So with the fall season starting soon we found ourselves in a situation where a few shows leak their pilots pilots "leaked". The TV executives have no idea how this happened but if some early hype about the shows comes of it maybe it was worth it? So the latest victims of this (ignoring Supergirl's super early leak that capitalised on the controversy of the crappy trailer) were Minority Report, Lucifer and Blindspot. The first two coming from Fox and the last one an NBC show. Having watched all 3 of these shows that mysteriously fell in my lap I have to say I'm not terribly impressed by any of them. Sure they have their moments but they could be so much better. I can always hope that somehow they do an Agents of Shield and get better ...
This weekend as I'm sure many of you know (I highly doubt if anyone knew really), the latest round of Amazon Pilots were released. As with last year, the 10 pilots are available to stream for free if you're a Prime user or have signed up for a free trial. The viewers are also given the opportunity to write reviews and rate each pilot. Last year this yielded 5 new shows of the 14 that got shown. This included comedies Alpha House which I have not got around to watching yet (sorry) and tech start-up comedy Betas which I have watched and quite liked...may even do a blog about it soon. Unfortunately last year Zombieland got cut which I liked and thought had a real shot, but I can see why others might not have. This just goes to ...