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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 38341" data-attributes="member: 27">In years past, they would produce a full-blown, &quot;this is what the show will be like&quot; pilot with proper sets, location work, etc. and a generous budget. It was, in essence, the first episode of the series.&nbsp; In modern penny-pinching, they often produce a &quot;mini-sode&quot; (reduced length, using sets borrowed from other productions, no special effects) just to give studio execs a taste of what they want to produce once they are given the episode order.&nbsp; I have no idea if the CW would agree to give them a large budget for a proper pilot to be produced, or if the producers would have to foot the bill themselves...but since the lavish excess is an integral part of the show&#039;s identity, I think it would work against the producers to do a mini-sode &#039;treatment&#039;.&nbsp; One of the by-products of that era was that in the summers of the 1970s and 1980s, the networks would often air unsold pilots as &quot;specials&quot; to fill up the primetime schedule.&nbsp; We would get the chance to view what &#039;could have been&#039;, and often I liked the rejects better than what ended up going to series.&nbsp; With the advent of mini-sodes and half-assed &quot;treatments&quot; being used to sell a series to networks, we don&#039;t see as much of the unsold material simply because it isn&#039;t really a fully-produced bit of TV suitable to be aired.&nbsp; If this Dynasty reboot is done as a &quot;partial&quot; pilot and fails to get picked up, we may never see what the network got to see.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 38341, member: 27"] In years past, they would produce a full-blown, "this is what the show will be like" pilot with proper sets, location work, etc. and a generous budget. It was, in essence, the first episode of the series. In modern penny-pinching, they often produce a "mini-sode" (reduced length, using sets borrowed from other productions, no special effects) just to give studio execs a taste of what they want to produce once they are given the episode order. I have no idea if the CW would agree to give them a large budget for a proper pilot to be produced, or if the producers would have to foot the bill themselves...but since the lavish excess is an integral part of the show's identity, I think it would work against the producers to do a mini-sode 'treatment'. One of the by-products of that era was that in the summers of the 1970s and 1980s, the networks would often air unsold pilots as "specials" to fill up the primetime schedule. We would get the chance to view what 'could have been', and often I liked the rejects better than what ended up going to series. With the advent of mini-sodes and half-assed "treatments" being used to sell a series to networks, we don't see as much of the unsold material simply because it isn't really a fully-produced bit of TV suitable to be aired. If this [I]Dynasty[/I] reboot is done as a "partial" pilot and fails to get picked up, we may never see what the network got to see. [/QUOTE]

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