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Television pilots within a series.. This category includes pilot episodes that were not broadcast as the series premiere.. It also includes backdoor pilots, i.e. films or miniseries that serve as a proof of concept for a full series, but may be broadcast on their own even if the full series is not picked up.
"Ice Queen" and "Meltdown" is the two-part backdoor pilot for the American crime drama television series NCIS.The episodes aired as the twentieth and twenty-first episodes of the eighth season of the American legal drama television series JAG, and the 178th and the 179th episodes overall.
Written by Ann Donahue, Carol Mendelsohn and series creator Anthony E. Zuiker and directed by Danny Cannon, the episode also served as a backdoor pilot episode of the spin-off series, CSI: Miami, set in Miami. The episode aired on CBS on May 9, 2002.
The basic premise of the series and its characters were introduced through a two-episode backdoor pilot in The Rookie. It aired from September 27, 2022 to May 2, 2023. In November 2023, the series was canceled after one season at least in part by the 2023 Hollywood double strike. [1]
A backdoor pilot is a film or miniseries that serves as a proof of concept for a full series, [9] but may be broadcast on its own even if the full series is not picked up. [10] The term may also be used for an episode of an existing television show that serves to introduce a potential or already planned spin-off. Such backdoor pilots commonly ...
Chicago P.D. soon followed with a backdoor pilot in Fire’s penultimate Season 1 episode that aired May 13, 2013, before premiering Jan. 8, 2014 as the first spin-off.
A backdoor pilot aired on May 11, 2016, as part of the third season of Chicago P.D. before being ordered to series. The show follows the prosecutors and investigators at the Cook County State's Attorney 's Office as they navigate their way through Chicago area politics, the legal arena, and media coverage while pursuing justice.
The two-hour backdoor pilot for Private Practice averaged 21 million viewers, surpassing Grey's Anatomy 's third season average of 19.1 million viewers per episode. The episode ranked #1 in both the 9:00 PM and 10:00 PM time slots. [ 18 ]