Post by clidescope on Jan 29, 2024 16:45:42 GMT
In February 2020, Dan Gregor, Betsy Sodaro, and Rachel Bloom shot a pilot episode for a comedy TV series called “Mother Mary”. The premise: The Second Coming of Christ finally arrives, and the main character of the show, Mary, is chosen to give birth to Jesus. The catch: Mary is incredibly lazy, selfish, irresponsible, and overall not an ideal mother-to-be.
Production of the pilot wrapped in February 2020, and was set to be picked up for a full series…Until the network producing it, Pop TV, folded completely. Killing any hope of Mother Mary becoming a full series.
I’m a big fan of Rachel Bloom, and the web-series the concept was based on was pretty funny (linked here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvMZxK22whIvU1fGvLfPKXKfWZLkdBqWK ), so I wanted to know more about what Mother Mary would have been like had it come to fruition.
So I contacted Rachel Bloom about it, and to my surprise, she actually got back to me. She said the pilot was completed, and does exist somewhere, but she does not have a copy of it, unfortunately.
However, she was kind enough to give me the full script for the pilot, the call sheet (which lists every single person who worked on the pilot), and about 50 set photos. All of which, to my knowledge, are not posted anywhere else online.
I was so ecstatic and grateful, and immediately set out contacting people who were listed on the call sheet, to see if anyone had the completed pilot. This went one of three ways:
1. No response at all
2. They responded, but did not have the pilot
3. They DO have the pilot, but weren’t sure if they could share it, since Pop TV still technically owns the rights, despite being defunct.
I was able to find two short clips of the pilot online, on Diana Fishman’s (the person who edited the pilot) website. She has them there as part of her editing portfolio. Linked here: lemurvillage.com/project/mother-mary/
I’ve been searching for a little while now, but I think I’ve hit a dead end. So, I thought I’d try making a post here, in the hopes that the community here can reach out to crew members on that call sheet, and maybe get a response from someone I wasn’t able to. Or maybe there’s even a crew member on these forums that’d be willing to share the pilot and/or raw footage.
Here’s a link to a Google Drive that contains the call sheet, script, set photos, and the two pilot clips I was able to find:
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sIDKq9uRSJ-cZJ1p9PIKhJ3zXaGyooVl?usp=sharing
Thank you so much to anyone who’s willing to help track down this pilot! Judging from the script, I really think it could have been a fun show, and its a shame it never got a chance.
