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Unlock TV's secrets with the TV Pilot's License Podcast! Geoff, Max, and Rich dissect pilots from classics to cult favorites. Expect deep TV reviews, first episode breakdowns, and pilot analysis. We cover must-watch TV, one-season wonders, and cancelled series. Get honest show reviews, funny recaps, and sharp commentary. Need show recommendations? We've got you! Dive into TV history and decide which pilots earn their "license." Comedy, analysis, and passion await. Subscribe for your weekly TV podcast fix!
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Gather 'round the digital table as we serve up a special holiday feast! This week, we're pausing to give thanks for the episodes that have truly nourished us. Join us for a heartfelt reflection as we revisit and celebrate the most impactful, hilarious, or memorable moments from our past, recognizing the episodes we are thankful for including Cheers, Paradise, and Gilmore Girls. Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for being a frequent flyer!Hosts:Geoff Kerbis Rich InmanMax Singer
Happy Slapsgiving copilots! Are you ready for 42 minutes of open palm craziness? We’ve got the culmination of a novel, Australian tv show about racism toward Greek people and the subject of 2 viral parodies, it’s NBCs THE SLAP! It’s a very special episode because it’s a MINI SERIES??? Whaaaa? The Slap stars Thandiwe Newton, Lucas Hedges, Mackenzie Leigh, Zachary Quinto, Peter Sarsgaard, Uma Thurman, Brian Cox, Penn Badgely.Hosts:Geoff KerbisMax Singer Rich Inman
Clean up in 157! It’s Superstore week! It’s maybe the most relatable show we have ever covered at TVPL because of how many Americans have worked retail at some point in their career journey. We talk workplace flirting, crystal meth, gun play, plastic jewelry, abandoning babies and scaring sanitation workers.Superstore stars America Ferreira, Ben Feldman, Lauren Ash, Colton Dunn, Mark McKinney, Nichole Sakura, Nico Santos.Hosts:Geoff KerbisMax Singer
You’re telling me the star of The Running Man is playing a quarterback? Thanks a lot Patrick Mahomes. Welcome to Chad Powers week everyone! The Hulu series based on a YouTube video, produced by the Manning brothers which weirdly feels like an ad for Raising Canes and Allstate insurance. Join us as we talk second chances, power conferences, movie prosthetics, and Rich’s limited understanding of football in general.Starring who else but Scream Queen and future Secretary of Defense Glen Powell, Perry Mattfeld, Steve Zahn, Frankie A Rodriguez and more! HostsGeoff KerbisMax SingerRich Inman
This week we’re talking about everyone’s favorite, charismatic young politician from Queens…Garrett Modi? It’s a brand new TVPL covering Sunnyside! Created by writer Matt Murray and Kal Penn with executive producer Mike Schur, this NBC comedy may not have had the best polling numbers but does it deserve your vote? With a cast of bright young stand ups including Joel Kim Booster and Moses Storm, this show takes a comedic approach to real world issues and the US immigrant experience, even if the plot may remind us a bit too much of another 21st century NBC comedy. Listen now and be sure to subscribe for new episodes every Thursday!Hosts:Geoff KerbisMax SingerRich Inman
It’s your first day at a new school AND your 16th birthday AND YOU’RE A WITCH?! Oh brother. Don’t worry, TVPL is here to help you overcome these challenges on this week’s episode covering the pilot of the TGIF classic, Sabrina the Teenage Witch! We’ve got talking cats, celebrity cameos galore and an unexpected connection to the greatest comic book movie ever made (Madame Web, duh.) So grab your spell books and listen now! Be sure to subscribe to TVPL for new episodes every Thursday!Hosts:Geoff KerbisRich InmanMax Singer
Grab your AirPods pledge! You’re going to recite word for word this entire TVPL about GREEK.Prepare your secret handshake folks, it’s GREEK WEEK. This ABC sitcom about a brother and sister in different stages of college life. Casey, the older sister is on track to be president of her sorority if there’s no speed bumps. Rusty an engineering major is trying to add a little bit of spice to his seemingly nerdy college track by joining a fraternity. Drama ensues when he catches Casey’s boyfriend cheating on her and get accepted to the crazy party frat.Greek stars a very young cast of Jacob Zachar, Spencer Grammer, Paul James, Jake McDorman, Scott Michael Foster and Clark Duke.Hosts Geoff KerbisMax SingerRich Inman
What do you do with a sexy doctorWhat do you do with a sexy doctorWhat do you do with a sexy doctorPut him on a cruise ship Welcome to DOCTOR ODYSSEY week! From the world of 911 and Ryan Murphy we took the plunge on this Greys Anatomy meets The Love Boat crossover we didnt know we needed. This show has everything, big shiny boats, unrequited crushes, a water slide, shrimp overdoses, broken dicks, a beach party dance off, a Grammy winner, a mighty duck, Rachel Dratch, and so much more. Join us as we set sail with the crew of the Odyssey! Joshua Jackson, Phillipa Soo, Sean Teale, and Captain Don Johnson!HostsGeoff KerbisMax SingerRich Inman
Get in that transfer portal recruits because you’re the new red shirt at blue Mountain State. That’s right this week. We are covering Animal house set at a division one football powerhouse school, from the creative team of Eric falconer and Chris Romano. Blue Mountain State is a spike TV original and even more unique. it is a narrative scripted show. The guys talk college football traditions, fraternity life, the NCAA athlete experience, cookie races, and so much more.We also get some of our first starring roles out of Alan Ritchson, Sam Jones III, Chris Romano himself and Darin Brooks. Give me a hell, give me a yeahHosts Geoff KerbisMax SingerRich Inman
It’s our 150th episode spectacular!We locked Rich in a closet for 3 days until he counted all 150 episodes and we’re so glad we did! It’s a special moment here at TVPL and that requires a special pilot. Some call it the perfect pilot. It’s Cheers! The Boston based barroom sitcom that is one of the most successful and lauded shows in history. We get the lowdown on the Charles Brothers and our old pal Jimmy “I’m Himmy” Burrows and how this show got made, then we join Sam (Ted Danson), Diane (Shelley Long), Carla (Rhea Perlman), Coach (Nicholas Colasanto), Norm (George Wendt), Cliff (John Ratzenberger) and all the regulars in some 80s TV glory. Join us for some 3rd anniversary TVPL trivia at the end.HostsRich InmanGeoff KerbisMax SingerThat’s right it’s alphabetical this time
Everywhere you lookEverywhere you lookThere’s a pod There’s a pod a pilot to break downIt’s Full House week y’all! Let’s head over to San Francisco to meet 1987's goofy new family. We talk parenthood, The Beach Boys, physical comedy, kids on curtains, hosing down babies, bribing children and more!Join us and Bob Saget, John Stamos, Dave Coulier, Jodie Sweetin, Candace Cameron, and of course, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. HostsGeoff KerbisMax SingerRich Inman
Welcome to podcasting’s biggest night. It’s our Emmy’s preview! We’re talking favorites to win, underdogs, dark horses, snubs, and the trends of TV in general! Should we root for particular streaming or TV networks like it’s the Olympics? Probably not! But here we are. We take questions from listeners and guest hosts, talk the last year of TV and make some wild predictions.hostsGeoff KerbisMax SingerRich Inman
Host note: Please Subscribe and rate! We’re growing and we want to hear your voices, and follow us Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube @TVPilotsLicenseYou’ve seen Hospital… You’ve seen BIG Hospital, but have you seen… lil itty bitty Hospital??Here’s a medical procedural for the little guys. It’s Private Practice! The spin off of Grey’s Anatomy starring the departure of surgeon Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) joining a small practice on the shores of Santa Monica California. We bring back and focus on the collective working relationships of Taye Diggs, Paul Adelstein, Amy Brenneman, Tim Daly, Audra McDonald, Chris Lowell, and KaDee Strickland. Did this series do a good job at being unique from Grey’s while still honoring the fandom? Tell us on Instagram Hosts Geoff KerbisMax SingerRich Inman
Happy Labor Day!Sorry for this bleak reminder but, we’re going back to The Office. Turn in your WFH laptops and get a new ID card. This week we’re clocking in at Dunder Mifflin for our shift on the sales desk. From the mind of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant comes an American re-imagining by now comedy power writer Greg Daniels. Admire the documentary film style that has its claws so deep in Hollywood studios you can hardly make a comedy show in a different style. We get a nobody-turned-somebody cast led by Steve Carrell and future stars John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, Rainn Wilson, BJ Novak, Oscar Nunez, Leslie David Baker, Angela Kinsey, Brian Baumgartner, Phyllis Smith, and Melora Hardin.Could this show be made today? Let’s find out. HostsGeoff KerbisMax SingerRich Inman
That’s CHARLES to you buddy. And this Charles? Well… let’s just say he’s in charge!It’s Chuck week babyyy everyone’s favorite cut of meat and probably some people’s favorite tv show. Chuck is the brainchild of Josh Schwartz (the OC, Gossip Girl) and stars Zachary Levi as a computer repair man who is brainwashed with government secrets. His world is flipped upside down when his ex roommate Matt Bomer is revealed to be a recently murdered spy. The series stars Yvonne Strahovski, Adam Baldwin, Joshua Gomez, Sarah Lancaster and so many more. So if you don’t like this episode, have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?HostsGeoff KerbisMax SingerRich Inman
Cougar Town looks so beautiful, if only it were real… Get in, loser! We’re catching the next golf cart to a mythical town full of single older women! From the big bad comedy brain of Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Shrinking, Ted Lasso) and dynamite performances by Courteney Cox, Busy Phillips, Christa Miller, Dan Byrd, Brian Van Holt, Ian Gomez, and Josh Hopkins. HostsGeoff KerbisMax SingerRich Inman
It’s August 7th so you know what that means! It’s Mother’s Day on TVPL!We bring you the Chuck Lorre Big Bang follow up Moms! Starring Anna Farris, French Stewart, Allison Janney, Sadie Calvino, Matt Jones and more. Chucks next CBS multicam venture kept its network comedy dominance going for 10 years. We show you how it came to be, how many people watched, and how the script did at setting the scene, and establishing that all important sitcom patter. HostsGeoff KerbisMax SingerRich Inman
Pod save the Queen! Has that been done that one before? Join us as we dust off an E! Original Drama. Did you know those existed? Rich certainly didn’t. This week it’s The Royals, imagine Riverdale but with the British Royal Family and get this! They’re HOT and DO DRUGS?? From the mind of Mark Schwahn (One Tree Hill), it’s a political drama framed around Hamlet.So put down your Big Ben and pick up your Big Bong to watch Elizabeth Hurley, Williams Moseley, Alexandra Park, Tom Austen, Merritt Patterson, and Jake Maskall.HostsGeoff KerbisMax SingerRich Inman
Today’s burger of the day: The Waleed Mammoth?It’s Bob’s Burgers week here at TV Pilots License, and we’ve got another friend manning the grill! Welcome to your ears Waleed Mansour, you know him from Dropout, you know him from Awesomely Awful, you’re about to know him from the We’re Dead podcast from him and Rekha Shankar (first episode available now!)Bob’s Burgers of course is the FOX hit animated series now on its 15th season starring H. Jon Benjamin (see our Archer Episode for more), Kristen Schaal (see our What We Do in the Shadows episode) Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman and John Roberts. Join us as we talk pilot structure, early character development, the history of the show, and of course, what Waleed loves most about the show!Hosts:Waleed MansourGeoff KerbisMax SingerRich Inman
What do a first generation American kid, starting high school, developing your first crush, losing a parent, and an 80s tennis legend all have in common? Well, nothing unless you’re Mindy Kaling!Welcome to beautiful Sherman Oaks California! Go Fighting Gallerias! It’s Never Have I Ever. The coming of age Netflix teen comedy.Enjoy this Mindy’s Project with us as we talk high school awkwardness, comedy writing forms, the search to find Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, and the 1981 Wimbledon Men’s Finals!Strap on your backpack, prepare your bully insults in the mirror, and get ready for your journey to popularity. HostsGeoff KerbisMax SingerRich Inman
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