Pitch & Sell Your TV Show

Having to wait an extra week to see HBO’s season finales of Entourage, Hung and True Blood is rough. I expect huge ratings this Sunday.

A good friend of ours, Doug Stanly, producer of Deadliest Catch, recently hired a Discovery staffer for his new 3D company. She was at the Discovery offices when the gunman rushed in and took hostages. Luckily, she and the other people at Discovery are OK, but shaken.

Jeanne was watching the news while remembering her time in those offices when she was pitching and selling an Animal Planet series.

We’re glad everyone is OK.

We wrapped out Summit yesterday after 3 amazing days. We saw huge advances in every project. Plus, our speakers outdid themselves. Doug Stanley of Deadliest Catch was a favorite and his interview went on for over 90 minutes and he spent time with everyone at the event.

Thanks to everyone who was a part of it. You are all now our friends.

YouTube has some great videos of the production of Glee. (Yes, they do their own singing) This one is from the episode starring Neil Patrick Harris. Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2TR7pW6HL8&feature=related

We found some pretty cool photos of the Emmy seating arrangements.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/25/emmy-seating-charts-insid_n_694599.html

If you are in the Orlando area, join us at 7:30 at the Renaissance Hotel at Sea World to watch the Emmy Awards on Sunday night.

My latest article covers a major problem that I found. Royalties are paid all over the world for copying art, but that money does not make it to the illustrators responsible for it. But there is an answer, and it’s free.

Read my article now on AWN.com at http://www.awn.com/articles/business/mind-your-business-who-keeping-your-royalties/page/1,1

Steven Slater, the angry ex-Jet Blue attendant, now has a high-powered Hollywood publicist, like you can see on Entourage. Once his outburst is forgotten, will this guy really be memorable? Do you want to see him on a reality show? There are talks. But, there are also charges against him for his actions.

HBO has announced they will end Entourage, one of my favorite shows, in 2011 with a 6 episode season:(

The United Arab Emerites, Abu Dhabi and Dubai plan to shut down Blackberry email service today because they can’t crack and monitor the encrypted emails. This will cause problems for productions and executives.

What do you think?

The Teamsters could go on strike at the beginning of August. They are looking for a bigger raise while the industry is losing money and the country is in a depression. They won’t get a lot of support.