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A Sad Day for You

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

I’m feeling a little sad for you right now because there’s a good chance you’re never going to see my favourite pilot of the year. Sabbatical created and written by Peter Mitchell is not just a perfect little piece of screenwriting, it’s also the foundation for what could be a creepy and story-rich television […]

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The Rise of the Girl Gang Shows

Thursday, January 3, 2008

First we had Sex and the City. Women friends who talk about sex over brunch.
In the fall we got Womens Murder Club (ABC). Women friends who talk about relationships and solve mysteries over brunch.
Coming this year: Lipstick Jungle and Cashmere Mafia are both about powerful executive women who talk about work and relationships over […]

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Chuck

Monday, September 24, 2007

Chuck and Journeyman compare nicely.

Both are about men who get superpowers: Chuck gets national secrets downloaded into his brain and Journeyman’s Dan can time travel.
Both pilots take a familiar form: One storyline introduces the series premise or season arc (the A-story) and the second covers a mystery of the week (B-story).

Then again, […]

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