That Sounds Familiar

For the last 6 - 12 months I have been kicking around and slowly developing BobbleHead James, a comedy loosely based on James Whittingham. It’s about a children's TV entertainer with anger management issues. At one point it was an animated series and then it was a sitcom. Once I heard that Corner Gas was ending I even thought about trying to pitch it to Brent Butt.

Then yesterday watching TV on my flight to Toronto, speak of the devil I see Brent Butt on Canada AM talking about his new TV series he is doing with CTV starring his real life wife Nancy Robertson as (get this) a children's author with anger management issues.

Fuck you!

I was actually pleased with how well the show bible and first script were coming along for this comedy series. In my fantasy world BobbleHead James was actually a show which I thought could be pitched and have a development deal come out of. There is a snowball's chance in hell of that now. CTV/Comedy Channel are not likely to want to finance a Law and Order franchise of child related professionals who have anger issues: The Angry Children’s Author, The Angry Children's TV Entertainer, The Angry Kindergarten Teacher, The Angry Crossing Guard, The Angry Pediatrician. But then again, I wonder what Dick Wolf is working on these days?

If a show idea falls in the forest and no network is there to hear, would it ever get made? The answer to that is pretty simple… Fuck you Brent Butt, fuck you!