TVx3 E214: Amazon TV Pilots Review 2014

On episode 214, Jason (@theTVaholic) is joined by Kyle Nolan (@kyool) from NoReruns.net (@NoReruns) and Wayne Henderson (@WayneHenderson) from MediaVocieovers.com, Under the Dome Radio and Revenge on TV Talk to discuss some TV news, review the 2014 Amazon TV Pilots and discuss recent episodes of Revenge, Sherlock, The Big Bang Theory and Almost Human. Plus, some TV on DVD picks. (Start times of each segment/topic)

News (00:01:20)

We briefly talked about the following seven TV news stories:

• Ravenswood: Cancelled, No Season Two for ABC Family Series
• Dan Harmon's Rick and Morty Renewed for Second Season
• Alpha House gets second season, Doonesbury back on hiatus
• CW Gives Early Renewals To Arrow, The Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, Reign & The Originals
• Lifetime to End Drop Dead Diva
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars Final Season Lands at Netflix (Video)
• TNT Cancels Frank Darabont's Mob City

Amazon TV Pilots 2014 (00:12:40)

Amazon has released the “Pilot” episodes of five potential news shows they may be adding for Prime members. This year they have three comedies and two dramas in contention and you can watch them all right now. We talked about all five. What we like, what we didn’t and which ones we hope they pick-up to series.

We talked about the following three Amazon Comedy Pilots:

• Mozart in the Jungle – S.1 Ep.1, “Pilot” (00:14:30)
• The Rebels – S.1 Ep.1, “Pilot” (00:17:42)
• Transparent – S.1 Ep.1, “Pilot” (00:23:02)

We talked about the following two Amazon Drama Pilots:

• Bosch – S.1 Ep.1, “Pilot” (00:26:24)
• The After – S.1 Ep.1, “Pilot” (00:30:39)

Primetime (00:41:09)

We talked about the following four TV shows:

• Revenge – S.3 Ep.13, “Hatred” (00:41:17)
• Sherlock – S.3 Ep.3, “His Last Vow” (Season Finale) (00:47:10)
• The Big Bang Theory – S.7 Ep.15, “The Locomotive Manipulation” (00:57:05)
• Almost Human – S.1 Ep.10, “Perception” (01:04:26)

TV on DVD Picks for Releases on Tuesday, February 25th (01:14:37)

Jason picked L.A. Law: Season One and Mama's Family: Complete Third Season.
Kyle picked Legit: Season 1 and The Middle: Season Three.
Wayne jumped back a week and picked Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Epic Series.

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Have you watched any of Amazon’s TV Pilots for 2014? What did you think of The After and Bosch? Did you find any of the comedies funny? What do you think of the big kiss on CBS’ The Big Bang Theory? Has FOX’s Almost Human playing episodes out of order bothered you as much as it has us? What did you think about this week’s guests? Let us know in the comments, send us an eMail, connect via Twitter @TVtimesThree, or Like us on Facebook.