Pilot (About a Boy)

"Pilot" is the pilot and first episode of the American television comedy series About a Boy, which premiered on February 22, 2014 on NBC in the United States. The series is based on the 1998 novel of the same name by British writer Nick Hornby and the 2002 film starring Hugh Grant. The episode is written by series developer Jason Katims and is directed by Jon Favreau. In the episode, a young boy named Marcus (Benjamin Stockham) and his single mother Fiona (Minnie Driver) move in next door to Will (David Walton), an unemployed bachelor living in San Francisco. Will woos a woman by pretending Marcus is his son.

Plot

Will is on a San Francisco trolley with his friend Andy (Al Madrigal) and Andy's two kids. Will gets off to flirt with a woman named Dakota (Leslie Bibb) who is going to a single parents' support group meeting. He lies to her, saying he is a single parent of a son named Jonah who has leukemia. She becomes attracted to him and asks to set up a play date between her daughters and his son.

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The Herald Palladium 06 Sep 2018

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Emirates Flight Lands At JFK Airport With 'Dozens' Of Sick Passengers

Huffington Post 05 Sep 2018

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10 from Dubai flight hospitalized after JFK airport landing; more evaluated

ABC7 05 Sep 2018

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Vanilla Ice aboard Emirates plane quarantined in New York after passengers taken ill

Entertainment Weekly 05 Sep 2018

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