Live @ Five is a hilarious lampooning of the TV news business. A washed-up former network news anchor hires a nightclub stripper and manufactures a crisis at an old folks home, exploiting sex appeal and a combustable news story to revive his career and save a small town news operation from the ratings graveyard.
Live @ Five is a hilarious lampooning of the TV news business. A washed-up former network news anchor hires a nightclub stripper and manufactures a cr...
Larry Brill takes a step back-back in time that is-to imagine what today's TV news would have looked like if it had been invented back in the days of Charles Dickens. The result is a hilarious romp through jolly old England, following the misadventures of a common street performer, a patterer named Leeds Merriweather. Lightning strikes, in the form of a drunken, chance encounter with Benjamin Franklin, and Leeds is inspired to assemble a zany cast of characters to become history's first celebrity newscaster. But at the peak of his meteoric rise to fame and fortune, Leeds has to risk it all...
Larry Brill takes a step back-back in time that is-to imagine what today's TV news would have looked like if it had been invented back in the days of ...
The Patterer is a satire of today's TV news business, imagining what it might have been like if invented by a smart aleck street performer in 18th century London. Leeds Merriweather is inspired to create the Live News Performance after a chance, drunken encounter with Benjamin Franklin. He hires a zany cast of characters to pull it off and achieves fame as history's first news broadcaster, only to risk it all in a scandalous relationship with a conniving wench.
The Patterer is a satire of today's TV news business, imagining what it might have been like if invented by a smart aleck street performer in 18th cen...
