I would also like them to have "failed pilot week" where they showed the pilots to the shows that did not get picked up. I want to see Football Wives from last year and see what was so awful about it oh and the one after Party of Five where Jennifer Love Hewitt was the sports reporter.
What If There Was A Short-Lived TV Series Channel?
Yes, yes, yes, I know that was tried to some extent with Trio but I'm talking about a channel that would solely be devoted to airing short-lived television series, be they based on popular movies (Delta House, A League Of Their Own, Timecop) or not (The Hat Squad, The Flash, Homefront). There are hundreds if not thousands of series that are gathering dust in studio vaults so why not let them air once again?
Now what to call this channel? Retro TV? The Vault? New View TV?
Now what to call this channel? Retro TV? The Vault? New View TV?
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I'll second that. I'm really jonesin' to see, from this development season, that Amber Tamblyn CBS pilot Babylon Fields (about a town dealing with the recently dead returning as zombies). CBS chose to pick up Moonlight (then known as Twilight) instead.mwhip said:I would also like them to have "failed pilot week" where they showed the pilots to the shows that did not get picked up.
Failed Pilot Week! That would rock. Or suck. Either way I'd watch it.
Wow, someone other than me remembers Homefront! 
Of course.tgmii said:Wow, someone other than me remembers Homefront!
That was a great series.I think the channel would have the same fate as the series it aired........
There was a tv special a few years ago that showed clips from a bunch of pilots that did not get picked up. I think it was called the greatest shows you never saw. A lot of them looked like they may have been pretty good.mwhip said:I would also like them to have "failed pilot week" where they showed the pilots to the shows that did not get picked up. I want to see Football Wives from last year and see what was so awful about it oh and the one after Party of Five where Jennifer Love Hewitt was the sports reporter.
I'd implement a mission statement that could not be bypassed. If only a channel like SCI FI had had one...aadam101 said:I think the channel would have the same fate as the series it aired........
There was a Fargo pilot starring Edie Falco in the Frances McDormand role. I did not have DIRECTV when Trio initially aired it so I've never gotten to see it. That'd be another one this proposed channel would air.zuko3984 said:There was a tv special a few years ago that showed clips from a bunch of pilots that did not get picked up. I think it was called the greatest shows you never saw. A lot of them looked like they may have been pretty good.
And you guys aren't the only ones. My wife and I really loved that series and were sad when it left the air.tgmii said:Wow, someone other than me remembers Homefront!
I remember Homefront.
I didn't watch it, but I remember that it existed.
I didn't watch it, but I remember that it existed.
There is already, it's called 'Fox!' BIH!!!
BIH!!!
The SciFi Channel used to have "The SciFi Series Collection" for just this purpose. They still show these sometimes, but they don't call it that anymore. (Only SF/Fantasy/Horror shows of course.)
Don't get me started. Those were the glory days, when the channel was called The Sci-Fi Channel (not SCI FI) and actually aired science fiction programming.wmcbrine said:The SciFi Channel used to have "The SciFi Series Collection" for just this purpose. They still show these sometimes, but they don't call it that anymore. (Only SF/Fantasy/Horror shows of course.)
Dang thunder stolen!! What made the think of Fox was that first episode of Family Guy after it came back from being canceled where Peter went through and recited every short lived series that existed before the return of Family Guy5thcrewman said:There is already, it's called 'Fox!'
Every couple of weeks a coworker and I bring up how great this would be. The Canceled Channel. Unaired pilots, series that were cancelled after a season or less. A gameshow based on short-runs. Josh Cooke could host.
Actually, he left some out (for example, Oliver Beene) - and one of the ones he did name, Titus, had actually run more episodes than FG at that point.DeDondeEs said:Dang thunder stolen!! What made the think of Fox was that first episode of Family Guy after it came back from being canceled where Peter went through and recited every short lived series that existed before the return of Family Guy
As for Football Wives, I thought the reason that did not get picked up was because the NFL "persuaded" ABC/ESPN's owners into not making it into a series, the way they did with any talk of a second season of Playmakers.
-- Don
The Thorns
In 1988, ABC aired this sitcom about social climbing New Yorkers, the Thorns, and their highly dysfunctional family. .. The Thorns were way ahead of its time in 1988. They exposed seedy life of Upper East Side New Yorkers with wealth to buy their reputations. The Thorns had such guest stars like Christine Baranski before her Cybill fame, Maureen Stapleton,and the late William Roerick. Kelly and TOny were exquisite in their roles as parents and unfaithful spouses. It was well-written and directed but too intelligent for the audience then and probably now. The pilot plot featured around fundraising party at the Thorns Upper East Side townhouse. The Thorns put the family dog to sleep to avoid it disturbing the party. Their youngest son begins to act like a dog as a reaction to his death. Then their paternal grandmother arrives from Brooklyn, her apartment building burns down. Ginger Thorn replies "It's probably an improvement." The Thorns are forced to put Grandma THorn in the dog's room. Yes, the dog had his own room. Grandma THorn now deals with her youngest grandson's dilemma. She comes down in her nightgown during the party to fetch her grandson. This show had so much potential but not enough viewers at the time. Kelly Bishop and TOny Roberts headed this cast for 7 episodes until it became cancelled by network politics and not enough interest. Maybe the ABC network felt the show was too similar to their own lives and decided to shelve it to avoid criticism. The Thorns made New York City to be equally shallow and depth as a puddle on the street. Sorry it didn't last longer or nobody else picked it up at the time. It was well worth taping all of it.
The pilot of that show got leaked onto the internetFilmCritic3000 said:I'll second that. I'm really jonesin' to see, from this development season, that Amber Tamblyn CBS pilot Babylon Fields (about a town dealing with the recently dead returning as zombies). CBS chose to pick up Moonlight (then known as Twilight) instead.
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