Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! Great High School comedies center on instantly endearing characters, and Roniel Tessler's ATX TV-Fest Fellowship winning pilot, HUSKY, stars Jordan, who subversively challenges the tropes of the Gay Best Friend in a way that is 90% hilarious and 10% heartbreaking. Pl...
Nov 03, 2017•1 hr 4 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly Vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! John Wayne Gacy is considered by many to be one of the most gruesome, and therefore narratively fascinating serial killers in America's history. And today's chilling feature script, ORIOLE PARK, positions Gacy around a narrative of adolescent Chicago minorities doing...
Oct 27, 2017•2 hr 34 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! Perhaps no other issue demanded a larger spotlight than US/Mexico border relations during the 2016 election. And today's script, CIVIL UNREST, explores the powder-keg world of border life. It follows a Homeland Security Analyst, whose loyalties are tested when he lea...
Oct 20, 2017•1 hr 40 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! On today's very special UTR, we break the rules. Rather than reading Unproduced work, we explore some of Hollywood's most iconic movie and TV scenes by reading them ourselves! We'll discuss what makes them legendary. From AMERICAN BEAUTY to WHEN HARRY MET SALLY , we'...
Oct 13, 2017•1 hr 37 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! Feeling trapped in a patriarchal marriage and dead-end job, Betty Wegman decides to take her life into her own hands. So naturally, she begins a crusade for the early release of an exotic woman in the prison she works at. Betty is the central character and lifeblood ...
Oct 06, 2017•2 hr 26 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! This central character in today's hilarious, offbeat comedy pilot is in a wheelchair, and that's the least important thing about her. Instead, Ramona - after whom today's script is named - profanely parades through life, kicking ass, taking names, and winning. So man...
Sep 29, 2017•1 hr 6 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! “I love Lucy showed the world a televised interracial couple, Will and Grace broke the boundaries for LGBT love, and Big Love showed us the inside world of Polygamy. And today’s pilot, SIGNIFICANT OTHERS, is about to show you love you’ve NEVER seen on, TV before." Ma...
Sep 22, 2017•1 hr 12 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! 19th Century authors like Mary Shelly, Edgar Allen Poe, and The Brontes' managed to craft socially relevant, thematically engaging, and most importantly, chillingly terrifying work that resonates to this day. Much of today's contemporary horror falls short of its ele...
Sep 15, 2017•1 hr 31 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! Working class Antiheroes like Archie Bunker, Rosanne Barr, and, perhaps most importantly, shameless' Frank Gallagher, have united millions to rally around characters they'd normally scorn, and today, on UTR, we're hobnobbing with four of them, in Tony Hamilton-Shanno...
Sep 08, 2017•1 hr 42 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! From THE MIRACLE WORKER to RAIN MAN, Hollywood's portrayal of physically or cognitively handicapped characters offers some of art's most nuanced explorations. Today's feature script, SIX LETTER WORD, deals with three generations of family dealing with their previousl...
Sep 01, 2017•2 hr 25 min
Show Description: Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! Fitness makes a great foundation for comedy. In the tradition of HEAVYWEIGHTS and DODGEBALL, toady's gym-set sitcom pilot THE DEEP BURN, balances silliness and heart in a script that you're sure to enjoy! Make sure to subscribe to Popcorn Talk! - ht...
Aug 21, 2017•1 hr
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! From MARY TYLER MOORE to BROOKYLN, the workplace sitcom is a quintessential and enduring piece of the television landscape, and today on UTR we ask, how do we keep it fresh? Stay tuned to find out, as we read Elizabeth Stamp's goofy, NSA-set sitcom pilot CLASSIFIED ....
Aug 18, 2017•57 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! From REAR WINDOW to SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, murder mystery thrillers are a staple of modern American Cinema, and today's eerie, Mexico-set feature THE DROWNING POOL continues that tradition beautifully. Make sure you tune in today's episode, but avoid listening right b...
Aug 04, 2017•2 hr 36 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! Six year's ago, HBO aired a little show called Game Of Thornes and changed everything forever. High budget Fantasy has broken in to the popular, prestige game, and our script for today's read EMPYREAN by Vivek Choudry, just might be the next big hit. Enjoy the show! ...
Jul 28, 2017•1 hr 41 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! Guy Oliveri's script has done the impossible. His comedy pilot SUCKERS manages to keep the Vampire genre fresh. Don't believe me? We're reading it on the show today, so stick around, and we'll prove you wrong. Make sure to subscribe to Popcorn Talk! - http://youtube....
Jul 14, 2017•1 hr 5 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! Today we explore poverty, friendship, race, and family in the American South with MALCOM X AND JFK, a feature-length Southern Drama that modernizes Huck Finn. We're thrilled to feature writer Cliff Yost in studio to join the discussion. Enjoy! Make sure to subscribe ...
Jul 07, 2017•2 hr 35 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! The High School TV Comedy has a broad pool of representatives, from the Offbeat FREAKS AND GEEKS to the charmingly palatable SAVED BY THE BELL. Today's script, HOT GEEK, written by well-respected script analyst Daniel Calvisi, is a wonderful contribution to that trad...
Jun 23, 2017•1 hr 21 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! It's no secret that some of TV's best comedies are British. From Fawlty Towers to The Office, British Comedy is a staple of media's best laughs. Today's script, BLACKFRIARS, is a brilliant and gloriously offensive mockumentary satire about Millennial entitlement, and...
Jun 16, 2017•1 hr 12 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! FRIENDS is the biggest sitcom of all time. Today we read the pilot, and do our best to figure out why! Make sure to subscribe to Popcorn Talk! - http://youtube.com/popcorntalknetwork HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://popcorntalk.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitt...
Jun 02, 2017•1 hr 30 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! Some of TV's greatest comedies revolve around TV. Shows like Mary Tyler Moore, 30 Rock, and The Comeback, relish the opportunity to parody the medium they occupy. Today's script, Moguls, does the exact same thing, with timely finesse and a satiric bite, making it a v...
May 26, 2017•1 hr 15 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! Films like DELIVERANCE, WINTER'S BONE, and perhaps most recently, WGN's OUTSIDERS are notable for giving us a complicated and nuanced at and under-explored America. Whit Hamilton and Lorraine Farris' moody drama pilot THE HUNTER & THE MYSTIC follows in that tradi...
May 19, 2017•1 hr 41 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! Whether it's the tense and dramatic THE AMERICANS or the light and funny FRES OF THE BOAT the immigrant experience has always been a fascination for TV Writers. And today, we feature another immigrant drama, AMERIKA about the hurdles faced by Russian immigrants in Am...
May 12, 2017•1 hr 46 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! The first movie to screen at Grauman's Chinese Theater was 1922's Robin Hood, and since then, Swashbucklers have been a staple in Hollywood Cinema. Today's rousing feature, DREAMSHIP, follows in that tradition with an adventurous, family friendly romp through the sta...
May 05, 2017•2 hr 19 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! Keely Lewis Wise's PLAIN JANE, a d...
Apr 14, 2017•2 hr 17 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! In 1973, American pop culture was forever changed when THE EXORCIST hit theaters, and terrified the nation. The film, notable for it's frankly portraying the horrors of demonic possession, has shaped the nature of horror pictures since it's release. Today's script, T...
Apr 07, 2017•1 hr 34 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! Inspirational Family Movies don't have to be bad. In fact, sometimes, they can be really, really good. Movies like BIG FISH and SAVING MR. BANKS deeply merit the exploration of parents, grief, and redeemed relationships through a family-friendly lens, and today's fea...
Mar 31, 2017•2 hr 19 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! The teen drama has a complicated history of toeing the line between guilty pleasure content and smart social commentary, and thankfully, today's exceptional pilot, LOCALS ONLY by Daniel Hogan, expertly embraces the latter. The script, an edgy look at the world of pri...
Mar 24, 2017•1 hr 49 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! Historically, audiences who wanted fast-paced, high-octane, thrills were limited to paying a movie ticket, but in today's television landscape, some of our best blockbuster content comes to us right in our own living rooms. High-budget, prestige TV is airing some of ...
Mar 17, 2017•1 hr 44 min
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! The Family Sitcom has been a TV staple since I Love Lucy. So what does it take to keep the genre fresh? WE'VE GOT KIDS, Jeff Graham's fast-talking, feel-good network sitcom pilot has the answer. Meet the Roger and Violet Larson, America's most fertile coupe, who keep...
Mar 03, 2017•1 hr
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! Today we explore race, gender, and sex against a backdrop of aggressive American capitalism. But here's the catch: our script takes place in the 1890s. COMPANY TOWN, an hour-long historical Drama by Samantha Levenshus, is a tense, elegantly-written pilot that feels l...
Feb 24, 2017•1 hr 34 min