Blog to Book & TV Deal

Damn, when I read the NYTimes report on a blogger that landed a book deal AND TV rights for her blog, I realized we missed that in our deal! Several bloggers, including us, have landed deals from their blogs, but this is the first deal I know of that includes a comedy series. Scrambling after reading the article, I instant messaged with Frank Steele and came up with some reality blog TV pitches:

• Survirus: two bloggers (one PC, the other Apple) in a race to connectivity, on a remote island, try to connect to WIFI, surf with no virus protection, and see whose system survives the longest
• Big Blogger: top bloggers submit to humiliating public weigh-ins via comments and trackbacks
• Barton Fink Blog: 20 bloggers try to write a screenplay of posts in a sweaty apartment
• Blunket: bloggers travel from junket to junket and the one with the most schwag at the end wins