Comments on: Network shows premiering online

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:38:15 +0000

Wow, thanks for the excellent information!

By: thedetroitchannel

thedetroitchannel — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:12:12 +0000

i vote we take up a collection for our de facto lr babe Alyssa and send her out for a night on the town.

girl, you watch too much tv.

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 02:05:08 +0000

Thanks for the list.
Am watching Studio 60. I swear that’s the same oval office set that they used on the West Wing… its even got that stupid horse statue…

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:19:16 +0000

Nice list. The only things I’d add to it:

Didn’t iTunes technically air the Heroes pilot already?

These are a little different, but sorta related strategies. Two shows I’m aware of ran ‘webisodes’ during the summer to keep the buzz going and act as pseudo-leadins to the fall season
a) The Office
b) Battlestar Galactica

I’ve also seen a number of pilots wandering about at various times on Youtube and the Torrent sites. While these aren’t sanctioned by the networks, the networks must’ve been pretty naive not to expect this to happen in the age of YouTube. That or they actually wanted some of the buzz around the illegal pilot distribution (probably not - but who knows).

Cheers.