Amazon Passes on Three Comedy Pilots; Viewer Chosen Pilot Program Seems Unlikely to Return

Today Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva announced that she had learned that Amazon Studios is not picking up any of their three comedy pilots this year, and that includes Bridget Everett’s collaboration project with Sex and the City’s Michael Patrick King, Love You More. Bobcat Goldthwait was set to direct and we were convinced this show would make it to series. Not only was the talent on and off camera just phenomenal, but we genuinely loved this series pilot.  And we weren’t the only ones raving about the chance to see Everett shine in her own series.

Also scrapped are the other two comedy pilots released in November: Sea Oak starring Glenn Close and The Climb from Diarra Kilpatrick.

If you’re looking for answers, they’re probably corporate in nature.  The men who greenlit all three series to go to pilot have left the company, and that’s always bad news for new projects. And in fact its looking like the entire program of having viewers voting on pilots, which came to be under the now-departed Amazon Studios head Roy Price, seems to be as dead as disco. It’s too bad because it was fun to see pilots and at least feel like you were a part of the decision.

In the wake of these cuts there remain only two active pilots in front of Amazon studios execs, and neither of them were part of the viewer voting pilot program.  A Greg Daniel’s project titled Upload and something called Making Friends that comes from the creators of How I Met Your Mother, and Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.  Georgia King, who you know as Ms. Snodgrass on HBO’s Vice Principals has been cast as the lead.

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