10 Unaired TV Pilots By A-List Directors That We Want To See

If television, as the well-worn phrase goes, is a not a director's medium, why the hell do so many big-time directors have an episode or twenty to their name? While it's difficult to definitively label the chicken and the egg here, the gradual rise of prestige TV has seen more and more of our favorite auteurs find a second home, or in cases like Steven Soderbergh with "The Knick," more or less relocate there entirely (check out our feature 15 Filmmakers At The Forefront Of The TV Revolution). Of course, it's still rare for any A-list director to commit the way Soderbergh has, or the way Cary Fukunaga did with "True Detective" and helm every episode of a given season, or several episodes the way Jill Soloway did with her self-penned "Transparent." But whether it's dipping in for the pilot and then handing the reins to a showrunner and moving into a producing capacity, as per David Fincher and "House of Cards," or merely coming on board as a...