pilot season

i was up for 3 pilots. one was about gardening, one was about singing and one was about committing arson without getting caught. i was just finishing up the arson pilot and had come up with a brilliant plan involving a goldfish bowl, crispy dry vintage posters and the sun pouring into an attic window when i got a callback on the gardening show. as soon as the sunbeams concentrated on the paper i ran over to the gardening show and found they had already decided to cast me and camera was about to roll. it was a team competition but no one else had ever gardened before so i took charge and started delegating mulching etc. we had a 12 foot sq. bed and had to plant for maximum crop yield and complementary plant placement. i was the only one out of the 3 groups that knew to plant the geraniums as a pest deterrent and almost as soon as i poked my finger in the soil to plant the nearly invisible carrot seeds, they germinated and grew to pinky size. we won the episode to go on another week. i was like, 'what?....'. just as they were wrapping i got a text that said my house had burned down and they couldn't figure out why. 'ha!' i said out loud. i got another text that said to head over to fox asap for the singing show. again when i got there, i had already been cast. i walked on to the stage and bing crosby was the star host and was singing 'white christmas' LIVE. i was floored with excitement and pleasure. i couldn't take my ears or eyes off of him and so was led like a grinning idiot to my mark with my team. the task was a singing a fresh yet faithful rendition of a classic x-mas song. my team got 'winter wonderland'. there were 6 people on my team and they had already chosen gillian anderson to sing because she was a television star. her voice was nice but she didn't really seem interested. i listened to her rehearse and thought the song was too far from the original in spirit and tempo but i decided not to say anything since i had come on board last. we broke for lunch and 10 minutes before we were supposed to come back the team was told gillian had left the lot and was on a flight back to new york. my whole team was freaking out because they were about to shoot the competition segment and none of them wanted to take her place for fear of failing so they elected me. they didn't know i could sing. i love 'winter wonderland' but was unsure of a couple lyrics. i kept asking for a quick look at them but no one seemed to have them. sataro was on my team and he was really making an effort to help me out but couldn't find the lyrics either. i listened to the track a couple of times and came up with a nice little spin that was not too far from the original and when it came my turn i just went for it. even though i forgot a few words, my version was joyful and rockin'. bing loved it and my team won. i was super happy because i'd had such a fun day, but i couldn't figure out how i was going to manage to do all 3 shows.