“I Mom So Hard” duo scores pilot deal with CBS
by Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley, who boast more than 1.1 million Facebook fans for their web series, “I Mom So Hard,” just scored a pilot …
Tag: pilot season
Upfronts Follow-Up: The realities of pilot season and the odds of making a hit sitcom (2013-2017)
The annual song and dance of broadcast network Upfronts presentations sells advertisers on the need each May to book their 30 and 60-second commercials in …
Upfronts Follow-Up: How did the rookie class of 2015 broadcast network sitcoms fare?
It’s Friday the 13th on your calendar, which marked a dark day for several network TV series awaiting their fates for renewal or cancellation. But …
A flowchart explaining the differences between 27 broadcast network sitcom pilots in 2016
Modern Family remains a hit for ABC in its seventh season, and that network has successfully expanded that family sitcom template in the past couple …
Episode #41: Jermaine Fowler
Today’s guest is Jermaine Fowler, who was supposed to get his big break in 2012 as part of a much-ballyhooed reboot of FOX’s seminal sketch …
Last Comic Standing 8 winner Rod Man lands development deal for NBC sitcom
Just in time. Rod Man, who won the eighth season of Last Comic Standing last summer, has earned himself a deal for a pilot script …
Maybe See TV? Pilot Season 2015 for network, cable sitcoms
Despite proclamations last year that “pilot season” was dead or dying, it’s alive and well as we head into the final week of January 2015. …
NBC invites your ideas to its Comedy Playground, to put favorites on air in 2015
It’s your first day on the job at this radio station, and everything you thought you knew about radio gets thrown out the window. Including …
47 Things Every Actress Says During Pilot Season, by Kimmy Gatewood
Meet Kimmy Gatewood. She’s one of hundreds, maybe even thousands, of actresses in Hollywood who have been auditioning this month and last for TV pilots …
Take Me to the Pilot Season: Tracking a Year in Network TV Development
TV networks spend billions of dollars each year for ideas you’ll never see on television. That’s a bold statement. But it’s nevertheless true. Literally. And …