CBC Corporate Speaks
As I first wrote about here, Jeanne and I pitched a new radio series to CBC Radio back in December. Early in 2007 we got the go-ahead to produce a demo with Frank Opolko that we sent up the CBC Radio chain-of-command earlier in April.
And then we waited.
Today the CBC spoke. And there’s good news and bad news.
The bad news is that the unscripted realness of the concept sort of frightens them. (Frankly it frightened us a bit too.) Overall, although they liked the way the demo sounded, the process of putting it all together was too unpredictable and time consuming for them and it would be too expensive to produce the show if we actually started getting paid for each hour of work. (If I sat down to figure out what our hourly wage for the demo was, I’d be surprised if we cracked into loonie territory.)
The good news is that they like us. Tom Anniko still wants us to do something for the CBC and Frank Opolko wants to keep working with us. So its back to the drawing board, but this time it’s gonna be scripted. Which is definitely fine with me. It’s (supposedly) what I do best.
We’ve already begun on the concept, but its too early for details. Watch this space for updates and thanks for listening.
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