You can't make stuff like this up!

So awhile back in a moment when I admittedly was a little lit and I had just rewatched the old unreleased Global Frequency pilot, thinking of the crap that Showtime seems to invest money in, I did some digging, found the name of the person in charge of development at the network and sent off and email.

Mind you, this was very much message in a bottle, I did not think anything would come of it at all:

From: Me

Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2017 8:29 PM
To: Levine, Gary
Subject: Watch this

And ask yourself why you haven’t put this into development?

Mark Burnett was involved in this pilot that the CW passed on

Jerry Bruckheimer was involved with a second option.

This should be a series.

Watch the original pilot here:

https://youtu.be/EShP8FbVW_k

Look at the source material here:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401237975/

Now this was WEEK’S AGO and really in all honesty it didn’t amount to much of a blip in life. I love Ellis’ work (or at least some of it) and thought how Global Frequency was prescient, even more relevant today than when Ellis wrote it and was very disappointed it appeared to die on the vine. People have taken two runs at it and it hasn’t made it to TV and that first pilot is simply amazing! I still cannot believe they passed on this.

Imagine my surprise today when I got an email that I at first thought was spam:

On Aug 14, 2017, at 6:53 PM, *******, Melinda wrote:

PJ ********

Dear PJ ********:

I am responding to your recent submission to Gary Levine.  We appreciate the courtesy of professional people and other members of the creative community who wish to suggest material, including program concepts and formats and literary material, for our use.

However, because we receive many suggestions that duplicate those previously made either by members of our own staff or by others, and because we may independently commence using material similar to yours that we receive or generate after the date of your submission, it has become necessary for us to adopt the policy of refusing to consider any unsolicited material.

Accordingly, we are returning your material as submitted.  We do appreciate your interest in our company.

Best regards,

Melinda *******
Executive Vice President
Business Affairs and Production

I responded thusly:

Thanks for the laugh, I hardly expected a response and certainly am amazed to receive a form letter in the effort of avoiding any legal liability. Maybe it’s commentary on how litigious our society has become that you are compelled to respond in such a manner. It was merely a suggestion though and whether or not Showtime follows up on it I don’t have a dog in the hunt so to speak as I am not the author of the work. But it is quite funny that one would be compelled to reach out in such a manner.

I can only hope that someone, somewhere in the network will contact Warren Ellis and move this to television. I promise you I won’t sue.