Ken shares stories of various sitcom pilots he’s worked on and a couple of these tales you won’t believe. Go behind-the-scenes of how TV pilots are made.
You've written before about "Good-bye, Radar" originally being written as a single episode to close Season 7, but it was the network that insisted it a two-parter for sweeps, and that when you and David Isaacs re-wrote it as such, you added the subplot about the generator to pad it out with filler for the extra time. So, does that mean everything else about your original script for the episode was still the same? Radar meeting Patty Haven? The circumstance of Uncle Ed passing away? The sudden arrival of wounded canceling Radar's farewell party?
"It's not like I'm a black widow" But the stories about the dead shows really seem to stick in your craw. Gets under the skin, the "what ifs."
Shame about the Carol Burnett- Amy Poehler show. After P&R ended I heard about this pairing and was so hoping it would happen. And I can imagine after SNL that she'd be great in a room pitching jokes.
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ReplyDeleteYou've written before about "Good-bye, Radar" originally being written as a single episode to close Season 7, but it was the network that insisted it a two-parter for sweeps, and that when you and David Isaacs re-wrote it as such, you added the subplot about the generator to pad it out with filler for the extra time. So, does that mean everything else about your original script for the episode was still the same? Radar meeting Patty Haven? The circumstance of Uncle Ed passing away? The sudden arrival of wounded canceling Radar's farewell party?
"It's not like I'm a black widow" But the stories about the dead shows really seem to stick in your craw. Gets under the skin, the "what ifs."
ReplyDeleteShame about the Carol Burnett- Amy Poehler show. After P&R ended I heard about this pairing and was so hoping it would happen. And I can imagine after SNL that she'd be great in a room pitching jokes.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/04/carol-burnett-amy-poehler-sitcom-pilot-reason
I liked the Brandon Stoddard story. Maybe he spied a Cap Cities exec walking towards him at the end there.
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