Actor Dendrie Taylor braved her first pilot season more than 20 years ago. Each year, she recalls, she would compete with droves of colleagues from New York, who would attend a "mad" number of auditions in January and February -- sometimes two or three a day -- which would taper off in March and April. "Then you counted on the summer being your movie time and the fall being your episodic guest-spot time." But the pattern did not hold. These days the networks have a much less predictable pilot schedule. As actor Bellamy Young notes, "There are pilots in dribs and drabs all year long." Taylor, Young, and the industry insiders who recently spoke with Ross Reports suggest that the only consistency you can count on with pilot season is inconsistency. Surprises abound. For instance, in 2008, when the Writers Guild of America strike nearly obliterated pilot season altogether, Taylor booked two...
- 1/22/2009
- by Mark Dundas Wood
- backstage.com
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