John Harlan

The new manager of a television station uses some unique programming tactics to compete with a rival channel.

Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man -- Imagine becoming the top writer for Playboy in your twenties... Imagine being a mainstay for the ground-breaking Twilight Zone series... Imagine verging on the cusp of a major film writing career... Then imagine a mysterious illness stealing your mind. That is exactly what happened to Charles Beaumont. At the peak of his creative powers at age 38, he descended into a maelstrom of neurological and psychological havoc, never to return... In this powerful film, the details of his meteoric, short life are revealed: featuring exclusive interviews with Ray Bradbury, William F. Nolan, John Shirley, Richard Matheson, Forrest J Ackerman, William Shatner, Roger Corman, Harlan Ellison and many others who knew and worked with Beaumont.

How to Make a Film -- Five years after they began shooting and unable to agree on how to complete their 'Verite' film-making masterclass, Executive Producers Seumas Next and Stephan Kern discovered Alan Smithee, a 'West Coast Woody Allen', to finish their amazing 'How to' film. How to Make a Film features the greatest array of film-making experts ever assembled; acclaimed talent responsible for 33 Oscars, over $11 billion Box Office, thousands of Film Festival awards and even a Nobel Peace Prize. The world's first instructional feature film reveals everything you need to know about film-making in just 83 minutes. This film will make you, and by you, I mean me, an instant Hollywood success Alan Smithee. Elliot Grove, Syd Field, Dov S S Simens, John Truby, Mike Figgis, Chris Jones, Jan Harlan, Irvine Welsh, Alki David, Lord David Puttnam, Pat Ferns, Peter Goers, Chris Adams, Sandra Hebron, Rob McDade, Leofric Kingsford-Smith, Alan Smithee, John Landis but not Bruce Nauman or Robert McKee. If only we followed our own advice it would have saved us five years of banging our heads together. Seumas Next I just want an Oscar or my money back. Stephan Kern