BUZZ

Our failure to hire a crew was causing me to lose confidence in our show.  Just as I was starting to question the entire idea we started getting some strange telephone calls.  Dallas is a big city that feels like a small town - news travels fast.  Word leaked that we were going to produce a reality television program in the Dallas area and everyone wanted in on the deal. 

Interestingly we got a call from a major advertising agency who had heard about the program and pitched it to one of their clients - the client loved it - no one had talked to us.  Only after the successful pitch meeting did the agency call us.  They starting asking questions we could not answer - heck I did not have the slightest idea if much less when we would have footage for review.  The phrase “high-concept” was attached to our show.  Everyone was excited for us - if they only knew - wait?  Are we missing something? 

Whoops - we had not tied up the location!  Since the venue was the star we should have considered formalizing our deal with Jack.  If someone thought our idea was really that good they could steal our idea and cut us out of the deal.  We got on the phone with Jack and took him to lunch at Chili’s the next day.  By the end of the week we struck a deal with Jack and we began to breath easier. 

One other side effect - our heads began to grow…