Outside of the entertainment industry, fans of BREAKOUT KINGS may not know that the show was originally bought by Fox, a network I had written for for half a decade straight at that time.  The pilot had huge early buzz – we tested higher than any other Fox pilot and then, shockingly, we weren’t picked up to pilot.  Deciding which pilots to put on the air is often a difficult and close-to-impossible task – so I wasn’t angry or anything by their decision — I have friends at Fox — I was just, well, dumbstruck.  The show was good – it was real good. We all knew it.  It was heartbreaking.

The pilot we had all worked so hard on wasn’t going to get on the air.  All the  characters I had fallen in love with were “dead”. It was over.

And then it wasn’t … Amazingly, somehow, BREAKOUT KINGS was still alive.

Read this Variety article here by the great Cynthia Littleton to find out the story behind the story … it was a wild ride.

Best,

Nick

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