Pilot Network Services, for instance, went out of business in April 2001--and is the subject of several securities fraud suits.
"You wouldn't build a swimming pool in the center of town and not put a fence around it, and I think that's what the software companies are doing, " Glenn Tenney, a director with Pilot Network Services in Alameda, California, said during the luncheon.
In almost every network pilot, there is something or many things that can justifiably be ridiculed, partly because most shows follow the same conventions when trying to give themselves a stamp.
Though the failed pilot never received a network pickup, it leaked onto file-sharing service BitTorrent and, thousands of downloads later, it proved there clearly was an audience for it.
The launch of the new sleepercoach network follows the success of a pilot route between Glasgow and London using refurbished vehicles fitted with bunk beds.
Quarterlife, a drama about a group of recent graduates in Chicago, started as a pilot for ABC in 2005, but the network declined to make a full series, so creators Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick took it to MySpace, where it launched this month.
This collaborative process will eventually lead to the selection of a team to run the Pilot Institute and a detailed design for the full Network for Congressional consideration.
Most of the government CIOs and network geeks I met this morning had VOIP pilot projects going.
In fact, the third season finale is expected to run more than an hour a move that requires special permission from the network (previously, the show's pilot and its second season finale exceeded an hour).
The pilot will demonstrate the type the collaboration planned for the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation.
The following year Lagasse jumped from the frying pan into the fire when he was asked to host a pilot cooking show for a new cable station, the Food Network.
Meanwhile Clean Energy has teamed up with truck stop operator Pilot-Flying J to build a border-to-border network (to include these GE Micro LNG plants) by the end of 2013.
The pilot, which is still in the early stages, will be submitted to the network by the end of May and include five or six actors.
She's co-starring with Samuel L. Jackson in the feature thriller "Reasonable Doubt, " will be appearing with Geena Davis in a comedy pilot for TNT, and has a recurring role during the third season of that network's sci-fi series "Falling Skies, " a gig that reunites her with "ER" alum Noah Wyle.
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Mel Brooks, a seasoned variety-show comedy writer at the time, wrote the pilot for Get Smart, which aired on NBC in 1965 and appeared alongside I Spy on the same network, another show that was styled on two secret service agents who are identifiably single, male characters.
The network wasn't thrilled with the show's original direction, announcing it would reshoot the pilot episode.
That initial effort from the DPLA, dubbed the Digital Hubs Pilot Project, aims to stitch together a number of individual digital libraries now spread across the US into one network, and make the items from the National Archives and other institutions freely available to the public.
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