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Not sure I knew what Trio was before I started getting DirecTV about nine months ago, but I do find myself checking out a lot of Trio stuff these days.

“Pilot Season” is a three-hour miniseries from writer-director-comedian Sam Seder, and co-stars a whole lot of very admirable comedians, including Sarah Silverman, Jon Benjamin and David Cross. It’s about an inept talent manager trying to get his clients placed on upcoming TV shows. The series, which begins airing Monday night, is a sequel to a funny and fairly smart unreleased film Seder made in 1997, “Who’s the Caboose” (which Trio has also been airing, and will again this coming Saturday).

TV Guide critic Matt Rouch calls “Pilot Season” “darkly funny” and says Seder’s character “rivals Ricky Gervais’ David Brent of ‘The Office’ in achieving a squirm-inducing, hilarious pathos.”

In exactly two weeks, Sept. 20, Trio introduces the British series “Spaced” to America. Ain’t It Cool’s Moriarty has been screaming at me for months about how great “Spaced” is. It’s from the same guys who later made the much-acclaimed “Shawn of the Dead,” which opens in U.S. cinemas Sept. 24. Coax spy “Mr. Moneypenny” adds this advice:

All geeks need to Tivo this, since no region 1 DVD date has been annoucned. (Although there is a sweet looking region 2 3-disc set coming out on Sept. 27.)

“Pilot Season”: 9 p.m. Monday/9:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday. Trio.
“Spaced” Sept. 20 – Oct. 1. 10 p.m. Trio.

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