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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 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: “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 “Work It”

> 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: “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: “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 @ 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: “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 PILOT REPORT: AMC’s “Hell On Wheels”

> 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 PILOT REPORT: PREMIERING TONIGHT – “Alcatraz”

> 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 PILOT REPORT: The CW’s “Hart of Dixie” – PREMIERING TONIGHT

> 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 PREMIERING TONIGHT: ABC’s “The River”

> 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: “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: “Weekends At Bellevue”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots It was widely rumored in the weeks before the networks announced their new schedules at the Upfronts that WEEKENDS AT BELLEVUE was destined to hit the air on FOX. In fact, even its timeslo...

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

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

THE SKED: “Pan Am” Update

THE SKED PILOT REPORT: ABC’s “Work It”

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

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

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

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Identity”

THE SKED PILOT REPORT: AMC’s “Hell On Wheels”

THE SKED PILOT REPORT: PREMIERING TONIGHT – “Alcatraz”

THE SKED PILOT REPORT: The CW’s “Hart of Dixie” – PREMIERING TONIGHT

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

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

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Homegrown”

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Weekends At Bellevue”

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