Back in 2009 Fox aired its excellent 2-hour pilot for Ronald D. Moore's “Virtuality” despite the fact that it hadn’t been greenlit to series.
But I can’t remember the last time a network aired an hour-long pilot that hadn’t generated a series order. (In the pre-Internet days, it was common practice for networks to dump their failed pilots into the summer schedule. Now we just get reality shows and “NCIS LA” repeats.)
“Mockingbird Lane,” the “Munsters” reboot from writer-producer Bryan Fuller (“Dead Like Me,” “Wonderfalls,” “Pushing Daisies,” the fast-approaching “Hannibal”) and director-producer Bryan Singer (“Apt Pupil,” “X Men,” “Superman Returns,” “Valkyrie”), hits NBC in 13 13 days.
