I watched the television program "The Best TV Shows That Never Were" last night. The premise of the show was that they explored a variety of pilots from throughout the years that never actually made it onto the air. One of their selections was a little number called K-9000, the story of an attractive detective (his attractiveness is a matter of some debate) who stumbles across an attractive scientist chasing the terrorists who stole her super-dog. The attractive detective (or not so attractive detective) stumbles onto the terrorists lair, where he is implanted with a chip that allows him to communicate with the super-dog. There is more, but I've probably told you enough.

Now I was always under the impression that K-9000 was a made for tv movie from the eighties. If you look it up on imdb, that is the impression they give you as well. There doesn't seem to be any discussion about a potential television show spinning off from this travesty, nor does the show really leave itself open to any continuing story (although, how hard would it be to come up with stories based around an attractive detective and the dog he communicates with through the computer chip in his brain?). Yet The Best TV Shows That Never Were would have us believe this was a TV pilot. So what's the story?

I guess it could have been a TV pilot. Perhaps imdb just got it wrong. Or perhaps the people producing The Best TV Shows That Never Were erred on the side of relatively few people having ever seen or heard of K-9000, and even fewer of them being upset about the potential mislabeling of said movie.

It just distresses me that the entertainment industry must lie to me about such a small thing. Why purposefully call this horrible movie a pilot just because you don't think anyone will call you on it? And why call it a movie if it is actually a television pilot? Who is right? What is the line between made for TV and Hollywood? Where do I draw the line?

Such frustrating thoughts about nothing. Perhaps it was just someone to lazy to do their job. "Sure, this was on television, it was probably a pilot". Where's the research? Don't these people get paid an exorbitant amount of money to not just make something up that we're all supposed to believe? How can I ever trust my television again? How can I ever watch another VH1 special when it all might be made up?

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