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THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Hallelujah”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots Deadline reported today that ABC Studios has signed Jesse Martin to a talent hold deal that, although it could end up with him being cast in a different ABCS project, is largely in place s...

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THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Grace”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots For those who like Six Degrees of Separation-ish linkages: the protagonist of ABC’s busted pilot GRACE is Michael Grace, an aging, womanizing choreographer who bears some resemblance...

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THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Family Album”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots FAMILY ALBUM was one of the more buzzed-about FOX pilots of this past development season, and although it’s not on the network’s announced schedule, Deadline reports that it’s ...

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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’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: “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: “Vince Uncensored”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots Not even the presence of Michael Chiklis and Elizabeth Perkins could make VINCE UNCENSORED endurable. Deservedly consigned by CBS to its trash-bin, this isn’t one of those pilots yo...

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THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Council of Dads”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots Peter Tolan, who with Denis Leary created Rescue Me, knows something about the comedy that emerges when when men try to assert their masculinity in the most idiotic ways. So you can ...

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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’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: BUSTED PILOT UPDATES

> According to Deadline, decisions have been made on some of the busted pilots we’ve been writing about here: LITTLE IN COMMON (pilot report here) is still at FOX, which is recasting the lead female role of Rob Corddry...

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THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Help Wanted”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots We’ve gotten this far without using the word “ghastly” to describe any of the busted pilots from this year’s development season, but that streak is about to end.&n...

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THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “A Mann’s World”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots A MANN’S WORLD isn’t the usual run of busted pilot. Produced by Warner Bros for consideration by NBC, it’s quite skillfully written and directed by Michael Patrick ...

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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: A Word About Busted Pilots

> “Busted” pilots, for those who don’t know, are simply the ones not ordered by their commissioning networks to series. We’re going to start taking a look at some of last year’s busted pilots...

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THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Hallelujah”

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Grace”

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Family Album”

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Homegrown”

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

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Smothered”

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Vince Uncensored”

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Council of Dads”

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

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

THE SKED: BUSTED PILOT UPDATES

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Help Wanted”

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “A Mann’s World”

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Identity”

THE SKED: A Word About Busted Pilots

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