Earlier this year, I wrote about a new female-themed online series Dating in LA and Other Urban Myths, based on the popular blog of the same name that can be found here] from writer/producer Patricia Steffy, that went into production with the pilot being shot over the summer.
My fellow blogger – you can find her site here and friend Danielle Turchiano, also known as DanielleTBD on Twitter, was the director of this pilot and she recently made a sizzle reel to spotlight the pilot with the hopes to build buzz to not only attract an audience but also to lock in distribution (sponsors and financiers) to help complete season one.
Dating in LA and Other Urban Myths will tell the story of Kate Holt (to be played by Steffy) who is lost. While Kate is an educated, successful business woman, she finds herself stymied when it comes to navigating the seemingly endless set of pitfalls inherent to the dating scene in Los Angeles. After all, no one comes to Los Angeles to find love, people here barely find like. Songs of found love are written about San Francisco or New York, not Los Angeles for a very good reason: L.A. is where dating comes to die.
Perhaps she has spent too much time wandering through literary realities, but as Kate begins her journey, she fervently longs for more formal times where intentions were declared before fluids were exchanged. And she would very much like to understand why a sane person, who would never pick up a hitchhiker, does not think twice about going home with a stranger met in a bar.
But these are the scenarios Kate is thrust into upon receiving an email from The EX proclaiming his joy at becoming engaged to someone he has known but briefly—a fact particularly difficult for Kate to reconcile given the decade she spent dating him.
Dating in L.A. and Other Urban Myths will follow Kate as she tries to accept the advice of her friends: she will now have to date in L.A. despite the reality that she is not 21, not a supermodel, and can’t comprehend why anyone thinks anal bleaching is good idea.
The cast of this new web series will also include actress Lesley Fera, best known for her recurring role of Veronica Hastings on the popular ABC Family drama Pretty Little Liars, as Penelope, a “no nonsense” type who thinks the world would be better off with less therapy and more common sense; General Hospital star Jen Lilley, who will play Chloe, a wholesome, unintentional self-saboteur with a flair for both the dramatic and the romantic; actor Kristoffer Polaha, best known for his recent work on Ringer and Life Unexpected, who will play Alex, an intelligent, handsome man who is incredibly supportive of his long-term, live-in girlfriend, Penelope (Lesley Fera); and actress Tamara Taylor, who has starred on the FOX drama Bones since 2006, who will play Sadie, a waitress/wannabe celebrity, who has a certain moral flexibility and is very matter of fact about what (and who) she wants in life.
Here is the sizzle reel for Dating in LA and Other Urban Myths.
You can also help spread the word about Dating in LA and Other Urban Myths by following the production on Twitter at @datinglaseries and on Tumblr here.
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