Research and Development

Greetings Fords! Thanks for coming. Hope everyone's having a great summer. So, I'm a television producer in the greatest city in the world, New York. Sorry Philly, but our offer to make you the 6th Borough still stands.

At the moment I'm working at NBC Media Productions developing hour-long documentaries for MSNBC. I like to think of this part of the job as feeding the beast. "The "beast" in this case is 24 hours of air that need to be filled so that MSNBC can sell advertising and we can all get paid. There's probably something about working in the public interest in there too, but it's often lost in the shuffle (more on this in later posts). Anyway, I'm looking at doing a show on Lady Diana. One rule of television is that stunning, dead, late-princesses rate like you read about, especially when it's the 10th anniversary of their spectacular demise.

So, my job is to research and learn as much as I can about Diana via internet, books, youtube, etc., and then pitch story-lines to MSNBC. Right now I'm thinking the story of Mohammed Fayed's obsessive drive to prove that there was a conspiracy to kill his son Dodi and Diana would be a good hour. Another rule of television and film is that obsessives make great characters. A quick glance at the works of Werner Herzog will bear this out.

That's all for now. Will do my best to tell you all about the breathtakingly fabulous production stages that lie ahead.

Peace,

David