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10 Great TV Shows That Had Bad Pilots

As we’ve covered here on TVLine before, pilots are a tricky beast, trying to both sell a show and make a good first impression. For a variety of genres, we’ve talked about the shows that started with their best foot forward, like the best sitcom pilots of all time. But now we’re talking about the…

12 TV Shows That Got Better After Their First Season

Some TV shows that got better after their first season simply needed time to figure out what they wanted to be. A new television series has to introduce its characters, establish its world, find the right tone, and convince an audience to keep watching, often while the people making the show are still figuring out…

5 Hit Sci-Fi TV Shows That Were Adapted From Great Movies

Science fiction has long served as a genre to escape to, for decades offering audiences the chance to get lost in imaginary worlds through the pages of novels and comic books. But as filmmaking tools took hold throughout the early 20th century, movies became regular entertainment outlets and vehicles for sci-fi worlds of their own.…