Just four months after the first-ever Independent Television Festival
(ITVF) debuted in Los Angeles, NBC and other television networks have
come calling. Now, participants attached to the festival are already
making their mark on Hollywood. After rave reviews from insiders,
judges and critics at July’s inaugural Independent Television
Festival
Presented by Comcast, festival award recipients are meeting with
network executives to pen deals.

ITVF organizers just received word that last year’s Audience Favorite
Award Winner, This Is My Friend, has been commissioned by NBC.
Development heads have bought a script from the sitcom’s fledgling
writers/creators, Eric Edelstein, Jake Johnson and Jeremy Konner. That
script will be based on the This Is My Friend original pilot screened
at the inaugural Independent Television Festival. If executives give
the script the green light, Edelstein, Johnson and Konner could find
themselves in the position of writer/producer for NBC’s next big
sitcom.

For more information on the next Independent Television Festival, visit
www.itvfest.org and don’t forget to join us at the 2007 festival.
Organizers began accepting submissions January 10th!

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