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As you doubtless know, every year the broadcast networks shoot dozens of pilots in the first few months of the year in an effort to plan ahead for the Fall season.

Many of those shows go on to become future series. And a lot of those projects are cancelled just a few weeks later (remember last year’s Lone Star)

But every year there are also a handful of hotly anticipated series that DON’T make the cut. This time around I was surprised that the Don Johnson / Ellen Barker starrer, A Mann’s World, didn’t go to series – sounded like a lot of fun to me!

But another show that a lot of people thought would be picked up was Locke And Key, a mysterious new show for Fox that boasted quite a caliber. Locke was based on a popular series of comic books, starred hot young stars Nick Stahl and Jesse McCartney and was produced by Steven Spielberg. And yet Fox still PASSED on the show – and no other network, including The CW and ABC Family picked it up.

The full Locke And Key pilot was shown at Comic Con, doubtless to generate some interest in the project, but to no avail. The series remains unsold.

Well now the Locke And Key trailer has made it to the web – and we can all get a glimpse of what could have been. For me it’s very reminiscent of FX’s upcoming American Horror Story – and also borrows heavily from The Ring. The show looks fine – but not a must see, so I’m not sure that Fox made the wrong call after all…

But what do you think? Should Locke And Key have made it to air? And what show should it have replaced instead? Fire away…

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