Lesson 10

[Timothy Barley]

Tim Barley’s Target Market

What I learned from doing this assignment is that there is a LOT of research going on that I didn’t even think about. It’s kind of exciting and tedious at the same time to figure out all this. I need an assistant!!! 🙂

Shows

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Battlestar Galactica

Extraordinary

The Magicians

Supernatural

Actors

Alex – Tom Felton, Scott Eastwood, Grant Austin, Austin Butler, Freddie Highmore

Allistar (needs to be similar to Feenix) – Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Eddie Redmayne, Cooper Raiff, Ben Barnes

Feenix (needs to be similar to Allistar) – Chloe Grace Moretz, Elle Fanning, Jenna Ortega, Mckenna Grace, ?

Victor – Theo James, Samuel Claflin, Richard Madden, Rizwan Ahmed, Tom Blyth

Jimmy – Ben Whishaw, Aneurin Barnard, Max Irons, Dane Dehaan, Cody Fern

Producers

Jane Espenson

Joss Whedon

Marti Noxon

Steven S DeKnight

Drew Greenberg

Sera Gamble

John McNamara

Mike Moore

Ronald Moore

Eric Kripke

Andrew Dabb

Robert Berrens

Jeremy Carver

Robert Singer

Craig Matheson

Brad Buckner

Kim Manners

Scott B Smith

Sara Desmond

Joe Barton

Jonathan Cavendish

Colm McCarthy

Simon Barry

Amy Berg

David Hayter

Sheila Wilson

Matt Venebales

Amanda Tapping

D Brent Monte

Eliot Laurence

Nikki McCauley

More may be added as I dig deeper into second level and third level and producers who have worked with my actor wish list.

[P.G. Sundling]

Answer the question, “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” and put at the top of your work.

Wow! 190 producers with just 5 TV shows, without having to do degrees of separation. TV has so many producers and I can target the smallest ones based on episode count. The hardest part was coming up with the comps.

Make a list of five or more movies that are similar to yours and five actors that you might want to play your lead characters.

There is no comp for the overall series. My series really is that unique. I had to refocus on just a couple of genres, science fiction and thriller. Plus I had to consult AI to be able to identify decent comps.

Stranger Things is the closest comp by far even though it’s so different. It matches sci-fi plus thriller/mystery with comedic elements. My 2nd season matches the cold war aspect. My 3rd season matches the horror elements.

The 100 (apocalyptic sci-fi & mystery)

Orphan Black (sci-fi &thriller)

Black Mirror (sci-fi & thriller, satire)

Doctor Who (sci-fi mystery with adventure, comedy)

The 3rd season has movie comps though (The 5th wave(2016), The blackout(2019).

Actresses for MJ (Hispanic female lead)

Sofía Vergara

Eva Mendes

Jessica Alba

Rosario Dawson

Zoe Saldana

Eva Longoria

Sofia Pernas

Actor for None of the Above (Chinese male lead)

Huang Bo

Wang Baoqiang

Jam Hsiao

Ryan Zheng

Roy Chiu

Nicholas Tse

Shawn Yue

Kai Ko

Eddie Peng

Using the Targeting process above, go to http://www.imdb.com and find 50 to 100 producers (or more) for your specific project.

Stranger Things

Leslie Morgenstein…executive producer (100 episodes, 2014-2020)

Jason Rothenberg…executive producer / producer (100 episodes, 2014-2020)

Tim Scanlan…producer / co-executive producer / supervising producer / co-producer (99 episodes, 2014-2020)

Jae Marchant…co-executive producer / producer (84 episodes, 2014-2019)

Dean White…supervising producer / executive producer / co-executive producer (70 episodes, 2014-2018)

Aaron Ginsburg…co-executive producer / producer / supervising producer (58 episodes, 2014-2018)

Wade McIntyre…co-executive producer / producer / supervising producer (58 episodes, 2014-2018)

Kira Snyder…producer / co-producer / supervising producer (44 episodes, 2014-2016)

Kim Shumway…executive producer / co-executive producer / producer (42 episodes, 2017-2020)

Emanuel Fidalgo…associate producer / co-producer (42 episodes, 2018-2020)

Miranda Kwok…supervising producer / co-producer / producer (42 episodes, 2018-2020)

Jeff Vlaming…co-executive producer / executive producer (42 episodes, 2018-2020)

Drew Lindo…co-executive producer / supervising producer (41 episodes, 2018-2020)

Charles Grant Craig…co-executive producer (32 episodes, 2014-2016)

Alyssa Clark…supervising producer / producer (29 episodes, 2019-2020)

Ed Fraiman…executive producer / co-executive producer (29 episodes, 2019-2020)

Bruce Miller…co-executive producer (28 episodes, 2014-2015)

Terri Hughes Burton…co-executive producer (26 episodes, 2017-2018)

Justine Juel Gillmer…co-producer / supervising producer (26 episodes, 2017-2018)

Javier Grillo-Marxuach…co-executive producer (16 episodes, 2016)

Sean Crouch…co-executive producer (16 episodes, 2020)

Charles Lyall…producer (16 episodes, 2020)

Erica Meredith…producer (16 episodes, 2020)

Michael Angeli…co-executive producer (13 episodes, 2014-2015)

James Thorpe…co-executive producer (13 episodes, 2014-2015)

Gina Girolamo…executive producer (13 episodes, 2014)

Matthew Miller…consulting producer / executive producer (13 episodes, 2014)

Morgan Gendel…co-executive producer (13 episodes, 2017)

Ron Milbauer…co-executive producer (13 episodes, 2017)

Heidi Cole McAdams…producer (13 episodes, 2018)

Charmaine De Grate…supervising producer (13 episodes, 2019)

Georgia Lee…producer (13 episodes, 2019)

Tracy Bellomo…co-producer (12 episodes, 2014)

T.J. Brady…producer (12 episodes, 2014)

Elizabeth Craft…executive producer (12 episodes, 2014)

Sarah Fain…executive producer (12 episodes, 2014)

Rasheed Newson…producer (12 episodes, 2014)

Donald Munro…co-producer (8 episodes, 2020)

Akela Cooper…co-producer (7 episodes, 2015)

Cheryl Dolins…executive producer (5 episodes, 2014)

Dieter Ismagil…associate producer (1 episode, 2014)

Bharat Nalluri…executive producer (1 episode, 2014)

The 100

Leslie Morgenstein…executive producer (100 episodes, 2014-2020)

Jason Rothenberg…executive producer / producer (100 episodes, 2014-2020)

Tim Scanlan…producer / co-executive producer / supervising producer / co-producer (99 episodes, 2014-2020)

Jae Marchant…co-executive producer / producer (84 episodes, 2014-2019)

Dean White…supervising producer / executive producer / co-executive producer (70 episodes, 2014-2018)

Aaron Ginsburg…co-executive producer / producer / supervising producer (58 episodes, 2014-2018)

Wade McIntyre…co-executive producer / producer / supervising producer (58 episodes, 2014-2018)

Kira Snyder…producer / co-producer / supervising producer (44 episodes, 2014-2016)

Kim Shumway…executive producer / co-executive producer / producer (42 episodes, 2017-2020)

Emanuel Fidalgo…associate producer / co-producer (42 episodes, 2018-2020)

Miranda Kwok…supervising producer / co-producer / producer (42 episodes, 2018-2020)

Jeff Vlaming…co-executive producer / executive producer (42 episodes, 2018-2020)

Drew Lindo…co-executive producer / supervising producer (41 episodes, 2018-2020)

Charles Grant Craig…co-executive producer (32 episodes, 2014-2016)

Alyssa Clark…supervising producer / producer (29 episodes, 2019-2020)

Ed Fraiman…executive producer / co-executive producer (29 episodes, 2019-2020)

Bruce Miller…co-executive producer (28 episodes, 2014-2015)

Terri Hughes Burton…Co-executive producer (26 episodes, 2017-2018)

Justine Juel Gillmer…co-producer / supervising producer (26 episodes, 2017-2018)

Javier Grillo-Marxuach…co-executive producer (16 episodes, 2016)

Sean Crouch…co-executive producer (16 episodes, 2020)

Charles Lyall…producer (16 episodes, 2020)

Erica Meredith…producer (16 episodes, 2020)

Michael Angeli…co-executive producer (13 episodes, 2014-2015)

James Thorpe…co-executive producer (13 episodes, 2014-2015)

Gina Girolamo…executive producer (13 episodes, 2014)

Matthew Miller…consulting producer / executive producer (13 episodes, 2014)

Morgan Gendel…co-executive producer (13 episodes, 2017)

Ron Milbauer…co-executive producer (13 episodes, 2017)

Heidi Cole McAdams…producer (13 episodes, 2018)

Charmaine De Grate…supervising producer (13 episodes, 2019)

Georgia Lee…producer (13 episodes, 2019)

Tracy Bellomo…co-producer (12 episodes, 2014)

T.J. Brady…producer (12 episodes, 2014)

Elizabeth Craft…executive producer (12 episodes, 2014)

Sarah Fain…executive producer (12 episodes, 2014)

Rasheed Newson…producer (12 episodes, 2014)

Donald Munro…co-producer (8 episodes, 2020)

Akela Cooper…co-producer (7 episodes, 2015)

Cheryl Dolins…executive producer (5 episodes, 2014)

Dieter Ismagil…associate producer (1 episode, 2014)

Bharat Nalluri…executive producer (1 episode, 2014)

Orphan Black

Kerry Appleyard…co-executive producer / executive producer (50 episodes, 2013-2017)

John Fawcett…executive producer (50 episodes, 2013-2017)

David Fortier…executive producer (50 episodes, 2013-2017)

Alex Levine…co-executive producer / co-producer / producer / supervising producer (50 episodes, 2013-2017)

Graeme Manson…executive producer (50 episodes, 2013-2017)

Ivan Schneeberg…executive producer (50 episodes, 2013-2017)

Claire Welland…producer (50 episodes, 2013-2017)

Mackenzie Donaldson…co-producer / associate producer (30 episodes, 2015-2017)

Tatiana Maslany…producer (30 episodes, 2015-2017)

Russ Cochrane…co-executive producer / consulting producer (26 episodes, 2014-2016)

Aubrey Nealon…co-producer / producer / co-executive producer (23 episodes, 2014-2016)

Karen Walton…co-executive producer (20 episodes, 2013-2014)

Jay Prychidny…consulting post producer / post producer (20 episodes, 2016-2017)

Will Pascoe…co-producer (10 episodes, 2013)

Karen Troubetzkoy…consulting producer (10 episodes, 2014)

Kate Melville…co-producer (10 episodes, 2015-2016)

Sherry White…consulting producer (10 episodes, 2015)

Chris Roberts…co-producer (10 episodes, 2016)

Andrea Boyd…supervising producer (10 episodes, 2017)

David Bezmozgis…co-producer (9 episodes, 2017)

Gregory Nelson…co-executive producer (9 episodes, 2017)

Jenn Engels…supervising producer (6 episodes, 2017)

Jeremy Boxen…co-executive producer (5 episodes, 2017)

Peter Mohan…co-executive producer (4 episodes, 2016)

Black Mirror

Charlie Brooker…producer / executive producer / executive producer (27 episodes, 2011-2023)

Annabel Jones…executive producer (27 episodes, 2011-2023)

Ian Hogan…co-producer / producer (12 episodes, 2016-2017)

Barney Reisz…producer / series producer (7 episodes, 2011-2014)

Emma Pike…line producer (6 episodes, 2011-2013)

Louise Sutton…consulting producer / producer (6 episodes, 2017-2023)

Joanne Crowther…line producer / co-producer (5 episodes, 2016-2017)

Bisha K. Ali…co-executive producer / executive producer (5 episodes, 2023)

Jessica Rhoades…executive producer (5 episodes, 2023)

Joel Stokes…co-producer / producer (5 episodes, 2023)

Laurie Borg…producer (3 episodes, 2016)

Nick Pitt…producer (3 episodes, 2017-2019)

Mark Kinsella…co-producer (3 episodes, 2019)

Sanne Wohlenberg…producer (2 episodes, 2016-2017)

Lucy Dyke…producer (2 episodes, 2016)

Daniel Kilroy…archive producer (2 episodes, 2016)

Mary McCarthy…line producer (2 episodes, 2016)

Andrew Chapman…line producer (2 episodes, 2017-2019)

Kelly Duffell…line producer (2 episodes, 2023)

Philip Clarke…head of comedy: Channel 4 (1 episode, 2014)

Kathy Nettleship…line producer (1 episode, 2014)

Rocky Bester…line producer (1 episode, 2016)

Genevieve Hofmeyr…executive producer (1 episode, 2016)

Angela Phillips…line producer (1 episode, 2016)

Benjamin Greenacre…line producer (1 episode, 2017)

Chris Lahr…line producer (1 episode, 2017)

Denis Pedregosa…executive producer (1 episode, 2017)

Salvador Yagüe…line producer (1 episode, 2017)

Madonna Baptiste…producer (1 episode, 2019)

Kate Glover…producer (1 episode, 2019)

Brett Wilson…line producer (1 episode, 2019)

Chio del Olmo…line producer (1 episode, 2023)

Georgina Lowe…producer (1 episode, 2023)

Alison Marlow…producer (1 episode, 2023)

Pam Roberts…line producer (1 episode, 2023)

Richard Webb…producer (1 episode, 2023)

Dan Winch…producer (1 episode, 2023)

Doctor Who (2005 version)

Steven Moffat…executive producer / showrunner / producer / executive producer (87 episodes, 2010-2017)

Julie Gardner…executive producer (73 episodes, 2005-2024)

Russell T. Davies…executive producer / executive producer / showrunner (72 episodes, 2005-2024)

Phil Collinson…producer / executive producer (64 episodes, 2005-2024)

Tracie Simpson…line producer / production executive / producer (52 episodes, 2009-2022)

Nikki Wilson…series producer / producer / co-executive producer / producer / producer: cold open (45 episodes, 2009-2022)

Steffan Morris…line producer (45 episodes, 2015-2022)

Brian Minchin…executive producer (44 episodes, 2013-2017)

Matt Strevens…executive producer (31 episodes, 2018-2022)

Chris Chibnall…executive producer (30 episodes, 2018-2022)

Piers Wenger…executive producer / executive producer (28 episodes, 2010-2011)

Ben Irving…executive producer: BBC / executive producer: BBC (28 episodes, 2018-2022)

Peter Bennett…producer / producer (28 episodes, 2010-2017)

Denise Paul…associate producer / script producer / producer / producer (28 episodes, 2011-2013)

Marcus Wilson…producer / producer / series producer (28 episodes, 2011-2013)

Beth Willis…executive producer (27 episodes, 2010-2011)

Diana Barton…line producer (22 episodes, 2010-2013)

Alex Mercer…producer (22 episodes, 2018-2021)

Helen Vallis…associate producer / associate producer (20 episodes, 2005-2006)

Ceres Doyle…post production producer (19 episodes, 2020-2022)

Caroline Skinner…executive producer (15 episodes, 2011-2013)

Mal Young…executive producer (13 episodes, 2005)

Patrick Schweitzer…line producer / producer (13 episodes, 2010)

Sam Hoyle…co-executive producer (11 episodes, 2018-2019)

Susie Liggat…producer / producer (7 episodes, 2007-2008)

Des Hughes…line producer (8 episodes, 2012-2013)

Sheena Bucktowonsing…associate producer / producer (8 episodes, 2021-2022)

Derek Ritchie…producer / producer (5 episodes, 2015)

Adam Friedlander…producer: South Africa (4 episodes, 2018-2020)

Catrin Lewis Defis…associate producer (3 episodes, 2008-2010)

Sanne Wohlenberg…producer (3 episodes, 2010-2011)

David Mason…line producer: US / line producer: New York (3 episodes, 2011-2012)

Pete Levy…producer (3 episodes, 2021)

Joel Collins…executive producer (3 episodes, 2023)

Jane Tranter…executive producer (3 episodes, 2023)

Debbi Slater…associate producer (2 episodes, 2009)

Paul Frift…producer (2 episodes, 2014)

Alan Shearer…line producer: South Africa (2 episodes, 2018)

Samantha Putter…line producer: South Africa (2 episodes, 2020)

Guido Cerasuolo…line producer: Italy (1 episode, 2008)

Phillipa Cole…line producer (1 episode, 2013)

Faith Penhale…executive producer (1 episode, 2013)

Jacquie Glanville…head of production (1 episode, 2020)

David Tuohy…co-executive producer (uncredited) (1 episode, 2015)

Post your title, logline, genre, and the answers to #1 and #2 above on the forums.

Title: None of the Above

Logline: When non-politician James Wong changes his name to None of the Above and runs for president, can he become the right person to stop doomsday?

Genre: Science Fiction Thriller

[Wendy Weising]

Wendy Weising’s Target Market

What I learned doing this assignment is I can gather a ton of names, but I’m not sure how I am going to contact these people.

Space Blind

An abused housewife becomes a ruthless warrior to save her children when she wakes up without them in a “hospital” where aliens are consuming humans to survive, finding out later that she too is an alien, she must also defeat the aliens’ Old Regime to save humans from extinction and free her people from oppression.

1 & 2. Make a list of five or more movies that are similar to yours and five actors that you might want to play your lead characters. Come up with producers.

Shows:

The Man in the High Castle

The Peripheral

The Expanse

Lost in Space

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Actors:

Molly Parker as Jane March

The Wicker Man

Wormwood

Confinement

The Road

Peter Pan and Wendy

Elizabeth Mitchell as Dr. Jones

The Purge: Election Year

Lost

Frequency

First Kill

James Bigwood…producer (8 episodes, 2022)

Wendy Coulas…consulting producer (8 episodes, 2022)

Felicia D. Henderson…executive producer (8 episodes, 2022)

Matthew Matruski…producer (8 episodes, 2022)

Miguel Nolla…co-producer (8 episodes, 2022)

Karah Preiss…executive producer (8 episodes, 2022)

Emma Roberts…executive producer (8 episodes, 2022)

V.E. Schwab…executive producer (8 episodes, 2022)

Jet Wilkinson…executive producer (2 episodes, 2022)

The Expanse

Burn Gorman as Dr. Zyn

Pacific Rim: Uprising

Halo

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Undergods

Torchwood

Mallory James Mahoney as Ava

Hana Mae Lee as Polly

The Man in the High Castle

Director

Dirty War

The State Within

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon

Lead Characters

Alexa Devalos

The Mist as Sally: Produced by

Raines as Sandy Boudreau

The Chronicles of Riddick as Kyra

Rufus Sewell

Continuum as Gabriel

Lee Kim…producer (produced by)

Old

Rise as Colonel Briggs

Arman Cole…co-producer

Vincent John Conti…associate producer (as Vincent Conti)

Trevor Engelson…producer

Steven Louis Goldenberg…line producer

Roy Lee…producer

Damien Mazza…associate producer

Michel Pensas…associate producer / executive producer

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter as Adam

Luke Kleintank

Person of Interest as Caleb Phipps

Dark House as Nick Di Santo

No Ordinary Family as Chris Minor