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Unaired pilot. After a pair of video engineers botches the newscast, local TV station is forced to air questionable shows and movies instead, including "Cinema-X" (show in which a host, Alfred Bergman, airs an unfinished catastrophically inadequate neo-noir "Dilemma") and a sci-fi b-movie "The Wave He Gave".

For a small local TV station an ordinary Friday transforms into a surreal nightmare when it is suddenly revealed that they need to prolong their schedule and air something all night long. Bizarre situations ensues as the crew tries to assemble the night schedule from outcasts of television and long-forgotten movies.

After it turns out that Richard Syutkin mainly hires people from his family tree, Local Television Director tries to struggle nepotism while still running the newly prolonged night schedule.