Pilot Program is officially back from our hiatus. With the writers strike is over and our schedules aligned, Pierce and Chase can start recording our show semi-regularly again. And we return with our oldest topic program yet, 1959's seminal work of science fiction, The Twilight Zone. Listen as we talk about isolation, the space race, the pronunciation of the word "robot," and Instant Sanca.

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We're visiting The Windy City on this new episode of Pilot Program as Chase and Pierce watch the critically-acclaimed Hulu series, The Bear. Listen as Chase butchers the names of pretty much everyone, as Pierce complains about dream sequences and as we both are impressed with the level of detail in a fake arcade game.

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Our venture into reality television continues with another mega-popular show still airing today -- RuPaul's Drag Race. Chase and Pierce discuss how the show elevated drag culture to something more mainstream, how RuPaul has built an empire and why Pierce decided to get a Grim Reaper tattoo (unrelated to the show).

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We dip our toes into the reality television waters for the first time on Pilot Program as we look at the 2005 American adaptation of Hell's Kitchen starring Gordon Ramsay. Listen in as Chase teaches you a little trick to pronouncing French words, how the original UK version of the show has a much different feel and why you can still enjoy reality TV even when you know how contrived and manufactured it really is.

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FX is a channel known today for its creative and acclaimed original programming like Atlanta, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia and Reservation Dogs. But that wasn't always the case. From 1994 to 2001, FX was mostly populated by reruns of The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as well as the occasional movie. But that all changed in 2002 as, hot off the signing of the Patriot Act, FX found an original show to build its programming around - The Shield. Billed as a show about crooked cops who justified their means by their ends, The Shield resonated with a country still frightened by the threat of terrorism. But does The Shield still resonate in 2023? Let's find out.

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Pilot Program has gone full anime as Chase and Pierce watch the 1992 shōjo magical girl show, Sailor Moon. We've watched the original Japanese release, the 1995 DIC dub that made some heavy changes and the more faithful 2014 Viz Media re-dub, and we cover them all, as well as a whole host of other topics, including The Cube movies, H.W. Bush, Haruki Murakami, Scooby Doo and even Steve Urkel.

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With the news that Good Burger 2 has officially been greenlit, Chase and Pierce dip into a favorite from our childhoods - 1996's Kenan & Kel. The first spinoff from Nickelodeon's kid sketch comedy show All That, Kenan & Kel brings together two charismatic black teens with unlimited chemistry for a show that is often uneven, but always fun. Aw, here it goes!

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Chase and Pierce trade planes for horses on this wild west episode of Pilot Program as we watch the HBO classic Deadwood. We talk about the show's interesting time mechanics, how the conversation about it's swearing is a little overblown and how great shows don't necessarily need great pilots.

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Fresh off the Adult Swim classic Frisky Dingo, Adam Reed created a new show bringing in the same high-frequency, reference-laden, caustic comedy writing, but in an all new secret agent setting. What resulted was Archer, a show that would consume Reed's next 13 years (and counting) of life. Chase and Pierce take a look back at a show we both remember fondly and see if its first episode still holds up today.

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Japan, 1980. It's an era where the fashion and culture of young people are in full bloom. And Moyuru Hono is entering his first year at the Osaka University of Arts. Blue Blazes is a 2014 Japanese live-action comedy based on the manga by Kazuhiko Shimamoto about his time at college, and the friendships and rivalries he developed on his path to becoming a mangaka. Despite being live action, Blue Blazes takes many production cues from the world of anime and manga to create something that feels both foreign and familiar.

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