burn-off theater
v.— «Burn-Off Theater…the presentation of shelved losers and leftovers, ie. making use of pilots that didn’t go. Fox president G. Berman: “Summer isn’t just for Burn-Off Theater anymore.”» —“Listening in on the moguls” by Joanne Ostrow Denver Post (Colo.) Feb. 14, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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