Rachel Bloom Quotes

Nothing's worse than telling your family you got a pilot, hearing the pilot got picked up, and then finding out it's not in the fall lineup.

More and more, I've started to understand that no show is dead unless somebody decrees it's dead at a studio.

The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.

Brimstone was great. That was another occasion when they called me in to do the pilot and it turned into a regular job, which made me quite happy. It was another really good experience and we were all so surprised when they pulled the plug on it.

I've sold shows based on my standup twice to CBS, but they've never gone past the script stage. TV is very competitive.

I did a pilot for Nickelodeon that didn't end up going to series.

I do realize that television shows end.

I've done, like, eight pilots, and every time, everyone thinks it's going to go for 10 years.

Year Two is a critical year for any television show.

When we started 'Perry Mason,' we thought it might go a year.

I never really planned on doing a television series.

I left 'The Bob Newhart Show,' which was my decision. CBS wanted it to go on. But I could see television changing; I could see the tastes were changing.

I once pitched this show that was just like 'Quantum Leap,' in terms of the set-up, and I got a pass because they said 'Quantum Leap' didn't work, even though it was on for six or seven seasons. You can't say 'Quantum Leap' didn't work!

The show had run its course on the Fox network.

I've been on one TV series after another. None of the network decisions have ever made sense to me.

'Emeril' came on the air right when a new president of NBC was taking over, and there was just a big shift going on. And then 9/11 happened, and that really pretty much killed it, because the show was already having a hard time finding an audience. I don't regret it. I had a really good time.

There are some great shows that come and go really fast, either because the network doesn't give them a chance or they just don't grab on to the psyche of the country quickly enough.

From an actor's point of view, you never really like to hope that anything will go beyond the pilot. I'd always say to my agent every time I filmed a pilot, 'Great! Well, I'll see you at pilot season.'

Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not.

I've written several pilots that haven't gone, so that's why you haven't seen any.

The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.

I had developed a sitcom with UPN, but it wasn't picked up.

When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'

Now that I know what goes into making a pilot, keeping it on the air, and keeping your fans, I'm at a point now where I do a pilot and just hope for the best. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out.

Being in the industry, I've seen many situations where someone will get the call from the network where they say 'You guys have 5 episodes to wrap it up.' Then all your long-term story arcs gotta get wrapped up in five episodes because that's how many episodes you got left. I would hate to see that happen to 'Castle'.