If you're a Weezer fan who was hoping to catch a glimpse into what Rivers Cuomo's life was like as a student at Harvard via his FOX sitcom DeTour, we have some bad news for you. According to the "Back to the Shack" singer, his planned show's pilot was not picked up for the 2015 season.
In an interview with Vulture, wherein Cuomo spends most of his time talking about his love affair with Shakespeare (because, of course he would), he dropped the little nugget that his planned sitcom was not picked up. "DeTour did not get picked up," he said. "So that whole chapter is closed."
Cuomo took the scrapped pilot as a lesson in the world of TV and remarked that the process of producing a show that may or may not get a full season feels like a huge waste of time and money, as compared to the music industry.
"It's weird; in music if you make an album and your label decides not to put it out, you can bring it to another label and sometimes it can be a big success. At least it gets out," he said. "In TV, I've learned, it's not like that. The pilot was made, completely finished, and we can't show it to anybody! No one will ever see it. It's a huge waste of money."
DeTour was going to be based on Cuomo's own experiences at Harvard. In 1995 at the height of Weezer's fame, the singer enrolled at the Ivy League school, eventually graduating with a B.A. in English in 2006.
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