Blogging is much harder than either of us anticipated!

Well here is a quick update on what we’re doing, with more to come very soon:

Lost Case is coming along nicely. We are finished outlining and are going to get started on a first draft within the week, and our goal is to have the first draft completed by Labour Day.

Along with Lost Case, we are in development on a new web series which we are very excited about! We hope to get it into production by then end of July and begin broadcasting it on our site by the end of the summer. We will have some more in-depth coverage on this project very soon, and are really looking forward to shooting something!!

This is becoming like a ‘boy who cried wolf’ situation, but please stay tuned for updates!!!

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So the first day of the Banff Television Festival has come and gone. We started our day at the “Rookies in the Rockies” seminar hosted by Joe Novak of Joe Media Group, and we absorbed some great advice from the panel of industry veterans from both Canada and the United States.

That evening we attended the CBC/Radio Canada Opening Reception where we mingled with the rest of delegates, and came away with some great new contacts.

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After the Opening Reception we headed to the “Martini Madness” party being thrown by Women in Film & Television Alberta at the Saltlik Steakhouse in downtown Banff, where a couple hundred of the delegates partied well into the night. We had a great time there, and managed to leave with a renewed sense of confidence.

Today is the day we begin our first round of meetings with producers and executives. It should be exciting, and we’re confident we are ready. We will let you know how it goes.

Yes, you read that correctly: Broken Forty is developing a contemporary Comedy-Thriller called Lost Case.

This is our newest project, conceived only a few weeks ago and although it is our newest, it is quickly becoming one of our favourites. We don’t want to post too many details as everything is extremely subject to change at this point.

One thing we can tell you, though, is that it will feature cops, kids,  mobsters, and crooked corporate executives all scrambling to get their hands on the Lost Case.

"WE ARE!!"

It is official: Broken Forty will be at BANFF in June to pitch our TV comedy series BIG DREAMS.

We’ve got a hell of a lot of work to get done in the weeks to come and you can read about it all here.

We are extremely excited to be attending one of the world’s premiere Television markets and hope to make good use of it. We are hard at work perfecting our Bible and Pilot script, designing and printing promotional materials and constantly practicing our pitch on friends and family. The road to Banff has been rocky thus far, but if we can make it through this without being banished from the industry, we believe Broken Forty will make it’s mark in 2009.

After exhausting all the possible options we could come up with to get to the Banff World Television Festival for free, or even on a 2-for-1 basis, Nathan and I have come to our last resort. We applied for Banff’s “Rookie Rate,” which would give us a substantial savings, but still cost us over a thousand dollars each, which on our salaries will be a tough pill to swallow. It remains to be seen if we even make the cut at that rate, and if not, we will have to try again next year.

In the mean time, we are continuing to prepare as if we will be there in June. We are putting the finishing touches on our site and working on our promo-material, as well as tuning up the script and series bible for Big Dreams.

We will keep you posted on any and ALL new developments…

Stay tuned…