Comedy Central’s “Test Pilots” Competition

4/11/2006 1:00:00 PM
Comedy Central and IFILM are collaborating to launch “Test Pilots,” an online competition giving anybody the chance to submit their original one-to five-minute pilots online at www.comedycentral.com, according to a report by Broadcasting & Cable. The network will pick three entries every week to stream online and be eligible for voting by visitors to the site. The most popular pilot of the week will move on as one of four semi-finalists. The final competition’s grand-prize winner will be chosen by a Comedy Central panel of judges and will receive a development deal to produce an episodic series on the chuckle channel’s broadband video website, “MotherLoad.”
Comedy Central’s Senior VP of Original Programming and Development, Lou Wallach, says, “We get throngs of emails and calls telling us, ‘I have the best show for Comedy Central.’ Well, now is their chance to prove it.”
IFILM, the online video-entertainment site (also owned by the Viacom / MTV / Comedy Central conglomerate) will host submissions.The competition will accept any format video from live action to animation to sketch to hidden-camera, from May 22-August 24.
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