To many How-Do readers the highs, lows, back-stabbing, cheek-kissing and, dare we say it (dare, dare!), unfettered bitchiness of much of the PR industry must seem like one long soap opera that just doesn’t want to quit. Well, now that drama is finally set to come to a small screen very near you.
We’re not talking Ab Fab comedy time here, but rather an online soap opera – apparently only the third ever – that is set to document the ‘trials, triumphs, love and losses’ of a young PR professional working in Manchester’s dynamic industry scene.
Spinning Jenny, as it is set to be called (a big, shiny ‘well done’ to the first to spot the Manchester link), is currently in development at Silk Press Productions and will have its own website www.spinningjenny.tv as well as appearing on the increasingly popular www.manchester-live.tv site.
Jenny – auditions are taking place next Monday (17 March) for the central role – will be a young girl in her early 20s working at one of the city’s leading PR firms… Brazen to be precise.
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Her exploits will be available twice weekly, in 4 to 5 minute episodes, and, according to series producer Colin Bannon are set to be “as new for British dram as the Street was in the 1950s.”
He continued: “At the moment we are working on the pilot for the series, which viewers will be able to access via Manchester-live from next month. The series proper, together with the website, starts this summer."
"Forget cobbles, flatcaps and crime," Bannon added, "our drama is light, fun and based on the reality of current city centre living.”
For its part Brazen has agreed to place Jenny within its working environment and regular scenes will be shot at the agency’s HQ
Brazen’s acting MD Rick Guttridge said the team was “ excited to be involved in this ground breaking web project.”
Budding actors wishing to be considered for the cast (although perhaps not those from rival agencies) should contact Colin Bannon at manchester_live@btinternet.com.
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