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In response to "Is it possible to compare to the benefit to the various people involved with a single pilot episode vs the throw everything at the wall approach of " by JD

there's a couple ways to look at it. for LA, pilot season = work for all, even though it's an inefficient way of picking shows to greenlight to series

Posted by hollywood big shot (aka pickmix) Feb 22 '24, 11:20

but even at the level of pure efficiency, i don't think straight-to-series orders succeed with any greater frequency than shows that get picked up off a pilot. because nobody ever knows what's going to connect with mass audiences, despite all their best efforts to predict it with Teh Algorithm or Analytics or whatever bullshit they tell themselves

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But does more money people being paid to fewer people for a longer time approximate the industry benefit of way more people being paid for a super - JD Feb 22, 11:36 2
- great if you're Mike White or Taylor Sheridan. it's a cancer on the biz, not just creatively but also in terms of raising the next gen of showrunners -- nm - hollywood big shot Feb 22, 11:44 1
  - So more like the industry should have pilot season for show runners ;-) - JD Feb 22, 11:52

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there's a couple ways to look at it. for LA, pilot season = work for all, even though it's an inefficient way of picking shows to greenlight to series

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