Pilot Watch: Privileged


Updated 09/02/08 9:10 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 10 comments

Pilot Watch: Privileged

The networks have announced their Fall schedules, but which of the series will actually be worth watching? This Summer, as the networks release their pilots, I'll be posting my first impressions. A lot can change before a show makes it to air — especially this year, when the writers' strike severely gummed up the production of pilots — so consider these just some quick thoughts on how the Read more

Pilot Watch: The Mentalist


Updated 03/21/09 8:12 AM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 11 comments

First Look at The Mentalist on CBS with Simon Baker

The networks have announced their Fall schedules, but which of the series will actually be worth watching? This Summer, as the networks release their pilots, I'll be posting my first impressions. A lot can change before a show makes it to air — especially this year, when the writers' strike severely gummed up the production of pilots — so consider these just some quick thoughts on how the Read more

Pilot Watch: Do Not Disturb


Updated 08/01/08 12:30 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 15 comments

Pilot Watch: Do Not Disturb

The networks have announced their Fall schedules, but which of the series will actually be worth watching? This Summer, as the networks release their pilots, I'll be posting my first impressions. A lot can change before a show makes it to air — especially this year, when the writers' strike severely gummed up the production of pilots — so consider these just some quick thoughts on how the Read more

Pilot Watch: Fringe


Updated 09/04/08 9:10 AM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 9 comments

Pilot Watch: Fringe

The networks have announced their Fall schedules, but which of the series will actually be worth watching? This Summer, as the networks release their pilots, I'll be posting my first impressions. A lot can change before a show makes it to air — especially this year, when the writers' strike severely gummed up the production of pilots — so consider these just some quick thoughts on how the Read more

Pilot Watch: Worst Week


Updated 09/23/08 9:04 AM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 7 comments

Pilot Watch: Worst Week

The networks have announced their Fall schedules, but which of the series will actually be worth watching? This Summer, as the networks release their pilots, I'll be posting my first impressions. A lot can change before a show makes it to air — especially this year, when the writers' strike severely gummed up the production of pilots — so consider these just some quick thoughts on how the Read more

Pilot Watch: The Ex List


Updated 06/18/08 2:30 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 19 comments

Pilot Watch: The Ex List

The networks have announced their Fall schedules, but which of the series will actually be worth watching? This Summer, as the networks release their pilots, I'll be posting my first impressions. A lot can change before a show makes it to air — especially this year, when the writers' strike severely gummed up the production of pilots — so consider these just some quick thoughts on how the Read more

Troubled Life on Mars Adaptation Could Have Life on ABC


Updated 05/16/08 9:35 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 7 comments

Troubled Life on Mars Adaptation Could Have Life on ABC

One of the pilots I've been curious about for more than a year now is ABC's remake of the BBC series Life on Mars, which followed a police officer who found himself somehow transported to 1973. The remake, which David E. Kelley was writing and producing, was originally expected to be considered for the current TV season — but Kelley had trouble finding a man to play his lead character, so the Read more

When Do You Start Caring About TV Pilots?


Updated 04/30/08 5:58 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 8 comments

When Do You Start Caring About TV Pilots?

TV pilot season was slow to start up because of the strike this year, but now it's definitely in full swing. It seems like you can't look at the Internet without seeing news of another casting for the 90210 spinoff — today's is the totally adorable Jessica Stroup of Reaper and Prom Night, who will play video blogger Daphne Silver — and Joss Whedon's highly anticipated Dollhouse already has Read more

Alicia Silverstone to Play a Mother — to Maeby! — for ABC


Updated 04/21/08 10:30 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 19 comments

Alicia Silverstone to Play a Mother — to Maeby! — for ABC

Alicia Silverstone raised some suspicion that she was the mother after being courted by How I Met Your Mother earlier this year — but then there was that whole Britney Spears dustup, and Sarah Chalke stepped in instead. Now, it turns out Silverstone will be playing a mom — just not, you know, that one — in a new ABC comedy pilot. Silverstone has been cast in the lead in Bad Mother's Read more