February 7th, 2021 By David Knox Make a commentFiled under: News,
10’s Pilot Week is unlikely to return in 2021.
10’s Director of Programming Daniel Monaghan tells
TV Tonight, “We haven’t ruled out yet but it’s a hard year for it.
“We’d really like to return to Pilot Week this year, but given the difficulties with production at the moment.”
Pilot Week was due in 2020 until the pandemic threw those plans out. It was previously staged in 2018 and 2019 with shows such as
Taboo, Trial by Kyle,
Yes it’s that time…
TV Tonight now enters summer Hiatus mode.
It’s been an extraordinary year …for viewers, for the industry and even for TV bloggers. This year was full of sad tales as production halted, the arts struggled, and we were confined to our homes.
While we learned to work remotely, I’m reminded of the words one exec generously acknowledged: that
TV Tonight served as a ‘digital town hall’ keeping industry informed of news and various ways to adapt.
At one point in March I was contemplating whether to add a special Coronavirus section – it already outstrips those dedicated to Eurovision, Logies, Upfronts, Olympics, Pilot Week and Elections. Mental health was also at a big factor and it was a pretty intense year in terms of news, comments, moderating.