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TV Pilot"s License

TV Pilot"s License

Unlock TV"s secrets with the TV Pilot"s License Podcast! Geoff, Max, and Rich dissect pilots from classics to cult favorites. Expect deep TV reviews, first episode breakdowns, and pilot analysis. We cover must-watch TV, one-season wonders, and cancelled series. Get honest show reviews, funny recaps, and sharp commentary. Need show recommendations? We"ve got you! Dive into TV history and decide which pilots earn their "license." Comedy, analysis, and passion await. Subscribe for your weekly TV

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01:01:28

Rob McElhenney, Racism, The Best Gay Bar, and It's...

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2024/08/22

The gang makes a podcast!Come take a lovely journey to our friends at Paddy’s Pub, you know, the hottest gay bar in town! We take you back to the long forgotten time of 2005. A young Rob McElhenney, started shooting a low budget pilot with actor friends Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day, and Kaitlin Olson. The group we’ve come to know and love all these years was born. All the milksteaks, the green men, the Chase Utleys merely a glimmer in their eyes. Come join us on this trip down memory lane and see

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01:03:16

Leighton Meester, Jason Momoa, Luxury Resorts, and...

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2024/08/15

We have a saying here on the island: “leave us a 5-star review!” Aloha friends! This week we’re taking you to the island of O’ahu for some prime-time soap TV to compliment the Fox smash hit The OC. Does it work? Well… try finding the pilot anywhere other than YouTube and let us know what you think. Jason Matthews (Kristoffer Polaha) runs the Grand Waimea Hotel and Resort in this prime-time soap. Arriving to shake things up is his ex, Nicole Booth (Brooke Burns), who takes a job as the

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01:05:18

My Chemical Romance, Super Heroes, and The Umbrella...

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2024/08/08

Okay… did we know this show had a great reputation? Sure. Did we know that this show was originally created by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance? Definitely. Did we forget to tell Max that there was a talking monkey in it? I’m afraid so.Obviously we’re talking about the Netflix Original series The Umbrella Academy! Starring Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, David Castaneda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, and Aidan Gallagher as kids born under extremely mysterious circumstances who developed super

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01:11:54

The Olympics, Gymnastics, Sports Sabotage, We Watched...

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2024/08/01

IT’S OLYMPIC (errr) BIG GAME FEVER Y’ALL! While you watch our ladies and gents pommel some horses and uneven some bars, let’s half tuck in to the ABC family show Make It Or Break It!Inspired by the 2006 movie Stick It, MIOBI is the brainchild of showrunner Holly Sorensen who wanted to make a drama centering around “The Rock” training center in Colorado. The show features actors Josie Loren, Ayla Kell, and Cassie Scerbo as the big three gymnasts setting their sights on the gold medal, while

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01:07:45

Shaq, Jerry Jones' Dallas Cowboys, Olympic Scandals,...

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2024/07/25

Where on earth can you get Shaquille O’Neal, Jim Palmer, Danny Tartabull, Bob Costas, Deion Sanders, Gary Payton, Barry Bonds, Mike Piazza, Tommy Lasorda, Don Mattingly, Scottie Pippen, Dan Marino, Barry Larkin, and the 1996 Miami Dolphins in the same room? An Arliss table read of course!This long-lasting cameo-loaded HBO original series is the brainchild of star Robert Wuhl who you’ll recognize from Tim Burton’s Batman and Bull Durham. After a horrendous and “total bullshit” book he read by a

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01:09:05

Gay Rights, James Burrows, and Will and Grace

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2024/07/18

Ring the Jimmy Burrows Alarm™️! We’re back with the smash hit Will & Grace! The show that brought gay comedy to the mainstream after the despicable shunning of the Ellen Degeneres show. Join us as we learn how it came to be, the legacy it leaves, and some fascinating tidbits about pilot and character development straight from the Jimmy Burrows memoir ‘Directed by James Burrows’Come catch all your favorites Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullaley and stick around for an

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01:12:21

Glenn Powell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Emma Roberts, and...

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2024/07/11

Do you have what it takes to be a sister at Kappa Kappa Tau? Tasteful fashion, a legacy mom, an unquenchable thirst for blood?Welcome to our own syllabus week for Scream Queens! Another Ryan Murphy staple taking the insanity and campiness of the Scream franchise and putting making it a star studded tv series! Hot off his last success with Glee, here comes Jamie Lee Curtis, Emma Roberts, Ariana Grande, Lea Michele, Abigail Breslin, Nasim Pedrad,Glen Powell, Nick Jonas and freaking Keke

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01:41:48

New York City and Mad Men with Greg Young of The...

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2024/06/27

Hey! It’s the Bowery Boys! Today we welcome a podcasting Hall of Famer, 2024 Webby Award Honoree, a history buff to challenge all history buffs, our esteemed ambassador from New York Greg Young! With his co-host Tom Meyers, his podcast The Bowery Boys is now on their 17th year telling the story of New York from Pre-colonization to modern day. We’re lucky enough to have Greg spotlight Mad Men with us and also give us his take on the portrayal of New York City, the city in other media, and how he

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00:59:34

Business Ideas, Nathan Fielder, and Nathan For You

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2024/06/20

Nathan For Me? Why you shouldn’t have. That’s right, this week we are taking you to the beautiful fictional town of “Los Angeles” where our hero Nathan Fielder (played by the incomparable Nathan Fielder) will take his expert business knowledge from “Canada” and turn these local entrepreneurs to nationwide success. We see the humble beginnings of Fielder’s explosion into the comedy conversation. Of course becoming the creator of HBO’s The Rehearsal and The Curse (with Emma Stone and Benny Safdie)

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01:09:00

Chad Michael Murray, Basketball, Family Therapy, and...

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2024/06/13

I don’t wanna try any podOther than TV Pilots License All I have to do is give reviews like and subscribe It’s One Tree Hill! With such themes as basketball, questionable parenting and no others. At least for the pilot! The Scott boys are at it again, stealing school busses, reading poetry, shooting hoops, and shitting on their awful dad. This CW staple brought a new crop of teen heartthrobs James Lafferty, Chad Michael Murray, Hilarie Burton, and Sophia Bush. And throw away your iPod nano,

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01:00:56

Celebrities Starring in Sitcoms, and Reba

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2024/06/06

We’re 3 nerdy dudes who got one pod, we love TV and don’t shut up with a Yeti mic and a Riverside SubscriptionIt’s REBA! Starring SNL vet Kenan Thompson (aka Reba McEntire), this show originally started under a different name and premise all together, but became the southern living sitcom to end all southern living sitcoms. With a pilot cast boosted heavily by an appearance from Nell Carter, Reba became a syndication darling and it’s easy to see why. So come grab some ersters on a half shell and

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00:59:17

ABC Family, Sexy Teens, and Kyle XY

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2024/05/30

Hold on to your bellybuttons, it’s KYLE XY! Fresh from the gooey forest floor to your living rooms, he’s a deeply confusing teen heartthrob savant!From show runners Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber (Final Destination and The Butterfly Effect) this is ABC Family’s paranormal teen drama with all the action of Seventh Heaven if they all pissed their pants in the first 10 minutes. Starring Matt Dallas, Marguerite MacIntyre, Bruce Thomas, April Matson and Jean-Luc Bilodeau, this Pacific Northwest

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00:54:40

Nicola Coughlan, Northern Ireland, and Derry Girls

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2024/05/23

What do three guys who went to college in the midwest know about Dairy? An awful lot. Derry? Well that’s a new one. This week the guys do Derry Girls! The BBC4 coming-of-age comedy taking place in embattled Northern Ireland. From show runner Lisa McGee comes a smattering of her own high school stories and memories with sharp, hilarious writing. We follow a 16 year old Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), her cousin Orla (Louisa Harland), and best friends Clare and Michelle (Nicola Coughlan and Jamie-Lee

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01:01:18

Donald Glover, Dan Harmon, College Classes, and...

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2024/05/09

Give us some more, time in a dream, give us a pod, that we can stream. It’s time to go back to school! It’s NBC’s weirdo tentpole comedy, Community! While you can probably take a wild guess that Max, Geoff, and Rich are all big fans and that they will just gush over this show. There are a lot of things to unpack. With tremendous cast and writing comes a complicated legacy and bizarre network choices that make this show rise to peak fandom on uncertain ground. While it’s easy to look back on this

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01:04:30

The Kentucky Derby, Gambling Stories, and HBO's Luck...

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2024/05/02

Hold your horses, it’s time to trot on over to HBO for the pilot of LUCK! The ironic named show that was pulled after several animal rights violations. Take a terrific cast, heavy hitting executive and writing team, and gorgeous cinematography and remove those expectations.It’s Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Farina, Nick Nolte, Richard Kind and so much more. From the team that brought you NYPD Blue, Deadwood and the pinnacle of television John From Cincinnati. Join us on the backstretch for this wild

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00:53:55

Conspiracy Theories, Joe Rogan, and Inside Job...

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2024/04/25

Hey there [REDACTED] and [REDACTED], you’re probably wondering why the windows are blacked out on this plane. We’re doing Inside Job this week! The first in house Netflix animated series and brainchild of long time animation story creator Shion Takeuchi. What is Inside Job? Well it’s a workplace comedy set at [LOCATION REDACTED] and starring Lizzy Caplan, Christian Slater, Clark Duke, Tisha Campbell, Any Daly, Bobby Lee, Brett Gelman and many many more major comedy names. So come join us as we

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01:07:45

Fan Fiction, Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, and...

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2024/04/18

Who likes Big Naturals? Sorry… Supernaturals! We do! And so does returning champion, writer, actor and TV fanatic Korama Danquah! It’s time for the Monster-of-the-week 15 season behemoth Supernatural. Dive into this mix of twilight and X-Files that thrived in the switch from the WB to the CW. Meet the heart throb Winchester brothers as they solve paranormal mysteries to get closer to their estranged father. Featuring bewitching performances from Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki and a classic rock

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01:00:38

Postpartum Care, Child Hood Memories, and Workin'...

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2024/04/11

You ready to listen to three childless dudes talk about working motherhood? Of course not! Well we have a treat for you, this show was brought to us by tremendous comedian, actor, podcast host, and mom Emily Bolt. Straight from the Six it’s Workin’ Moms! The brainchild of Catherine Reitman and Philip Sternberg, this comedy series is born from the key thesis of “having it all seems impossible” turning in real performances, stories, and jokes. Follow Emily on her podcasts Mommywood

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01:00:01

Keri Russell, The Cold War, and Discussing the...

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2024/04/04

I know how we can get this secret, with sex! It’s the Americans, the late Cold War spy thriller show based on real life experiences of a CIA agent turned screen writer. Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys play The Jennings, the average American family, house in the suburbs, two kids, hockey games and report cards and murdering enemies of the Soviet Union. The American Dream!Who better to chat about this with than returning champion, Bachelor Zone host, Kommandante Michael Wahle. It’s one of his

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01:05:01

Sara Bareilles, Tina Fey, Busy Phillips, and...

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2024/03/28

We're gonna do podcasts 5evvaaaa. We cover the fantastic comeback of the famous girlgroup Girls5Eva. I mean my god, what is not to like about this show?? Created by Colbert and Kimmy Schmidt writer Meredith Scardino, Executive Produced by Tina Fey, starring Sara Bareilles, Paula Pell, Busy Philipps and Renee Elise Goldsberry?? How could this show not be the greatest 5eva?Come swing by for a million jokes a minute, some banging tunes, a reason to watch every second of this powerhouse Peacock

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