Joey Dakota
by Bert V. Royal, directed by Allan Arkush
Joey Dakota was a proposed pilot for a 2012 romantic time-travel musicl TV show based on
the Israeli show Danny Hollywood. Sadly, The CW didn’t pick it up for the fall
season, and I’m not sure whether it ever aired as a TV movie. However, here’s what
Vincent Terrace had to say about the fated pilot in his Encyclopedia
of Unaired Television Pilots, 1945–2018:
Maya
Beaumont is a young woman who works as a documentary film maker. When she is assigned to
a project involving Joey Dakota, a 1990s music superstar, she is mysteriously transported
back in time where she meets and later falls in love with the subject of her film.
However, just as mysteriously as she was propelled back in time, she is whisked back to
the present where, during her absence, she learns that Joey has been killed in a car
accident. The pilot, which incorporates flashbacks to the 1990s, follows Maya as she
seeks a way to return to the past and rewrite history to save Joey’s life in the
future.
— Michael Main
Joey Dakota by Bert V. Royal, directed by Allan Arkush (The CW Television Network, USA,
Mid-2012).