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Current Talk '24 I / Re:WB ORDERS FILMING OF NEW DS PILOT
« on: May 08, 2004, 10:27:38 PM »I felt at the time of my post that this was the right time for someone in the know to immediately refute this particular rumor as I anticipated how potentially dangerous it would become causing bad p.r. for DS. Prior to the rumor, DS enjoyed a strong positive buzz in the media. Now at least three websites are reporting that the DS pilot is dead in the water and that is very, very unfortunate.
Well, as the excerpt I posted from that recent Variety article stated: "what's "dead" today could be "the next 'Friends' " a week from now." And frankly, it doesn't really matter what those three Web sites are reporting. The articles/web sites that have given the impression that a new DS series is already in production could be said to contradict them (and we know for a fact that the info purporting that the show is in production is not true). The sad fact is that often writers and Web sites don't confirm their supposed facts - one writer/site writes/posts something and then others pick it up without question. Misinformation is an epidmic on the Internet.
I hate to keep sounding like a broken record, however, fans should be preparing themselves for the very real possibility that the pilot will not get picked up. The simple fact is that the ratio of passes to pick ups is basically 4 to 1 - meaning for every 1 pilot that gets picked up, 4 are passed on. Those are the facts. Yet I can pretty much guarantee that at some point in their development process every one of those passed pilots had some sort of positve buzz. I'm not trying to be pessimistic toward a WB DS' chances of being picked up. I truly hope that it will be, and it probably has as good a chance as any of the WB's remaining drama pilots. But fans should be realistic. And given the realities of the business, the big surprise will not be if the pilot doesn't get picked up - it will be if it does.
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best, and try to wait patiently for the 18th because the news that comes out on that day is really all that's important.