One of the coolest events at New York Television Festival’s PrimeTime program is a panel about late night TV called Long Day’s Journey into LateNight. Saturday Night Live’s Jason Sudeikis (Saturday Night Live) host a a great panel: A.D. Miles (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon), Steve Bodow (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart), and Barry Julien (The Colbert Report). The panel is Thursday Sept 22 at 9:30 p.m.at the 92nd Street Y (200 Hudson Street). Tickets are free!

In honour of the Independent Pilot Competition that is part of the NYTV Fest, here’s the opening from A.D. Miles’ 2008 pilot about blowing up meth labs. It didn’t get picked up.

If you’re going to be in New York please come to one or both of the Ruby Skye P.I. screenings: Tuesday Sept. 19 at 6:30 and Saturday Sept 24 at 3 p.m. We’ll be there on Saturday giving out buttons and posters. Tickets are free!

The New York TV Festival’s Independent Pilot Competition screenings will be held at Tribeca Cinemas (54 Varick Street, Tribeca) in Theatre 1. Forty-eight independently produced pilots will be screened over the course of the week. You can watch all the trailers on YouTube.