Tontine

When Toyah Wilcox is interested in getting involved in a television quiz show project, you join up at once! This is what happened nearly two years ago. With Colin David, who created the game basics, Player shot a run-through on with Toyah at the helm, using friends and relatives as contestants. When we analysed the game, we decided massive surgery was needed. Armed with a

sleeker game play and more fully formed visual concept, we briefed a props designer, commissioned a beautiful frock for Toyah, booked the Cafe de Paris, a three camera shoot with big lighting rig and a hatful of production assistants, not to mention Suggs in disguise as the Angel of Death and shot a proper taster for the show. Some weeks later, after some generous assistance with editing and post, the DVD was born and duly celebrated.

We then decided the game play still needed refining. Why we couldn’t have seen this BEFORE shooting this expensive taster, I don’t know, but that’s what happens with this kind of show. So we re-wrote it again, re-voiced it and re-cut it to create a new game just re-shooting a small element. Tontine is now out with our agents Berlin Associates to place it with for UK broadcast. We are currently in talks with a couple of major indies.