TV Pilot's License

5,6,7,8! TVPL heads to The Great White Way with a look back on NBC’s musical theatre drama, “Smash.” To quote Velma Kelly, I can’t do it alone, so we recruited the hottest duo on Broadway, Connor and Dylan MacDowell (DRAMA. with Connor & Dylan MacDowell) to join us this week!

Our ensemble talks about the soon to be Broadway production of Smash, pledges our allegiances to either Team Karen or Team Ivy and makes exactly ONE football reference for good measure.

Hosts

Geoff Keribs

Max Singer

Rich Inman

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You pressed your call buttons and we answered! Presenting the first ever TVPL all in-flight questions episode! Join us as we dive into the topics that you, our frequent flyers, wanted to know including our desert island shows, chaos inducing fantasy casting, Letterboxd top four and so much more. Stick around to see what high ranking political figure Rich has been trying to book on the show and determine which of the guys does the best Borat impression. There’s something for everyone this week on a brand new TV Pilot’s License!

Hosts

Geoff Kerbis

Max Singer

Rich Inman

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Phillies Nation, stand up! First Always Sunny and now THIS?? Phanatic, come on the pod! That’s right folks, we’re popping into Mr. Feeny’s class for the first time on Boy Meets World. Come join us as we talk life in the fourth grade, teachers, baseball, Shakespeare, treehouses, detention, older siblings and the TGIF family show that brought us Cory and Topanga!

Find out how this staple of family programming got made by Michael Jacobs and April Kelly starring of course Ben Savage, Danielle Fishel (not in pilot), Rider Strong, Will Friedle and William Daniels!

Hosts

Geoff Kerbis

Max Singer

Rich Inman

Fall is here! And you know what that means, time to slightly hate all the friends you hold dear in the pursuit of $400! That’s right y’all it’s The League! The mostly improv story of 30-something friends engrossed in a cutthroat fantasy football league. The critics are calling it Curb but Chicago. With an unreal cast of improvisors, Nick Kroll, Paul Scheer, Jon Lajoie, Katie Aselton, Mark Duplass and Steve Rannazzisi this is the comedy the dudes have been craving.

Hosts

Geoff Kerbis

Max Singer

Rich Inman

Wow Connecticut is so beautiful, I wish it were real. Welcome to beautiful Stars Hollow, where we have another cardigan-clad, cappuccino slugging, friend of the pod joining, the wonderful Rosey Blair!

You may remember Rosey from our NYC girlie pop episodes, ‘Girls’ and ‘Sex & The City.’ Check those out on your page if you’re like us and cannot get enough of her. Rosey is back for another north easter US classic but now, we’re in the burbs. We’re demure, we’re mindful, we’re covered in leaves.

This of course is in the introduction to Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, expertly crafted by Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. With an unforgettable fast-talking cast that will leave you dying for more Michel, more Sookie St. James and more Luke Danes! So come join this heavy hitting cast in the beautiful Connecticut suburbs, you’re going to want Gil-more of it.

The gang makes a podcast!

Come take a lovely journey to our friends at Paddy’s Pub, you know, the hottest gay bar in town! We take you back to the long forgotten time of 2005. A young Rob McElhenney, started shooting a low budget pilot with actor friends Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day, and Kaitlin Olson. The group we’ve come to know and love all these years was born. All the milksteaks, the green men, the Chase Utleys merely a glimmer in their eyes.

Come join us on this trip down memory lane and see how a comedy Juggernaut came to be.

Boys are out tonight

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Geoff Kerbis

Max Singer

Rich Inman

We have a saying here on the island: “leave us a 5-star review!”

Aloha friends! This week we’re taking you to the island of O’ahu for some prime-time soap TV to compliment the Fox smash hit The OC. Does it work? Well… try finding the pilot anywhere other than YouTube and let us know what you think.

Jason Matthews (Kristoffer Polaha) runs the Grand Waimea Hotel and Resort in this prime-time soap. Arriving to shake things up is his ex, Nicole Booth (Brooke Burns), who takes a job as the resort's director of guest relations. Resort owner Vincent Colville (James Remar) keeps an eye on his employees (Jason Momoa and Amanda Righetti) to make sure their past history doesn't affect their work.

We have another saying here on the island… listen to our podcast!

Guests:

Geoff Kerbis

Max Singer

Rich Inman

Okay… did we know this show had a great reputation? Sure. Did we know that this show was originally created by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance? Definitely. Did we forget to tell Max that there was a talking monkey in it? I’m afraid so.

Obviously we’re talking about the Netflix Original series The Umbrella Academy!

Starring Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, David Castaneda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, and Aidan Gallagher as kids born under extremely mysterious circumstances who developed super powers as they aged. Upon the death of their eccentric billionaire adopted father, they now must return to the house that raised them and get along without killing each other.

Join us as The Umbrella Academy saves the world.

Hosts

Geoff Kerbis

Max Singer

Rich Inman

IT’S OLYMPIC (errr) BIG GAME FEVER Y’ALL! While you watch our ladies and gents pommel some horses and uneven some bars, let’s half tuck in to the ABC family show Make It Or Break It!

Inspired by the 2006 movie Stick It, MIOBI is the brainchild of showrunner Holly Sorensen who wanted to make a drama centering around “The Rock” training center in Colorado. The show features actors Josie Loren, Ayla Kell, and Cassie Scerbo as the big three gymnasts setting their sights on the gold medal, while newcomer Emily Kmetko represents an unforeseen threat to those dreams. Can they gel as a team or will it tear them apart?

We also get a television return of former TVPL champion Peri Gilpin (Frasier). Now that you’ve seen the pilot, will this show make it or break it?

Hosts:

Geoff Kerbis

Max Singer

Rich Inman

Where on earth can you get Shaquille O’Neal, Jim Palmer, Danny Tartabull, Bob Costas, Deion Sanders, Gary Payton, Barry Bonds, Mike Piazza, Tommy Lasorda, Don Mattingly, Scottie Pippen, Dan Marino, Barry Larkin, and the 1996 Miami Dolphins in the same room? An Arliss table read of course!

This long-lasting cameo-loaded HBO original series is the brainchild of star Robert Wuhl who you’ll recognize from Tim Burton’s Batman and Bull Durham. After a horrendous and “total bullshit” book he read by a future president he was inspired to write a series using the made up stories but swapping in the world of sports management.

Come join us in our quest to name every sports star of the 90s and pick apart a fascinating 1996 time capsule.

Hosts:

Geoff Kerbis

Max Singer

Rich Inman