Televised Revolution » Saturday Morning Pilot http://televisedrevolution.com/wordpress A look at all things TV and televisual Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:37:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://theradiowolf.com/?feed=rss2&cat=3 Televised Revolution is a look at all things TV and televisual. Each week Dan, Simon, and Dennis discuss the television industry, its players, the technology, and its content. This is supplemented with regular interviews and far too many bum jokes. Dan Barrett, Simon Band, and Dennis Dugandzic clean Dan Barrett, Simon Band, and Dennis Dugandzic dan@televisedrevolution.com dan@televisedrevolution.com (Dan Barrett, Simon Band, and Dennis Dugandzic) TV should be good. australian television, australian, television, TV, abc1, abc2, channel 7, 7Two, Go!, Channel 9, Channel 10, One HD, SBS1, Foxtel, zeitgeist Televised Revolution » Saturday Morning Pilot http://televisedrevolution.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/podcastlogo.jpg http://televisedrevolution.com/wordpress/archives/category/index/saturday-morning-pilot The Saturday Morning Pilot: Lookwell http://televisedrevolution.com/wordpress/archives/1801 http://televisedrevolution.com/wordpress/archives/1801#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:30:13 +0000 Dan Barrett http://televisedrevolution.com/wordpress/?p=1801 Prior to becoming the host of Late Night, Conan O’Brien joined fellow comedy writer Robert Smigel in creating the pilot ‘Lookwell’.

Starring televisions Batman, Adam West, Lookwell centres on a washed up actor/former TV star who once appeared in a show about a detective. Of course, he believes this qualifies him to solve crimes in real life.

Conan O’Brien. Robert Smigel. Adam West. How can you NOT want to watch?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBQ3HbB0c8Y[/youtube]

]]> http://televisedrevolution.com/wordpress/archives/1801/feed 0 The Saturday Morning Pilot: Babylon Fields http://televisedrevolution.com/wordpress/archives/1796 http://televisedrevolution.com/wordpress/archives/1796#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:42:03 +0000 Dan Barrett http://televisedrevolution.com/wordpress/?p=1796 There is nothing more fun than a well-executed zombie movie, yet nothing as painful as a poorly constructed one. Babylon Fields was a 1997 TV pilot that brought zombies to US broadcast television. Whether it was well executed or not is a matter for debate.

As zombie films have become post-modern, shades of grey seem to have entered the genre. Kicking off with Shaun of The Dead’s Ed integrated into a harmonious human/zombie relationship at the end of that film, the notion of us living side by side with the undead has become a frequent motif. Babylon Fields takes the idea and runs with it.

Babylon Fields is perhaps too glum and lacking in energy to sustain a regular ongoing TV series (failing where a potential Zombieland series would have been a corker), but this would have made for a fine low-budget feature film.

[googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3315295143249630002&hl=en#[/googlevideo]

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