Movies and TvShows featuring "failed-tv-pilot" theme.
Comedy Lab is a British television series which showcases pilots of experimental comedy shows. Series have been aired irregularly on Channel 4 and E4 since 1998. Several pilots first shown on Comedy Lab have gone on to spawn full series, most notably Trigger Happy TV, Fonejacker, That Peter Kay Thing, Meet the Magoons and FM. It also gave Jimmy Carr his first television appearance in Jimmy Carr's World of…Corporate Videos. The 2001 series features the episodes Knife and Wife, Orcadia, Daydream Believers: Brand New Beamer and Jimmy Carr's World of…Corporate Videos featuring Jimmy Carr. The 2008 series features the episodes Headwreckers, Mr and Mrs Fandango, Olivia Lee's Naughty Bits, Karl Pilkington: Satisfied Fool, Pappy's Fun Club, School of Comedy and Slaterwood. 2010's shows are iCandy, Happy Finish, Penelope Princess of Pets, Jack Whitehall Secret Census, Filth, Moviemash and Hung Out. The 2011 lineup includes: Anna & Katy, Totally Tom and Rick and Peter.
CBS anthology series airing unsold television pilots during the summer season.
Comedy Showcase is a series of one-off comedy specials featuring some of Britain's fledgling comedy talent. Its format is reminiscent of the much earlier Comedy Playhouse. The format was replaced in 2012 by 4Funnies.
Bates Motel is a dark comedy horror film that follows the story of an eccentric motel owner who becomes entangled in a series of mysterious and supernatural events. The film explores themes of insanity, deceit, and the supernatural as the owner's life takes a dark turn. As the plot unfolds, the audience is taken on a journey through a crumbling motel filled with secrets and a cast of eccentric characters.
Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge, is an American animated television series created by Dave Willis and computer animated by Radical Axis. The pilot episode aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim on March 29, 2010. The pilot was not picked up for a full series. The pilot was rated TV-MA
This Space for Rent is a Canadian dramedy on CBC starring Dov Tiefenbach that premiered on January 4, 2006 as a 'special' CBC pilot as part of its "Comedy Week". Tiefenbach plays Lucky Carroway, a recent university graduate and writer who finds that life after university is not as perfect as it might seem. The show begins shortly after his valedictorian speech, when his world comes crashing down after his first book is rejected by his literary agent. His life becomes worse as his arch-nemesis becomes a published author who appears in "Vancouver Magazine's" top 10 writers list. He becomes a recluse who constantly wears his graduation robe and plays video games all day. However, he quickly recovers by writing a vicious 'letter to the editor' to Vancouver Magazine where he decries the selection of his arch-nemesis as a top 10 writer. This letter angers so many readers of the magazine that they offer him a job as an anonymous "Hate Male" article writer. He lives in downtown Vancouver in a flat with several friends. Emily Hampshire plays a recent law school graduate named Iona Goldenthal, a binge drinker who must deal with the chauvinistic world of law. Rainbow Sun Francks plays a recent graduate named Barnaby Sharpe who majored in economics and Russian literature. He fails his first audition and ends up working at a Jar Heads, a Starbucks parody, as a "coffee jerk". Kea Wong plays Rumour Wong, a medical intern and Lucky's girlfriend, who must deal with Lucky's mental breakdown and reclusive nature. Jason Bryden plays Elliot Hayden, a mutual gay friend who speaks Mandarin and frequents Chinatown. He teaches English to immigrant children and acts as a foil to the rest of the characters.
A spin-off of the "TV Funhouse" segments on Saturday Night Live, "Saturday TV Funhouse is a dark parody of Bozo the Clown, with Robert Smigel playing Prozo, a half-drunk clown, accompanied by an announcer, a sidekick, and a live band.
In a dystopian world where love is considered a disease, a young woman named Lena falls in love and must choose between conforming to society's rules or following her heart.
In this failed TV pilot, The Amazing Screw-On Head, a secret agent with a screwed-on head, must fight against evil beings and their schemes to protect the President of the United States. With his abilities and a range of mechanical devices, Screw-On Head battles supernatural powers and paranormal phenomena.
A sitcom satirising small-minded Britain. Written by Brenda Gilhooly, set in the fictional town of Mansford the show merrily satirises middle England, local politics, daft bureaucracy and the deluded nature of small-time power. The councillors are always getting hot under the collar about something - new EU regulations or a pole dancing club going up next to a nursery or the latest wheelie bin disaster.
Tom Kovack is a hard-nosed race car driver until a sudden supernatural vision causes a near-fatal crash while he's hurtling down the backstretch at 140 miles per hour. Michele Brent is the woman who convinces Kovack that his visions are significant. She leads him to the manor house that appeared in his vision, which in turn leads him into a world of revenge and murder from beyond the grave. Kovack must tap into his newfound power to conquer the evil forces at work.
A psychiatrist specializing in the occult becomes involved in the case of a man who is possessed by a spirit in an antique mirror. The man's fiance discovers that the mirror is able to bring back her former boyfriend, who had been killed in a car accident, from the dead.
In futuristic Los Angeles, a crime-fighting organization known as Condor goes up against the Black Widow, a female master criminal. The Black Widow steals the national security code and threatens to blow up Hollywood unless her old enemy, Proctor, a Condor operative, is turned over to her.
Identical twin brothers who own a detective agency hatch a plan to expose a phony group of psychics, but soon find themselves involved in a murder.
In 'The Stranger,' a man crash-lands on an alternate Earth and must navigate a society ruled by a dictator. He becomes a target as he tries to unravel the truth and find a way to escape.
The Brady Girls Get Married is a comedy movie that serves as a TV series pilot and reunion for the popular show, The Brady Bunch. The story revolves around the double wedding of Marcia and Jan, and the mishaps and comedic events that occur leading up to the big day. Despite its attempts to become a new TV series, The Brady Girls Get Married was ultimately unsuccessful as a pilot.
A game show following contestants as they travel through a massive maze, answering multiple-choice questions along the way. The maze consists of rooms filled with money; and the further in they go, the bigger the prize. But in order to collect the price, however, contestants must remember what they learned along the way as they find their way out.
Three young women who posed as the daughters of an elderly homesteader find out that he has been falsely accused of murder, convicted, and sentenced to hang. They hatch a plot to smuggle him out of prison.
A cartoon dog entertainment promoter manipulates a naive newcomer to be his headline act for an upcoming show.
A professor, who has been paralyzed in an attack by mob hitmen, builds a suit that enables him to walk and fight crime.