Remember Aquaman? No? Not surprising really. Almost no one's seen it until today, because it was a failed pilot for new network The CW. But in a move that echoes Nobody's Watching's emergence on YouTube, NBC is selling it on iTunes in the US.
Could this be the way of the future? Networks making money from pilots they never even turned into series?
I hope not. When you consider some of the shows that do become series, you have to wonder how bad some of those failed pilots have to be to avoid being turned into series. And then be asked to pay to for them? No thank you.
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July 28, 2006: As discussed earlier this week, Aquaman is a dead pilot. It has ceased...
July 25, 2006 | Reply
Wasn't the Aquaman pilot commissioned by the WB before the merger, though? It's possible that, should the two channels not have merged, there'd have been space on the schedule for it.
Of course, it probably does stink, but then prior to its launch, I thought the whole premise of Smallville was fishy, too...
July 25, 2006 | Reply
It was indeed pretty much squeezed out by the existing The WB and UPN slate, although that doesn't necessarily mean it would have been picked up. It had all sorts of problems during production, such as a last-minute recasting of Aquaman himself, so I suspect awfulness ahoy.