Board Thread:Pitches/@comment-25375217-20150425023937

Ik I just cancelled a show pitch but I've already come up with another idea. Is that bad? Am I too eager? Should I slow my brain down before it explodes??? D:

Okay so it's actually a pretty basic concept, and yet we've never done it. And neither really has any other channel... at least popular enugh that I know of it. Of course it has to be pretty popular for me to know about it... but still. There have been similar concepts (Shake It Up and Sonny with a Chance, specifically) but never this specific thing.

I don't really have an idea for a title yet, but the series focuses on Summer Lakes, a singer from Richmond, VA who moves to New York to pursue her dream of performing. On her first day there, she's overheard by a famous producer who asks her to guest star on his show. (Her mom is a little suspicious of the guy, but Summer is pretty trustworthy so she just goes with it.) The guy is actually legit, much to Summer's mom's surprise, and she gets to sing a song on the show. The network loves her a lot and suggest that she gets her own show. Summer is a little nervous, but agrees (it is still her dream, of course!). So the show focuses around Summer balancing her new stardom, and still trying to be kind of an ordinary teen.

Like I said, it's kind of like SWAC and SIU, but at the same time none of them were singing. SWAC was a sketch comedy, and SIU was dancing. We don't have many musical series (Aca-Girls and Break Free are it) and this is a great way to get one, I think.

The characters are as follows:
 * Summer Lakes: An eager and hyper 14-16 year-old girl. She loves singing and acting and convinces her family to move to New York to help her pursue her dream. She gets her own musical series as a result.
 * Lisa Kelley: Summer's co-star. She looks like a typical bratty diva, but is actually shy and sweet, but the network thinks the diva image sells better. Summer helps her show her true colors throughout the series.
 * Nelson Lakes: Summer's 12-14 year-old younger brother. He takes the role of Summer's agent- well, as much as a 12-14 year-old can be an agent. He has a nice business sense though, and manages to land Summer a series of her own.
 * Jakob Lukas: Another one of Summer's co-stars. He plays Summer's love interest, so in interviews they're forced to act all lovey-dovey and stuff, but in reality they can hardly stand each other. He might eventually become her real life love interest, but I'd like to have some sarcastic flirting for awhile first.
 * Rebecca Morace: Summer's best friend. She goes to Summer's New York school and isn't famous, but is the only person Summer can find who likes her for her, not for her series.
 * Autumn Lakes: Summer's divorced mother. After being divorced from her husband, she agrees to move to New York so that Summer can follow her dreams. She's over-protective, but very caring.

Summer, Jakob, and Lisa would sing the most. Rebecca might also get a song or two, depending. The series Summer stars in focuses around a famous girl trying to live a double life (basically Hannah Montana. Since it's not the actual show though, I think the similarities are fine.)

So what do you think? 