TV Pilot’s License

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

Ring the Jimmy Burrows Alarm™️! We’re back with the smash hit Will & Grace! The show that brought gay comedy to the mainstream after the despicable shunning of the Ellen Degeneres show. Join us as we learn how it came to be, the legacy it leaves, and some fascinating tidbits about pilot and character development straight from the Jimmy Burrows memoir ‘Directed by James Burrows’

Come catch all your favorites Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullaley and stick around for an exhilarating round of “Guess That Guest Star!”

Hosts

Geoff Kerbis

Max Singer

Rich Inman

Do you have what it takes to be a sister at Kappa Kappa Tau? Tasteful fashion, a legacy mom, an unquenchable thirst for blood?

Welcome to our own syllabus week for Scream Queens! Another Ryan Murphy staple taking the insanity and campiness of the Scream franchise and putting making it a star studded tv series! Hot off his last success with Glee, here comes Jamie Lee Curtis, Emma Roberts, Ariana Grande, Lea Michele, Abigail Breslin, Nasim Pedrad,Glen Powell, Nick Jonas and freaking Keke Palmer!

This show really brings home the over-the-top horror that has now become a genre of its own.

Hosts

Geoff Kerbis
Max Singer

Rich Inman

Hey! It’s the Bowery Boys! Today we welcome a podcasting Hall of Famer, 2024 Webby Award Honoree, a history buff to challenge all history buffs, our esteemed ambassador from New York Greg Young! With his co-host Tom Meyers, his podcast The Bowery Boys is now on their 17th year telling the story of New York from Pre-colonization to modern day.

We’re lucky enough to have Greg spotlight Mad Men with us and also give us his take on the portrayal of New York City, the city in other media, and how he brought his fascination of the Big Apple to life on his podcast. Tune in for our chat with Greg in the first 39:09.

What can we say about Mad Men that you don’t already know? The dozens of awards, the 8 years of critical acclaim, it’s appointment viewing TV status that reigned almost since episode one. Matthew Weiner took a group of purposely non-famous actors and turned the entire bunch into A-listers. Jon Hamm, John Slattery, Elisabeth Moss, January Jones, Christian Hendricks, Vincent Kartheiser, and Kiernan Shipka to name a few. Join our deep dive on the birth of this show, the emergence of cocktail culture, and so much more.

Check and subscribe to the Bowery Boys anywhere you listen to podcast. While you are at it check out some episode picks from Greg himself, their recent Park Avenue show (https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2024/04/up-and-down-park-avenue-new-york-city-history-with-a-penthouse-view.html) which goes into a few landmarks that have been in Mad Men, or the Miss Subways show  (https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2023/06/the-story-of-miss-subways-queens-of-the-new-york-commute.html)

which is about a 1940s ad campaign that could have been dreamed up by Don Draper. 

Hosts

Greg Young (Co-Pilot)

Geoff Kerbis

Max Singer

Rich Inman

Nathan For Me? Why you shouldn’t have. That’s right, this week we are taking you to the beautiful fictional town of “Los Angeles” where our hero Nathan Fielder (played by the incomparable Nathan Fielder) will take his expert business knowledge from “Canada” and turn these local entrepreneurs to nationwide success.

We see the humble beginnings of Fielder’s explosion into the comedy conversation. Of course becoming the creator of HBO’s The Rehearsal and The Curse (with Emma Stone and Benny Safdie). Starting from a short series on the CBC, Nathan For You became a viral hit on Comedy Central with stunts like Dumb Starbucks and Poop flavored Yogurt.

Join us this week for goofs AND sound business ideas.

Hosts

Geoff Kerbis

Max Singer

Rich Inman

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It’s One Tree Hill! With such themes as basketball, questionable parenting and no others. At least for the pilot!

The Scott boys are at it again, stealing school busses, reading poetry, shooting hoops, and shitting on their awful dad.

This CW staple brought a new crop of teen heartthrobs James Lafferty, Chad Michael Murray, Hilarie Burton, and Sophia Bush. And throw away your iPod nano, this sound track is all you need baby! With needle drops from T.I., Dashboard Confessional, N.E.R.D, and Jet you’ve got a teenage obsession on your hands.

Hosts

Geoff Kerbis

Max Singer

Rich Inman

We’re 3 nerdy dudes who got one pod, we love TV and don’t shut up with a Yeti mic and a Riverside Subscription

It’s REBA! Starring SNL vet Kenan Thompson (aka Reba McEntire), this show originally started under a different name and premise all together, but became the southern living sitcom to end all southern living sitcoms.

With a pilot cast boosted heavily by an appearance from Nell Carter, Reba became a syndication darling and it’s easy to see why. So come grab some ersters on a half shell and get the camera ready for a shotgun wedding, It’s Reba!

Hold on to your bellybuttons, it’s KYLE XY! Fresh from the gooey forest floor to your living rooms, he’s a deeply confusing teen heartthrob savant!

From show runners Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber (Final Destination and The Butterfly Effect) this is ABC Family’s paranormal teen drama with all the action of Seventh Heaven if they all pissed their pants in the first 10 minutes.

Starring Matt Dallas, Marguerite MacIntyre, Bruce Thomas, April Matson and Jean-Luc Bilodeau, this Pacific Northwest family will never be the same!

So is he an alien? An Amnesia-riddled runaway? Time to find out!

Hosts:

Geoff Kerbis

Max Singer

Rich Inman

Hot Alf

What do three guys who went to college in the midwest know about Dairy? An awful lot. Derry? Well that’s a new one.

This week the guys do Derry Girls! The BBC4 coming-of-age comedy taking place in embattled Northern Ireland. From show runner Lisa McGee comes a smattering of her own high school stories and memories with sharp, hilarious writing. We follow a 16 year old Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), her cousin Orla (Louisa Harland), and best friends Clare and Michelle (Nicola Coughlan and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell) in the 1990’s as the Troubles raged but neared their end.

The show found a global audience after Netflix grabbed the rights and the rest is history. Join us this week for a truly terrific high school comedy.