Just about any child of the '90s could recite the show's first episode, "Day of the Dumpster," by memory after watching it on VHS so many times. In the early 2000s, writer, comedian, and producer Beth Lapides, who founded and hosts UnCabaret, observed some of her friends getting crushed by the pilot process.
HBO also axed Bill Condon’s 2010 pilot for Tilda—a drama about Deadline Hollywood founder Nikki Finke—amid messy drama among showrunner Cynthia Mort, Condon, and star Diane Keaton.

It's hard to believe that a lot of our most beloved characters almost didn't exist. The show has gotten four seasons (er, series as Brits call them), all of which have been met with critical acclaim.
There's speculation that as many as four episodes were filmed, but that's never been confirmed. ©2020 Viacom International Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This series captured life in New York City down to a tee-- and captured the hearts of audiences around the world.

Apparently it was also shot inside of an actual house (the show was shot completely on a sound stage), which added to the episode's overall atmosphere.

But some of those pilots could still serve networks well in the industry’s prime-time hours of need.

Luckily, Lucille Ball (of I Love Lucy fame) was able to convince the network to give it a second chance.

It was also really, really, really hard to clear.”, Here’s where we come to the catch. Thank you to everyone.” (His TV mom, Danielle Fishel, shared her support.)

The zany, over-the-top character was now an elderly vampire, rather than whatever Uncle Fester was supposed to be. Apparently test audiences didn't understand the complex relationships between the main characters, not even realizing that Jaime and Cersei were brother and sister or that Tyrion was a Lannister at all! That’s another one of the problems with unpicked-up pilots: As Tarses says, simply, “A lot of them aren’t very good,” which is why they weren’t aired in the first place. The characters weren't likable: Ed was a borish man who was rude to everyone around him and Peggy was selfish and lazy. Bob Iger, outgoing CEO of Disney—which owns ABC and several cable networks—has reportedly told associates to “look across the business and permanently change how it operates,” an effort that could include “ending expensive old-school television practices like advertising upfronts and producing pilots for programs that may never air.”. “I guess 15 years [earlier], almost 20 years, we were drawn to the same idea as you’re having, which is, ‘Hey, if networks commission 150 scripts or 200 scripts a pilot season, and they commission 30, 40, 50 pilots, and they would winnow them down to eight or 10 or 12 or 15 or however many they need to fill their fall and spring and summer season, surely they had to have passed over some that were gems.’”, The result was Brilliant But Cancelled, an idea devoted to re-airing quickly canceled series that were innovative, critically acclaimed, and associated with actors or creators who had gone on to achieve fame.

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