A few years ago, a friend of mine shot a pilot. It was supposed to be a
promising pilot, but somewhere between the script and casting, the
network started getting concerned about the darkly comic tone, the
suggestive, edgy storylines, and the sharpness of the writing. All of
those items introduce a level of risk into the development process --
career risk for the executives, specifically -- so usually that's the
first stuff they want out...
