Why not air failed TV pilots during summer?

[TMC]

https://web.archive.org/web/20030601...=cl%2Dcalendar

"With so many hungry channels to feed, maybe even TV's road kill merits a moment in the sun," says Brian Lowry. This will give viewers a chance to see Fox's remake of "Mr. Ed" or the college version of "CSI." Lowry says the pilots also offer educational value. NBC, for instance, could dump its bad pilots on Bravo to balance out "Inside the Actors Studio," "providing case studies of good actors gone wrong.

[Duster76]

2003 just called, it wants its article back. The failed TV network Trio is out of business, James Lipton is dead, why post something like this?

[TMC]

Originally Posted by Duster76

2003 just called, it wants its article back. The failed TV network Trio is out of business, James Lipton is dead, why post something like this?

Why are you complaining to me about the date that the article was originally published? The point of the article is why TV networks don't air failed pilots anymore. For example, CBS during the late '80s, had a show called the CBS Summer Showcase, which aired pilots that weren't picked up by the network.

[Duster76]

Originally Posted by TMC

Why are you complaining to me about the date that the article was originally published? The point of the article is why TV networks don't air failed pilots anymore. For example, CBS during the late '80s, had a show called the CBS Summer Showcase, which aired pilots that weren't picked up by the network.

Are you kidding me, the article was written for the TV world of 2003! Look at the outdated references, if you want to argue that some entity should acquire failed pilots for streaming or broadcast purposes in 2022 then make that case. I don't see the viability of this on a commercial scale, I'm sure folks like us who have an interest in television history might enjoy this type of program but that's just not enough of an audience. What was needed, and its probably too late now, was something along the lines of TCM but focused on TV. It was my hope that when TV Land was first conceived that it might have evolved into something like TCM.

[TMC]

Originally Posted by Duster76

Are you kidding me, the article was written for the TV world of 2003! Look at the outdated references, if you want to argue that some entity should acquire failed pilots for streaming or broadcast purposes in 2022 then make that case. I don't see the viability of this on a commercial scale, I'm sure folks like us who have an interest in television history might enjoy this type of program but that's just not enough of an audience. What was needed, and its probably too late now, was something along the lines of TCM but focused on TV. It was my hope that when TV Land was first conceived that it might have evolved into something like TCM.

You still didn't answer the question. Failed TV pilots are of course, still being made, and yet they by the looks of it, aren't being made available on any service (like you suggested) like they were before the year 2003. Why are you getting so testy (what do you mean "Are you kidding me?") with me over a relatively simple or basic question? Why should it matter whether or not the article was originally published in the year 2003?

[Duster76]

Let me start here:

"You still didn't answer the question".

Yes I did, sentence three begins:

"I don't see the viability of this on a commercial scale"

Who would this appeal to, some TV enthusiasts, maybe, but that's not enough of an audience in an era where individuals have so many other choices. What I would suggest is contacting some YouTube content providers such as Fredflix that do a lot of TV history. I know I've seen clips of failed pilots on some YouTube channel but I've never come across a channel showing full unsold pilots.

[Yong Fang]

James Lipton made some good tea.