The Heat is On (This is a Post that looks like was never actually published so it's out of date. i blame the new (at the time) meds. Anyway, here it is.

Good Lord, it's hot! I have my fan up to the black button but still the apartment is stifling. I put it on swivel because it feels so good when it turns toward my face, after being off my face. I complain but there's others worse off than me. Well, actually that homeless guy out there is sleeping in the shade.

Anyway, what's happening in Halliwood?

I thought, not a lot but then I had an e-mail drop on my lap (ed. if only it were encased in ice) and my blogging finger may get a workout. As always, my editor is Lunchmeat Harold. (ed. Howdy.)

So "Afghan Luke" has wrapped production. This was a Mike Clattenburg "joint" filmed in B.C., for some reason. I thing it's about a loyal but conflicted dog, but I'm not sure.

"Cloudburst", a "filimm" by Thom Fitzgerald is still shooting in the province (ed. 2 will get you 5 there's a gay character) and "Jump the Broom" is also shooting with the lovely "Angela Basset". (ed. sigh)

"Happy Fun Time Drugs Hippies and Flatulence" the new show by the stars of TPB (ed. You don't have to write that out?) has completed filming. Apparently Amy Sedaris was in town for it. (ed. sigh)

And I thought that was all that was going on until I received the CTF (ed. CMF?) funding results in my box. There was a lot of stuff happening below the radar.
(ed. tch, if only someone out there would let you know).

"Man of a Thousand Songs" for Superchannel (ed. still alive?) producers Terry Greenlaw and William MacGillvrey (ed. Are they Newfoundland residents or Nova Scotian? Or do they have dual citizenship?)

"True Bromance" was developed for CBC by Jay Dahl.

Ocean Entertainment (ed. Producer of Chef Something) seems to be trying to branch out with "Criminal Makeover" in development for S-Vox (I thought we eliminated that with a vaccine) (ed. obviously EVERYONE needs a make-over once in a while) and "Radical Garage" for CTV?

John W. Chisholm's Arcadia (ed. is that spelled right?) produced Jonathan Torren's new TV show called..."TV With Jonathan Torrens" and they are in development on something called "Living Beauty" for CTV.

BTW, Rick Mercer's show received $3,580,111 from CTF. I'm not saying anything bad about the show (ed. It's adorable!) but if this is just part of the budget what the hell do they spend it on? Never mind, I don't want to know. (ed. can you move over, you're hogging the fan.) And This Hour received $2.1M but that's mostly star power salary so that's okay.

Now as many of you know I am an investor in HFX Films/Decode/Studio B/Bulldog (ed. his Father left him 1,000 shares) and I have been concerned lately because I hadn't heard anything was going on there. (ed. What were they doing? Sitting on their laurels? And stacks of investor cash?) The last i heard all they had going on was "something Idol" that they announced at Banff. But just going through the list of cable end users contributions I see they have been quite busy.

The list of projects in development includes (ed. Does not include Studio B and Decode projects which are CFA's):

"Big Monster Show" - CBC
"Befriend and Betray" - Global
"Boy Comedy" (ed. This sounds fishy) - Teletoon
"That's So Weird" - Now being produced for YTV at CBC Halifax studios
"The Nation" - CTV

What I like about this (ed. Beside the money?) is the fact that the pressure on the CTV/CBC/Global development people relaxes. No need to go through all those other submissions.

But besides devlopment DHX was in production last year on "Animal Mechanicals" (ed. $1.18M from CTF) and Pirates II ($1.7 M). God, they are so modest when it comes to making stuff.

And it warms my heart that DHX is on the cutting edge of (ed. mandated changes) multi-platformed entertainment delivery. Other platforms (ed. i.e. websites) were financed to the tune of $200,000 for 22 Minutes, $200,000 for Bo on the Go and $200, 000 for Pirates (ed. something tells me the maximum was $200,000)

This is sweet for various reasons. Joe and Joan Lunchpail's kids don't watch "TV" anymore. Everything is on-line. So creating content specifically for the computer generation is just da'bomb! Plus, really how much does it cost to set up a websiite and hire someone to cut and paste and type synopsis onto it?