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Dead Pilots Society

Episode 153: Jordan Roter Interview (Common Enemy After Show)

Dead Pilots Society

Ben Blacker and Andrew Reich

Tv & Film, Dead Pilots Society, Tv Pilots, Tv Reviews, Andrew Reich, Documentary, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Ben Blacker, Sitcoms, Society & Culture

4.6563 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This is our interview with Common Enemy scribe, Jordan Roter (American Housewife, Watchful Eye)

Transcript

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0:00.0

You know the thing and no one picked up your thing

0:05.0

And so you bury the thing

0:07.0

That's not the end of the thing

0:10.0

Don't you like jazz yet there's a spooky surprise

0:13.0

And though you cannot revise

0:16.0

And nothing ever really dies.

0:47.2

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.

0:56.2

I'm Andrew Reich, the creator, and host of Dead Pilot Society. And this is the after show for Common Enemy, featuring my interview with Jordan Roder. Jordan has kind of done it all. She's written novels. She's written screenplays.

1:01.9

She's sold and developed pilots. She was a writer on American Housewife.

1:05.8

She wrote the viral Huffington Post article letters to my daughter's future therapist.

1:12.3

And she wrote this great family sitcom, Common Enemy, which was so much fun to hear Red Live at the Elysian Theater.

1:18.4

We talk about the moments that sparked the script and its other inspirations, including a book

1:22.7

that many of you may remember from childhood. I did bend the Dead Pilot Society rules a bit for this script

1:30.4

since it was sold to a studio but never actually set up at a network or streamer.

1:35.5

But that just means it is available, free and clear, for any development execs who might be listening.

1:42.0

Get on it, jump on it, common enemy.

1:45.2

It's a great show.

1:50.0

Here is my conversation with Jordan Roter after a brief message.

1:58.4

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2:02.6

and drift off to sleep. For instance, the remarkable actor Alan Tudik. You hand somebody a yardstick

2:10.2

after they've shopped at your general store. The store's name is constantly in your heart

2:14.7

because yardstick's become part of the family. Sleeping with with celebrities hosted by me, John Moe, on Maximumfund.org or wherever you get your

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