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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’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: “Hail Mary”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots If it’s a procedural, this must be CBS. HAIL MARY was one of the pilots that had initial buzz around town, and it boasted a casting coup with Minnie Driver in the lead (her first net...

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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: “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: “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: 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: “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: “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: 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: “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: “Partners”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots Had it managed to become a full-fledged series, PARTNERS might have been a decent fit with ABC’s other female-oriented crime shows like Castle and Body of Proof, but based on the pilot, it...

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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: “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: “Identity”

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

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Hail Mary”

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

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

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

THE SKED: A Word About Busted Pilots

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

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

THE SKED: BUSTED PILOT UPDATES

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Smothered”

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Partners”

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

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Hallelujah”

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Grace”

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