A few weeks ago I decided to pitch my new TV show idea to a producer here on Stage32 Pitch Sessions that was looking for the very idea I’d been carrying around with me for a few years…
A few days later another producer showed up also looking for what I was offering, so I pitched to them to…thinking that the more lines I have in the water the better the odds of a bite.
The first pitch was due on 2 June, the 2nd on 8 June.
I then headed off to do my job…travelling the world trying to make complete strangers laugh on cruise ships all over the world.
The 2nd of June came and went and then the 8th arrived. Two days later I got an email from Stage32 Happy Writers to say my “pitch review” was ready. Let’s just say it wasn’t all that complimentary…holes were poked into every part of it. The producer who received it on the 8th June passed on it pretty quickly, their NOPE, quite emphatic. That horrid feeling of rejection smacks hard.
So yesterday was my final day on the ship I was currently on, I was all packed and in bed and dozing off, ready to head home, the rejection from a week ago already forgotten. My phone buzzed and I couldn’t resist and it was an email from Stage32…the magical words “CONGRATULATIONS!” jumping out at me. I immediately opened it and there it was, the producer of the pitch for 2nd June loved my pitch and wants to meet and more material. I was now wide awake and dived in to read the review. It was the complete opposite of what the producer who passed on my pitch had said. Every word of it. There was actual genuine excitement from them about my idea.
This whole pitching thing is a mystery. A “crap shoot”. I’ve reread both reviews about 20 times each now and I’d swear they were for completely different show ideas. They weren’t.
Is there any “advice” out there for anyone reading this based on this experience? I guess all it can be is “keep pitching”…you will really never know!