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TV is a strange beast — what we watch usually seems so effortless and enjoyable, but many people don’t realize how much work never gets seen at all. And this isn’t just in footage that gets left on the editing room floor after squeezing weeks of shooting into a 30 minute episode (22 minutes with space for commercials).
It’s also the rarely discussed pilots and sizzle reels that get created so a network can decide if it likes the show concept enough to move forward with it. There are countless numbers of these often amazing shows that just never get seen because of someone feeling it is not being a good match for a channel. (Ask me sometime about the pilot I shot in 2012 called “The Toolbox.”)There’s a good WSJ article from 2011 that sums this up pretty nicely.
And, again with the “TV is strange” theme, there are shows that do get produced that go on for many seasons, often because of the combination of an incredible theme and undeniable actors or hosts. But when those shows eventually wrap up (and they always do, unless it’s a soap opera), the talent is then sent back to the pool, having to then find a new on-camera job either by pitching and creating a show, or getting cast in something that someone else has pitched. Sometimes those get green lit and go straight to production; often they go into the pilot process described above. Being a known talent with a following can be a good thing for getting attention to your project, but it doesn’t guarantee that a network will find it to fit, or that they’ll have a time slot open for it. In short: TV is…
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