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LATEST ARTICLES ( 147 )

• The Guild

  

  So I’m sitting at Comic-Con singing along to Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog and loving Felicia Day in spite of her questionable singing ability and thinking “Ho... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• Pilot-y Tidbits from Comic-Con

  

  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... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• The Secret Circle and Locke & Key

  

  So far at Comic-Con I have seen two pilots, with several similarities. The Secret Circle and Locke and Key each begin with a parent gruesomely murdered by a... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• Breaking Bad

  

  is gearing up for Season 4 this Sunday, which is sort of a spoiler in and of itself if you’ve never seen the show, but perhaps, like me, you are behind the... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, TV & VIDEO

• The Brady Bunch

  

  –the show as well the members of said ‘Bunch’–have been analyzed to the point where you might want to be beaten to death with a Tiki god statue if you hear one... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, TV & VIDEO

• Mary Tyler Moore

  , a.k.a The Mary Tyler Moore Show is considered to be such a seminal work of television that I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I had never seen it before.... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• Titus, Or Picking Your Pilot

  

  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. Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, TV & VIDEO

• 100th Post: It All Started with a Big Bang

  It wasn’t really The Big Bang Theory that inspired me to start this blog; it was Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. But for my 100th post I wanted to write about a... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• Lovespring International

  

  We’ve probably had enough of the mockumentary format for TV shows. We had probably already had enough of it in 2006 when Lovespring International ran for one... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, TV & VIDEO

• Veronica Mars Season 4

  So this has nothing at all to do with pilots, aside from the fact that the show in question has one of the best pilots ever, but it is so completely awesome tha... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• Archer

  

  You can literally blink and miss things in this pilot*. Watch it twice. Or three times. First just let the absurdity of the situation wash over you, then go bac... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, TV & VIDEO

• Pilot Titles

  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... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, TV & VIDEO

• Chuck

  

  Following a couple weeks of lackluster season finales, I’m contemplating shows that start out great and then go off the rails somewhere. Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, TV & VIDEO

• Three Moons Over Milford

  

  Since the world didn’t end last weekend, a surprisingly fun, light-hearted show about impending doom seems fitting this week. Three Moons Over Milford aired... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, TV & VIDEO

• That ’70s Show

  

  That ’70s Show has recently started airing on TeenNick, introducing the decade when we didn’t know Vader was Luke’s father* to a generation that wasn’t born yet... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, TV & VIDEO

• Samantha Who?

  

  Samantha Who was a sit-com in which Christina Applegate played the eponymous character, but Jean Smart, who plays Samantha’s mother, steals the pilot. She... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, TV & VIDEO

• Bewitched

  

  The creator of Bewitched, Sol Saks, who passed away last week, wrote only the pilot before moving on to other things. The show would go on to run eight seasons... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

  

  hardly needs a pilot to introduce its premise. It’s all right there in the theme song. C’mon, you know the words: “Now this is the story all about how/My life... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, TV & VIDEO

• One Step Beyond

  

  Shows like One Step Beyond and the better-remembered Twilight Zone are, in many ways, the entertainment ancestors of The X-Files, Fringe, and numerous other... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, TV & VIDEO

• Breaking In, Or Trying to Speak Geek

  

  Some pilots want nothing more than to convey to the viewer what the creators imagine to be the unique style and tone of the show. Breaking In, which debuted las... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, TV & VIDEO