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YouTube Revives Failed Sitcom Pilot

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the where-was-youtube-when-firefly-was-around dept.

Vary Krishna writes ""Nobody's Watching", a pilot made for last year's upfronts that was never picked up, is being put back into development by NBC after gaining attention on YouTube. From the ZapTV article: "I love the spirit of the experimentation," NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly says. "And I think if we can actually have something find an audience on the web, gravitate over to the network, continue with a web presence and have them feed each other, that could end up being a really cool thing." Where was this guy last year?"

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  1. Give me my Firefly back by Umbral+Blot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When YouTube revives Firefly maybe then I'll have some respect for it. You hear me YoutTube? Sitcoms don't cut it, we need our Firefly!

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    1. Re:Give me my Firefly back by BobSutan · · Score: 5, Funny

      Why is this modded as Funny? We're serious. Give us back our Firefly!!!

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  2. Perhaps... by SCPRedMage · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...the execs finally realized that "Nobody's Watching" is the title and not the ratings?

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  3. Missing something? by TheFlamingoKing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think what this dude is forgetting is that I can watch YouTube at 4:30 am Friday or 12:23pm Monday, it doesn't matter to the internet.

    NBC wants to revive the show, put it on some usual primetime weeknight time slot, move it around a few times so everyone is completely confused, and expect it to make ratings as good as Friends or My Name is Earl. Then they sue the crap out of people that distribute it over the internet, which is how it got revived in the first place.

    Then when it fails they will use that as an excuse as to why they shouldn't be distributing episodes on the internet. Sheesh...

  4. QEWL by riff420 · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, the next time a woman tells me to "put YouTube in MySpace", at least I'll have a new show to watch.

  5. Its about time! by Zaphod2016 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have held a grudge against the Nielson ratings for quite some time. Why? Because every time I find a show I like, it gets cancelled a few weeks later. I'm not sure if I have bad taste, unique taste, or if the sample space of Nielson is composed mainly of dangerously stupid shaved apes. At the risk of sounding arrogant, I tend to assume the latter.

    I think this a wonderful turn of events. If they are smart, the other networks will be paying very close attention to this. I know this sounds radical, but why not ask the people who watch your show directly? If I ran a network, I would make sure to post an episode of every "failing" show on YouTube, Google Video, et all a.s.a.p. Not only would this put me in direct contact with my audiance, it might also help boost ratings for a still unknown show.

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