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Columns/Features

Pilot Errors: Backdoor Pilots Best Left Forgotten

Sometimes a pilot is hiding right there out in the open and you didn’t even see it. There are times an established series wants...

Josh HadleyMarch 17, 2017

Columns/Features

Pilot Error: ‘The News’, ‘Area 57′, & ’17th Precinct’

Sometimes good ideas elude those who have no talent and sometimes good ideas need a little more time to cook. This Pilot Error we...

Josh HadleyMarch 3, 2017

Columns/Features

Pilot Error: ‘Sisco’ Scores, Araki Fails & More!

I hate Gregg Araki. I despise his films and feel he is one of the worst and yet somehow most pretentious filmmakers of the...

Josh HadleyFebruary 17, 2017

Columns/Features

Pilot Error: Doomed From The Start

There is no real theme this Pilot Error other than what should have been cool ideas being completely bungled. Wonder Woman Wonder Woman...

Josh HadleyFebruary 3, 2017

Columns/Features

Pilot Error: Making a First Impression

Sometimes a pilot is aired but not the way it was shot. There are often times multiple versions of a pilot shot before the...

Josh HadleyJanuary 23, 2017

Movies

FOG! Watches Woody Harrelson’s Live Film ‘Lost in London’

Lost In London is a live movie that was streamed to 550 theaters in the US and Britain. Yes, a live movie, not a...

Josh HadleyJanuary 20, 2017

Columns/Features

FOG! Looks at The ‘Princess Mononoke’ 20th Anniversary Screening

Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime) is one of the most fondly remembered “mainstream” anime films of the 1990’s and celebrates it’s 20th anniversary this year. Hayao...

Josh HadleyJanuary 6, 2017

Columns/Features

Pilot Error: More Comic Strip Centric TV Specials

I am still looking at comic strip related TV specials… sigh… lets dive right in. Remember how much I hated the B.C. Thanksgiving special...

Josh HadleyDecember 16, 2016

Columns/Features

Pilot Error: Thanks For Nothing…

Not going to be looking at pilots per se this time… but a couple of TV specials that could be considered pilots although they...

Josh HadleyDecember 2, 2016

Columns/Features

Pilot Error: The ‘Chameleon’, or When 3 Pilots Disguise Themselves as the Same Exact Thing

Have you ever watched a network flail about desperately attempting to get a concept to work and yet failing again and again and AGAIN?...

Josh HadleyNovember 11, 2016

Columns/Features

Halloween Specials of Years Gone By

The Halloween season is upon us and so this time we are going to forego the actual mission of this column (that of obscure,...

Josh HadleyOctober 14, 2016

Columns/Features

Pilot Error: Cinemax Gives Us Chris Elliott and Shadoe Stevens

Last time we looked at an obscure as hell HBO pilot (series)… now lets move to their stepchild with two Cinemax ones. In 1986...

Josh HadleySeptember 30, 2016

Columns/Features

Pilot Error: ‘The Edge’ of The Obscure

This Pilot Error we are going to look at something pretty damn different than what has come before. This time we are going to...

Josh HadleySeptember 16, 2016

Columns/Features

Pilot Error: ‘Black Bart’, ‘The Owl’, ‘The Strip’, and ‘Kung-Fu: The Next Generation’

Lets look at a few more Pilot Errors shall we? This time, as with the last column, these all aired on TV but odds...

Josh HadleySeptember 2, 2016

Columns/Features

Pilot Errors: 3 Sci-Fi Shows That Didn’t Take

Okay, another look at some Pilot Errors. Remember in the first column when I mentioned that some pilots were designed as 2 hour backdoor...

Josh HadleyAugust 19, 2016

Columns/Features

Pilot Error: The TV Shows You Never Knew Existed, Part Two

Part the second… as we continue our look at the works of television you never got to see on television. Yeah that makes sense,...

Josh HadleyAugust 3, 2016

Columns/Features

Pilot Error: The TV Shows You Never Knew Existed, Part One

These days it’s more common to for people to realize that for every TV show they see there are an increasing number they don’t...

Josh HadleyJuly 15, 2016