Announcements

Let me just state something up front before I go any further here...I am loathe to discuss specific details of my life around these here parts, as anyone who has been around a while can attest to. I prefer to maintain an air of mystery. But in this case, my producers (those pricks!) have tied me to my desk and are forcing me to promote myself. So here it goes...

As some of you may already know, I had a television project "in development" last year (my first venture into the entertainment world) that was eventually killed by the writer's strike (that's the short version). After the strike, in June to be precise, I was hired to join an existing project as co-creator/co-head writer/showrunner. This project, this show, is called Huge.

Huge is a downtown New York show that centers around an on-her-way-out-of-the-business fashion model named Izzy Peck who, on a whim, comes to manage an up and coming rock band. The arc of the show will center around the struggles that the band, representative of New York's "creative underclass," faces in their attempt to "make it," while also providing an authentic glimpse into the worlds of high fashion, New York nightlife, and Wall Street hustling. The show will highlight how all of these worlds converge endlessly in modern day New York City, a place where an unwashed hipster can start a day by waking up on a friend's couch and end it getting the phone number of a billionaire heiress at a party at the day's end. People have described it as a sort of Entourage meets The Wire. Let's hope. The ensemble cast features Alyssa Sutherland, Christopher Backus, Noah Fleiss, and Kemp Muhl.

What myself, my co-writer, and my producers are doing here is a little different. Hoping to avoid the mind-numblingly tedious Hollywood development system, we've raised money on our own to produce a full season of eight one hour shows, something we're in pre-production on right now. We're sort of applying the indy film model of doing things to television. From there, we're putting it on the net in places like Jaman, Blip-TV, Myspace, Hulu, etc. The hope is that it will attract one of the cable or foreign market networks to buy it as is, thus avoiding the television industry "development hell" that so many have had to live through in the past, myself included. We figure that the low cost distribution and delivery system the net provides opens up the possibility for this sort of thing where it never existed previously. When the history of the Internet is written, someone will have been the first to circumvent the tired old Hollywood system to put a high quality full length episodic on the net, something that people talk about around the water cooler at work, and we hope to be the ones to do it.

Before I came on board the guys I'm working with shot a 30 minute pilot. We've cut it into for 5-6 minute webisodes and put on Jaman.com, which is a Hulu type site with a broad international audience, as sort of a sneak peek. Here is the trailer for those webisodes for your viewing pleasure...



And once you've viewed the trailer, you can watch the webisodes here at Jaman.com starting with episode one...

Huge: Episode One

Now I'm hoping these tyrannical new media overlords that I work for will let me sleep!