In 13 days, Keith, McGeagh and myself will be attending the BAFTA New Talent Awards as nominees in the writing category. My mental image of this occasion is that of commissioning executives, talent scouts and prospecting producers to be wandering around, drinks in hand, offering out contracts and opportunities left, right and center.
Perhaps I'm delusional.
In any case, we don't want to go into the room under-prepared. So we have an ill-conceived plan. If there are people attending that might be a) slightly interested in our so-called 'talent' and b) have the means to help us out in terms of going professional, then we want to have something to show them.
So we're going to finish off the pilot episode of 'Polis'. Our first draft is just a few pages shy of finished and we should have enough time to polish it up in the next 13 days. I'll stick this on a handful of pen-drives alongside a six episode plot arc, character bios and contact details etc. and hand them out on the night.
But wait, there's more! Before the 24th, we are also going to shoot a scene from the pilot episode and whack that on the drives too. A big concern is that producers might be scared away from the concept of 'Polis', thinking that the action will cost too much money to be financially viable. So we'll just have to show that it can be done for a budget of £0.
If (the perhaps non-existent) they watch it and think it's garbage, then at least they'll still have the script... which I'm hoping isn't garbage.
Friday, 11 March 2011
Monday, 7 March 2011
Polis- The Series
So, for those of you that don't know; Polis is an ultra-cool, side-splittingly funny Scottish buddy cop sitcom combining classic spoof comedy with all-out 80's Hong-Kong style action! The catch is that the show itself doesn't exist.
I'm Graham Hughes and with the help of my two friends and co-creators, Keith Grantham and Graeme McGeagh, we are currently writing the pilot episode for a Polis TV series. We intend to submit the script to the BBC writer's room as well as any other production companies that accept unsolicited scripts. On top of this, we also intend to make the pilot episode ourselves in our usual no-budget style and use it as a pitching tool.
As the likely-hood of getting a TV-show commissioned is next-to-slim-to-none, we need all the help we can get. Which is where you come in. As we write and shoot the first episode and try to whore ourselves out, it's your job to show how much the world needs Polis to be made into a 'real' show!
Check us out on Facebook and the blog to find out our goings on. Over the next few months there'll be clips, photos and news galore to keep you entertained and frothing at the mouth in anticipation of this groundbreaking piece of television history! Or something like that.
I'm Graham Hughes and with the help of my two friends and co-creators, Keith Grantham and Graeme McGeagh, we are currently writing the pilot episode for a Polis TV series. We intend to submit the script to the BBC writer's room as well as any other production companies that accept unsolicited scripts. On top of this, we also intend to make the pilot episode ourselves in our usual no-budget style and use it as a pitching tool.
As the likely-hood of getting a TV-show commissioned is next-to-slim-to-none, we need all the help we can get. Which is where you come in. As we write and shoot the first episode and try to whore ourselves out, it's your job to show how much the world needs Polis to be made into a 'real' show!
Check us out on Facebook and the blog to find out our goings on. Over the next few months there'll be clips, photos and news galore to keep you entertained and frothing at the mouth in anticipation of this groundbreaking piece of television history! Or something like that.
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