Remembering.

BEWARE OF PRICE GOUGERS

Once a month I try to check on the internet to see what is going on with CRT at various sites. Some of the "satellite sellers" or whatever they are called, on Amazon, are selling some of our titles for outrageous amounts.

I have seen our LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW for as much as $900.00 for the CD's! That is just plain WRONG. Even now it is at $40.00 for a used copy. You can buy the download on Audible for $8.95! Now that the show is no longer available they think they have some kind of rare recording - which is ridiculous. It will be released again, this time from our new publisher, Brilliance Audio, and will be better distributed than it ever was with our old publisher. Same goes for CAPTAIN BLOOD, THE FATHER BROWN MYSTERIES,KING SOLOMON'S MINES, BARRYMORE. They may be unavailable at the moment from Amazon, but that's just temporary, to be sure.

A QUICK CHECK IN

It's SEPTEMBER ALREADY!? Well, lots going on. We have recorded two episodes of the upcoming VINCENT PRICE PRESENTS series; ongoing with JARREM LEE - GHOST HUNTER, and since July we have been recording PROJECT-X that I will announce soon. In Marks department, contracts are flying out the door left and right: watch for
WAR OF THE ELEMENTALS and QUATERMAIN, both in association with Bluewater Productions, coming your way in 2011.

Speaking of VINCENT PRICE PRESENTS, I am hoping to attend his Centennial Celebration in St. Louis in May.

I am also planning on being in Toronto early next year for Christopher Plummers revival of BARRYMORE, by William Luce. It will be great to finally meet Bill in person after working with him on the audio production of this great play. We have become good friends and we've never met!

I pulled out of the planned stage production of THE LION IN WINTER that I had mentioned for January. I just don't have the time anymore, I'm sorry to say. Would have been fun, though, under different circumstances.

Sound rolls on LOGAN'S RUN in November, and also in November, watch for our first titles being released by Brilliance Audio!

NOV. 1: CHARLES DICKENS' A CHRISTMAS CAROL.

NOV. 7: ZORRO AND THE PIRATE RAIDERS

NOV. 15: WALTER KOENIG'S BUCK ALICE AND THE ACTOR-ROBOT

I saw the cover art for ZORRO and it's fantastic! Really pops!

Ron Boyd, in Toronto, is designing the cover art for BUCK ALICE, and will be ready by Monday!

Time to call it a day. It's been a very long one.

Next time!
cheers - J

JEFF GAGE VISITS THE XM STUDIOS

Considering that next month we start our 6th Season on Sirius/XM, I think it's GREAT that someone from CRT finally went there in person! Jeff Gage, who many of you know writes those incredible scores that you hear in 99% of our shows, was in Washington DC last week, and got a tour of the studios at 1500 Eckington Place.


And here is in in the studio with our FANTASTIC program Director Maggie Linton (L) and Assistant Program Director, Kim Alexander!



Jeff had a great time, and even got say HI on the air at 60's on 6 when Maggie popped in the studio during the tour for an impromptu Book Radio plug! I hope to visit the studios in the Spring!

SPEAKING OF WALTER -

Walter Koenig has inked a deal with Bluewater Productions for a series of comic books and graphic novels!
The first revisits a character he created in 1993 called RAVER, and the second is a fantastic tale of Vampires, called THINGS TO COME (These are not your Twilight Vampires!).
Walter is appearing in Chicago this weekend at Comic-Con and has given a few press interviews on the new deal. I am very happy for Walter, and I can't wait to read these stories. I know they are going to be a blast!

BUCK ALICE AND THE ACTOR-ROBOT ON THE LAUNCHING PAD!

We have finished post-production on WALTER KOENIG'S BUCK ALICE AND THE ACTOR-ROBOT! Walter may have some more post-production notes for a change here and there, but all in all, it's completed! We released the first trailer for the show today on the CRT Yahoo Fan site, and will release it on our website during the week. Jim and Seth worked overtime this path month to bring this massive production to completion, and the end result is incredible; not to mention the fact that Jeff has once again delivered a stunning score. Release date is set for Nov.15th. Walter will be a guest on Boston's Jordan Rich Show, and also on The Maggie Linton Show on Sirius/XM.

IF IT'S AUGUST -

- I must be getting older.

Busy, busy, busy.

Our production of Walter Koenig's BUCK ALICE AND THE ACTOR-ROBOT is edited! Now we are mixing and doing some final corrections; but I expect to run a preview of the entire program on Sunday. I am very, very happy with this one, and hope that Walter's fans enjoy it. Jeff has turned in another great score,and Jim Hamilton and Seth Adam Sher have done a magnificent job in post. Release date is November 15th! Walter will be appearing on Bostons THE JORDAN RICH SHOW sometime late fall, and he will also be guest on Maggie Linton's show COVER TO COVER on Sirius/XM Book Radio. I'll post the dates when we lock them in. ALSO - BUCK ALICE will run as a mini-series on Sirius/XM Book Radio. So keep tuned!

Our 2008 series JERRY AND THE PIRATES had a fun 24 episode on our Sirius/XM show this summer, and now TICONDEROGA will play Mon-Fri. thru Sept. 10th.

Lots of other projects going on, and I can't talk about any of them yet. Soon though.

It has been HOT as #$!! here in Boston these last two weeks. What's it like where you are?

LOGAN'S RUN and VINCENT PRICE PRESENTS

Check it out!

BIG RECORDING DAY TODAY

Today we start recording ... PROJECT X. No, thats not really the title, but Project X is what we call EVERYTHING now that we don't want snoopy people finding out about and then going behind our backs to cut their own deals ... THAT ain't gonna happen again, you can bet on that. ANYWAY, we'll announce it soon, and it will then be replaced by ANOTHER Project X.

AUG. 4th we start rolling on VINCENT PRICE PRESENTS! Cool horror episode set in the Amazon! Gonna be a scary one.

MJ turned in the revised FATHER BROWN - THE ARROW FROM HEAVEN (which will replace the version recorded in 2007), and also JARREM LEE EPISODE 18. I did one more round of notes.

VINCENT PRICE PRESENTS begins production

Our new series has begun production! Produced in association with Bluewater productions, it's VINCENT PRICE PRESENTS. The first episode, adapted for audio by MJ Elliott, will record on Aug. 4th!

THURSDAY

Recording session with Anastas at high noon; we should wrap this project next week. This kid gets better and better. He's come a long way since SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES four years ago!

Then I continued with notes for BUCK ALICE and also some notes on upcoming scripts, followed by scheduling sessions through August. We will be recording our 1st VINCENT PRICE PRESENTS the first week in August! Grab your Pith Helmet or Solar Topee - we're going to the Amazon!