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THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Little In Common”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots The double meaning of “little” in the title of Fox’s busted sitcom pilot LITTLE IN COMMON is that the 3 couples at its center are brought together only because their resp...

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THE SKED PILOT REPORT: PREMIERING TONIGHT – “Smash”

> Disclaimer: Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall. Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot. So these critiques sh...

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THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Other People’s Kids”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots For the most part, actors only get one shot in a given pilot season. Since the lion’s share of network pilots are produced during the same narrow Spring window–allowing ...

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THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Smothered”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots SMOTHERED, which was produced for ABC by Warner Bros Television, falls into the category of “not as bad as you’d think.” The concept is Predictable Sitcom 101:&nbs...

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THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Bad Mom”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots It’s entirely possible that BAD MOM wouldn’t have worked as a network TV series. It represented an unusual attempt for a broadcast network (ABC) to step into the “edgy...

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THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Exit Strategy”

>See A Word About Busted Pilots On paper, EXIT STRATEGY looked like one of the hot FOX pilots this past season, a high-profile (Ethan Hawke’s first TV project) espionage thriller in the vein of 24 that could inherit that ...

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THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Identity”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots IDENTITY is so clearly a Jerry-Bruckheimer-for-CBS procedural that it comes as a shock to realize that it was neither produced by Bruckheimer nor developed for CBS. In fact, Mark Gordon...

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THE SKED PREMIERING TONIGHT: ABC’s “The River”

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THE SKED: “Pan Am” Update

>I noted in my review of ABC’s PAN AM that the pilot characters in the, um, pilot, made little impression, and apparently the network agreed: reports are that Jonah Lotan, who played the lead male role, is in the pr...

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THE SKED PILOT REPORT: ABC’s “Apt. 23”

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THE SKED REPORT: PREMIERING TONIGHT – NBC’s “Awake”

>Disclaimer: Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall. Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot. So these critiques sho...

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THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Homegrown”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots The pilot for HOMEGROWN, produced for CBS by Warner Bros Television, seems determined to hit as many dysfunctional-but-loving-family cliches as it can. We have one grouchy alpha male in a ...

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THE SKED PILOT REPORT: NBC’s “Free Agents”

>Disclaimer: Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall. Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot. So these critiques sho...

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THE SKED @ BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Locke & Key”

>The FOX pilot LOCKE & KEY is a very effective hour of creepiness, but it’s not that hard to understand why the network didn’t put the project on its schedule. The show screams “cult hit” at be...

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THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Poe”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots We round out our survey of some of the more notable busted pilots of the season with the distinctive POE, produced by Warner Bros Television for ABC and written by Chris Hollier (a former writer...

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THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Little In Common”

THE SKED PILOT REPORT: PREMIERING TONIGHT – “Smash”

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Other People’s Kids”

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Smothered”

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Bad Mom”

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Exit Strategy”

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Identity”

THE SKED PREMIERING TONIGHT: ABC’s “The River”

THE SKED: “Pan Am” Update

THE SKED PILOT REPORT: ABC’s “Apt. 23”

THE SKED REPORT: PREMIERING TONIGHT – NBC’s “Awake”

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Homegrown”

THE SKED PILOT REPORT: NBC’s “Free Agents”

THE SKED @ BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Locke & Key”

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Poe”

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