Pilot Inspectors

Welcome back to Pilot Inspectors. In today's episode, we talk about the premiere episode of the new Fox sitcom Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life. Download and listen to find out if this show deserves a space in our already busy TV watching schedule.

Welcome back to Pilot Inspectors. In today's episode, we take a look back at the shows we've watched so far in our first 35 episodes. We offer up any second thoughts or comments we wished we'd made, and we take a look at how some of the new shows we watched this fall have gone after those first pilot episodes.

Welcome back to Pilot Inspectors. To kick off the January pilot season, we've chosen to first take a look at the new CBS sitcom Angel From Hell. Download the episode and find out if we will be looking forward to Jane Lynch back on our TV sets again.

Welcome back to Pilot Inspectors. In today's episode, we take a look at the Comedy Central quote unquote "stoner" sitcom Broad City, a show about two broke girls living in Brooklyn that we hope is way better than that other show about two broke girls living in Brooklyn.

Welcome back to Pilot Inspectors. In today's episode, we look back at the pilot episode for the 2011 ABC fantasy drama Once Upon a Time. Armed with the entire cast of characters from the Disney archive, Lost producers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis brought all the fairy tale characters we know and love to our world today. Download the episode and listen to hear our impressions.

Welcome back to Pilot Inspectors. 2003 brought a show to the lives of the Pilot Inspectors that we would forever remember as one of our most enjoyable watching experiences of all time. Maybe it's not the best show ever, but we had more fun watching this show than we have with just about any other, and it will always hold a special place in our hearts. So come join us as we relive the pilot episode of the 2003 Fox show The OC.

Welcome back to Pilot Inspectors. In today's episode, we take a look at the 1997 Fox legal drama/comedy Ally McBeal. Download the episode and listen to what we thought of the show that put the word dramedy on everybody's lips in the late 90's.

Welcome back to Pilot Inspectors. In another example illustrating that we are right on the cutting edge of the television zeitgeist, in today's episode we take a look at the Amazon original series Transparent. It's been over a year since the first season was that show that everyone was talking about. And now that the second season has been dumped on an eagerly awaiting audience, we thought it was about time we finally took a look to see just what everyone has been talking about.

Welcome back to Pilot Inspectors. Sometime in the early 2010's, formerly musically oriented MTV decided to take time out of Real World and Teen Mom seasons to start making some scripted television that people thought was actually halfway decent. In today's episode, we take a look at one of the first entries in this genre, 2011 MTV teen comedy Awkward. Download today's episode and listen to find out if we might actually start tuning into MTV for good television for the first time since they reran old episodes of My So Called Life almost twenty years ago.

Welcome back to Pilot Inspectors. In today's episode, we watch the British Channel 4 anthology series Black Mirror, available in America on Netflix streaming. Special warning regarding this episode: please do not listen to this podcast episode if you have not watched the first episode of Black Mirror. We understand that many people listen to our podcast without watching the episodes first. However, we feel that this episode in particular can harm your viewing experience if you have not already watched the episode of Black Mirror. You have been warned: listen at your own risk.