Television pilot costs even if the network chooses to not order the show. Sometimes, a made-for-TV-movie is filmed as the pilot, but because of actors not being available, the series intro is reshot and the first reshot episode is considered the pilot. The original "Cagney & Lacey" movie co-starred Loretta Swit (of "M*A*S*H" fame) as Chris Cagney, but when she could not get out of her contract, they reshot it with Meg Foster, who after the first season was replaced with Sharon Gless; therefore, the original movie is not considered a pilot, and is not included in the series collections on DVD.
Tyne and Wear News former Metro Radio presenter Anna Foster, who left in March 2015 to join BBC Radio Newcastle. The station's then-head of news, Sarah Colley, presented the programme, until her departure in March 2016. She was replaced by long-serving reporter Zoe Muldoon (now at ITV Tyne Tees. "Bulletin" was relaunced as "Tyne and Wear News" on Monday 26 September 2016. In November 2017, following a restructuring of the Made Television network's operations, the programme was axed and local production was cut. A replacement programme, "Made TV News" - combining local and national news stories - was produced from Leeds but axed in