"MY FUTURE GIRLFRIEND" ANNOUNCEMENT

Ragtag Productions is proud to announce they have begun production on their latest webseries “MY FUTURE GIRLFRIEND." This five-part mini-movie is described as a “romantic comedy Terminator" and marks the team's first foray into sci-fi comedy. It follows Clark, a schlubby underachiever, who is visited by Kelly, his girlfriend from five years in the future who tells him that due to a rift in the timeline, she must help him fall in love with the present day version of herself.

Ragtag's first webseries, "We Need Girlfriends," gained over one million visitors a month to its official site. It was written about in the New York Times, Huffington Post, Slate, USA Today, Yahoo News, The Guardian Unlimited and numerous other publications, before it was sold to Sony Pictures and CBS as a half-hour pilot script, which is currently in development.

"My Future Girlfriend" will be directed by Brian Amyot based on a script by Steven Tsapelas. It will be produced by Amyot, Tsapelas and Patrick Cohen.


The show will star Evan Gaustad as CLARK, one-half of the lead couple. Gaustad is coming off of the webseries “Vicarious.”




It will also star Cheryl Texiera as KELLY…




Former “We Need Girlfriends” star Brigitte Hagerman as the mysterious LISA…





Kirsten Scoles as one of Clark’s best friends, the tough, tomboy CHRISTINA…




And another “We Need Girlfriends” alum, Patrick Cohen as Clark’s other best friend, the loud, obnoxious ALAN…





The series will start shooting in December and is aiming for a spring release.

Stay tuned to this blog for more information as we get further into the process!

all quiet... or is it?

Things have slowing down steadily on this blog, I know. However, I can assure you, they're about to pick up soon. We're working on something brand, spanking new and can't wait to start talking about it and posting about it. I'll say the following three words to describe it...

Ragtag Does Sci-Fi.

Sci-Fi is one word, right? I mean it's a shortened version of science fiction... I'm going to stick with my "three words" description.

In the meantime, things are slowly creeping forward with the CBS pilot version of "We Need Girlfriends" as we hit the two year anniversary of the day we sold it. I know, I know, it's been awhile. But this is the typical TV development process. I can't say any of us like it. But we deal.

Also, things have changed in our new North Hollywood digs as well. A couple of weeks back, Angel moved out and into his own pad in Sherman Oaks, taking well over five-hundred DVDs with him. Our collection is looking fairly anemic these days. But, our new roommate, none other than Patrick's brother Jeff, is bringing some DVDs with him so perhaps that can bulk things up again.

Like I said, we're gearing up for something here and I can't wait to start blabbering about it.

Until then, watch "The Terminator."

beer quest!

Our friends Kieran Valla and Jon LaPearl are producing a new webseries out of New York and it is hosted by none other than our old pal Steve LaChioma (You might know him best as "Dennis" in "We Need Girlfriends").

We at Ragtag absolutely love this promo and are so proud of our friends for making it. Check out the promo here. And stay tuned for "Beer Quest"!

Nintendo Party!

Last week, the Ragtag Gang went to a Nintendo Party hosted by our old Hofstra pal Greg Bellavia, wherein everyone had to dress up like a famous video game character. Here we all are. Extra points to everyone that can name who we are...

house of sudz gone

It has come to my attention (thanks to Evan "Rod" Bass) that the House of Sudz laundromat in Astoria, home of the first ever meeting between Tom and Lucy in the "We Need Girlfriends" web pilot, and seen here in this screen grab....




...has closed down. See...





Thank you House of Sudz for the memories and for allowing us to film for free. We'll miss you from 3,000 miles away.

and we're back...

It sure has been awhile. Why so long, you ask? Well, when CBS delays your sitcom until 2010, you end up with a lot of time and little money. This means it's back to the day jobs for Brian, Angel and I, as we work in the unfulfilling industry jobs waiting to get back into the game.

In the meantime, we've been keeping busy! We've been developing and writing something new (more on that later, hopefully). And, hopefully, fingers crossed, we'll have some "We Need Girlfriends" news in the near future. Believe me, we're just as anxious to get this thing going as you are to watch it. We're actually more anxious. Because day jobs are boring.

And what are you all up to?

mailbag - finally!

Phew!

It sure has been a long time since I've posted anything.

Our friend Courtney got on my case about it last week. I must apologize for the delay. We've all, obviously, been adjusting to life in Los Angeles, have focused on working again and before you know it, you haven't posted a blog in six weeks. Very, very lame on my part. And I apologize.

But, I promised a while back to answer some of the pressing questions you all had about the future of Ragtag and "We Need Girlfriends." So, do that I will.



Devon asked two questions...

1) How come being on team tom is ultimately better than being on team rod AND team henry?

Did Patrick put you up to this?

2) Are there certain events from your move across the country that you're just DYING to put into writing for the show?

When we were in our hotel bar in Nebraska we met a group of forty-something guys that put up cell phone towers and were so incredibly excited to see new people in the bar that they wouldn't leave us alone. They ultimately offered us jobs helping them put up cell phone towers, then promised us they could get us a lot of "trim" in Nebraska. Trim, apparently, means.... you know. In almost every script we've written since then, we've included some sort of reference to trim. Hopefully we can popularize the ridiculousness of this moment. Maybe "Trim is the new Squirrel."

And the number one question on everyone's mind?

What is going on with the WNG TV series? Who is going to be cast?

Right now, the WNG TV series is STILL in development at CBS and Sony. We haven't shot anything, but the script is written. They decided the series didn't fit into their fall schedule, so right now it's on hold until 2010. We know this is frustrating as a fan of the show to have to wait so long. TV production is a notoriously slow process so you'll have to bear with us. And hey, if you really like WNG and want to see it on the air a little more quickly, feel free to write to CBS and tell them that.

So, since we haven't shot anything, the casting is still up in the air. We, obviously, love Patrick, Seth and Evan and hope the network will too. And if you love them, why not include that in the letter you promised us you'd write to CBS? I mean, this is how "Star Trek" was saved, right?


Thank you all for your questions! I promise to post more now.