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David K. Israel
Lunchtime Quiz: Failed TV Pilot or Totally Made Up?
by David K. Israel - October 3, 2008 - 10:30 AM

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If you know anything about the TV business, you know the chances of getting a show on the air are really, really poor. Each season, thousands of pilots are written (or “conceived,” in the case of unscripted reality programs). Out of those thousands, a hundred may be ordered. Of those scripts, dozens are actually shot (sometimes costing around $2 million each pilot). Of those dozens shot, only a handful are picked up and ordered to air.

Can you pick out the actual, failed pilots that never made it on the air from those we’ve totally made up? Some of these descriptions are taken directly from the networks’ press releases. How well can you navigate through the phonies?

Take the quiz and find out.

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Comments (5)

  1. Wow – 20%, an all-time low. Oh, well. BTW, shouldn’t ‘reality’ be in quotes? ;-)

    posted by Roger on 10-3-2008 at 11:12 am

  2. Holy crap! Not only did I surprise myself by acing the quiz, I creeped myself out by thinking #2 was something Fox would jump at.

    posted by 8rustystaples on 10-3-2008 at 1:09 pm

  3. 40% :-?

    FWIW – I was listening to Dave Ramsey online while taking this quiz.

    reCAPTCHA – their plotting

    posted by Deb on 10-3-2008 at 1:50 pm

  4. 4 out of 10. I should have just flipped a coin. Sadly, I could imagine each and every one of these getting pitched to a network.

    posted by Sean on 10-3-2008 at 10:41 pm

  5. Wow – 80% ! Still, I thought that 2nd one was definitely something Fox would air. Hope they don’t see this quiz…

    posted by Dawn on 10-4-2008 at 3:44 pm

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