TV Pilot's License

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...

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...

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 ...

A tribute to Captain Raymond Holt, Mr. Andre Braugher.

What more can you say about this show than nearly perfectly written characters and non stop goofy premises? We dive into the FOX darling that should have been NBC darling, Brooklyn 99. We get introduced to almost every member of the full and final cast except for Hitchcock and Sully, so let's get reacquainted with our favorite members of the NYPD. Jake (Andy Samberg), Amy ...

It's the End of Year Spectacular! Thank you all for staying with us as we watched more TV than we did during lockdown.

While we objectively LOVED every show we covered this year, unfortunately there were some shows that came out in 2023 that weren't up to snuff! Can you believe it?? BAD television??

Well it's true, and the guys watched three shows that sadly will not see the bright lights of 2024! Geoff and M...

What happens when you take the seriousness and rhetoric of the West Wing and make it about sketch comedy? A record-breaking successful pitch to TV networks! So why can't we find the show anywhere? What went wrong?

We invite friend of the pod, author and comedian Lana Schwartz (New Yorker, Build Your Own Romantic-Comedy) to dissect the biggest swings and misses of a show that really everyone was banking on. We talk about th...

What’s worse than driving at the intersection of Wilshire and Fairfax? FALLING THROUGH THE FRIGGEN EARTH AT WILSHIRE AND FAIRFAX MOST LIKELY. What can we say about this show that is more exciting than getting to watch some of our favorite LA architecture collapse in CGI disaster.

Come join us for La Brea, a big ticket NBC drama involving time travel, green underworld lights, parallel dimensions and a BIG FREAKIN HOLE!

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Wow, looking back on this episode from way back in July, we were so different then. So young, so naive, so nervous about doing this narrative focused podcast only about cartoons and reality TV. Well anywho, here's our episode about the pilot of Scandal. We're talking about the episode that launched 1,000 binges. Scandal is our next foray into the Shonda Rhimes universe and who better to lead us there than our Ambassador to ...