Ready For Prime Time At Last!

On TV, the Big 4 are rolling out the "big guns" of their fall line-up this week - new shows (like the old) which feature various combinations of Charlie Sheen, leggy attorneys and cadavers. Now, I have a lot of friends in the TV industry, but I'm sort of not-so-secretly hoping that all of them fail over the next few months. That isn't cold-bloodedness - it's pragmatism. You see, I have a series in development with a distinct chance of possible pick-up as a mid-season replacement.

Ok, for those of you who aren't insiders and may be unfamiliar with some of the lingo: "development" refers to a production that's being "developed" by one of the networks. "Pick-up" is when a program's been "picked up" for air. And "mid-season replacement" is what they call a series that "replaces" an existing show in the "middle" of the TV season (which follows the Jewish calendar, or so my friends at Icon tell me).

Anyway, this is what I've been working on:



They say, "Write what you know", and I took it to heart. Studio Apartment 6A is about life behind the scenes at a major humor blog. Sean Astin, of LOTR fame, plays the character based on me, Rumbaire Lover; Eddie Griffin (Undercover Brother) is Bingo, the guy who delivers my pizza when I'm stuck in Photoshop; and Lomblog spiritual advisor Jenifer Edsel is portrayed by the likeness of Anne Frank.

It's all there - the humor, the pathos, the misleading time-stamps. I couldn't have written it if I didn't live it, and if I didn't live it, I wouldn't have written it.

So, remember, Studio Apartment 6A: coming to prime time soon. Maybe real soon, if that Jeffrey Tambor/John Lithgow show bites it hard.

Let's keep our fingers crossed.