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Messages - patrickm

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still life's with more life and less still.

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playing captured spy and secret police ...

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I get that the C is CBS and the W is Warner Bros.  I know it is one thing to pick up a rejected project like Sarah from CBS or a cancelled show years ago like Supergirl from CBS - they might consider it a step up in quality getting a show from the parent network. But it is something else to pick up even a Warner project like Kung Fu from the Fox network. It wasn't developed at the CW.  The DS project was also a Warner Bros. proposed production developed in house at the CW. I realize every show on CW is CBS or Warner produced.
I meant picking up a project from a competing network as the outside project. We just seem to be butting heads over the when's of a rejection decision and how's of "in development". Like you say, in the end it doesn't matter now anyway.

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Well, I wanted the reply to be under the proper post.

Say what you will about the pilot being "in development", if you look back at those respected sources, every article said the same thing almost word for word verbatim. Like one printed it and all the others went with it without fact checking or developing their own sources. Call me cynical, but I believe someone in CW program development fed it to one of them as a CYA measure and the rest ran with it. Network bosses don't like outside projects getting approved over in house developed projects they themselves invested in. It's like they have no faith in their own network program developers judgement - especially if the outside projects turn out to be hits. If Kung Fu is a success, look out. That results in what Major Hochstetter says ... Heads will Rolllllllll.

So I firmly believe it was all over when CW passed on greenlighting a filmed pilot. Same as NBC in 1991 saying no decision had been made on renewing the DS remake series . WRONG. Warren Littlefield head of NBC programming hated the show and it was cancelled - they just didn't announce it.

And yes, I do believe there is a complete pilot script. It is sitting in Mark Perry's crammed file cabinet with all his other "rejected babies." Look back at the article written by Perry farther back in this thread for reference. It is very illuminating on the actual pilot process.

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https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2096721149854/dark-shadows-restart-series-no-longer-in-development-at-the-cw


Despite what the "reputable" sources kept saying, I was right months ago that the pilot project was a goner and that the so called "in development" was nonsense. Hope we can finally put that to bed.  Like I said previously, the CW greenlighting Lost Boys to a 2nd pilot was bad enough, but picking up a rejected project like Kung Fu  from another network rather than greenlighting a pilot from an in house CW project like DS spoke volumes. I don't take any pleasure in being right though. Hopefully, Mark Perry will eventually put the script out there so fans can judge for themselves what his vision was like.


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the jacuzzi bath in PT Angelique's bedroom.

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out being surrounded by girls wearing pasties and a g-string.  [bootyshake]

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Calendar Events / Announcements '24 I / Westminster Dog Show at Lyndhurst
« on: October 26, 2020, 06:26:29 PM »
I just saw that the Westminster Dog Show is moving to Lyndhurst for the 2021 show.  It will be held June 12 and 13  and will air on FOX. Pretty cool!

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If Miss Hopewell said you were extremely intelligent then why did you end up here?  [hdscrt]