Comedy 2 offers up three pilots on Tuesday Sep 20 at 8:45 pm and again on Thursday Sept 22 at 7:30. These ones may have sketch or anthology feel to them, certainly two and perhaps Paid Programming — with its infomercials — does as well.
Bear Force One from award-winning writer Andy Mogren parodies a different movie every episode and is filmed entirely on green screen.
Paid Programming, created by John Mokate, is about the owners of a struggling video production company who dream of making the best infomercials around.
The Chris and Paul Show is sketch comedy – they describe it as Abbott & Costello on LSD which is pretty intriguing. Here’s the trailer:
Read more about the New York TV Festival: Comedy 1, Drama 1, the premiere of Prime Suspect and the keynote by the amazing Damon Lindelof. And don’t forget to reserve tickets to see Ruby Skye P.I. on Saturday Sept 24 at 3 p.m.!