Board Thread:Pitches/@comment-3532537-20140726014757

“Break Free”

This is a dance, music series. Okay before I get into everything, this series was inspired by movies like “Bring it On” a tinny bit of “Zapped”, shows like “Hellcats” and “Hit the Floor”, and I’ll even throw “Shake it Up” in there as well.

This series will star two Wiki Channel vets, Chesney Ramirez (East Meets West) and Percilla Gold (The Aca-Girls), but not as best friends, but rather as rivals who end up becoming frenemies later down the road (if the seires is picked up). Which is different because most buddy sitcoms (sitcoms with two main characters, sam&cat, drake&josh, shake it up, austin & ally, etc) the characters are best friends or siblings :)

The series starts off when teenage Olympic silver medalist, Kyla Castillo (played by Chesney) returns to public high school after her Olympic competing and enrolls in Justice Valley High school in Beverly Hills, CA. There she wishes to join the cheerleading/dance squad, the Justice Valley Jaguars run by Rion (pronounced Ryan) Hall (played by Percilla) who is one of the most popular girls in school. When Rion is told she must recruit one other member, her and her co-captain Aisha, hold try outs and are very excited when they find out Kyla, the Olympic girl is thinking about entering, Percilla is pleased at first because her and her squad have always made past regional’s and sectionals but never to the state championship, but after seeing Richie played by Zander Sun (Zayn), her rebel, biker ex boyfriend flirt with Kyla she begins to dislike her and give her a hard time. Rion tries to put Kyla through a lot and plans to mess up her life and get her kicked out of school and the team in a couple of episodes (if the series is picked up that is). Aisha however ends up becoming one of Kyla’s new best friend and often gets caught in the middle of their disputes.

Richie is in a band called Zoo Lights with his good friend, rebellious tomboy, Stevie Garcia (played by Carly Shu), who is a bit mean to Kyla at first but only because she thinks that because she Is a cheerleader, that she is exactly like Rion. Richie starts to develop a close friendship with Kyla and the two might also becomes possible love interest which drives Rion crazy and motivates her to get Kyla off the team even more. But she can’t just kick her off because she has to have a good reason. Rounding off the group is Jeff, he plays for the Justice Valley basketball team, and also becomes good friend Kyla and is close with Rion and Aisha. He has a secret crush on Kyla, but to Kyla she is one of his guy best friends. He helps her a lot through school and around the city, much like Aisha, and even gets jealous of Richie sometimes, which Aisha secretly notices and Rion tries to exploit a couple times, but Kyla doesn’t know. During the series they will have a bunch of filler episodes but the main competitions are Regional’s, Sectionls and then state championships, each competition they must do a cheer, a dance number and power cheer which music (and sometimes singing). For the pilot (if picked up) I was thinking the song selection could include: “Bo$$” by Fifth Harmony: This song will be played after Rion finds out that Richie was flirting with Kyla and is sung by Rion, Kyla and Aisha during the dance try outs, when Kyla tries to keep up with Rion in order to get a part on the team. So this is one of the dance singing numbers. “Last 1 Standing” by Max Schneider: This song will be sung by Richie and Kyla (back-ups by Stevie), after her first day, Richie tells Kyla to meet him at a spot downtown, she thinks it’s some sort of date, but really is an invite to watch Richie’s band play at a local bar, he then calls her up on stage in the middle of the song to sing along. “Break Free” by Ariana Grande: This song will be sung by Kyla and Rion (who has a solo in the episode performance), not only in the theme song, but at the end of the episode when Kyla convinces Richie to come to the basketball team to watch them cheer during half time. After Rion notices Richie paying attention to Kyla, she begins to sing it and we learn that Richie broke up with Kyla because she was kind of mean and that Rion possibly still has feelings for Richie. “All I Want is Everything” by Victoria Justice: This sung is a solo by Kyla, which she doesn’t actually sing the song, it is played in the background at the beginning of the episode while Kyla’s character Is seen doing gymnastics and winning her medal.

Yes, I know I have a lot on my plate, but I felt like this idea could be the perfect dance-musical comedy, sense “The Aca-Girls” has been cancelled and “James in Hollywood” is ending :)

I would looooooooooooove to hear your feedback  