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keithcalder:

Gavin Polone has written a great editorial on the insane casting process for Pilot Season (the three month period where television show pilots are greenlit, cast, shot, and killed).

On a more personal level, Pilot Season makes it almost impossible for an independent producer to cast a film during the months of February and March. Agents are unwilling to let their clients do an independent film if it means they might miss an audition for a pilot. They’ll turn away the certain independent film job in favor of the highly-unlikely pilot job.

I would love it if television moved to a year-round development and premiere cycle, rather than the ridiculousness of pilot season and fall series launch.

(via The Syllabi)

You will notice I often reblog from Keith Calder. He has one of my favourite blogs regarding film and I had the pleasure of meeting him at last years SXSW. Really nice guy with a great outlook on producing. (not to mention that The Wackness is one of my favourite films)

  1. assistantdirector said: Yeah this is really accurate. “OH you need my actor for how long? For how much? Yeah doesn’t matter. He may get a call to do a pilot TV show for a really low rate, that has a 13% chance of getting picked up.”
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    You will notice I often reblog from Keith Calder. He...my favourite blogs regarding
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