Ethan Banville

Team Johnny Test!

ethancms — Sat, 12 May 2012 00:26:36 +0000

Excited to say I handed in my outline a few days ago for an episode of Johnny Test! Very excited. Really love the show. In the meantime, I’m waiting to go to outline on my next Grojband and am currently outlining a project for Westwind, with my buddy Mike Kiss. Lots of writing, lots of fun!

Quote of the day

ethancms — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:54:04 +0000

“Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.” – Ted Williams

“Show Business is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed one time out of a thousand and be considered a good performer.” – Me

The latest…

ethancms — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:50:52 +0000

Been working my butt off, writing up a storm. Just finished a new spec 2 Broke Girls and am ready for staffing season!

In the meantime, had a great pitch with Cartoon Network a couple of weeks back and am going in to pitch Disney Animation on Monday.

As for paid work, I’m continuing with a few more freelances on Grojband (thanks Fresh!) and have been pitching episode ideas to the Story Editor on Johnny Test. Show’s a lot of fun. Fingers crossed for that!

2 Broke Girls spec

ethancms — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:28:06 +0000

2 Broke Girls “And The White Whale” – Desperate to escape her new life as a waitress and get back to being rich again, Caroline comes up with a plan to get their company going by offering dividends in cupcakes to investors. But the plan quickly goes south when she offers up a bigger pay out than they can deliver and they quickly find themselves struggling to find a way out of going belly up or worse, going to jail like her father for fraud.

Quick Turnaround

ethancms — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:04:09 +0000

Just got back from a blazing round of meetings and pitches. Good meetings all around with great production companies. To top it off it looks like me and my buddy Mike have been hired to develop a tween comedy with West Wind, Anton Leo and director Brian K. Roberts. In other news, I signed with a new agent in LA, Paul Weitzman at Preferred artists. With him in the states and Jennifer Hollyer in Toronto, the future looks busy and bright. Now back to the writing.

Long time coming… update!

ethancms — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:32:02 +0000

Okay, so after finishing on Really Me season 2, I was fortunate to start freelancing on Grojband. In the meantime I’m happy to say I’ve optioned a pitch to Jeff and Jesse at Sudden Storm Entertainment. Be talking to them next week about developing the pitch doc more before we start shopping it around. On top of that, a buddy of mine and I have been asked to develop a kids’ series! Very exciting. Haven’t got the official offer yet, but it looks promising. Also I’ve had the opportunity of meeting on two great shows in the last month. Great people, great ideas and great shows. Fingers crossed I land on one of those since that’d be a hat trick!

Finally, I had the amazing opportunity to sit in a final mix session with David Kendall, Paula Hart and my old pal Scott Hartle. I was only there for a few hours, but really learned a lot about what to look for at that point in the post process. It’s really amazing what an ear and eye EPs develop for well, everything! Somehow, like a fly with a thousand eyes, they see little continuity stuff and hear ambient sound differences that a dog wouldn’t even pick up on. Thanks to them, now I know what to watch and listen for. And knowing is half the battle. Isn’t it, G.I. Joe? Go Joe!

Busy, busy, busy…

ethancms — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:19:12 +0000

Just finished three months on the second season of Family Channel’s hit show “Really Me.” I was fortunate to have my boss represent her and the room in all the production meetings as well as covering for her on the floor when she was unavailable. Both were great opportunities and I learned a lot about being a showrunner and how to work with production to make our room’s scripts come in on time and on budget and of course as we envisioned. Working on the floor with the directors and actors was a treat as well. Really helped me put my brain in producer mode, keeping an eye on continuity, making sure the performances reflected the mandate from the network and production company and of course that we got the jokes performed exactly how we wanted. The great part was our cast always surprised me with a different take on a joke and even found jokes where we didn’t expect them. I’m starting next week as a freelancer on yet another Fresh TV show, “Grojband.” Looking forward to playing with new characters and continuing to work with my pals at Fresh.

My Babysitter’s A Vampire continues to slay in the U.S.!

ethancms — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:20:09 +0000

Gotta love that I had to go to Canada to write on a hit U.S. show.

http://www.usmagazine.com/moviestvmusic/news/us-weekend-guide-my-babysitters-a-vampire-is-a-family-favorite-2011258

Gemini Nominations!

ethancms — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 02:21:59 +0000

Great show I wrote an episode for, “My Babysitter’s A Vampire” which is doing huge numbers on Disney, just got nominated for a Gemini! Go MBV!

http://kidscreen.com/2011/08/03/and-the-2011-gemini-awards-nominees-are/

View from 30,000 feet or 9,144 meters

ethancms — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 05:54:17 +0000

Ain’t it lovely?
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