Do I keep the rights?
To the idea, yes, always. If we make it together we agree the terms in writing before the pilot, and the host keeps editorial control of their own show.
Pitch us a show
Pitches are read every second Monday by three people. You get an answer either way, with a reason, and you keep everything you sent.
What we are looking for
The two shows we took from pitches had almost nothing in common except that in both cases we could hear the person before we understood the idea. A format can be fixed in production. A voice cannot be installed.
Specific beats broad every time. “Greek music” is not a show. “The people who ran the record shops on Panepistimiou between 1978 and 1995” is a show, and it is one we would listen to.
What happens next
Straight answers
To the idea, yes, always. If we make it together we agree the terms in writing before the pilot, and the host keeps editorial control of their own show.
No. If we take it, you record in Studio B with our kit and our engineer. A voice memo is enough for the pitch itself.
Yes, and say so plainly. Two of our current hosts arrived that way rather than with an idea.
No. We do not make shows out of pitches we turn down, and the two we took were made with the people who pitched them.
The pitch
Answer them the way you would explain the show to a friend in a bar. If you have a recording, even one made on a phone in a kitchen, link it.
Homework
The most useful sentence in a pitch is the one that says where your show would sit next to the eight we already make — and what none of them are doing.
Before you send
Eight shows, recorded in person. Everything published here is also transcribed.