Good luck karma. Hope it's a success and then maybe FOX will rethink it's bullshit and start producing great films and film makers again.

Now where is PROJECT GREENLIGHT 4? That show is how you do it!

As for On The Lot. Now I understand the obvious contempt the contestants have for the judges.

The show is utter shit. It gets worse every week. You can see that the host can barely stand being on the show. Carrie seems like she's pissed constantly during the show. What's it like to be her or Gary and have to go thru that shit. I'd be beyond pissed. Maybe that's why she's such a fucking bitch on the show. She's just fucking mean.

Good luck to your contest.

Bear with me for a moment here..

Think about the Apprentice, which I think is where Mark Burnett's head was when he thought of On The Lot. It was a good show. Sure, some people might not have liked it, but if you were into the business world and you were interested in witnessing large event planning (even thought it might have been heavily aided by the production crew) it was for you. Now, hear me out, dont attack me just yet...

I think that a competition, like The Apprentice, COULD, I repeat, COULD, be a fun, FAIR way to find filmmaking talent, if that goal was always central to the shows producers. I actually think that, hey, what if they did On The Lot EXACTLY like the apprentice. Two teams, or more, presented with a genre or something. Then, just like project leaders were chosen, they would choose project directors. Then, the teams work to create something. Think about it, we would get actual attempts a some real creativity, not RETARDED shorts, literally a minute long sometimes, about vomiting aliens and blind dates gone wrong. I don't know, it seems really fun to me. Anyways, what do you guys think? Any suggestions for a better format? Other than, stop the show, and use the 'proper channels'.

Let me tell you the basic difference between OTL moderation and KarmaCritic moderation.

OTL moderation is this: http://www.karmacritic.com/nod e/933

KarmaCritic moderation is this: http://www.karmacritic.com/nod e/919

For those who are short on time, the first link has a screenshot of some OTLer asking in the boards if anyone recognizes Jeff King, VP of FOX branded media, since he remembers seeing his face pretending to be a contestant inside OTL, and now has heard about him HERE in AICN. In This Article! But wait... why a screenshot? Because the post was deleted within 10 minutes. The screenshot is all that's left. Thats OTL moderation. Deleting ideas that speak bad about the company, about the project, about the way you conduct your business. Do you remember the thread "The worst host ever" that talks about Adrianna Costa? Where did that thread go? Where do alll threads that criticize OTL go? Now only "Adrianna Costa Rules" survives, but maybe the moderators arent reading the comments in it, thats all I will say.

KarmaCritic moderation is about personal attacks. The post you're so fond of quoting, is the result of a war between two people that was making the site simply -unfit- for creativity. My response was to implement a no personal attacks policy. I dont think I need to explain the difference between forbidding pointless personal attacks between members and forbidding rational criticism of the overall enterprise, do I? If so, then see the second link I posted. A very clever member of our community made a very clever satire of another, and I'm letting it stay, because parody is a protected form of speech, and doesnt enter the "personal attack" policy. Both links are things that happened today.

I would encourage anyone who wishes to enter the Nicholls to do so. I never advertise this contest to be better than the Nicholls, and with all due respect, its stupid to compare contest based on the price point alone. All I've advertised is that the finalists' scripts will be read by Producers Tova Laiter and Jon Brown. Thats what it is, no more and no less. If that is worth 15 dollars to you, you're free to enter, if not, dont. I would also encourage anyone to enter the AFF. This is not a zero-sum game where some party must necessarily lose in order for the other one to win. As long as serious writers have enough money to pay for about 2 happy meals each, they can afford to double their chances in every contest that catches their eye.

KarmaCritic's contest is different from many others in that we dont start with a finished product and leave it all up to the judges. This is a development contest, when the product you start with in Round 1, gets refined and developed through the community's feedback and ends up a tested material by the time it reaches the judges. Its an experience more than a race, its an opportunity to interact with people who have your same goals and similar skills and see what good comes out of it. In short, its everything OTL could have been, but chose not to and made up for by shortening Adrianna Costa's hemlines.

Finally, we are more than OTL's nemesis. OTL is fading away from our collective memories with every passing day, and its being replaced with new material, such as Angry Jack, which I would recommend to anyone: http://www.karmacritic.com/ang ryjack Thats the direction we're going. Everyone is invited, Hjrogers, even you. We could have simply shrugged and walked away from OTL disappointed, but we chose to do something instead. We're walking man, not just talking.

Maybe that could be a new reality show?

"This week on Drama Queen Producers, the hottest, spiciest reality show ever, see the producers of American Idol, On The Lot, and The Bachelor face off and bitchslap each other blue in the Radisson Hotel showers. See them complain about their assistants like full-drag Compton street queens, watch them tell jokes no one thinks are funny, and be a part of the incompetence as it happens! Don't miss the excitement! Watch Drama Queen Producers this week and get hooked!"

Yeah. So sad it'll never happen.