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Acclaim Announces TV Contest Winners
Acclaim TV has announced their TV Contest winners for Fall/Winter 2008:
PILOT/MOW CATEGORY
WINNER
SHIFTING GEARS by Sarah Newman (pilot; drama)
A young female race car driver receives a second chance behind the wheel, but she'll have to learn to balance the world of racing and her small-town family life.
FINALISTS
THE CONFESSION by Jim Macak (MOW; drama)
A female attorney teams up with a young cop on a disability leave with AIDS to clear a mentally handicapped man of a murder charge.
CARDIAC CARE by A.J. Devlin (pilot; comedy)
After suffering a heart attack, a high strung basketball coach joins a monthly crew in a cardiac care program.
TRIBES by Michael D. Zungolo (pilot; drama)
Instability and paranoia invade two communities when a farmland is occupied by a cult.
TWO HARBORS by Jim Macak (pilot; drama)
A deputy, still reeling from a bitter divorce, seeks a haven for her two boys in an isolated community on Catalina Island.
SIDES by Jennifer Bogush (pilot; comedy-drama)
Seven aspiring actors try to realize their dreams in New York.
SPEC SCRIPT CATEGORY
WINNER
CALIFORNICATION by Simeon Goulden
"Past Imperfect/Future Conditional"
Hank returns to the Big Apple to meet with a publisher and is offered a huge advance for his next work--provided he stay in New York.
FINALISTS
DEXTER by Charlie Robinson
"Hunters and Gatherers"
30 ROCK by Devanshi Patel
"No Soap Radio"
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS by Michael Adams
"Baby Bumps"
BOSTON LEGAL by Kathy Lange
"Golden Shower?"
IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA by Danny Palumbo
"The Gang Goes Too Far"
Updated: 02/22/2009
Additional Contest Info:
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!FAUSTIAN
After a string of suspicious celebrity deaths, an obsessed detective must protect a fragile pop starlet and other notable targets of an eccentric stalker who claims to be able to cancel deals with the devil they've unknowingly made.
THE FAT LADY SINGS
When a small time private investigator gets a chance at the big time taking on a prominent politician’s wife’s case; neither realizes they are in way over their heads, the political party has been shadowing her, and will do anything to protect her husband, a presumed future presidential candidate.
Fingertips
A Psychological Horror With a twist of a psychotic individual suffering from psychosocial issues has an imaginary friend that’s part of his hallucinations his Imaginary friend is his British father a young proud to be American, forgets his medication after collecting it from a Pharmacy he causes a lot of mayhem around his area he thinks the worlds in his fingertips he chases down social media Influencers and artists by hacking and tracking their location constantly talking to himself as he hallucinates thinking He can see his British Father is around him, Kevin ends up with a chainsaw and gets a few round kills with his Chainsaw he stole from an old granny.
A Cracker in East Harlem
JIMMY J is 50 and has lived in the same East Harlem building for more than half of his life.
Free Sports Radio
Two Filipino-American brothers purchase a radio station in a small city, dreaming of commercial free sports talk, but their ambitious, younger sister has bigger plans for herself and the station.
Desert Quarry
Two mercenaries rob a former colleague's New York jewelry shop to even a score, but after the shop’s employees are found murdered, a deadly bank heist in Iraq begins to haunt them.
Perfect Contrition
A traumatized priest haunted by visions of his violent past obligingly serves a rural parish while indulging in a long distance affair, but his vindictive compulsion is sparked when he’s wrongly blamed for the deaths of two troubled altar boys.
LA Nights
It is 1973, and Quick operates an upscale after-hours establishment in West Los Angeles alongside his socialite son, Dizzy.
The Coventry Deception
After a crisis thrusts him into the presidency, Robert Gorley confronts the challenges of leadership as he deals with a power struggle, an assassination attempt, and a ruthless terrorist plot to launch multiple attacks on US soil.
Untouchable!
A blonde bombshell in stainless steel becomes a femme fatale - a relentless tiger with razor-sharp-toothed-pen spilling blood across the pages leaving nowhere, for the perpetrators - to turn - to hide - no 'out'! .
