Pilots for the upcoming 2016-17 TV season include three shows involving time travel, one about an adult woman with an imaginary friend and another starring a talking dog. This could possibly be the weirdest and greatest collection of shows in the history of TV.
You can take the girl out of fictional local government, but you can’t take the fictional local government out of the girl. Retta—who co-starred on all seven seasons of Parks and Recreation as Donna Meagle—has been cast in Hail Mary, a new ABC sitcom about a mayor (Casey Wilson) who fakes a miracle to get her town…
Deadline is reporting something that seems both completely inevitable and totally impossible: Jill Soloway is directing and executive producing a half-hour pilot based on I Love Dick, Chris Kraus’s canonically experimental memoir-fiction hybrid, which was published by Semiotext(e) in 1997.
Amy Poehler and Rashida Jones, who both starred on NBC’s Parks and Recreation, are returning to the network with two new comedies. According to the Hollywood Reporter, NBC has ordered pilots for two shows executively produced by both women.
Since giving a pilot order to the new Nancy Drew-themed television series, CBS has released more details about its premise, reports Variety. Simply titled, Drew, the show will turn the iconic girl detective into a 30-something who “investigates and solves crimes using her uncanny observational skills, all while…
Six months ago, Harrison Ford crashed a World War II plane on Los Angeles golf course which was a monumental bummer. But, much like Star Wars, Ford is back—and now he’s restricting himself to crashing weddings.
...Or your present, depending on how old you are and what you consider the middle of life! Multiple outlets are reporting that after passing on People in New Jersey last year, a pilot starring Sarah Silverman, TOPHER GRACE and Patti Lupone, HBO has picked up another comedy from Silverman. This one is about a "…
RIP the airline career of the Mexican pilot who allowed 23-year-old singer Esmeralda Ugalde and 19-year-old actress Samadhi Zendejas into the cockpit of his plane in the middle of a flight so they could (I'm guessing) fake-twiddle the knobs, use the PA system to tell all the passengers their refrigerators were…
Fox did not pick up Tina Fey's pilot Cabot College, about an all-women's college accepting their first male students.
My friend Mike* is a First Officer at a regional airline here in the U.S. He's graciously agreed to answer some questions exclusively for Flight Club about being a pilot, as well as addressing some of the rumors that we hear as travelers about everything from sex to slowing your plane down on purpose.
A female pilot took to Facebook after finding a sexist note from a passenger after one of her flights.
Listen up, fives. Not even two months after NBC ordered thirteen episodes of a new comedy by Tina Fey and writer/producer Robert Carlock, Fox has ordered a pilot for another show she's been shopping around with 30 Rock writer Matt Hubbard. It's supposed to be set at an all-women college that has just accepted its…
When Dorothy "Dot" Lewis, a former Women's Airforce Service Pilot in World War II, passed away this September, her son wanted to do something special to honor her and the other 1,073 WASPs. What better way to honor such an important but largely forgotten aspect of the US Military than with the US's most historic…
Tomorrow is International Women's Day and Air France is doing it up with an all-female crew on a flight from Paris to Washington. So basically, they were able to get two female pilots on the same flight? It's kinda sad that this is a thing, but cool that they're recognizing the day, I guess?
We were lucky enough to get our hands on a copy of the Playboy TV series pilot script. We already knew it was about the glory days of the Chicago-based bunny-empire. But things about it were...surprising.
Yes, there are retro bunnies galore! The details of the club scenes, one can only assume, hew with some…
Rage against the new TSA requirements has tended to erase, or caricature, one very key constituency: air-travel employees. That includes mostly female flight attendants, who, unlike pilots, haven't been exempted from enhanced patdown procedures, as well as reluctant TSA employees.
The FAA has asked Bombshells, a strip club in Dallas, to turn off its new spinning rooftop beacon. A Southwest pilot complained that it flooded his cockpit with light as he was trying to land at Love Field Airport.
Diablo Cody has reportedly sold a comedy pilot to Fox titled "The Breadwinner." Details are being kept under wraps, but we're willing to bet homeslice will find a way to insert at least one ironic food-shaped telephone, honest to blog.
• Today a group of archeologists, divers, and volunteers began the search for Gertrude Tompkins Silver, who served as a fighter pilot during WWII and has been missing since 1944. She is the only WASP still unaccounted for. •
15-year-old Kimberly Anyadike became the youngest African-American female pilot to ever fly across the United States, finishing a 13 day flight with the help of her safety pilot, 87 year old Tuskegee Airman, Levi Thornhill.
