CASTING: DESIGN GURU/EXPERT
March 17, 2011
Departure Films and HGTV Networks are seeking masters of home design and renovation for a new series. We are looking for the ultimate expert, with an encyclopedic knowledge of design, renovation, and restoration. This person should have expertise in the range of fields involved with the home- architecture, construction, and design of interiors and exteriors. A knowledge of what is current as well as historical roots of the various design, construction, and renovation.
We are looking for experts who not only know their stuff, but who are entertaining, quirky, witty or over the top. This expert must have a likeable, accessible personality and able to not only speak about the various design and reno elements, but demonstrate them. Seeking people with backgrounds in architecture, interior design, construction, et al. This could be one person, a team or partnership, or a business, but all must have personalities that viewers will want to return to see episode after episode.
The series will focus on this design guru leading the viewer through various projects they undertake. This could include demonstrations of new and/or historical technique demonstrated in a studio, actual projects happening on site, or comparing several techniques at once to determine which is the most practical, stylish, green, or unusual! This person should be able to demonstrate these techniques on their own, or have a rolodex of experts that they could consult to complete the demonstration.
If this sounds like you, please send an email with “Design Expert” and your name in the subject line to designcasting@departure-films.com. Send a few pictures, links, etc., and tell us why you are the one to feature on TV.
CASTING: OUTRAGEOUS POOL DESIGNERS
March 17, 2011
Departure Films and HGTV Networks are seeking an outrageous Swimming Pool Design team to be featured in a new TV project. We are looking for amazing, highly skilled designers and builders that tackle the most unique themes – ancient Rome, Versailles, the tropics meets suburbia – and turn an ordinary backyard into a client’s dream.
The team should design and build at least 10-15 high-end residential pools a year. We’d like to see the most exotic designs out there – waterfalls, swim-up bars, vanishing edges – and learn about all the drama and challenges along the way: finding the unique pieces to match the theme, creative engineering to make impossible designs come to life, and the clients that dream too big and ask too much!
Each week we’ll follow our team as they build a luxury pool. We’ll watch from the initial design to the final reveal. Our team should be professional, funny, dynamic, and creative. We want to see big personalities with fantastic pool designs, people who aren’t afraid to let their individuality shine through. We want the behind-the-scenes look at the drama, the challenges, and the successes.
If this sounds like you, please send an email with “Pool Design” and the name of the company in the subject line to designcasting@departure-films.com. Send a few pictures, and tell us why you are the company to feature on TV. Brag about the impossible designs you’ve created, tell us about the biggest challenges you’ve faced, and let us in on the drama that happens behind the scenes!
Seeking NEW YORK TAXI NIGHTMARE STORIES! Get vindicated in TAXI COURT!
November 15, 2010
Seeking New Yorkers who have had crazy, frustrating, or bizarre NYC Taxi Stories for a really fun reality TV Demo for a major cable network! YOU MUST HAVE CAB DRIVER’S INFO TO PARTICIPATE! All you need is the receipt, as the info can be found there!
We are looking for great personalities of all types who would be interested in appearing on our demo and having their Taxi Injustice vindicated in New York’s Taxi Court. The spirit of the demo is light and fun, and sort of riffs off the idea of People’s Court, but with cab drivers and passengers as the plaintiffs and defendants!
Please email brian@departure-films.com or call at 212 629 9666 x20 to tell me your story!
Seeking WOMEN ages 20-34 (flexible) who live outside Manhattan but work in the city for a REALITY TV PILOT.
November 4, 2010
Are you a small-town, ambitious type working in the city and climbing up that corporate ladder? Is your sleepy home-town life a sharp contrast to your nine-to-five job in the chaos of Manhattan’s corporate jungle? Do you live a double life- your friends and family at home have no clue what you do or how hard you work when you walk out that door for your morning commute? We want to hear your story!
We are open to all types, but we are specifically looking to find people who had to start at the bottom and are currently working their way up! You must live a commutable distance to the city (80 minute commute tops) and have a job in an office setting. Ideally you are the first in your family or among your friends who is really making it. We are looking for big personalities who won’t hold back in the moment.
The people behind Who’s Wedding is it Anyway, Mystery Diagnosis and Real Housewives of DC are casting an exciting new pilot project for a major network and are seeking great personalities to be considered.
Our audience should want to root for you as you battle the trials of a brutal corporate world or face drama in your home and personal life.
We are looking to cast several women, and ideally some might know each other, so if you have friends in the same boat, we’d like to know about them too!
If this is you, please email a brief description of yourself and a recent picture to realworkinggirlcasting@gmail.com and request our casting questionnaire. If you seem like a match, we will set up a phone interview and take it from there!
TV Pilot seeks SASSY BOSTON WOMEN (ages 23-33)
August 11, 2010
Seeking BOSTON WOMEN age 23-33: Are you textbook Boston Babe with attitude? Proud of your Mass Accent? Love to party? Don’t care what ANYONE thinks?
Half Yard Productions, the producers of Say Yes to the Dress and Real Housewives of DC are developing a pilot for a new series about KICK-ASS Boston chicks for a major cable network to take place in Boston at the end of the summer! The show is in the development process, but will likely feature a small collection of great women interacting with each other, their friends and families, and take place in the coolest spots in Boston!
If you are a woman from the Boston and surrounding areas and would like to be considered for participation in what is sure to be a hit, please email!
We are seeking women in their mid-late 20’s who are sassy, confident, wild, and proud to be from Bean Town. Women who love to go out and know all the party spots in the Hub, who love to shop, hit the Cape- GREAT OUTGOING PERSONALITIES!
Please email BostonChicksCasting@yahoo.com and briefly introduce your self (Name, age, town, the reason you are a Kick-Ass Boston Babe). Please attach a recent picture (send as many as you like!). If you seem like a match, we will send a questionnaire and possibly set up an interview!
i love zipcar.
August 2, 2010
Look, if you don’t have or need a car all the time, you should sign up for zipcar. it’s in like every city, super convenient, and super cheap. click the thingy below and you can get a 25$ credit (which is like a two hour reservation… you could go grocery shopping!).
Can you catch a HUGE catfish with your BARE HANDS?
July 20, 2010
Are you an adventure type? Want a once-in-a-lifetime chance to take on nature? Do you have what it takes to catch a huge live catfish with you bare hands?
Half Yard Productions seeks adventurous PAIRS or SMALL GROUPS who want to take the adventure! Will consider all types- couples, co-workers, best buds, family members, sibling rivals! Candidates must be confident in their physical fitness, as this is a very physical endeavor! This exciting docu-style reality series will air on a major nature themed cable network.
Selected participants will be flown to Oklahoma (travel paid for) and stay in a wilderness camp, trained the skill of Noodling by old time pros! Our cameras will capture them learning and challenging themselves and nature on the adventure of a lifetime!
Selected participants MUST be available for five consecutive days in early AUGUST, 2010.
Please call (774) 266 1575 then email Brian immediately with LAST NAME/Noodling/CITY in the subject line (ex: Jones/Noodling/Brooklyn, NY).
Send names and ages of the pair or group of three and describe briefly the relationship, and why you would be ideal to take on the adventure! Send as many pictures as you can!
Seeking Bilingual Local Miami Voice Talent for MTV Tr3S
June 13, 2010
Seeking Bilingual English/Spanish VJ Talent in New York
June 13, 2010
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