[Phogge]

Production values are an easy fix as long as the entity is willing to pay industry scale to most technicians and over scale to a few. Also pay freelancers vacation relief, short turnaround, OT after 10 and double time after 12. Hotel after 14 regardless of location (enacted in the IATSE after an overworked assistant cameraman fell asleep at the wheel), no flat rates and provide an opportunity to enter a pension plan if staffers have one. That way you get good people particularly during the present time when a ton of talented folks can’t find much work.

Hire a veteran TV executive producer with a vision for the “Look” of the network and make sure it’s not some person who’s been sacked by a major network (worked for multiple guys who are on their last stop and phoned it in).

All that costs money. The current operation is like a C studio operating in Encino but really a continent away from Culver City or Melrose Avenue.

[Phogge]

Production values are an easy fix as long as the entity is willing to pay industry scale to most technicians and over scale to a few. Also pay freelancers vacation relief, short turnaround, OT after 10 and double time after 12. Hotel after 14 regardless of location (enacted in the IATSE after an overworked assistant cameraman fell asleep at the wheel), no flat rates and provide an opportunity to enter a pension plan if staffers have one. That way you get good people particularly during the present time when a ton of talented folks can’t find much work.

Hire a veteran TV executive producer with a vision for the “Look” of the network and make sure it’s not some person who’s been sacked by a major network (worked for multiple guys who are on their last stop and phoned it in).

All that costs money. The current operation is like a C studio operating in Encino but really a continent away from Culver City or Melrose Avenue.