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$6,000 demo for Web series lands script commitment from ABC.
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In summer 2008, four college friends pooled $6,000 to shoot a 15-minute presentation for a Web series.
A year later, the demo attracted Thomas Schlamme as executive producer and sparked interest from a couple of TV networks as a comedy series, landing at ABC with a script commitment plus penalty.
"Boyfred," the single-camera comedy from Alan Schmuckler, Michael Mahler, Blake Silver and Jarrod Zimmerman, centers on Fred, a twentysomething Web designer in Chicago whose girlfriend goes overseas, so he creates a Web site for their circle of friends to keep in touch.
