Okay! Non sci-fi discussion so Cass will stop making fun of me.
Upcoming pilots that sound interesting!
Pan Am: set during the clipper period. Which we know better as the Indiana Jones period. It promises to be like Mad Men, which does not sell it to me... But I love that era of commercial flight. It's wild, crazy, unregulated, and largely designed to spy on the Germans and the Japanese. (A "spy subplot" will be part of the series.)
Person of Interest: It's the Lost freakout reunion, penned by Nolan's brother (who wrote Dark Knight). Basically Abrams is doing a thinly veiled remake of Knight Rider. An FBI agent is "killed," then wakes up with a new face and solves crimes for a multi-gajillion dollar above-the-law foundation. Michael Emerson guarantees the Lost audience.
17th Precinct: An awful sounding police procedural that takes place in a world where magic co-exists with normal life. It's on the radar because it's a BSG fan freakout -- Baltar, Apollo, and Six are starring. An obvious attempt to try and take our minds off how terrible it's going to be.
Brave New World: A sit-com from the guy who made The Job and Rescue Me about the drudgery of working at a theme park akin to Williamsburg.
What else is on the radar?
