American cartoonist Matt Groening is best known for creating The Simpsons, the iconic and long-lasting adult animated sitcom. Currently in its 37th Season and with a second movie announced for 2027, ...

The first episode of an anime is often the most crucial one. Anime fans use pilot episodes to gauge how they feel about a show, and they expect these episodes to set the tone for the rest of the show.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In television history, few pilots have had a stranger journey than the first attempt at Star Trek. Today, the 1964 pilot episode ...

The Walking Dead had such a huge impact, and it was no accident, starting with an episode that is still considered by many to be one of the best ever on TV. The series pilot is effective for one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s been 27 years since Dawson’s Creek first aired on The WB in 1998, and this teen drama has been tugging at fans’ heartstrings ...

In the world of television, a pilot episode is essentially the series premiere. It not only serves as an introduction to the series, but also as a means of testing the waters, with the showrunners ...

The episode, from 1983, was found in storage by accident. It was restored and made available for viewing for the first time on Friday. By Victor Mather Thomas the Tank Engine notices a funny smell. He ...

The original, scrapped version of the pilot for Family Guy has made its way online after years of being “lost” to the world. Animator Robert Paulsen, who’d worked on the now-hit Fox adult animation ...

Walton Goggins nearly lost his role on The Shield after the pilot — until one key episode changed everything.

Pilot episodes are difficult to perfect, but some fantasy shows successfully juggle strong world-building with gripping hooks, resulting in spotless openers. Pilots have a lot riding on them, ...

The journey from a script to a hit television series is notoriously difficult, and often, the biggest changes happen behind closed doors after the pilot episode is filmed. We tend to think of our ...