Formats in development by Ben Austro
Game/contest formats
- Revival of classic game show format
Length: 1-hour episodes- Full treatment
- 3 episodes written
- Ready for immediate pitch/testing
- Active preliminary discussions with rights holders
- Website domain and Twitter handle reserved with placeholder information
- Extensive social media and mobile app synergies
- Original game format
- Length: 30-minute episodes
- Traditional studio format
- Under development, 2 episodes loosely planned
- Season contest/reality-style game
- Length: 13 1-hour episodes
- Field produced, involves extensive travel (potentially cross-country)
- Under development, 3 episodes loosely planned
Serial documentary/nonfiction
- Science & innovation
- Length: 14 hour-long episodes in conceptual stage, so far.
- Initial treatment ready for pitch
- History & current events/humanities
- Length: 10–20 hour-long episodes possible, with further expansion on the current episode lines.
- Under development, may require licensing of related published work
- History and speculative “alternate history”
- Length: 10–20 hour-long episodes possible, with further expansion on the current episode lines.
- Early development
Miscellaneous
- Non-game quiz with audience participation
- Length: 1–2 hours
- Single episode special broadcast
- Early development
- Social media tie-ins
Feel free to reach out to discuss development opportunities using the form below.