The 2010 Banff World Television Festival is now less than a month away, and Nathan and I are once again scrambling to get our shit together.

This year is an exciting one, as the television festival has merged with the nextMEDIA market — Canada’s premier digital media event. As the worlds of television and digital media grow closer together each day, the overlapping of these two events is a natural fit.

This year we are pitching a new Comedy series, Below the Bar — a project with a ton of cross-platform potential. We will be posting details of the project very soon, so look out for that!

Ok… so… ya. We haven’t made a blog post in MONTHS. That is ridiculous and inexcusable. We have been VERY VERY busy.

For now we have finished work on our feature-length script Lost Case.We have entered it into the BlueCat Screenplay competition, received some good feedback on it and have decided to put it on the back-burner for now.

We are now working on a project we have been tinkering with for years. It is a TV Comedy series that we may possibly produce ourselves for the web.

We will be attending the 2010 Banff World Television Festival in June, but we aren’t going to be pushing the project so hard on people. We will take a more laid-back approach and just network, learn, relax and possibly try and find some production partners. This year Banff is combined with the annual NextMedia festival, which is somewhat exciting. The world of “pictures” is moving to the Internet, it seems. A lot of the big players are moving into the web world right now. We’ll hopefully also get to meet some celebrities who will be there such as Ricky Gervais and none other than William Shatner himself! We’re very excited.

So there may be a lot of mystery surrounding our new project, but we will make an announcement shortly about the details of the project.

Sorry again for the lack of posts. Things should be picking-up again in the Broken Forty world.

We are hard at work on bringing some content to our anemic media section in the form of Hobo’s Heartbeat, a new web series we will be writing and directing.

The series chronicles the misadventures of Ron, a failed con-man living in his car, who has dodged a conventional ‘work for a living’ life and instead chosen to try to scam his way out of the gutter and into high society.

From using stolen travellers cheques to play the exchange rate, to starting a pop-can-Ponzi-scheme,  each episode features Ron chasing rags to riches glory with the help of his band of down-and-out buddies.

We are currently looking for a production partner, so if interested please contact us.