Episode 152: Common Enemy written by Jordan Roter (Girl in Development, American Housewife, Watchful Eye)
Dead Pilots Society
Ben Blacker and Andrew Reich
4.6 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You know the thing and no one picked up your thing |
| 0:05.0 | And so you buried the thing |
| 0:07.0 | That's not the end of the thing |
| 0:10.0 | Don't you let's eyes yet there's a spooky surprise |
| 0:13.0 | And though you cannot devise |
| 0:16.0 | And nothing ever really dies The Dead Pilot Society. |
| 0:26.6 | Welcome to Dead Pilot Society, the show that takes comedy pilots from A-list writers that were sold and developed at networks and streamers but never produced and gives them the table reads they never got a chance to have. |
| 0:49.2 | I'm Andrew Reich, the creator and host of Dead Pilot Society. |
| 0:53.4 | It was a great show at the Elysian a couple weeks ago. |
| 0:57.4 | These live shows are so much fun. Hopefully we'll be announcing the next one soon. |
| 1:02.4 | We're bringing you one of the pilots we read at that live show this month. It's called Common Enemy, |
| 1:08.7 | and it was written by Jordan Roder. Jordan is the author of the young adult novels, Girl in Development and Camp Rules. |
| 1:15.7 | She wrote on Watchful Eye and on American Housewife. |
| 1:19.2 | Jordan and I met on the picket line during the strike, and she sent me this great dead pilot, |
| 1:24.2 | which we were so excited to bring to life. |
| 1:26.7 | It's a network family show, |
| 1:28.7 | but it definitely pushes the envelope of what you can do on network TV. I responded right away |
| 1:35.4 | to just how specific the characters were and just the great energy that the script has |
| 1:40.3 | right from the beginning. The live audience really loved it. |
| 1:44.7 | I think you will too. |
| 1:46.8 | Our cast from Orange is the New Black and Another Period, Beth Dover, |
| 1:53.5 | from Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Antonio Raul Garcia. |
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