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Spot the Fake Pilot, Part II: Reality Edition!
Some of you were superstars at my quiz about fake TV pilots last week, so I decided to try to stump you again. Once again, the questions below are descriptions of TV shows that could be coming soon to a major network or cable channel near you. Once again, some of the shows are honest-to-pete real series or pilots, while others are mere ideas in my mind.
Can You Spot the Fake Pilots?
With the writers' strike over and the Upfronts just two months away, networks are starting to check out their pilots for the Fall TV season. We've heard a lot about how this year might be different (fewer pilots overall, more networks waiting till midseason to launch their new shows), but one thing is the same: A whole bunch of ridiculous-sounding pilots are already on the docket.
Some of the descriptions in the quiz below are real shows the networks are considering for next season.
What We Could Be Watching: New York TV Fest Pilots
If the new crop of fall pilots that will premiere in a week or two is making you wring your hands over the current state of television, you might want to check out some of the alternative pilots screened at the recent New York Television Festival. The festival brought in 28 independent (read: non-network) pilots to compete in categories including drama, comedy and unscripted shows.
Three of the pilots won awards over the weekend: "Apartment 413," which used puppets in a suburban satire, won the prize for best comedy, while "Dear Harvard," about a prep school girl whose father is charged with securities fraud, was named the best drama.
Spot the Fake TV Pilots: The Answers!
How good were you at picking out the fake TV pilots? Whether you were a hapless viewer or a network executive, don't fear — I've got your answers right here. To see which shows could be coming soon to a TV near you, and which I made up just for kicks, read more
Quiz: Can You Spot the Fake TV Pilots?
The networks are prepping their pilots for the Fall TV season, and every year, there seem to be more and more ridiculous shows in development. In the coming weeks, I'll be looking at some of the big trends and trying to predict which pilots will make it to air.
But for now, I've taken some of the more unbelievable descriptions of this Fall's potential shows and mixed them in with some fakes.
Christopher Guest, Mitchell Hurwitz Teaming Up for Pilot
Here's something to snap you out of that post-Oscars funk: "Arrested Development" creator Mitchell Hurwitz and Waiting for Guffman writer/director Christopher Guest are teaming up to make a comedy pilot for ABC.
According to Zap2it, Guest will be directing Hurwitz's adaptation of a British show called "The Thick of It," which — no surprises here — is filmed like a mockumentary.
My inner "Arrested Development" fan is already mourning the show's demise, but I'm going to try to be optimistic for a little while.
TV Preview: "The Black Donnellys"
I'm just going to say this up front: NBC's "The Black Donnellys" is a little like "The Sopranos," if all of Tony Soprano's associates were incredibly attractive young men. Between the good-looking cast and the cinematic, almost epic look of the pilot, "The Black Donnellys," which premieres tonight, is definitely doing just fine in the eye-candy department.
The show, which is taking over the
Kate Walsh Gets "Grey's" Spinoff
You've probably figured out by now that Kate Walsh (aka Dr. Addison Montgomery) is one of my favorite things about "Grey's Anatomy." So I am very interested in the news that the late-addition-turned-regular is set to star in her own "Grey's" spinoff on ABC.
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Oprah's Getting in Bed With HBO
Well, kind of. The days of Oprah Winfrey's talk show may be numbered, but don't expect her to disappear anytime soon. Just a few days after her big announcement, the media mogul already has a project with HBO in the works — and she's kicking things up a notch.
Joshua Jackson Sets His Sights on a UFO
Looks like Joshua Jackson is ready to take his sci-fi acting experience from Fringe to the big screen. The actor will star in UFO, a film adaptation of the British TV series from the '70s. Jackson will play leading man Paul Foster, a test pilot who must protect our planet from a new race of body-snatching extraterrestrials.
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