ANN ARBOR – “Cancel Me,” a new TV pilot set to begin production in Michigan, is the brainchild of creator/director Avery Koenig, an Ann Arbor resident. The show will be the first for Koenig’s Ann Arbor based production company Awkward Dragons LLC.
The production is scheduled to commence this month, bringing together an ensemble of talented individuals to create a groundbreaking show that promises to captivate audiences with its unique blend of comedy and social commentary.
“Cancel Me” follows the antics of America’s most popular home renovation show host who is determined to get her Detroit-based show canceled (without getting caught), but not if her biggest fan, and newest intern, can stop her.
The show features 25 actors and all but two are from the Ann Arbor area. local. The entire crew is local.
Producers hope to pitch the show to networks and have it picked up as a series. They are also planning to submit it to festivals nationwide.
“Cancel Me is a show about cancel culture, which to me means being more obsessed with punishing people than actually helping them,” says Koenig, an award-winning writer/director with over 40 accolades for his work. “It’s worrying about language and symbols while ignoring the principles of justice and compassion. It’s about being obsessed with symbolic change and completely ignoring substantive change. In Cancel Me we are trying to challenge all of that. Through comedy we are trying to create a world with more love and more laughter and less condemnation and less cancelation.”
The main character, Kat, was once an aspiring theater actress, who reluctantly found herself hosting “Break it or Buy It” as a temporary gig, only for it to unexpectedly become a massive hit, thwarting her chances of being cast in any other role. Assisting Kat in her mission is Chris, a cynical, womanizing producer, and Matt, her loving nerd of a husband, who created the show, but supports Kat’s desire to see it end.
However, no matter their greatest attempts at failure, ratings continue to soar. To make matters worse, new intern Missy is on a mission to see the show succeed and make a name for herself in television.
The Cancel Me screenplay qualified as a semifinalist in the Los Angeles International Screenplay Competition, the International Screenwriting Associations Emerging Screenwriters contest, and the Austin Film Festival!
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