Posted by kona302 on 07/13/06 00:45

Thank you for the reply, Bill.

For the show that I had originally planned to do the commercial
exchange might have been doable. The network that offered me the
commercial time (4 minutes for an hour show) is in 1 million homes and
I have no idea what that commercial air time would be worth considering
that I wouldn't be able to obtain Nielsen ratings because their
universe is too small. If I have no way of knowing what the commercial
air time is really worth I would find it nearly impossible to land any
financial backing.

Without going into details, I've totally re-worked the concept of my
original show and it's going to require a much larger short term
investment than my first concept. One of the great parts about it,
though, is that in the long run most of the investment will be recouped
before the show even goes into post production. I'm going to need to
get my show on a network that has a large market presence in order to
get the financial backing I need.

>From what I've read, very few networks will let you directly contact
them and make a pitch and that you have to have either a lawyer or an
agent arrange for meetings with networks. The lawyer I talked to said
that he deals a lot with networks and that he can arrange for
meetings/pitches. I didn't mean to convey that he would be my partner
or would help me with the actual pitches, but he would arrange for the
network meetings and could hook me up with an experienced producer that
could help me out with the show.

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"You won't need a second opinion if you just hire a lawyer to look out
for your best interests only in the first place."
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I haven't been given any reason to not trust the lawyer I went to and I
don't want to lose any connections he might be able to provide. What
I'm really looking for is a safeguard just to make sure that I don't
get the short end of the stick. Either way, no matter what lawyer I
work with, I'd want to have some kind of safety net. At this point I'm
guessing the best way to do that would be to hire a second
entertainment lawyer to look at a contract before I sign the dotted
line. Someone who can point out anything that's going to work to my
disadvantage.

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