TVWriter™ has been trying to keep our visitors posted on what new pilots have been ordered into production by the various networks/cable channels/web video sites. We’ve even gone so far as to put a hold on one of our favorite posting categories, TV Writing Deals, replacing it with one called TV Writing to Production Deals. (AKA Survival of the Fittest Dept.)
We admit, though, that this hasn’t been working out very well. And not just because the name TV Writing to Production Deals is so incredibly, insipidly awkward. (Our most recent post of this type was earlier today, just a couple of posts down from this one.)
Mostly, our problem has been that it’s been very, very difficult to keep track of who’s who and what’s what due to sloppy press releases and even sloppier reporting in the showbiz trades. Sometimes the word “pilot” seems to mean production. Other times is clearly means “pilot script.” Other times – well, we simply can’t tell.
