I’ve always been drawn to the parts on old maps that depict sea monsters – here be dragons – or simply the unknown. We have an ultima thule print hanging in the living room as a reminder that there’s a lot of world out there. So it struck me as marvelous that there are maps of the known world drawn up to ward off further investigation. And it seemed fitting to mention the map below as I’m off again to Ireland tomorrow:

…the country still looks more attractive than the rest of Europe

Context as always is everything. I found this via Lloyd’s I’ve said too much. Another blogger I wish would say a lot more.

So yes, Ireland. It’s been a lot of fun working with Ciaran. Tomorrow and Thursday we’ll attempt to wrap up the initial phase of concept building, but everything looks in good shape ahead of getting the pilot written.

I’m back in London for one (busy) day before heading out to LA on Saturday. Not as much time to blog as I’d like, but I’ll try and do a little brain dumping between now and then.

I’m currently throwing a bag together for an early morning flight as I’ll be spending a few days in Ireland to work on a new (sorta secret) project. While SLINGERS sits with the network (can’t spill any beans yet, but we’re getting there) I’m taking the opportunity to get stuck into something… criminal.

This offer came in a roundabout way via SLINGERS (suddenly being taken seriously by people who have been doing this for a long time is very cool) and breaks down into myself and an industry pro squirreled away putting this new concept together. Already had a preliminary meeting that went really well and this week we begin working on the framework. When we’re happy with that we’ll start throwing some meat on the bones.

We just started work on the other shows on the Sleepydog slate and there are some really well received concepts now starting to maneuver into position behind SLINGERS. Can’t talk about any of them yet, but I’ll be using the blog as a research dump for some of them as we start to bulk them up. The work I’m doing now goes quite a bit beyond writer, but that’s something I’ll get around talking about once I have the time.

Hoping to be back in LA in February – some really interesting meetings already lined up and I hope I can talk about some of that stuff as it unfolds. Then as a sort-of break I’ll be heading to Portland in March to catch some of Con-Con before driving down to San Francisco for a little road-trip (and research).

Couple of meet-ups too I expect…

Lots of time to fill in hotel rooms between now and April which is generally good news for sizemore.co.uk. Also starting to pile up a few posts in draft form and have an ever growing list of blog fodder to get through.

You have been warned.

Short hop to Ireland to talk to one of the guys behind The Tudors.

Seems the little buzz we created at Cannes and LA has spread to Dublin. Slingers, although made for American TV initially, will be a Canadian/Irish co-production so this is really good news that we get to go out there early and learn a few things.

A lot of things probably.

Pretty pictures and more news when I get back. In the meantime, go watch Star Trek.