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Nah. But Still.


How cool is this? Today, three years after we (my Chicago partners and I) shot the pilot for a political affairs TV show we have an expression of interest from the Chicago studio owned by the most powerful woman in the world. No names. Shhh.

Of course I've been around TV and documentaries long enough now to know that about 99% of things go nowhere. Still. Her people, my people. People!

You can see some rather badly chosen and not terribly representative snippets of the show here and here as well.

“Nah. But Still.”

  1. Blogger amba Says:

    Wow! It's you!

  2. Blogger Michael Reynolds Says:

    Any excuse to travel. It was just about the most fun I've ever had. Paris, Barcelona, Moscow, me and four other guys living large, and I got to argue politics with the honest-to-God Paris intelligentsia in the Cafe de Flore where Sartre used to hang out. Some day I'll have to show you the outtakes of me trying to have an intelligent discussion with the coked up, monolingual star of Russian MTV.

  3. Blogger amba Says:

    Now THAT sounds better than the Colbert Report and Monty Python rolled into one.