(This was originally posted on my other blog
January 30th, 2006)
If I had a pound coin for every time someone in TV production short-listed me or promised me something. Then there are catch 22 situations….. you have a good idea for a new cooking show so you find a producer to pitch it to only to discover some weeks later that they too just by coincidence come up with a very similar idea for a new series. Not only that but they cleverly got me to email my idea to them rather than by mail…. which makes it a lot easier to cover their tracks and deny that I ever sent them my outline idea. Which made it doubly satisfying that I had the good sense to copyright the outline and mail a copy to my TV hating solicitor!…hee hee
Bolts On’s
Another strange thing about Producers is they all want to produce the next Hell’s Kitchen or find the next Jamie Oliver but they are also mostly too afraid to try a new idea with a new face fronting it. So what they do is take a successful idea and then bolt a few extras on it to make it look new when it isn’t. As one producer said to me. the concept of the show is a melange of Masterchef, Faking It and Big Brother….really.
Coming Up
On a more serious note my American friend Jeff is urging me to make a trip back to the states this year to make a pilot cooking program. It was his good advice of document everything when dealing with shady types like TV producers (he should know he is one of them). So we are in the brain storming process to come up with a good idea and also make sure its not already out there….so keep your fingers crossed and if you have an idea worth stealing send me a message.
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