LIFESTYLE SHOWS
GUITARS, BARS & CARS
OFF THE GRID IN THE HEARTLAND
Created by Ruth McCartney ©2021 McCartney Multimedia, Inc. WGA Reg.
GENRE: Music | Americana | Automobiles | Food
FORMAT: 13 Episode x 60 mins TV | Road Trip across America | Interviews | Stock Beauty Footage
AUDIENCES: Foodies | Music fans | Car Club Enthusiasts | Guitar Players / Collectors
OVERVIEW
The Hosts: A NASCAR Driver and a HipHop Artist take off down the “old town road” for a trip across the heartland. These opposites must share their digs on the road across America, as every single Saturday and Sunday of every single weekend there is a Cars & Coffee event somewhere in the United States. Thousands of automotive diehards are waking up at the crack of dawn to secure the best parking spots for their pride and joy and “talk cars” with other like-minded individuals with gasoline running through their veins. From Alabama to Wyoming, you’ll find folks who love their cars, their food and their music too! Our Hip Hop star will try to persuade them about the virtues EVs over gas guzzlers.
Guitars, Bars & Cars features our superstar musician / car enthusiast / foodie curious hosts take off in a brand new electric vehicle towing an old-fashioned Airstream trailer across the hinterland to meet, eat, drive, tinker and play music with locals in the “flyover States” and the 200+ Cars & Coffee Clubs across the nation.
Each stop on the road will reveal a “Cars & Coffee Club” meetup and all the vintage autos on display; the show will also feature a mom-and-pop gastro pub / bar for lunch, and then our food-curious host will go behind the scenes into the kitchen “Guy Fieri style” and chat with the cook. For the music segments, we’ll uncover the town's local indie bands, music store, guitar players, luthiers and collectors.
The day culminates in a jam session of local artists, plus our superstar host’s hits played together with - and spotlighting the talents of - some local emerging artists and rappers, and the evening is of course catered by the Mom & Pop Bar / Gastro Pub featured in the episode.
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FINDING THE FAIRIES
FANTASY, FORAGING AND OLD-FASHIONED FUN
Created by Ruth McCartney ©2021 McCartney Multimedia, Inc & WGA Registered
GENRE: Crafting | Gardening | Lifestyle | Travel
FORMAT: 13 Episode x 60 mins TV | Road Trip across America | Interviews | How To’s
AUDIENCES: Fans of Disney / Frozen, Elves, Lord of The Rings, Harry Potter, Crafting, Gardening et al.
OVERVIEW
The recent explosion of “Fairy Gardens” across the USA has been responsible for diffusing the frustration of the lockdown, family bonding through shared projects and even introducing strangers to each other through the “power of the fairies”. A defining characteristic of the genre can therefore be placed under the heading of ‘the happy ending’: fairy tales express hopes. The agents who bring about miracles of hope in the stories vary from place to place, as they rise from local belief systems which belong to tradition.
This series will feature 3 segments per show:
Interviewing a Fairy Garden owner/creator about their inspiration, chosen location, method and artistic choices and the stories that the garden has created
Learning how to create a similar garden / display from both found and purchased objects - the do’s and dont’s of positioning, weathering, lighting etc.
Examining the history, literature and folklore of all the different fairy stories, origins e.g. Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley, George Eliot, E Nesbit, and JRR Tolkien, Charles Perrault, The Brothers Grimm of Germany, Hans Christian Andersen of Denmark, Walter Scott of Scotland, Alexander Afanasyev of Russia and the classics.
FYI: Fairies are more often than not found here:
Perched in leafy trees
Hiding in the knots and furls of ancient trunks
Talking in the long grass (leave those lawn edges wild!)
Supping the nectar from their favoured flowers
Dipping their toes in the secluded edge of a pond
Dancing amidst mushrooms or toadstools
Riding on the backs of insects under rotting log piles
Fairy revels often take place at midnight—look out for fairy rings!
Dawn and dusk are favourite fairy times as they love to watch the sun rise and set.
Fairies will be dancing and making merry on the 1st May—the festival of Beltane
Samhain Eve (more commonly known as Halloween) is the night of betwixt and between - the time when the veil between worlds is thin and spirits are abroad! If you want to actually "see" a fairy, tonight is a good time to look!
Midsummer's Eve is also a prime time for spirit activity, especially from fairies. And the fairies of winter will be celebrating at Midwinter—so brave the cold to see some chilly fairy activity!
Flying-Funny
COMEDY WITH ALTITUDE
Airplanes, Comedians, and… Screaming!
Created by Jose Sarduy (c)2021 Hose-A Productions
GENRE: Aviation | Comedy | Adventure
FORMAT: 10 Episodes x22 mins TV | Two comedians per show | Alternate between each comedian during pre and post flight briefings, flights, and graphics/classroom moments with Jose teaching the science behind the maneuvers
AUDIENCES: Fans of comedians, aviation, and adventure shows
OVERVIEW:
Flying Funny is the brain-child of series creator/producer/director/writer/host Jose Sarduy.It combines two big loves of his life, comedy and aviation, and shares it with the world.
Most people have at some point imagined themselves up in an airplane doing aerobatics. Fear keeps most people out of the tiny cramped spaces of high performance aircraft, but even if you are brave enough, the cost and/or time it would take to go up and do it, or get qualified to do it solo, is daunting.
Famous celebrities sometimes get invited to fly with the Air Force Thunderbirds or Navy Blue Angels demonstration teams for mutual promotional purposes, but few comedians ever get that chance. As hard as it is to get famous as a comedian, it’s even harder to get “Thunderbirds/Blue Angels famous,” and Jose Sarduy didn’t think that was fair!
In the words Jose learned while attending the U.S. Air Force Academy from fighter pilot and poet John Gillespie Magee Jr., he wanted to give funny people the opportunity to “slip the surly bonds of earth, and dance the skies on laughter-silvered wings” … or at least do a few maneuvers, not puke, and scream a little.
Jose Sarduy is a 17 year veteran of the comedy stage, a 25 year U.S. Air Force veteran, and 24 year veteran of aviation. He’s flown everything from gliders that need to be pulled by another airplane up into the skies with a rope, to a 300,000 pound cargo jet plane hauling people and stuff all over the world (only Antarctica remains his sole unvisited continent). He became an instructor shortly after learning to fly, and hasn’t stopped sharing his love of aviation ever since. He teaches aerobatics regularly as a Reservist these days, and that means guests on the show get a full fledged military aviator taking them up for aerobatics… ok, so maybe the airplane is a little less powerful than an F-16 or F-18, but the web series was a self funded project, and comedy don’t pay well!
Check out Flying-Funny and, to quote Magee again, maybe you’ll get inspired to be one of the few who “joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, and done a hundred things you have not dreamed of’ … or at least enjoy some funny people challenged to be funny while scared out of their minds! Good times!