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🎧 Lessons of 'Lenny & Squiggy'

Paramount buried the TV pilot after a focus group. But it didn't have to be that way

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Rob Long
May 22, 2024
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Rob Long worked on the Paramount lot 15 years, and the pilot of Lenny & Squiggy â€” a spinoff of Laverne & Shirley â€” was a ghost that haunted the grounds, so mercilessly rejected by a focus group that the tape disappeared. Forever. Which makes Rob wonder: How can one hack a hackneyed system where random people are selected to gi…

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