October 08, 2004

TV shows that never were Where do you put TV that's too good for TV?

If a network buys the script to your pilot, films it, and then never airs it, it can have a second life on The Other Network, home of the legendary Jack Black/Ben Stiller project Heat Vision and Jack. If the network buys the script to your pilot and doesn't even film it, it can still have a second life on the Writers Guild of America Website, home of Charlie Kaufman's unproduced Depressed Roomies as well as unproduced work from Al Jean and Mike Reiss of "The Simpsons" and "The Critic." And if the network won't even buy your script in the first place, then shoot your own 5-minute pilot and submit it to Channel 101, home of the brilliantly low-budget TimeBelt and the colorfully demented Twigger's Holiday.

posted by jacobw 20 years ago
  • Channel 101 ROCKS. I so wish there were more episodes of Sockbaby...
  • Six Months To Live is my favorite.
  • ...and it's time, time, time, time, to throw gay germs in the Mookie Brothers' face, and it's time, time, time, time, to throw gay germs in the Mookie Brothers' face, and it's time, time, time, time, time, time, time,...
  • What a fantastic post. I want somewhere to put all my ideas for reality shows that never got made. Deep Thought Castle, a show in which 12 philosophers would be locked in a fort and forced to reach agreement on the answers to all the major questions of life (and play dressing-up games), deserves a place in the world. Especially in a world where David Backham's former lover is forced to wank a pig on national television. That kind of world.
  • I would so watch Deep Thought Castle, flashboy. Especially if there were a hot tub.
  • This marvellous site has been dead for almost two years now but always used to make me laugh like a drain. The editions around the middle of the archive are perhaps where they peaked. I know Nathan Barley...
  • I had a tiny role in the pilot edition of the Nathan Barley sitcom. It looks fucking brilliant.