Hearing America Singing

Hollywood

A friend of mine filmed a television pilot last year. A “pilot” is a trial episode of a proposed series. What you do, essentially, is spend anywhere from $750,000 to $2 million on 22 minutes of film, hopeful that one of the big television networks (or, hell, one of the small television networks—you’ve just dropped some fat coin, why be choosy?) will spot some long-running potential, order more episodes, and put you on the air.