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JEB : THE PEN IS MIGHTY
Adult animation
"Running away with the story, before the facts can catch us up." A would-be hard-hitting topical magazine programme is ruined by a cast of amateurish fame-hungry freaks.
This is a turnkey project and we are currently seeking co-production and broadcasting partners. A pilot episode has been completed and a full season outline and comprehensive script materials are ready for immediate review.
JEB is already a cult comedy figure online. He has starred in more than 60 short films, which have attracted an audience of nearly 100 million people, and scooped several awards, including the Mobile and Internet TV Comedy Award at MIPCOM.
The Pen Is Mighty is an animated situation comedy taking the form of an ill-conceived magazine programme staffed by some of the least qualified wannabe celebrities, dropouts and sideshow oddities broadcasting has ever endured.
The deteriorating relationship between the show’s emotionally entangled hosts, JEB and his fiancée Jo Seldom, continually steers the programme off script and a cast of deranged correspondents and vociferous but deluded guests do little to rescue it.
Attempting to juxtapose banal lifestyle whimsy with flailing attempts at heavyweight reportage invariably causes the show to deteriorate into a floundering melange of ignorance and incompetence, which the cast battle through with delightful disregard to their own stupidity.
TPIM is fast-paced and furiously inventive, building on a multi-layered style of comedy which has been the foundation of JEB’s success for over two decades. As a hybrid sitcom-cum-sketch-show it combines story elements with the flexibility and innovation of free-range skits. It’s rude, edgy and a bit sexy without being offensive or explicit.
The Pen is Mighty was previously entering active commissioning with Channel 4, which was only forestalled due to their internal management restructuring.
Available for co-production development and commission. Pilot episode and episode outlines available.