![]() ![]() Adventurous Ainslie Wickett (Hynden Walch) and her best friend/engineer George (Jorge Diaz) are celebrating Ainslie’s 12th Birthday by sailing during a storm in Maine. Written by Becky Tinker, Directed by Frank Marino, and based on Tinker’s webcomic on Thrillbent, Everstar is a fantastic science fiction pilot for kids. It feels like “Yoyotoki” should be on Cartoon Network just based on its style but considering that networks track record for cartoons with female protagonists, the pilot itself would’ve never gotten past the pitching process. There’s a “being special is being yourself” moral lesson but it’s undermined by the fanatical nature of the 12 minute pilot. Creator Niki Yang channels everything she’s picked up during her tenure on shows like Adventure Time, Clarence, and Regular Show as the show features a weird humor and a gorgeous art style that adults will enjoy probably more than kids. Wishing she was magical like everyone else, Yoytoki along with her friends Steak (Cole Sanchez), a living gummy bear and Hotwings (Andres Salaff), a flying pig embark on a quest to find the Magic Elf King (Dee Bradley Baker) to grant her wish. Everyone in Mytholopia has magical powers, except for Yoyotoki whose normal family ended up getting lost here. Parents might not like this show for its bizarre humor but I dig it.ĭirected by Sung Jin Ahn, “Yoyotoki HappyEars” is about fox (Jessica Lowe) who lives in the land called Mytholopia. The animation style is charming and the show has a very upbeat weirdness to its humor. In the pilot, the duo ride a soon to be demolished water slide in the center of the park and nothing goes according to plan. Philip (Eric Knobel) is an anthropomorphic egg who’s fragile nature makes him prone to panic and value safety but he wants to be as adventurous as Dee Dee. (Aidy Bryant) is a rambunctious girl who aspires to be like her daredevil dad so she performs extreme stunts. Written by Shadi Petosky and directed by Mike Owens (both of whom are also the producers and creators), Danger and Eggs is a charming 12 minute cartoon about two friends who’re on opposite extremes. In no particular order, here are my reviews: Instead of live action series for children, this year Amazon has ordered six animated pilots. Viewers can write reviews and give feedback on that pilots they’d like to see become series but no matter what, the Executives at Amazon will have the final word. Anyone can stream and vote on the pilots for free on Amazon’s website or video app but the inevitable shows will be exclusive for Amazon Prime members. Amazon’s Pilot Season program is back and once again, viewers decide on which of the twelve pilots become full fledged series. The traditional pilot season is super competitive and the survival odds for a pilot becoming a new series is extremely low due to analytics or executive preferences.īut with outlets like Netflix and Amazon who’re constantly looking for original content, there’s never been a better time for television auteur’s to roll the dice and take a chance on making a pilot. As I’ve gotten older and wiser on the nature of creating television, I’ve realized how expensive and time consuming it is to even make a pilot. Shows like The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, What Ever Happened to Robot Jones?, and Codenamed: Kids Next Door were all created from this experimental pilot program and for me, it felt good voting on the shows I’d want to see. Running during the summers of 20, The Big Pick was a 53 hour marathon of original programming that ran throughout the weekend where kids could vote via phone or computer on which of the ten animated pilots would become full fledged series. Scott Fitzgerald Highston, a comedy which follows a 19-year old with a wide circle of celebrity friends that only he can see and featuring NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal and Flea ( The Big Lewbowski) and western-themed Edge, based on George Gilman’s best-selling book series of the same name starring Max Martini ( Pacific Rim, Captain Phillips) and Ryan Kwanten ( True Blood).Īlso on the docket are Good Girls Revolt, which follows a group of female journalists facing sexual discrimination in the late 1960’s One Mississippi, executive produced by Louis CK ( Louie) follows a young woman dealing with the complex reentry into her childhood hometown of Bay Saint Lucille, Mississippi and Patriot, a political thriller that follows the life of an intelligent officer tasked with preventing Iran from going nuclear.When I was 10 years old, I remember participating in a Cartoon Network programming stunt called “The Big Pick”. Among the new pilots available for Amazon subscribers to vote on for potential series include Z (pictured), a bio-series starring Christina Ricci ( Monster) and based on the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, wife of writer F. ![]()
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