Over at Comics Related, Russell Burlingame talks to The Homeless Channel creator Matt Silady about the similarities between his book and the old TV show Sports Night … which isn’t the first time that comparison has been made:
The Homeless Channel follows Darcy Shaw, an idealistic and motivated young television executive whose idea for a 24-hour television channel dedicated to reality programming centered around homeless people springs to life when she gets funding from Infinicorp, a big, anonymous corporation whose principal output is never revealed. It’s not unlike Continental Corp, the fictional corporation that owned sports network CSC in the critically-acclaimed Aaron Sorkin TV comedy SportsNight. That’s not an accident—when I first met Silady at this summer’s Small Press Expo in Washington, DC, my Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip baseball cap caught his eye and he engaged me in conversation about Sorkin’s work. Silady says of SportsNight, “When I watched that show, I found the characters to be wonderfully three-dimensional. At the same time, they tended to have an idealism that was very appealing to me in the midst of our hyper-cynical society. I tried my best to inject some of those same characteristics into the cast of The Homeless Channel.”
February 13th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
In Russell Burlingame’s next column he interviews Jonathan Hickman of “The Nightly News,” about TNN and what comes next. It will go live at Comic Related on Feb 22nd.
February 13th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Hey! I’m on Newsarama!
February 14th, 2008 at 2:13 am
Matt wrote an excellent book. That it’s his first is terrifying. Check it out.