Word: piloting
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...meeting, CUE members heard a report on a pilot program conducted by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences last semester, which allowed students enrolled in 16 different graduate-level courses to complete anonymous online evaluations...
...event turned out to be meticulously choreographed to a devious degree. The White House eventually acknowledged that the plentiful platter Bush carried was a table decoration—not for actual consumption. And a thrilling anecdote about a passing pilot who nearly blew Air Force One’s cover—while it posed as a much smaller plane in order to slip through British airspace—was mysteriously unverifiable, if not wholly fabricated...
...liked the pilot I wrote for Hey Joel and ordered 13 episodes at about $450,000 each--the most money the channel had ever spent on a series. The only reason VH1 could afford it was that the station hired Canadian animators and a Canadian supporting actor, which brought in Canadian government funding in what may be the most wasteful use of Canadian tax dollars since the country went bilingual...
Because they had made such a huge investment, the VH1 execs quickly decided I couldn't be trusted as the head writer. Or the No. 2 writer. Then they decided, after watching the animated pilot, that I was such a bad actor I couldn't play myself--in a voice-over. So they hired Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men) to play me, which, oddly, we both found insulting. Next they concluded that booking celebrities for interviews was too difficult, so they wrote fake interviews and had actors pretend to be the guests, thereby removing the entire premise...
...Because they had made such a huge investment, the VH1 execs quickly decided I couldn't be trusted as the head writer. Or the No. 2 writer. Then they decided, after watching the animated pilot, that I was such a bad actor I couldn't play myself - in a voice-over. So they hired Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men) to play me, which, oddly, we both found insulting. Next they concluded that booking celebrities for interviews was too difficult, so they wrote fake interviews and had actors pretend to be the guests, thereby removing the entire premise...