The Definitive Guide to Comedy
NBC announced its first winners of its “NBC Playground” development contest to seek out new comedic shows, producers and writers. Kassia Miller’s Imaginary Friend, and Sunset PPL, from Aaron Colom and Adriano Valentini, received pilot orders from the network. “NBC is excited to bring these innovative new works from such …
NBC has announced the 10 finalists for the first edition of the network’s NBC Playground, an open competition to seek out new voices for primetime broadcast sitcoms. Entries that advanced after submitting initial introduction videos, sitcom pitches and the required application are: Jeff Galante (Los Angeles) Tyler Hall (Brooklyn) Melissa …
Two weeks ago, the folks at Comedy Playground filed suit against NBCUniversal for launching a submission-based sitcom development contest called NBC Comedy Playground. Fine, then. Welcome to the NBC Playground. Now accepting submissions. Shorter name, same deal. Read the fine print, and good luck!
What’s in a name? That depends upon how much the name, and its uniqueness, is worth to you. For me, personally, I have two very common Irish names. Professionally, I use my middle initial as a more unique identifier to separate me from so many of the other “Sean McCarthys” …
It’s your first day on the job at this radio station, and everything you thought you knew about radio gets thrown out the window. Including your stuff. Because that’s your boss’s idea of a joke. Wait. Why am I telling you all of this? I should be saving this pitch …
