STRINGERS: A & E Pilot
J. Barlow: exec. prod. / shooter / director / editor
Created by Barlow & Boccaccio
Production Co: Creative Differences
In order to sell this action-packed docusoap, Boccaccio & I produced a sizzle reel: Stringers. We filmed these crazy “shooters” in the line of duty: riding shotgun in speeding cars, chasing fires, and dodging bullets in Compton. As tough as I pretended to be, it scared the piss out of me!
After we sold the concept to A & E, I swore I wasn’t ever getting back in those speeding cars again. But the “pro crew” we hired on the pilot weren’t quite capturing the magic we had imagined. So we got back in the damn cars and shot most of the pilot ourselves-- with Uncle Bob, (our supervising producer!-- a genius behind the camera. A year later, Boccaccio and I helped negotiate a deal for the talent so that Court TV could launch the subsequent T.V. series, entitled, Stringers, Los Angeles. This action packed series ran for two seasons.
