Our humor is a little DEADPAN..Pt 3 The Empire strikes back.

 Hello Film buffs,

     As promised the third and final chapter of the DEADPAN saga ( but not unlike Lucas we hope to follow this up with re issues- special editions- and an animated series).  Now the title of this " The Empire strikes back refers to NYC and will get to that at the end of this post.

 As we last left our heroes they had just finished film the first 2 episodes of a new dramedy series titled DEADPAN...

Now I read my previous posts and noticed I never really gave you the story line of the show...silly me.. So let me sum up the show for you.

   Mike Campbell ( Mike Bobbitt) is a struggling comic just trying to find his voice, the show opens with him bombing on stage. After he sheepishly exits the stage we meet Mike's nemesis, the cocky headliner Spader Lavine ( Dave Landau) who promptly gives him a verbal smack down on and off the stage... I just happen to have the opening scene handy, so ya know, let's just roll the clip..........

  We then jump to Dead Jimmy's pub and meet the owners Clark and Kylie Michaels. They are in desperate financial straits, they need more customers to keep the bar afloat. To make make matters worse, the possible renter they had lined up for the apartment above the bar never showed up...They were really counting on that extra income. That possible renter is of course our own struggling comic Mike Campbell. Mike meets Clark and Kylie the next morning but not before running into their 15 year old daughter Molly. Mike agrees to rent the apartment not knowing that 15 years earlier local punk rock legend Jimmy Sheldrake ( Jimmy Doom) had died in that very same apartment. As it turns out Clark was the drummer for Jimmy's band and they were also life long pals. After Jimmy's untimely death, Clark bought the bar and named it after him...Dead Jimmy's Pub.. Strange things start to happen in the apartment and at the end of episode one , Mike and the ghost of Dead Jimmy come face to face.... Lets look at the trailer.

What do ya think? I have to say we were all very happy with the look and feel of the show. It is like nothing I have done before. It started out as a comedy but it morphed into being this touching drama about characters trying to find their voice. You would think this is a silly man sitcom about a guy and a ghost, but Mike and Christine Bobbitt had actually wrote a deep and touching story that transcends your normally sitcom fare.

That being said I was a tad worried that it may have hard time finding an audience. If we called it a comedy people will be saying " Where's the laugh track and rubber chickens? " and if we called it a drama they would be expecting long scenes of people wringing their hands in a dark room... What did we have on our hands? Well I think what we have is a new type of show... Something fresh, something new, something people won't be expecting.. Who would really get this new show? Well who else but New York! We packed up a DVD a sent it out to the New York TV film festival with high hopes they would embrace us with open arms. If anyone would get this it would be the sharp cutting edge artists in the empire city...... ......Nope. We weren't picked as a finalist in the festival......Sad we were.

So this is where we are now. We have episode one in the can and episode two shot and in editing.. We are currently search for someone to pitch this fresh show to and are even entertaining the thought of releasing it as a web TV show. We all completely believe in the show and have high hopes that one day soon it will find a wide audience.

I want to leave you with an unfinished trailer for episode 2.. Some of the footage and audio is still in the raw stages but you will get an more of an idea of where the show is going. I would like to add that 18 episodes are written and each one is better then the last........ I really LOVE this show.