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17 November 2006
We are working on a whole new website layout as the current one does not meet the standards that we wish for the project. There is no point in attracting a million visitors if they are not going to be drawn in. New website will be ready after the festive period when we will (finally) be advertising the site. In the meantime if you happen upon this website and are interested in writing for the show or contacting us for any reason then please feel free to do so.

22 October 2006
The Copyright is now in and we are officially protected. The bare minimum we need to go live is on the website so it's all systems go. We are now accepting submissions though it will no doubt take quite some time before written work starts trickling in.
Over the course of the next few weeks we will be adding little bits to the website and we will start getting the website advertised. Word of mouth though will be crucial in the beginning phase so don't be shy to tell your friends about this project.

21 October 2006
A little tweak to the logo and it is starting to look more reasonable.
Have had a chat with a couple of published authors today, as they say you can never have enough advice and this is certainly true for us.
The characters page is finally online. This will be expanded as the series makes progress but for the moment we wanted to leave them as open as possible but keeping within the initial boundaries we wanted to set.
Having used the title "Lessons never learned" in all our three projects a quick google search revealed that somebody has already used this as a title for a rock single. The group "No fun at all" released this song in (as far as we can tell) 1999, not long after we came up with the title ourselves. This is purely coincidental as till 2001 we had never mentioned the title to anybody outside ourselves.
Having downloaded a quick preview of the song it is (thankfully) a million miles away from our taste and our vision of our project. However seeing our beloved title being used by another party has inspired us to write a brief history of our own "Lessons never learned", particularly as sites such as the all conquering IMDB are still listing the old visions of the project. This history will appear on the "About" page tonight (so long as not too many more beers come out of the fridge). UPDATE: Beer has not quite come in the way of finishing the about page. However it has certainly hampered uploading. Time to call it a day me thinks.

20 October 2006
All pages of the website are now online with at least a little information about the progress. The characters page will be worked on next and will hopefully be online this weekend.
With our artistic friend tied up with other things we've had to edit the logo ourselves in order to avoid any possible image rights infringements. Well, as you can see the logo has become a bit rubbish as graphic design isn't really our forte! Hopefully we'll have a decent version done up for us soon!

14 October 2006
The Series info page has been online for a couple of days and we are busy polishing off the characters page to go with it. This just needs a little tidying up.
We discovered a new phrase yesterday whilst browsing the internet: "fan fiction" (or is it "fanfiction" without the space?). We knew this sort of thing existed but did not know there was a special phrase for it. Having seen the phrase used, a quick google search revealed just how popular this phenomenon is. There must be a few million different episodes of fan fiction on the internet and we must be talking about hundreds of thousands of individuals writing the stuff which means that this project already has a huge target audience just waiting to be reached.
It looks like we are going to be snowed under with work but that is not a bad thing! The only question we have to ask ourselves now though is when do we expand the project? We had planned on eventually setting up a couple of other shows as well as selling the whole project idea as a franchise for non English speaking nations. This was something we had penned in for 2008 but may have to look at bringing it forward if demand is high enough.

9 October 2006
Contact is soon to be made to four tv stars/agents requesting permission to use their images in our logo. Hopefully positive responses will be coming forth within a couple of weeks as we aim to go live by the end of the month at the latest. Backup plan is in place in case of any problems. Backup logo has gone to the artist for editing.

7 October 2006
Did somebody say the logo was ready? I fear that may have slipped out somewhere along the line. It is all but ready bar the final images we want on there. But of course we need to have the permission of the owners of the image rights before we can call our logo final. Thanks to John, Matt, Rohan and Robert for unknowingly allowing us to use their images for the temporary logo!

4 October 2006
Meta tags, alt codes, copy and pasting, duplicate and rename. Oh the joys of website creation. Could it also be time for a quick spelling and grammar check?

27 September 2006
Final revision of the basic content making sure everything makes sense. A few more tweaks needed and expansion of the background to the series. Should be ready to go live in a few weeks.

23 August 2006
We have gone back to the drawing board on the website design. The new design is ready for the content.

15 July 2006
Website progress is a slow and labored affair. We want everything to be in tip top shape before going online. Final draft of the logo is complete. Site skeleton is finished. First few advertisers are listed. Main website content is coming along nicely. Next tasks will be to finish the main content and then start getting the Info pages for each section down. Copyright not yet applied for, this will be done once the website is ready to be published online (due to the nature of the website and the project it is paramount the copyright is handled correctly in order to protect the series, the book, the movie, the idea, the website, etc. Website copyrighting is a complicated process in itself, having only very recently had the laws clearly defined).

9 June 2006
A world famous animator has been contacted about the possibility of storyboarding the first few episodes. After discussing the possibilities with one particular television studio (our first choice), it looks likely that we will be pitching the series to them on the basis on the first episode (script only). However for the sake of other studios and for the website itself, animated storyboarding may yet be the way forward.

6 June 2006
A couple of book publisher contacts have expressed an interest. They will be keeping an eye the series progress as well as the book.

5 June 2006
Website is coming along nicely. A few people have already expressed their interest in writing for the series including one already in the business. The buzz surrounding the project is very exciting considering the website is not even online yet!

13 May 2006
Holidays. No wore work on the website for 3 weeks.

9 May 2006
First draft of the website logo has been created.

5 May 2006
Website colour scheme decided upon. Ready to get to work.

4 May 2006
After careful thought and searching, the layout for the website has been decided upon. First would be writers have expressed their interest in the project.

28 April 2006
The Forum has been setup, welcome messages posted.

26 April 2006
The website & hosting registration is complete, DNS resolved etc. etc.

24 April 2006
Domain name theTVproject.com has been ordered along with the necessary web hosting.



The Series Info Characters Episodes Scenes The Ads Info Adverts The Extras Info Extras --- The Book Info Chapters --- The Movie Info Scenes ---	News 17 November 2006 We are working on a whole new website layout as the current one does not meet the standards that we wish for the project. There is no point in attracting a million visitors if they are not going to be drawn in. New website will be ready after the festive period when we will (finally) be advertising the site. In the meantime if you happen upon this website and are interested in writing for the show or contacting us for any reason then please feel free to do so. 22 October 2006 The Copyright is now in and we are officially protected. The bare minimum we need to go live is on the website so it's all systems go. We are now accepting submissions though it will no doubt take quite some time before written work starts trickling in. Over the course of the next few weeks we will be adding little bits to the website and we will start getting the website advertised. Word of mouth though will be crucial in the beginning phase so don't be shy to tell your friends about this project. 21 October 2006 A little tweak to the logo and it is starting to look more reasonable. Have had a chat with a couple of published authors today, as they say you can never have enough advice and this is certainly true for us. The characters page is finally online. This will be expanded as the series makes progress but for the moment we wanted to leave them as open as possible but keeping within the initial boundaries we wanted to set. Having used the title "Lessons never learned" in all our three projects a quick google search revealed that somebody has already used this as a title for a rock single. The group "No fun at all" released this song in (as far as we can tell) 1999, not long after we came up with the title ourselves. This is purely coincidental as till 2001 we had never mentioned the title to anybody outside ourselves. Having downloaded a quick preview of the song it is (thankfully) a million miles away from our taste and our vision of our project. However seeing our beloved title being used by another party has inspired us to write a brief history of our own "Lessons never learned", particularly as sites such as the all conquering IMDB are still listing the old visions of the project. This history will appear on the "About" page tonight (so long as not too many more beers come out of the fridge). UPDATE: Beer has not quite come in the way of finishing the about page. However it has certainly hampered uploading. Time to call it a day me thinks. 20 October 2006 All pages of the website are now online with at least a little information about the progress. The characters page will be worked on next and will hopefully be online this weekend. With our artistic friend tied up with other things we've had to edit the logo ourselves in order to avoid any possible image rights infringements. Well, as you can see the logo has become a bit rubbish as graphic design isn't really our forte! Hopefully we'll have a decent version done up for us soon! 14 October 2006 The Series info page has been online for a couple of days and we are busy polishing off the characters page to go with it. This just needs a little tidying up. We discovered a new phrase yesterday whilst browsing the internet: "fan fiction" (or is it "fanfiction" without the space?). We knew this sort of thing existed but did not know there was a special phrase for it. Having seen the phrase used, a quick google search revealed just how popular this phenomenon is. There must be a few million different episodes of fan fiction on the internet and we must be talking about hundreds of thousands of individuals writing the stuff which means that this project already has a huge target audience just waiting to be reached. It looks like we are going to be snowed under with work but that is not a bad thing! The only question we have to ask ourselves now though is when do we expand the project? We had planned on eventually setting up a couple of other shows as well as selling the whole project idea as a franchise for non English speaking nations. This was something we had penned in for 2008 but may have to look at bringing it forward if demand is high enough. 9 October 2006 Contact is soon to be made to four tv stars/agents requesting permission to use their images in our logo. Hopefully positive responses will be coming forth within a couple of weeks as we aim to go live by the end of the month at the latest. Backup plan is in place in case of any problems. Backup logo has gone to the artist for editing. 7 October 2006 Did somebody say the logo was ready? I fear that may have slipped out somewhere along the line. It is all but ready bar the final images we want on there. But of course we need to have the permission of the owners of the image rights before we can call our logo final. Thanks to John, Matt, Rohan and Robert for unknowingly allowing us to use their images for the temporary logo! 4 October 2006 Meta tags, alt codes, copy and pasting, duplicate and rename. Oh the joys of website creation. Could it also be time for a quick spelling and grammar check? 27 September 2006 Final revision of the basic content making sure everything makes sense. A few more tweaks needed and expansion of the background to the series. Should be ready to go live in a few weeks. 23 August 2006 We have gone back to the drawing board on the website design. The new design is ready for the content. 15 July 2006 Website progress is a slow and labored affair. We want everything to be in tip top shape before going online. Final draft of the logo is complete. Site skeleton is finished. First few advertisers are listed. Main website content is coming along nicely. Next tasks will be to finish the main content and then start getting the Info pages for each section down. Copyright not yet applied for, this will be done once the website is ready to be published online (due to the nature of the website and the project it is paramount the copyright is handled correctly in order to protect the series, the book, the movie, the idea, the website, etc. Website copyrighting is a complicated process in itself, having only very recently had the laws clearly defined). 9 June 2006 A world famous animator has been contacted about the possibility of storyboarding the first few episodes. After discussing the possibilities with one particular television studio (our first choice), it looks likely that we will be pitching the series to them on the basis on the first episode (script only). However for the sake of other studios and for the website itself, animated storyboarding may yet be the way forward. 6 June 2006 A couple of book publisher contacts have expressed an interest. They will be keeping an eye the series progress as well as the book. 5 June 2006 Website is coming along nicely. A few people have already expressed their interest in writing for the series including one already in the business. The buzz surrounding the project is very exciting considering the website is not even online yet! 13 May 2006 Holidays. No wore work on the website for 3 weeks. 9 May 2006 First draft of the website logo has been created. 5 May 2006 Website colour scheme decided upon. Ready to get to work. 4 May 2006 After careful thought and searching, the layout for the website has been decided upon. First would be writers have expressed their interest in the project. 28 April 2006 The Forum has been setup, welcome messages posted. 26 April 2006 The website & hosting registration is complete, DNS resolved etc. etc. 24 April 2006 Domain name theTVproject.com has been ordered along with the necessary web hosting.
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