Jayson At Home (lost 1999 live action pitch pilot for UPN)

Jayson At Home was a TV show planned for the UPN (United Paramount Network) that was supposed to start airing on January 22, 2000. A pitch pilot was created for the special, witch was pitched in 1999. The pilot supposedly aired on the network, but due to bad ratings and poor acting/setting, the show was cancelled. It is unknown who voiced Jayson, but Jayson's pet cat Whiskers was a animatronic cat due to budget. The cat was horribly made and constantly malfunctioned causing many issues. During the pilot, the cat would only be seen for the first 2 minuets but the rest of the 25 minuet pilot, was only focused on Jayson reading books, and mumbling to himself witch bored audiences. The cat was supposed to make frequent appearances, but due to a malfunction causing it to shut down, they had to just feature Jayson. After the pilot aired, it has since been considered lost media due to no VHS recordings or archived footage being surfaced. A Reddit user claims to have 10 minuets of the pilot available on a old VHS tape but his account has since been deleted meaning his lead is been scratched. Until someone comes up with a sliver of footage or even screenshots, it has been lost. The only evidence of the show existing, is a listing for UPN showing the pilot airing around 8:30 P.M. Later on, around January 27, 2020 someone had footage of what seemed to be the pilot via screenshot. This led to the user DPilot432 saying he worked on production of said pilot. Many asked what the pilot was like, and he said it was filmed at a sketchy studio with stupid directors, idiot writers who told the actor for Jayson to act as dumb as possible for views, and they even gave him books to read. When asked about the budget, the user said they only had 22,000$ to use witch is why they brought in a animatronic cat despite a real cat being cheaper. The user announced, on August 22, 2020 that he'd look through his VHS collection and look for the VHS recording of the pilot. He has since not responded.