Choose my Pilot!

Posted on the June 12th, 2006 under TV / Media / Music by Dan

In September, Myself, Matthew, Paul & Eddie are going to be kicking off our attempt at making a Channel 101/102 pilot.

If you’ve not seen them, then the concept is thus - You make a 5 minute “Episode” of a TV show, and if you are on the top 5 most popular at the screening (At Cinespace in LA and AFA in New York), then you are demanded, nay required to return a month later with a sequel. Like a TV channel, your show either gets “Renewed” or “Cancelled”.

Both coasts have different mentalities, and I’d be remiss if I tried to pigeonhole them here. Basically, 101 is in LA, has lots of celebrities and it’s shows either die in month 1 or 2, or they go on for-bloody-ever (There are more than a few 6 Month+ shows, most of them now famous - like “The One where the guys got jobs on SNL”, “The one about Smooth Music” and “The one about the guy who farts lasers” etc. New York has a closer, down to earth and more cynical attitude, and they place production value high on their list. No attitude is preferential to the other, but either way.

Hopefully by September I shall have recieved the necessary information to work out how to get my Hi-8 Camera to work with my iMac and then find some way of converting them to NTSC DV, film the pilot by stealing some Drama Students and then sending it off to both coasts to try our luck at the October screening.

But, in preparation for this, I’ve been writing like a nut, and I wrote 6 pilot episodes. The first two I discounted immediatley because they still had the weakness of my middle-inability, so we’re down to three, and I want you, my loving audience to choose.

The Three pilots are:

Statutory
A personal favorite of mine, mostly because it is sick and disturbing in so many ways, this is the story of a Professor who solves crimes with his girlfriend. Did I mention she’s 12? Obviously she’s going to be played by an Adult in the show itself, but. You know. It’s very much a dark show.

The Law Clinic
The story of what happens when a Law clinic starts to lose clients.

Irish-Man
A superhero story with an emerald isle twist.

to Vote: please send an email to brooschlee [at] gmail [dot] com telling me your choice.

You have the unpreceedented oppourtunity to decide. Please help our team out!

Dan

All pilots are the property of Dan. No being naughty, please.