Pitch & Sell Your TV Show

It’s 3:45 in the morning before we leave for MIPCOM in France. I get an email from a print vendor for our LA Showbiz Expo event saying the print files we sent him are the wrong size. When I check my original files, they are perfect. Why does this sort of thing happen right before I leave the country?

Fox Network premiered 2 hours of TV animated series on Sunday. 3 of the 4 shows are executive produced by Seth MacFarlane, Family Guy, The Cleveland Show and American Dad. These draw big numbers, but there seems to be almost as many people who hate them.

Post here what you do and don’t like about MacFarlane’s animated shows.

We leave in 2 days for MIPCOM to pitch our TV shows. So now I’m scrambling to pre-set a few more pitch meetings. Good morning of calls. Now also have meetings with Starz Media and Nerd Corps.

We’re just 2 days from a month of whirlwind traveling. We leave in 2 days for pitching TV shows at MIPCOM in France with our Hit Maker Tour members. Then we’ll be flying to Los Angeles to speak and present at Showbiz Expo West on Saturday, October 17. (Come by and say hi. We’re in booth 401)

Then I fly to China to speak at the  Zhengzhou International Animation Summit.

Then I wrap up the month with a week in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, training 40 story artists on a new animated feature film.

Even power producer Ashton Kutcher has shows cancelled on him. His latest, The Beautiful Life, a scripted drama. It only aired 2 episodes on the CW. Never heard of it? That’s probably one of the reasons it was cancelled. Only 1 million people saw the 2 episodes. They were in the middle of shooting their 7th episode when it was cancelled.

The good news? Now there’s another slot available for someone else to fill.

We’re busy printing one-sheets and dubbing DVDs for our tv pitch meetings at MIPCOM. Just finished revisions on a comic book cover for a client before leaving town.

We are busy preparing our DVDs and printed materials for pitching our TV projects at MIPCOM. Working on landing more pitch meetings today.

Jeanne and I will be speaking at the Showbiz Expo on October 17th at 3:30. (We are no longer speaking at the Screenwriting Expo) We’ll be revealing the Top 5 TV Pitch Secrets. Click here for more info: http://www.theshowbizexpo.com/a_industrypanels.html

The BBC has said they will spend an additional $40 million on children’s programming. This is great news if you want to pitch a kids TV show or animation. They will now be able to offer opportunities to more independents. Read the whole story at http://animationmagazine.net/article/10627.