For the second consecutive year, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists is dominating pilot season, leaving the Screen Actors Guild all but shut out. AFTRA confirmed to Back Stage that as of Feb. 9, 62 network prime-time scripted pilots were scheduled to be produced under its contract.

The news was first reported on Feb. 8, by entertainment- and media-law blogger Jonathan Handel at HuffingtonPost.com, who cited "sources close to the two unions." Such a large number of pilots being produced under AFTRA jurisdiction would mean that few pilots are likely to go with SAG's contract.

Last year, as SAG flirted with the possibility of a strike, 66 of 70 network pilots had gone with AFTRA by mid-March—a dramatic shift from 2008, when SAG had jurisdiction over roughly 90 percent of pilots shot. AFTRA appears to have benefited from television's transition from film to digital video: AFTRA can compete with SAG for jurisdiction over programs shot digitally, while shows shot on film—which are diminishing in number—fall solely under SAG's purview.

A SAG representative declined to comment.