You know the thing and no one picked up your thing

And so you buried the thing

That's not the end of the thing

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

And though you cannot revise

And nothing ever really dies. The Dead Pilot Society.

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.

I am Andrew Reich, the creator and host of Dead Pilot Society. Happy New Year, everybody.

A great way to kick off 2026 would be by watching my movie.

It's a music documentary called Born Innocent, the Red Cross story, and you can rent it digitally at red crossfilm.com.

That's Red Cross with two Ds and a K. While you're there, you can also now pre-order the Blu-ray or the DVD.

They're both going to be great, but the Blu-ray is going to be a two-disc special edition packed with about five and a half hours of special features.

So even if you've already seen the movie, you'll want to grab one.

All right, this month we have the second of two dead pilots about a text thread among a group of friends, mostly guys, not exclusively, especially in this one.

This month's pilot is The Thread, written by Andrew Waller and Mike Gagerman.

Andrew and Mike are the writers of the cult classic film search party.

There are also the minds behind one of the first viral serialized Twitter threads.

Shh!

Don't Tell Steve back in the early 2010s.

And they're currently writing Last Chance Lawyer for NBC with Henry Winkler set to star.

Here is the logline for this show.

A modern ensemble comedy about a group of longtime friends leading diverse chaotic lives

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