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Roshambo’s Reality Television Teaser
As some of you already know, earlier this year we were approached by an Australian television production company (Southern Star Entertainment). They were working with Discovery Networks International on a wine-related TV series and they fancied us their stars. Southern Star’s Executive Producer, Tim Toni, an incredibly nice and interesting bloke, felt that the story of Roshambo would make for the most compelling TV and he pitched us to the development crew at DNI. The suits at DNI apparently loved Naomi and the idea and so they sent Tim’s production crew to California to film us for several days. This resulted in the following teaser which introduces the winery and some of its characters. Everything looked quite promising until DNI went through a major organizational restructuring (of course), fired 10% of its staff, which (naturally) included the development team working on our show.
To be quite honest, it came as a relief to Naomi who had a lot of reservations about becoming caricatures on television. She was concerned about the integrity of the brand. And it was a bit of a relief to me given my well documented fear of being filmed from unflattering angles. In any event, we did get this teaser out of the deal. And we hope you enjoy. (Just please don’t focus on my talking double chin.)
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I gotta say, now I’m a little sad it’s not going to be made. I hate “reality” TV, but the trailer felt different.
Then again, it’s a trailer. It did its job in selling me.
Yeah, I’m a little sad too. I got the sense from Tim Toni that this wouldn’t be a typical reality television show. He wasn’t interested in generating conflict. In fact, he was quite convinced that the show would be interesting enough without any sort of contrived drama - and that was obviously very important to us. We didn’t want to have those stupid confessional cutaways where someone talks to the camera with tears in eyes. In fact, our main stipulation was that if we were going to participate, the show HAD to feel natural, almost like a fly on the wall documentary. And yes, I’m a little bummed because I felt like Tim Toni really understood that. I think this teaser is a testimony to vision, and something I could stand behind.