Pilot to Tower

What’s the best benefit of joining a club? Camaraderie? A sense of belonging? Getting cool stuff non-club members don’t get? Yeah, that’s it – the snob factor. Fox Social Club continued its streak of petty jealousy inducing activities with the start of the lunchtime pilot series.

For the past few weeks, FSC has been showing completed productions for the 2009 pilot season. All commercial free! But not all of the screeners were picked up for series. Still feeling special? It’s not a reject, consider them first runner up. Or maybe 13th runner up, depending out how many shows made it but FSC members who attend will always be able to say they saw something, 99.99999% of the world’s population didn’t. Nor ever will. Yeah, so there!

Monday, came an entry that did get ordered into series, 100 Questions. No, not a game show but a half hour sitcom. It stars some English broad. Sofie Winkleman. If you haven’t heard of her it’s probably because you live in America. Sofie plays Charlotte, a woman who goes to a dating service to find romance. In kind of a How I Met Your Mother framework, the interviewer asks Sofie a question, in this case “Are you honest,” that prompts Sofie to recall an event from her life that qualifies her answer. From there, we’re intro’d to the five, 20-something, main cast members who live and play in NYC. NO, it’s not just like Friends. Friends had six main cast members. Anyway, tune in each week as Charlotte counts them down to #1.

Following the screening of the 100 Questions, which’ll air at least once on NBC this fall season, three people won some cool stuff. Yay, more snobbery! Literally cool, as in two got gift certificates for Ben & Jerry’s. The third received a collectable, (it only becomes a toy if you take it out of the box), for AVP. That’s Alien vs Predator, for you nerds. Wait, if you’re a nerd you’d already know what it means. That prize was donated by a couple of people in the club. One of whom nearly won said prize in the drawing. Sorry ladies, I’ll get names next time. Big ups to Ben & Jerry’s for their continued support of the club.

Get ready for a whole new screening next week!