|
Adult Swim had a couple of pilots that never went anywhere. The Eltingville Club pilot probably came way too early and would likely have been better received 10 years later. I did hear it was an expensive pilot, though, so going to series probably wouldn't have been much better. There was also that Parker and Stone "Princess" cartoon that was more a short webtoon thing, but got cancelled really quickly.
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 16:21
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 9, 2024 00:02 |
|
|
Nutsngum posted:Taking a slight detour into good pilot territory, I am forever angered that Korgoth of Barbaria never got picked up as the pilot is really drat good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep65rr-9qjQ My understanding of the situation with Korgoth was that it was too expensive to do as a regular show and it never really got the attention to justify the risk.
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 20:52
|
|
|
Jose Oquendo posted:Unaired pilots/one and done tv shows is one of my favorite rabbit holes to go down. There was a Show in the UK in 1990 which might have been a remake. It is very sedate and has less actors. It does have a real actual science presenter from TV starting it off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lqFtNUaYD8 As for TV Pilots that were great I really am fond of Lookwell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBQ3HbB0c8Y
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 21:38
|
|
|
Remember all those post-Seinfeld Jason Alexander pilots? I forget what they were called but they were pretty bad.
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 22:18
|
|
|
I really enjoyed M*A*S*H growing up. Its a popular show you may have heard of. I'm not sure why it appealed to me as a kid but i watched the hell out of it. After its television success, there was a few spinoffs. AfterMASH was an interesting show that told the stories of some of the characters after the war. It's not the M*A*S*H people grew to love, and it wasn't anywhere near as popular. But i enjoyed watching it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfterMASH There was another spinoff called W*A*L*T*E*R which focused on Radar's life. Only a single pilot episode was made, and it aired only once as a CBS special. The events leading up to the episodes plot were rather concerning and depressing. After being unable to maintain the family farm, he sends his mother to live with his aunt, and shortly after his marriage in AfterMASH, his bride leaves him for another man during the honeymoon. He decides to commit suicide by overdose, with only the store clerk intervening. Following these events, his cousin helps him get a job as a police officer, and the show was to tell the story of his adventures in law enforcement. A part of me wanted to see what would have become of it. On the other hand, i'm grateful it didn't have a chance to crash and burn. If your curious, a copy of the pilot is on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS8Vd1vVqXc
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 22:21
|
|
|
super sweet best pal posted:Remember all those post-Seinfeld Jason Alexander pilots? I forget what they were called but they were pretty bad. Remember when Kramer was a detective? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbqYETP8rf0
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 22:26
|
|
|
super sweet best pal posted:Remember all those post-Seinfeld Jason Alexander pilots? I forget what they were called but they were pretty bad. Ah, the summer of Jason.
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 22:47
|
|
|
Didn't they try and make a tv show out of the gieco caveman commercials
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 22:59
|
|
|
my bat mitzvah ROCKED posted:Didn't they try and make a tv show out of the gieco caveman commercials Yup.
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 23:01
|
|
|
Extra Large Marge posted:Remember when Kramer was a detective? I remember that Bill Cosby solved mysteries
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 23:02
|
|
|
I remember taking part in a focus group about a new sitcom starring Jessica Simpson, would have been early 2000s when she was doing the MTV show with her then husband, the boy band douche. They put about 10 of us in this conference room with the obvious two way mirror in it. The show had her playing a ditzy news reporter who's only their for her tits. It went over about as well as you would expect, everyone in the room absolutly hating it. It appears it's on youtube now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZP-nU5foxA
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 23:05
|
|
|
CharlestonJew posted:I tried looking for this but found this instead This sound exactly like I guy I used to work with in real life. He worked the midnight to 6am shift at a low power r&b/soul station in Phoenix in the early 90's or so. Super dorky white dweeb named Jason but he had a super soulful voice and went by J on the air. He had to work the pizza job because radio didn't pay poo poo.
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 23:14
|
|
|
uli2000 posted:I remember taking part in a focus group about a new sitcom starring Jessica Simpson, would have been early 2000s when she was doing the MTV show with her then husband, the boy band douche. They put about 10 of us in this conference room with the obvious two way mirror in it. The show had her playing a ditzy news reporter who's only their for her tits. It went over about as well as you would expect, everyone in the room absolutly hating it. It appears it's on youtube now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZP-nU5foxA lol her character name is Jessica Sampson
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 23:22
|
|
|
ZDar Fan posted:lol her character name is Jessica Sampson I'm sure it only took 5 Ivy League educated comedy writers to come up with that. I wonder how often comedy writers get money for a project, cant figure out what to do, make a lovely pilot, and pocket the money knowing they will never have to write that garbage ever again. Well, maybe not the Big Bang writers.
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 23:30
|
|
|
WonderfulWino posted:just about every popular British sitcom has been a failed american pilot, the red dwarf one is the worst The only thing I remember about that is the actors playing Rimmer and Lister were so incredibly generic that they could have swapped roles and nobody would have noticed.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2018 00:15
|
|
|
Trying to recast Red Dwarf is a fools task. Rimmer and Lister are really difficult characters that need a perfect balance between likable and annoying. It'd be like trying to recast It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2018 00:47
|
|
|
There's an unaired MTV pilot about a punk rock surgeon called Iggy Vile MD. It's really bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGyefuqL62w
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2018 00:53
|
|
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lWgXDOAJ5s Heat Vision & Jack "Heat Vision and Jack is an American comedy science fiction television pilot created and written by Rob Schrab and Dan Harmon, directed by Ben Stiller, and starring Jack Black, Owen Wilson, and Ron Silver. The pilot was originally ordered by FOX, who ultimately did not order it to series." If it had come along just a couple years later it probably would have done well at Adult Swim, or after Family Guy during its revival, as well as riding the Jack Black popularity wave. No one knew who the gently caress Jack Black was in 1999, and Stiller and Wilson were just beginning to be more well-known.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2018 03:44
|
|
|
JediTalentAgent posted:We need to pool our monies and buy this: This book is a trip:  and that show, which I never knew existed (which is weird because I love pinball and game shows) is like a loving fever dream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU7n6Ncojx8 
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2018 13:45
|
|
|
JediTalentAgent posted:Adult Swim had a couple of pilots that never went anywhere. The Eltingville Club pilot probably came way too early and would likely have been better received 10 years later. I did hear it was an expensive pilot, though, so going to series probably wouldn't have been much better. Wait, im curious, what made Welcome to Eltingville expensive? I was always disappointed that and korgoth didn't get picked up
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2018 14:05
|
|
|
This isn't really relevant to anything but it's always rad when staff-only blooper reels make it into the wild.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2018 14:18
|
|
|
Good soup! posted:Wait, im curious, what made Welcome to Eltingville expensive? I was always disappointed that and korgoth didn't get picked up It's just the rumor I'd heard with it and Korgoth. My guess is that in part being from the era where Adult Swim's animated line-ups were either reruns of cancelled shows from major broadcast networks, various dubbed anime series and the odd ATHF/Sealab type productions that were all either probably much cheaper to produce or get the rights to than to risk going at producing shows on their own.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2018 16:10
|
|
|
Steel Justice was a pilot apparently written as a vehicle for Robosaurus, the big robot dinosaur from monster truck shows. The story goes that in the near future, a cop whose son was killed by a gang is visited by a 3000 year-old wizard who teaches him how to use his love for his son to turn a small Robosaurus model into the real thing, which is alive or maybe possessed by his son's spirit or something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fntTH0BdBcE muscles like this! posted:That reminds me of the "pilot" that a company put together for the fantasy novel series The Wheel of Time. They were about to lose the rights to the series so they threw together a 30 minute "prequel" to the book series and then bought infomercial time on FX. They tried to claim that this counted towards their contract stating that they had to produce and air a pilot before a certain date. People do weird stuff to hang on to rights. Everyone knows about the Corman Fantansic Four, but there was also the time that Warren Beatty tried to keep the rights to Dick Tracy by dressing up and doing an interview in character with Leonard Maltin on Turner Classic Movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdFbiRK-UaY
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2018 18:07
|
|
|
Action Jacktion posted:Steel Justice was a pilot apparently written as a vehicle for Robosaurus, the big robot dinosaur from monster truck shows. The story goes that in the near future, a cop whose son was killed by a gang is visited by a 3000 year-old wizard who teaches him how to use his love for his son to turn a small Robosaurus model into the real thing, which is alive or maybe possessed by his son's spirit or something. those fools forgot that any vehicle given to Robosaurus is instantly destroyed
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2018 18:16
|
|
|
Iron Crowned posted:Also on topic for this thread is Dead Pilots Society. It's a podcast about giving pilots that were ordered, but canned before getting a table read for one reason or another (mostly TV executives getting shitcanned) getting a table read. Audio quality can be hit or miss at times, but the interviews with the creators can be pretty interesting. are any of these episodes any good? i tried listening to a handful a year back and the livereads seemed to range from aggressively mediocre to absolutely dire. the interviews were interesting though. i enjoyed some of the insight into the process.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2018 20:39
|
|
|
CharlestonJew posted:those fools forgot that any vehicle given to Robosaurus is instantly destroyed good good job
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2018 22:49
|
|
|
Here's one from 1998 I just learned about today: Venus on the Hard Drive. A government hacking program turns sentient and escapes deletion, and is of course a sexy CGI woman. She finds her way into the computers of some young doofuses and hilarity theoretically ensues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDinTMnK364
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2018 23:34
|
|
|
Good soup! posted:Wait, im curious, what made Welcome to Eltingville expensive? I was always disappointed that and korgoth didn't get picked up Animation is expensive.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2018 23:36
|
|
|
According to wikipedia, there will be a third attempt at making an American version of The IT Crowd after the first two pilots never made it to air. There was also a German version which was cancelled after a couple of episodes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_IT_Crowd#American_versions
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2018 23:52
|
|
|
Say Nothing posted:According to wikipedia, there will be a third attempt at making an American version of The IT Crowd after the first two pilots never made it to air. There was also a German version which was cancelled after a couple of episodes. I've seen the German version. It was absolutely dire because it was a beat-by-beat, shot-by-shot remake of the original IT Crowd. It wasn't like the US version of The Office where they try to find their own take on the concept or something - Just literally doing the exact same scripts but in German with German actors. It could have been passable if they maybe tried something, but nope, it was just utterly pointless. You can't really make the argument that dubbing the show wouldn't have worked because of cultural differences if all you do is use the exact same script anyway.
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2018 03:37
|
|
|
ZDar Fan posted:Here's one from 1998 I just learned about today: Venus on the Hard Drive. This seems pointless as the Weird Science TV show already existed and starred a real hot babe.
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2018 03:46
|
|
|
Ritznit posted:I've seen the German version. It was absolutely dire because it was a beat-by-beat, shot-by-shot remake of the original IT Crowd. It wasn't like the US version of The Office where they try to find their own take on the concept or something - Just literally doing the exact same scripts but in German with German actors. It could have been passable if they maybe tried something, but nope, it was just utterly pointless. You can't really make the argument that dubbing the show wouldn't have worked because of cultural differences if all you do is use the exact same script anyway. Do did they do the episode where Moss has dinner with the German who was also a cannibal?
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2018 13:59
|
|
|
Bonzo posted:Do did they do the episode where Moss has dinner with the German who was also a cannibal? Nope, because the German version was cancelled after episode 2 or 3, and the cannibal thing wasn't until later.
|
|
#
?
May 11, 2018 03:40
|
|
|
I couldn't make it through the Red Dwarf US pilots, but they both bringing Kryten in a lot earlier, don't they? I remember the books introduce him about in the first novel and make him a permanent member of the crew with more the Series 3 personality, if I recall. (I seem to recall some story that there was some adjustments made to the Kryten costuming/makeup for the US pilots that they ended up using in the Brit version of the show.) There is/was a rumor for a while that someone was thinking about a US FILM remake of RD which, if it were to ever happen, I still think the first book makes for a good template for a starting off point for a film. It weaves together Rimmer and Lister's origins a bit more than the series (I think) did and fleshes out the universe and gives both the characters a little more depth, it creates a slightly more cinematic scale, too.
|
|
#
?
May 11, 2018 04:02
|
|
|
JediTalentAgent posted:(I seem to recall some story that there was some adjustments made to the Kryten costuming/makeup for the US pilots that they ended up using in the Brit version of the show.) Yeah I vaguely remember Robert Llewellyn talking about it in his autobiography 'The Man In The Rubber Mask', I think they altered the design of the costume so he could sit down in it or something. Or maybe it was the eyelids thing where in the UK version his eyes were pretty much glued open. I also remember him talking about mucking around on the first day of the US pilot shoot and pretending to hump parts of the set and dumb stuff like that for shits & giggles and people were staring at him going "What are you doing?" which is how he figured out that the tone on a US comedy series shoot was very very different from back home in the UK. Edit: someone uploaded the relevant chapters to youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fztApqfPnbE New Kryten costume starts at 57:50, loving the set start at about 1:00:00 Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 09:07 on May 11, 2018 |
|
#
?
May 11, 2018 08:08
|
|
|
Convex posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmNdbdSCuC4 I knew what this was before I clicked on it. I don't think I've ever made it more than 15-20 seconds.
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2018 06:47
|
|
|
This technically doesn't count because more than just a pilot aired, but I can't believe I never heard about this gem before today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPuw9PSrKuc A sitcom that aired from 1989 to 1990 (spanning two decades!) about a witch who pretends to be a high school cheerleader. It's basically Out of This World except with Allyson Hannigan
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2018 07:30
|
|
|
Of all the things in the thread so far, Bubsy is the one that instantly made me go "Oh hell no this poo poo is going to start popping up in my nightmares now isn't it?" Marvellous.Bubsy posted:What could possibly go WRONG???
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2018 07:32
|
|
|
Cymbal Monkey posted:You're not wrong. Argh, I clicked it.
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2018 08:13
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 9, 2024 00:02 |
|
|
I got through about 5 minutes of Woops and 7 minutes of Jessica. Holy crap. In those 12 minutes, I chuckled once and that was when the guy said he survived a nuclear holocaust because he was in a Volvo. That actually wasn't too bad a joke.
|
|
#
?
May 12, 2018 08:55
|
|
