In case you didn't know PLAY worked with Glen Kulik when they were still together. Glen posted an update about the show they are pitching to different TV channels to Play-Mania. It also talks a little bit about what Anaïs' been up to now.
" For those of you who are still sad and still enjoy hearing further
information about Play let me tell you about some television “facts” you
might find interesting. In January, we were working with two television
production companies on two separate concepts. With the first group we
went to MTV. As I told you months ago, we had a first meeting in LA and
MTV liked the girls enough that they wanted to meet with them and me
alone in New York, so the girls and I flew to NY to have that second
meeting just ourselves. The execs in NY told us they really liked the
girls but didn’t understand the actual premise of the show the producers
had presented, and they asked us to tell the producers to submit a
final written outline by that Friday so they could make a decision.
Unfortunately, the “show runner” (executive producer”} whom the
production company had attached to write our show was not able to come
up with a final product that the production company liked and thus
nothing was ever turned in, and MTV decided to go ahead instead with a
show called the Electric Barbarellas (if any of you saw it, it was
pretty lame in my opinion). The second group of producers we were
working with we liked much better. The executive producer is a man by
the name of David Von Ancken who has directed many episodes of shows
like Gossip Girl, Vampire Diaries, Californication, etc. The writer is a
women (Elisa) who is married to the lead singer of the group Linkin
Park, so she has seen the struggle when a group is first starting and
what you have to do to be successful. We absolutely loved those two
people and they came up with a great concept for a one hour scripted
show I know you all would have loved. Everyone was very optimistic, and
we went to ABC Family but they passed. They had already decided to air
“Switched at Birth” and the show about the girl who was really a cat in
her former life, and they had no more room for more series. The thing
is, those were the only two networks that were hearing pitches at that
time of the year, and we were just waiting until summer so we could go
to the CW network in particular since the girls of Play are a bit more
sophisticated and classy than the typical ABC Family or MTV show.
Unfortunately, the girls broke up which was very embarrassing for me to
have to tell David and Elisa. but they are still planning to pitch the
show to CW in the next month without Play. If necessary, they will cast
the parts with actresses. Anais is the one they would very much like to
be in their show so I contacted her and she said she is no longer
interested. She has taken a job with an event planning/public relations
firm in Stockholm and said she is going to give that a try. David and
Elisa are still going to try to sell their show to CW in the next month
or so, and if they do, I will contact the girls again to see if they are
willing to change their mind (it won’t happen without Anais, however). I
really, really like David and Elisa and their concept, and I know you
will love it to, whether or not Play is in it. I can’t understand how
the girls can turn down the chance to be in a series but if the series
does sell and the girls are not in it you and I will still know they
inspired the show."
Hope you find this interesting! There's a little more television information I can tell you. pertaining to X Factor and The Sing Off, which I'll write about later!
