13.1 Spring/Summer 2015

32 Failed TV Pilots Based On Classic Poems

Curated by Dan O’Brien and members of the writers’ room of Playing House Season 2 on USA Network, co-creators Jessica St. Claire & Lennon Parham, and show-runner Anthony King

1. Two and a Half Hollow Men

2. Teen Wolf: Howl

3. That’s So The Raven

4. I Hear American Idols Singing

5. The Dr. Ozymandias Show

6. CSI: Woods on a Snowy Evening

7. Chicago Fire and Ice

8. 2 Broke Girls who could not stop for Death

9. Rime of the Ancient Gilligan

10. Paradise: Lost

11. Ariel LIVE! on NBC starring Alison Williams (and Christopher Walken)

12. Major Daddy

13. 227 Mercy Street

14. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Tonight Show with Dylan Thomas

15. The Love Boat of J. Alfred Prufrock

16. My Big Fat Grecian Urn

17. WKRP in Paterson

18. The Idea of Baywatch at Key West

19. The Idea of Law and Order at Key West: Special Victims Unit

20. HBO’s Deaf Poetry Jam

21. The Real Housewives of Spoon River

22. The Transtromers: Robots in Disguise

23. American Horror Story: Apparition of These Faces in a Station of the LA Metro

24. Celebrity Poet-Laureate Rehab

25. Better Call Bukowski

26. The Art of Losing Lbs.

27. ¡Sábado Gigante with Pablo Neruda!

28. Don’t Trust the Theme for English B

29. The Easter Bunny is Comin’ to Town, 1916

30. How Do I Love Thee, Raymond?

31. Downtern Abbey

32. Juliana Gray’s Anatomy