tv pilots
Last week the broadcast networks presented their fall schedules to advertisers in an attempt to trick them into spending money on TV instead of the internet. For most of us, the only thing that’s really interesting about the annual event is that we get to find out what’s returning to TV, what’s been canceled, and what’s been picked up.
TVWeek has the complete schedule, along with exclusive clips from the new fall series. None of the new shows interests me much this fall, although Bionic Woman might be fun. ABC has a comedy pilot based on the Geico caveman commercials. Yeah, that’s … interesting?
So at least some good shows are returning, because fall looks pretty bleak for new series. The midseason schedule is a little more promising, with The Sarah Connor Chronicles, based on the Terminator films, and The Return of Jezebel James, starring Parker Posey and Lauren Ambrose. Sure, there’s a good chance Sarah Connor will be awful, but the source material is so good you can’t help but hope.
Wait, do you even care about any of this? Most people come here because they know me or they’ve just searched Google for “dinosaur poo.” Either way this entry is probably fairly disappointing, yeah? Maybe there will be jokes about prehistoric droppings in that caveman show?
Kiala wrote:
I think a good tv pilot would be one where a ragtag fugitive fleet of humans are bound for a planet known as EARTH but when they get there Earth is a gigantic Starbucks and none of them know what they’d like to order. Hilarious!
Just thinking outloud….
Posted on 21-May-07 at 12:23 pm | Permalink
Robert wrote:
That is a pretty good idea. Here is another idea I’m making up as I type it:
An egotistical cat decides she wants to get married before the Chinese “Year of the Rat” is over, but she can’t find a mate until on one rainy night she happens upon a turtle at the dry cleaners and she falls “tail over whiskers” in love with the turtle, but the turtle doesn’t give her the time of day! Turns out that the egotistical cat will have to learn a little bit about humility before she can get the turtle to love her.. in time!
Also, the turtle happens to live in the same building as the cat’s exboyfriend! Awkward!
It will feature music by Sting.
Posted on 21-May-07 at 1:22 pm | Permalink
Mike Bijon wrote:
Nah, nobody is probably coming here because of prehistoric feces anymore.
Google changed and now you’re only #9 in searches for “dinosaur poo”. How many people are searching for dino poop and then scrolling all the way down to click on #9?
Posted on 21-May-07 at 6:06 pm | Permalink
Charley Daniels wrote:
>How many people are searching for dino poop and then scrolling all the way down to click on #9?
A lot of them! If that’s what you’re into, there’s no way you want only one or two sources.
Posted on 21-May-07 at 6:35 pm | Permalink
Robert wrote:
I still don’t understand why there is a link to www.sinpies.com when I click on “prehistoric feces” in your reply, Mike. If prehistoric feces has a link on it, and I click on it, I expect GREAT THINGS! Not a link to the blog I’m already reading! It’s like telling someone who is standing on the moon that if they touch a magic lamp they will go to mars, but then they touch the lamp and they are still on the moon, but at the moonbase rather than at the moon outpost that they were just at.
Posted on 22-May-07 at 10:35 am | Permalink
Mike Bijon wrote:
I never said the prehistoric feces link went anywhere. And, the home page of the site you’re on can’t be completely evil or you wouldn’t be on that site in the first place.
So really it’s like telling someone standing in an outpost on mars that if they touch the magic lamp they will be transported somewhere special without saying where exactly. Then when they touch the magic lamp they get transported outside to the front door of the mars outpost … hope you’ve got your spacesuit on.
Besides, you’ve been on the interweb long enough to know not to click random links without expecting the worst. Plus, since you were at work when you posted that you should just be glad that the link didn’t go anywhere that would set off the “45 second rule” in the monitoring software.
Posted on 22-May-07 at 8:00 pm | Permalink