Fatcake Productions continues to carve out their niche in “Food, Adventure and Travel (F.A.T.)” programming, with one pilot in the can and awaiting a green light from the Travel Channel, and two more shows in the works.
“We’ve taken our love of food and adventure and travel and branded our company with it,” said Fatcake partner Lisa Colangelo. “That’s what we love to do and talk about.”
“With the explosion of shows on the Travel Channel and the Food Network and National Geographic, we know there are other people out there who want to see this kind of programming,” Colangelo said. “We put our own kind of humorous, witty spin on it.”
Fatcake takes a “lean, mean” three-to-five person crew to Baja, Mexico April 13 to shoot the HD pilot for their proposed Travel Channel-targeted series “Tracking Expats.”
“We’ll head across the Tijuana border and show in our rough-and-tumble way what happens when you want to just chuck it all and live the good life,” said Colangelo, who is producing with Fatcake partners Misty Tosh and Jamie Biehl.
Production on “Tracking Expats” was scheduled for February, but “was delayed for a few months due to previous commitments,” said Tosh, host and director of the show.
Tosh, who writes the Raving Dish food column for centerstagechicago.com, was approached by MSNBC to compile a daily blog throughout “Expats'” three-week production.
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Fatcake will deliver the “Expats” pilot to Minneapolis distributor Tremendous Entertainment, which is handling worldwide sales for Fatcake’s Mexico-shot food/travel pilot “Stuffed.”
“The Travel Channel is taking a really close look at [?Stuffed’] and it’s gotten a great response,” Colangelo said. “Due to personnel changes they haven’t signed off on it yet, but it’s in the works.”
When they return from Mexico in May, Fatcake will jump into production on Filip Rymsza’s HD feature “Dustclouds.” Then they head to the Caribbean for another pilot, “liveaboard,” a how-to series about residing on a sailboat, targeted to the Outdoor Living Network.
“We’ve done extensive research on people that sell the farm and live aboard their boats,” Colangelo said.
They’re also developing the feature doc “Next Month’s Issue,” which will profile several local magazine publishers as they deal with “deadlines, ad sales, keeping stories fresh and competing in a cutthroat industry.”
Fatcake will pitch “liveaboard” and “Next Month’s Issue” to Tremendous for TV sales. “They’re really behind any kind of programming we’re throwing at them right now,” Colangelo said.
In late summer Fatcake will produce another HD feature, Paul Traynor’s horror pic “Witches’ Night.” They’re also launching the quarterly food webzine “Graze,” “the pinnacle of what we love to do and talk about.”
