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TeamPooka

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2. CBS had a pilot in development a few years ago about a modern US Civil war

Reply to LongTomH (Original post)

Thu Sep 18, 2014, 02:51 PM

Sep 2014

It was a great pilot.
Can't recall the writers but I remember thinking after I read it, "They can never put this on the air"
It was great, Story and writing but it was too real and showed exactly how our country could fall apart.
Scary as shit.
It did not make the fall schedule.

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Story idea: A Balkanized United States [View all] LongTomH Sep 2014 OP

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CBS had a pilot in development a few years ago about a modern US Civil war TeamPooka Sep 2014 #2

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Go for it, dude! CrispyQ Oct 2014 #5

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