I got a letter from Baby cow after a month, can't fault them speedy reply.
Unanswered Emails To Certain Telly People Page 2
Quote: Gavin @ May 7 2008, 8:01 PM BSTI got a letter from Baby cow after a month, can't fault them speedy reply.
I like the pic Gav. You look good blowing.
Baby Cow do seem pretty quick.
They couldn't open my email either, so I had to post a hard copy on!
I had an experience that took the biscuit a few weeks back... a producer e-mailed me out of the blue asking if I was interested and available to join a writing team working on a comedy drama. I replied yes and yes, and asked for more info on the project. After a nail-biting week hearing nothing back ( maybe he's on holiday?.. maybe he's been abducted by aliens?..) I e-mailed him again, and he replied almost straight away with a 'thanks for your interest, but I've got a more experienced comedy writer now'.
How I laughed.
Quote: Stylo @ May 7 2008, 8:56 PM BSTI had an experience that took the biscuit a few weeks back... a producer e-mailed me out of the blue asking if I was interested and available to join a writing team working on a comedy drama. I replied yes and yes, and asked for more info on the project. After a nail-biting week hearing nothing back ( maybe he's on holiday?.. maybe he's been abducted by aliens?..) I e-mailed him again, and he replied almost straight away with a 'thanks for your interest, but I've got a more experienced comedy writer now'.
How I laughed.
I think I had that same guy, after I said I was interested he said hed come back after some 'meeting' with the BBC with more info; but Im not holding my breath! Too many things have come to naught recently to get hopes up, I think its best to just assume youre going to get kicked in the nuts!
Quote: Matthew Stott @ May 7 2008, 9:05 PM BSTI think I had that same guy
I think I had that same guy, too. I thought I was special, now I feel violated...
Someone told me a few years back - and I'm using his exact words here - "A lot of producers are arseholes. Big, hairy arseholes."
Mind you he was a producer too, so...
I sent a 10 page sample and synopsis to a company almost 2 months ago. In their subs guidelines, they ask for a month before any chasing as they intend to reply to everyone within a month. So I waited over six weeks and sent a very polite chaser, forwarding the first email. I got an almost immediate reply apologising that nobody had looked at it yet and that they'd get back to me as soon as they could.
At least they haven't read it and rejected it!
I my experience, if an email goes more than a few days unanswered - it ain't getting answered.
Perry, is that fair or would you disagree?
I think not replying - even with a no - is so frustrating, and I wish emails were given the same gravitas as phoning.
Quote: Seefacts @ May 12 2008, 7:38 PM BSTI my experience, if an email goes more than a few days unanswered - it ain't getting answered.
Perry, is that fair or would you disagree?
I think not replying - even with a no - is so frustrating, and I wish emails were given the same gravitas as phoning.
I think that's fair to a degree, yes. There are always exceptions though. Basically what it is, people hate giving bad news and so prefer to stick their head in the sand and hope it'll go away. Just human nature really, I've done it myself.
But that don't make it any less annoying.
I don't necessarily think that's true but it depends on what you're sending and to whom. I nearly got a script moving a bit back and it took several weeks to get a phone call from the second producer to look at it and ask me in for a meeting, simply because they were busy and hadn't had a chance to look at it.
The best advice I was ever given was send some stuff off and then forget about it and move on to the next thing - then the waiting doesn't seem so tortuously long.
Quote: Perry Nium @ May 7 2008, 5:33 PM BSTNot really, no. Just venting some frustration.
I know this to be untrue.
My friend once sent a really rude email to a work colleague then realised she'd sent it to another branch manager belonging to the company.
The day after she rang intending to apologise but was told the manager had left and no one had access to her email, which had the company's name in the address, it just became defunct
By Telly People, do you mean actors or tv repairmen?