TV That Never Was

[andygates]

After getting all excited over the Warren Ellis comic series Global Frequency, it turns out there's a pilot for a TV show, made in '05.  The pilot never got released, and the show never got made, but it has a weird phantom life out there in the torrents.  It's actually pretty good - some rough edges, but hey, it's a pilot.  The series, it had potential.  

I wonder what other dead pilots and cancelled-in-shooting series are out there, escaped from the vaults?  I wonder how many Facebook friends a dead pilot has before it has a chance to transition from larva to a full adult series before flying off into space on leaky radio waves?

I'm still finding the idea of a bunch of people connected together ad-hoc to be intoxicating.  Imagine what you could do (or prevent)?  And I'm seeing things like the Moldovan anti-government protest organized on Twitter and you know, maybe it's coming.  Where's my Aleph, that's what I wanna know?

Comments

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

I sometimes think we could still make a go of it, but I suspect we'll have to content ourselves with being confident we have the skillset and the balls to deal with the inevitable zombie apoccylipse.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

What we lack is, er, the mission. But I was fully planning to use Twitter to organize my strike on Drax once the ice-cap melts. Oi! GCHC! Log this, you data-mining pansies!

[skean.livejournal.com]

Speaking of Zombies, did you get Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in the end? I thought it was quite good.

Heh, Zombie in German? De Zombie. Note capitalisation.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

PPZ is on my wishlist, for sure. It is a truth universally acknowleged that a zombie without a grave is in need of a headshot...

Der Zombie? Das is der Noun, ja? All proper nouns are capitalized?