Pitch & Sell Your TV Show

Philippa Burgess, founder of management company Creative Convergence, hosts Conversations With… and next week it will be with us. Join us as we talk with Philippa and answer your questions about selling TV shows. Register now for our call on Wed, Sept 15th, 8:30 pm EST. Go to http://www.creativecvg.com/Home/Conversations.aspx

According to Cynopsis, Debmar-Mercury selected Alexandra Jewett for the position of SVP/Programming and Production. Alexandra will supervise all Debmar-Mercury programming emanating from the East Coast including The Wendy Williams Show and also will be involved in the development of all new projects. She will report to Lonnie Burstein, EVP/Programming and Production.

We just hired a writer from SpongeBob Squarepants to write the animated pilot script for one of our clients. We also hired WGA writer Wayne Carter to rewrite a feature script for another client. We are seeing a lot of great projects moving forward.

Mark will be speaking at the Ottawa Animation Festival on October 23rd on the use of ToonBoom’s Storyboard Pro 2.0 software. Details at www.AnimationFestival.ca

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.

We keep adding more for our Summit members. I was up at 6 this morning recording new videos for our Summit. Can’t wait. We load in tonight. We start first thing in the morning. Just a few seats left.

www.HitMakersSummit.com

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