Word: pilote
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When they spring their adopted baby on the family and the whole messy brood welcomes her--"She's one of us now! Lemme see the little pot sticker!" Jay declares--it's a perfect ending for a promising pilot. That's what family means: the second you join, it's as if they've known you forever. Then you spend the rest of your lives surprising one another...
...years down the road. The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying to keep it as close to slavery as they can without violating the slave laws. When you have a United or a Continental pilot having to walk dogs as a side job [to supplement their salaries], you have admitted on the spot that capitalism doesn't work. What will historians and anthropologists call it? They are not going to call us employees or associates. They are going to call us wage slaves...
...more affordable, and Panasonic is working with movie studios to release 3-D editions of movies, timed to coincide with the first group of TVs. Broadcast networks are paying close attention too - ESPN broadcast the Sept. 12 USC vs. Ohio State college-football game in 3-D as a pilot test, and in Britain there are already stations dedicated to 3-D content...
...comedy show “Late Night With Conan O’Brien,” and Rich for his work on Saturday Night Live. 30 Rock, which was created by Saturday Night Live writer and comedian Tina Fey, has earned critical and commercial acclaim since the pilot episode aired in October 2006. The cast includes Fey, Tracy Morgan, and Alec Baldwin. Perhaps as a testament to its success, 30 Rock took home the Best Comedy Series award for the third year in a row. Hubbard has written and produced for the show since 2007 and made his way around...
...Peep Show,” a dark, quirky gem of a single-camera comedy, was remade for Fox in 2005—the same year that the first season of the “The Office” aired stateside—and was never commissioned beyond the pilot. More recently, a U.S. version of “Kath & Kim,” Australia’s Logie-winning favorite, enjoyed only a brief, critically disastrous stay on NBC last year. In retrospect, though, creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant seem to have stumbled upon one of the hardiest premises...