And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.
I've heard that George Clooney did something like nine pilots before 'ER' was picked up, way back when he was doing TV. It's just the way the business works. There are a lot of pilots that we've never seen. It's protocol.
I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.
Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.
I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.
Yeah, I'd done a bunch of pilots. Some that had gone for a while. One that went for 13 episodes. But I had never been on a show that had lasted more than that.
I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.
Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have.
Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.
I've written several pilots that haven't gone, so that's why you haven't seen any.