The Big-Name TV Pilots You'll Never See

Fresh off a season-long role on "Dexter," Julia Stiles was looking to keep the intense-TV-drama thing going with NBC's "Midnight Sun." a thriller that cast her as a FBI specialist who investigates the disappearance of a creepy Alaskan cult. The CW's "Cult" made it onto that network's midseason schedule, but Stiles' similarly themed project ended up DOA.

Fresh off a season-long role on "Dexter," Julia Stiles was looking to keep the intense-TV-drama thing going with NBC's "Midnight Sun." a thriller that cast her as a FBI specialist who investigates the disappearance of a creepy Alaskan cult. The CW's "Cult" made it onto that network's midseason schedule, but Stiles' similarly themed project ended up DOA.