Edward Kay

Have begun working this week on the pilot episode of my new animated comedy series. It has been optioned by Nerd Corps Entertainment, which, as their name suggests, is a group of very talented, dedicated geeks who love animation and do it very, very well. They’re based in Vancouver, and among other things, produce League Of Super Evil, a clever and twisted series that I have had the pleasure of writing for this season.

As for my new series, I am contractually bound not to discuss the deets of it, including the title, but if you like Jimmy Two Shoes, I think you’ll enjoy this too. It’s a heady form of mental stimulation to have a completely new project to work on – new characters, new worlds, new situations and new humour. It’s sort of like the first day of class in a new school. Because even though I created these characters – and so far they’re being nice to me – I’m finding out more and more about them as I work through the details of the stories, and see how they react to the different situations I put them in… or that they put themselves in. That’s part of the process of developing characters; not being puppet master (always a mistake) but rather creating fully dimensional personalites who are true to themselves, no matter how whacked they are, and then ensuring that in the stories, they make the choices that are consistent with their natures. That means choices they would really make, not choices that you have to force them to make to pound a square plot peg through a round hole (something you can only do if you have them inhaling spores that alter their personalities, an effective if cheesy deus ex machina device that goes back at least as far as the original Star Trek, if not the God Machine-loving Ancient Greek playwrights).

So, off I go on this new venture, with both excitement and trepidation, looking forward to getting to know all my new imaginary friends better, and hoping that they make it through safely from the realm of private imagination to public reality. Or at least as close to reality as television gets. More to come…

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