In the world of TV, there's fall, there's midseason, and then there's pilot season. (Oh yeah, and then summer -- when the whole maddening cycle basically starts all over again.)
Pilot season, of course, culminates next week with the annual broadcast network upfront presentations in New York, when TV toppers pimp their wares to an audience of too-hip-for-the-room media buyers at spots such as Carnegie Hall (CBS), Radio City Music Hall (NBC), the New Amsterdam Theater (ABC), and the coffee and bagel cart at 52nd and 3rd (Pax TV).
This week, of course, is consumed with last minute gossip trading as agents, execs and others attempt to find out what's hot -- and what's not -- in the network screening rooms. Sometimes the buzz is deafening, but most of the time it's pretty bogus.
To help you wade through the muck, mystery blogger "Leslie McZucker" has launched "Our Best Development Season... Ever!" -- a play on the common refrain from every network executive this time of year (usually followed, six months later, by the sheepish admittance that, "Um, OK, so maybe that wasn't such a great development season. Our bad!")
Who is Leslie McZucker? Can't say. But he's the latest in a recent string of anonybloggers, including Defamer and fellow newcomer A Fly On The Wall, who has offered up some juicy stuff in recent days.
A Fly on the Wall's most recent post, for example, lampoons SAG for demanding that producers for the feature production "Be Cool" send in timesheets signed by co-star Robert Pastorelli. The problem: Pastorelli's been dead for two months.
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