TV Pilot's License

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, ...

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 Har...

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 t...

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 telev...

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, Bret...

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 bewitchi...

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, sto...

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...

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 ba...

Fold down the jumper seats, we've got a full crew as we welcoming back Ilsa Morales and Kyra Navrette from the Relatable Nerds Podcast. With the upcoming release of X-Men '97 ready to rock the nerd world, we take a step back to the very first X-Men animated TV show debuting in 1992. You can join along and watch on Disney+!

We get an awesome first televised introduction to Jubilee, Storm, Gambit, Professor X, Wolverine,...

Vampires? Teens? History Homework? It must be 2009 babyyyyy! This week is the CW's best performing pilot of all time. It's the Vampire Diaries!

The hit show that's not taking advantage of the momentum of Twilight at all. The show is based on the eponymous book series by L.J. Smith and ran for 171 episodes. (That's a lotta blood suckin') The boys cover the banging soundtrack that's straight from your iP...

Cue up ‘Come Fly With Me’ and pour yourself a big ol martini, it’s time for a drama set in the golden age of flight! And just like the golden age of flight it was short lived, messy and taken down by the gears of capitalism. It’s also our first aviation themed show on an aviation themed podcast! Whoa. So this show honestly falls into the category of “should have been great but oh well” Margot Robbie, Christina Ricci, David Harbour...

It's our last week of International Month! We're ending with the immensely popular Spanish thriller, Money Heist! Remember the rules, no names, no injuries, just like how you run a podcast. Jump in for the story of this thrill a minute show and hear how it made the leap across the Atlantic to Netflix.

With too many stars to count, too many stories to name, just dive in! Remember subs over dubs.

Starring your hosts:

Geoff Ke...

Look, you’re going to have to level with us here. We didn’t do the original Swedish one, we chose the one with three massive actors in it. Cowardice? Maybe. Is it more popular? Ja, Ja, a million times Ja. Strap on your giggle suit, this show is a barrel of monkeys! If the monkeys set themselves on fire, were sex trafficked by corrupt politicians, and were doing vicious revenge killings all around Sweden. But this show isn’t all ...

Put your feet up, lean back in your seat and enjoy your in-flight meal because this trip takes us to Botswana! The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency is a popular book series adapted by the BBC. They took one pass of the book and came to the world with a dream: make the longest pilot in human history.

In all seriousness, this show is just straight fun and whimsical with great sincere moments sprinkled through.

We get a terri...

Want to know something you and I probably have in common? We both watched Squid Game. How do I know? More than HALF of all GLOBAL accounts of Netflix watched it. Do we ever have monoculture like this anymore?

Welcome to International Month! Every episode in February will be about show not made in the US, so come along with us for a real no brainer of a pick. We take to South Korea for the brain child of Hwang Dong-Hyuk and fo...

This week on TVPL the Pilots discuss the TV show 'You'. Not “you” per se, but maybe all of “us?” Like categorically “you” could be “me?” No, not “you” specifically, “you” in the sense of really anyone, the royal “you?” No, that’s not the right “you.” Actually maybe it’s not “you” like “us” maybe it’s just “you” as the seasonal hyperfixation of “you”. Third base.

Anywho, they cover everything from the show's origin ...

Xena?? We xeen the whole damn episode!

Apparently the ancient Greeks invented the Spin-Off. The guys tackle this beloved Hercules character that got her very own action thriller series. Lucy Lawless stars as a warrior, hero of the commonfolk, and gay icon! Look, is it Breaking Bad? No. Is it a campy nerdy property with goofy sound effects, you betcha.

Come see what's left the guys shaking their head and riding along ...

What can bring Gen Z TikTok'ers, lawyers-to-be, and fans of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle together? The love of SUITS damnit!

The guys pin their pilot wings to their bespoke $10,000 suits and head over to the inexplicably long USA pilot about a top New York City law firm. Tonight is gonna be a movie, because this pilot is as long as one.

The show captures the life and career of super lawyer Harvey Specter (Gabriel ...