Press Play with Madeleine Brand
TV Pilot Season Shakeup
We’re in the middle of March Madness - the basketball tournament - but that’s also a perfect name for TV’s pilot season. This is the height of the network’s annual scramble to produce new shows and roll out their Fall line-ups. It’s a costly and slightly crazy tradition - and it’s only gotten costlier and crazier.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readWe’re in the middle of March Madness - the basketball tournament - but that’s also a perfect name for TV’s pilot season. This is the height of the network’s annual scramble to produce new shows and roll out their Fall line-ups. It’s a costly and slightly crazy tradition - and it’s only gotten costlier and crazier. For years, network executives have said that they were going to do things a better way. Now it seems like that’s finally started to happen.
The full episode
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Smog, TV Pilots, Errol Morris & the Future of Kobe- 0:00WHO Smog Report
- 7:41Conservatives Fighting for Free Speech
- 16:12TV Pilot Season ShakeupYou’re reading this
- 26:06Errol Morris: The Unknown Known
- 41:46Kobe Bryant's Long Goodbye
Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Andrew Walsh
Too Beautiful to Live
Christian Bordal
Managing Producer, Greater LA
Matt Holzman
Producer, 'The Document'
Cynthia Littleton
co-editor-in-chief of Variety, author of “TV on Strike: Why Hollywood Went to War Over the Internet”
Michael Schneider
Senior editor at Variety
The full episode
3 of 5Smog, TV Pilots, Errol Morris & the Future of Kobe- 0:00WHO Smog Report
- 7:41Conservatives Fighting for Free Speech
- 16:12TV Pilot Season ShakeupYou’re reading this
- 26:06Errol Morris: The Unknown Known
- 41:46Kobe Bryant's Long Goodbye