Pitch & Sell Your TV Show

Well, not Spongebob, but we do have a special guest from Nickelodeon’s Spongebob Squarepants series coming to our September Summit.  We’ll make the official announcement soon. Check out this cool 3-day event at www.HitMakerSummit.com

Disney is buying Marvel for $4 billion. I love Disney and I love Marvel. I don’t know what I think about them being together. The Pixar partnership has been successful so hopefully Marvel won’t be Disney-fied.

Post what you think of this.

When has reality TV gone too far? When the stunts are so outrageous that some dies. That just happened on a Pakistani reality show. A contestant was wearing a 15 lb backpack while swimming across a lake. He called for help and then disappeared under the water. Entertainment needs to be entertaining, not life-threatening.

Post here what reality shows and stunts you think have gone too far.

I just read an article about some Disney/Pixar animated features screening in 3D stereoscopic at the 66th Venice Film Festival. Not only will they be screening Toy Story 1 and 2, which we all knew were coming out this fall in 3D, but they will also be screening Finding Nemo and The Incredibles in 3D. I will be the first in line to see The Incredibles in 3D!

Here’s a list of the top 15 TV cable series by total households for the week of 08/17/09-08/23/09. USA Network is currently the highest rated cable network.

Rank | Show name | Network Viewers in millions

1. The Closer TNT Mon., 9 7.3

2. WWE Raw USA Mon., 10 5.9

3. True Blood HBO Sun., 9:02 5.3

3. (tie) Royal Pains USA Thurs., 10 5.3

5. Monk USA Fri., 9 5.2

5. (tie) WWE Raw USA Mon., 9 5.2

7. Yankees/Red Sox ESPN Sun., 8 4.6

7. (tie)  Panthers/Giants ESPN Mon., 8 4.6

9. Suite Life/Deck Disney Fri, 8:30 4.3

10. Project Runway Lifetime Thur., 10 4.2

10. (tie)  NCIS USA Wed., 8 4.2

12. Hannah Montana Disney Sun., 7:30 4.1

13. Wizards of Wavery Place Disney Fri., 8 3.9

13. (tie)  NCIS USA Mon., 8 3.9

13. (tie) Psych USA Fri., 10 3.9

13. (tie)  Army Wives Lifetime Sun., 10 3.9

We just landed a new agent in Hollywood for our animation work. It’s off to a great start! He’s negotiating a deal right now.

My latest article on the making of a stop motion animation to promote the new Creepy Magazine just posted on AWN.com. Go to http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=4040. This animation is also used to pitch a TV series.

Uncle Creepy from Creepy Magazine

We just interviewed Marlene Sharp for our upcoming free TV Pitch teleseminar. She sold a show at her first MIPCOM. We found out all the details. Go to http://www.pitchtvlikeapro.com/tele-17-MIPCOM.html to register for the free call.

We just delivered 3 completed series of TV animated shorts to Fun Little Movies for distribution. This finalizes a TV pitch I had in July at the LATV Fest.

A TV network executive I’ve been talking to called today about one of our shows which I pitched this summer. He wants numbers for running some of our shorts as bumpers on his shows. I asked an agent to help me determine those numbers. We’re working on them now.