TELEVISION WEEK Unsold Television Pilots 1955-1989 is an expanded version of author Lee Goldberg’s book The Best TV Shows That Never Were (reviewed yesterday).  Yesterday’s book focused on, as the title suggests, the best shows that were never made.  This book is ALL the shows not made between 1955-1989.  It is not a simple read. Continue reading

TELEVISION WEEK In television lingo, a ‘pilot’ is a one-time television episode that is made to show television executives what a show might look like (apparently because these executives have no imagination from simply reading a script).  Every year, there are MANY television pilots made by a variety of networks and studios, all trying to Continue reading

TELEVISION WEEK Although I love to read, and I read a lot, I grew up a child of the television age.  As one of those first generation ‘latch-key’ kid, the television was my nanny.  And when I moved to Hollywood, it was television that I had hoped to break in to.  I am also one Continue reading