was robbed of seeing. A couple of days ago, Bleeding Cool posted a clip from a 1969 clip [...]
Reboot!
Posted by: meekthegeek on: February 26, 2011
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It seems like you can’t go a day without hearing about another upcoming reboot of an old movie or TV show. Currently, viewers of the small screen are speculating about new takes on Charlie’s Angels, Wonder Woman, Beavis and Butthead, Dallas, Miami Vice, Teen Wolf… there’s even been the threat of a Bryan Fuller-helmed Munsters [...]
Anatomy of a Pilot
Posted by: meekthegeek on: September 21, 2009
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First, an overview of pilots is in order. A pilot serves several important goals, besides the overarching one, to get a show picked up by a network and to get a share of viewers large enough to ensure continuation. These goals, as I see them, are: To introduce most, if not all of, the main [...]
Why Pilots?
Posted by: meekthegeek on: September 21, 2009
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The pilot is almost a genre in itself.
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