TV Pilot's License

Doctor doctor, gimme the news, I got a bad case of loving Hugh! It’s HOUSE MD BABY! The pill poppin’, heart stoppin’, chart toppin’ medical procedural. We’ve got all your favorites here at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard Jennifer Morrison and Jesse Spencer are your all-star team solving the special case medical mysteries. A fun an...

G-g-g-ghosts??? D-d-d-d-d-Dylan McDermott??? Grab your popcorn and leave your kids with the neighbors it’s fright night with American Horror Story. The show that brings the terrors of the silver screen to your living room. We talk about the history of the show, and it’s insanely prolific show runner Ryan Murphy. We’ve got everything here, campy horror, rude twins, Connie Britton, old ghosts, young...

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...

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 det...

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 p...

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...

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 eas...

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...

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. A...

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 Shee...

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...

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...

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...

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 Gr...

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...

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...

I don’t wanna try any pod Other than TV Pilots License All I have to do is give reviews like and subscribe 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 Jame...

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...

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...

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)...

Give us some more, time in a dream, give us a pod, that we can stream. It’s time to go back to school! It’s NBC’s weirdo tentpole comedy, Community! While you can probably take a wild guess that Max, Geoff, and Rich are all big fans and that they will just gush over this show. There are a lot of things to unpack. With tremendous cast and writing comes a complicated legacy and bizarre network choic...

Hold your horses, it’s time to trot on over to HBO for the pilot of LUCK! The ironic named show that was pulled after several animal rights violations. Take a terrific cast, heavy hitting executive and writing team, and gorgeous cinematography and remove those expectations. It’s Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Farina, Nick Nolte, Richard Kind and so much more. From the team that brought you NYPD Blue, Dead...

Hey there [REDACTED] and [REDACTED], you’re probably wondering why the windows are blacked out on this plane. We’re doing Inside Job this week! The first in house Netflix animated series and brainchild of long time animation story creator Shion Takeuchi. What is Inside Job? Well it’s a workplace comedy set at [LOCATION REDACTED] and starring Lizzy Caplan, Christian Slater, Clark Duke, Tisha Campbe...

Who likes Big Naturals? Sorry… Supernaturals! We do! And so does returning champion, writer, actor and TV fanatic Korama Danquah! It’s time for the Monster-of-the-week 15 season behemoth Supernatural. Dive into this mix of twilight and X-Files that thrived in the switch from the WB to the CW. Meet the heart throb Winchester brothers as they solve paranormal mysteries to get closer to their estrang...

You ready to listen to three childless dudes talk about working motherhood? Of course not! Well we have a treat for you, this show was brought to us by tremendous comedian, actor, podcast host, and mom Emily Bolt. Straight from the Six it’s Workin’ Moms! The brainchild of Catherine Reitman and Philip Sternberg, this comedy series is born from the key thesis of “having it all seems impossible” turn...