This years Pilot week is pretty crap in comparison to last year. Very cheap and nasty shows. The advertising is to little, to late. I agree, the scheduling could do with some work also.
I believe they should have left Survivor on Sunday and had a double My Life is Murder (season final) this week and made next week “Pilot Week.” Actually give them slots where people might see them.
Discussed at length in the 2018 thread of the same name, but the 4 x shows that were picked up were: Kinne Tonight, Taboo, Saturday Night Rove and the yet to premiere Trial By Kyle.
Street Smart, which featured Casey Donovan was not part of 10’s Pilot Week last year.
Just saw Part Time Private Eyes. Solid effort from Heidi and Nicola, plenty of laughs. Probably deserves a 6-part series next year.
I saw several comments on Twitter regarding Nadine Garner and Alex Papps, recognising them as Tam and Vinnie from The Henderson Kids.
It’s a stupid idea when the programmers at Ten can’t differentiate between a gold nugget and a lump of turd. 80% of the pilots Ten has screened over the past two years aren’t fit for human consumption and should’ve been rejected at concept stage. Why do they need the viewers to tell them that shows with a flimsy premise like I Am Roxy and Crazy Rich Asians shouldn’t go to series? You have to wonder how much CBS pays these inept Ten programmers when they can’t smell a steaming pile of shit right under their noses.
Agreed. It really is time for CBS to take this investment seriously.
You’d be forgiven for not knowing that a majorly successful US network owns 10.
It’s still the same old shit it’s been the past 10 years.
Start with Beverly. Time to go.
Just to note that Seven and Nine have caught up in recent years. All the networks just dish up rubbish after rubbish. I watch more US content on the networks than home grown programmes. They all need a major overhaul and shake up.
Dare I say it, there are some members on this forum who’d probably do a better job at programming Network Ten than most of the people currently in charge.
Agreed.
I’d also love to know if Ten were ever presented with a pilot centred around Angie Kent & Yvie Jones because with all the exposure they’ve been getting since leaving Gogglebox, you’d think it’d be a no-brainer for them to give A&Y their own show before someone else does!
Yes. I really enjoyed it. The episode was packed with laughs. There was a lot of fast dialogue too. I feel like I need to rewatch it because I might have missed a few of the jokes.
I think that’s just a gag for the end credits. If it goes to a series, they’ll probably have these “Next Week” gags in every episode but they have nothing to do with the actual episodes.
I cannot believe a political journalist and most recently host of Insiders (Barrie Cassidy) would lend his voice to a documentary about a Sydney celebrity PR!
I am Roxy averaged just under 400,000 last night, the best of the Pilot Week so far. However feedback was mostly negative. 10 may give it a short series though.
Here is the reason Barrie Cassidy narrated the pilot.
According to TV Tonight, Part Time Private Eyes will be repeated next Monday after HYBPA.
I think it’s safe to say that Sydney’s Crazy Rich Asian’s and My 80 Year Old Flatmate based on their ratings performances and chatter online won’t be getting season orders from 10.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see the network announce at their upfronts that I am… Roxy and Part Time Private Eyes will return in 2020.
I’m still disappointed that Catfish Australia didn’t get a look in for Pilot Week, as I think it would’ve been a good fit for the network if it was done well.
Finally got around to seeing this. Definitely the best of the Pilot Week offerings. It was a bit patchy but has potential. Hope it gets a chance to develop further
