Ever wonder what your favourite breakfast TV show hosts lives are like behind the camera? Well I have written, directed and produced a new comedy web series about that very thing. We are featured on the Web Series Channel and Funny or Die and we need your help to make more episodes! If you want to back a fun and exciting new show and even be involved then check out the Kickstarter campaign now! Rewards ranging from digital copies, DVD copies to actual cameo parts (no matter where you live in the world) we would love for you all to join us on this journey of creating my baby and bringing it to the world.
Plot outline:
“Early Birds” is a character-driven comedy revolving around Brian, a country reporter who has been thrown into a big city breakfast show. Getting the job through Tony an old uni mate and now Executive producer of “Early Birds” he has to find his feet fast and try and stay out of the pub. Brian is introduced to his team members in funny and awkward encounters that set up the tone of the show and interactions to come. Immediately smitten with his leading lady Michelle he makes his first professional mistake that will carry over the entire series. With special cameo from Australia’s TODAY SHOW host Karl Stefanovic!
Series Synopsis:
This is a comedy documentary series on the lives and everyday going ons of a breakfast television team, A stressful, competitive, sleep deprived workplace is a great setting for a comedy. A world where people are inherently fake and on their toes about getting stabbed in the back, where ratings are key to success and your job is on the line.
The show will depict what its like to work behind the scenes of the glitzy, glamour exciting world of TV. Involving character relationships, crazy television workplace politics and where a team of people need to get the story first; stories pulled from the headlines and tweaked for comedy purposes. It peeks into what really goes on at your favourite breakfast show with the people you become attached to because they use phrases such as “family” and “loyal viewers” to hook you in.
Along with Brian a country larrikin who likes a drink and is a bit immature will be a bunch of his oddball co-workers all with personality traits that are heightened for an entertaining show.
There is so much to explore in this genre and style of show, endless segments and guests, on or off the air pranks and the repercussions, cameo appearances from famous people as either exaggerated versions of themselves or written in characters. As the series progresses there’s the rivalry amongst other breakfast shows and what happens when the ratings start to rise and people’s egos are inflated and need to be in check.
