[S1E1] Unaired Pilot
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NBC programmer Kevin Reilly originally suggested Paul Giamatti to producer Ben Silverman for the role of Michael Scott, but the actor declined. Martin Short, Hank Azaria and Bob Odenkirk were also reported to be interested.[9] In January 2004, Variety reported Steve Carell, of the popular Comedy Central program The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, was in talks to play the role. At the time, he was already committed to another NBC mid-season replacement comedy, Come to Papa, but the series was quickly canceled, leaving him fully committed to The Office.[10] Carell later stated he had only seen about half of the original pilot episode of the British series before he auditioned. He did not continue watching for fear that he would start copying Gervais' characterizations.[11] Rainn Wilson, who was cast as the power-hungry sycophant Dwight Schrute, watched every episode of the series before he auditioned. Wilson had originally auditioned for Michael, a performance he described as a \"terrible Ricky Gervais impersonation\"; however, the casting directors liked his audition as Dwight much more and hired him for the role.[12]
\"The Cage\" is the first pilot episode of the American television series Star Trek. It was completed on January 22, 1965 (with a copyright date of 1964). The episode was written by Gene Roddenberry and directed by Robert Butler. It was rejected by NBC in February 1965, and the network ordered another pilot episode, which became \"Where No Man Has Gone Before\". Much of the original footage from \"The Cage\" was later incorporated into the season 1 two-parter episode \"The Menagerie\" (1966); however, \"The Cage\" was first released to the public on VHS in 1986, with a special introduction by Gene Roddenberry, and was not broadcast on television in its complete form until 1988. The black and white version and shorter all-color version was also released in various standard-definition media including LaserDisc, VHS, and DVD formats.
The story concerns a starship crew's investigation of a far off planet which was the site of a shipwreck eighteen years earlier and their encounter with telepathic aliens who seek a human male specimen for their menagerie. The pilot introduced Mr. Spock, played by Leonard Nimoy, who was the only cast member to be retained for the series in their original role.
\"The Cage\" has many of the features of the eventual series, but there are numerous differences. The captain of the starship USS Enterprise is not James T. Kirk, but Christopher Pike. Spock is present, but not as first officer. That role is taken by a character known only as Number One, played by Majel Barrett. Spock's character differs somewhat from that seen in the rest of Star Trek; he displays a youthful eagerness that contrasts with the later more reserved and logical Spock. He also delivers the first line in all of Star Trek: \"Check the circuit!\" followed by, \"Can't be the screen then.\"[1] The weaponry used in the pilot also differs from that seen in the series proper, identified as lasers rather than phasers, and different props are used for the communicator and handheld weapons.
NBC reportedly called the pilot \"too cerebral\", \"too intellectual\", and \"too slow\" with \"not enough action\".[2] Rather than rejecting the series outright, though, the network commissioned a second pilot, \"Where No Man Has Gone Before\",[3][4] which led to an order for the series for fall 1966.
The process of editing the pilot into \"The Menagerie\" disassembled the original camera negative of \"The Cage\", and thus, for many years it was considered partly lost. Roddenberry's black-and-white 16mm print made for reference purposes was the only existing print of the show, and was frequently shown at conventions. Early video releases of \"The Cage\" used Roddenberry's 16mm print, intercut with the color scenes from \"The Cage\" that were used in \"The Menagerie\". It was only in 1987 that a film archivist found an unmarked (mute) 35mm reel in a Hollywood film laboratory with the negative trims of the unused scenes. Upon realizing what he had found, he arranged for the return of the footage to Roddenberry's company.[6]
Jeffrey Hunter had a six-month exclusive option for the role of Captain Pike.[7] Although he was required to continue if the series was picked up by the network in that time, he was not required to film the second pilot that NBC requested. Deciding to concentrate on motion pictures instead, he declined the role.[8] Gene Roddenberry wrote to him on April 5, 1965:
I am told you have decided not to go ahead with Star Trek. This has to be your own decision, of course, and I must respect it. You may be certain I hold no grudge or ill feelings and expect to continue to reflect publicly and privately the high regard I learned for you during the production of our pilot.[9]
Although most of this episode was edited into the original series episode \"The Menagerie\" (aired November 1966), no stand-alone version of \"The Cage\" pilot was available until a 1986 VHS release.[15] Gene Roddenberry had in his possession a black-white film workprint version on 16 mm film, while the original 35 mm print was literally cut up in editing for \"The Menagerie\"; this left Roddenberry's copy as the only known surviving version when the VHS version was made.[16] Thus, the original VHS release has a mix of full-color from existing footage with black-and-white from the 16 mm copy.[16]
CBS All Access officially ordered Star Trek: Strange New Worlds to series in May 2020[27] featuring the characters of Captain Pike, Number One, and Spock. At 55 years between The Cage and the announcement of Strange New Worlds, Co-Showrunner and Executive Producer Henry Alonso Myers calls this the longest pilot to series pick up in television history.[28]
The Unaired Pilot is a 60 minute pilot episode of Sherlock which was never broadcast. The pilot follows the same plot as \"A Study in Pink\" and was originally intended to be the first episode of the show; however, the BBC decided that they wanted Sherlock to have 90 minute episodes and asked the team to remake it. The pilot episode was subsequently released as an extra on the series DVDs.
Following the announcement of its cancellation in August 2001[1] and subsequent final episode[2] in February the following year, BBC's motoring show Top Gear underwent a significant revamp and relaunch in October 2002, which focused more on being a light entertainment show rather than wholly factual. The pilot episode which would eventually air on the October 20th, 2002, featured Harry Enfield as the show's inaugural guest star, reviews of the Citroen Berlingo and Mazda 6, as well as an attempt to beat a speed camera using three sports cars. Although it only attracted 2.43 million viewers on its debut outing, Top Gear would soon rise to the top of BBC Two's programming and become an international sensation in the years that followed.
As revealed by director Richard Porter in his 2015 autobiography And On That Bombshell: Inside the Madness and Genius of Top Gear, there were two earlier pilots filmed in August 2002 which never saw the light of day as they were deemed unwatchable and almost led to the voluntary dismissal of presenter Richard Hammond.[3]
The initial pilot featured French footballer David Ginola as the Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car, and contained the aforementioned review of the Vel Satis, which was later delayed until the sixth episode of Series 1. According to Porter, the initial studio set was comprised of a large, round steel cage which separated the presenters from the audience. In addition, an autocue was used to keep the presenters on-track with relevant discussion, rather than allowing them to speak their mind. As the format was yet to air and the presenters had not yet settled into their roles, Ginola was under the impression that he would be a permanent presenter of Top Gear rather than a one-time guest. He would chime in with his thoughts on each segment, though this was something he was instructed to do. Vestiges of this can be seen in the eventual series premiere which went to air, where guest Harry Enfield was asked his thoughts on a vegetable-oil fuelled Volvo before his lap in the Suzuki Liana was screened.
After watching the pilot, it was decided to reshoot the episode from scratch, without Ginola, an autocue, or any of the set pieces from the first pilot, with cars being the only objects inside the hangar. The camera work on this was deemed substandard by Porter due to the lack of studio lighting and resulted in Richard Hammond walking out halfway through production, exclaiming that he didn't want to continue filming. Filming eventually concluded and Porter deemed it as worse than the original, meaning that by September of 2002, a definitive pilot episode was yet to be shot. Series 1 of Top Gear would premiere a month later.
As he was not a presenter for the first series, James May would continuously ask to watch the pilot episodes after several years of having served as a presenter, and was always told no. The tapes containing the pilots were locked in a drawer and never seen again.
It is possible that parts of one or both pilots were included in Series 1, Episode 6 which featured the Vel Satis review, along with members of the Renault Owner's Club. However, neither pilot episode has seen the light of day since their initial filming. Since the pilots' public disclosure in 2015, it is increasingly unlikely that they will ever be seen due to the majority of the crew who worked on Top Gear at the time having left the BBC following Clarkson's dismissal.
In 2020, LMW user AlexGRFan97 discovered that around 5 seconds of the first pilot episode's footage was included in the Series 1 finale. During the Awards ceremony for the \"Weirdest Renault\" award, a brief clip of a red Renault Avantime is shown. If one looks to the background, a round steel structure housing the audience is visible, matching Porter's description of the first pilot's set pieces. 59ce067264
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