A Katz Life

Treatment for a Reality Show Written & Created by: Susan Allor Registered with the WGA We've had some interest from an established writer/director who would like to direct and shoot the pilot. The question is: Would you be interested in watching A Katz Life? Kim's followed her passion and built a rockin’ life…from scratch. Unless you’ve visited BuzzNews.tv and seen her celebrity interviews on the The Green Room, or read her column, The Katz Meow in Buzz News, Kim Katz isn’t anyone you’ve heard of. But if you met her, you’d love her. Everyone does. Including Kevin Costner. She hugs trees. She goes to the dog park (but doesn’t have a dog). But one of the main reasons she’s so adored is that she never gives anyone bad press. Really. But never in a butt-kissing way. She sincerely loves performers. And, being one herself, she understands what it takes to create something original – be it, music, art, writing, comedy, or sword swallowing –and put yourself out there for all the world to see (and review) what you’ve created. Kim is a good reviewer. A fair critic. She sees the beauty, the artistry, the hard work, and delivers spot-on, contemporary critical reviews in print and via video-taped, web-based interviews. (And they’re long interviews – not 20-second sound bites. Kevin Costner recently gave her 12-minutes of on-air face-time.) Who does that? Well, just about everyone Kim meets. (Like Carrot Top, Rick Springfield, and Michael Ian Black.) Why? Because she’s genuine, sincere…and really nice. She doesn’t dish or dis anyone. This isn’t "Life on the D list." It’s life on the Whee! list. Kim does her homework, asks intelligent questions, and has a lot of fun. She treats celebs like real people –like friends. Really, really, famous friends. (I liken her to a bumble bee. Aerodynamically, a bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly. But it doesn’t know that.) Apparently, Kim doesn’t know that she’s not supposed to kiss Kevin Costner, or hug Sting…or arm-wrestle with Carrot Top. We don’t really know how many fans are listening…but the performers themselves are certainly tuned-in. (That brings us back to actor, director, Kevin Costner.) In his spare time, Kevin is the front-man for the band, Modern West. There’s a recent interview with Kevin, before an appearance at House of Blues, on BuzzNews.tv and it’s great and very engaging…but what’s more impressive is how the interview happened at all: In 2007, Kim wrote a review of Modern West for the then-new entertainment magazine, Buzz News. Costner, was so impressed with her writing and the fact that she “got” what he and his music were all about that he had his staff hunt Kim down and invite her to MW’s July, 2008 show at Chicago’s House of Blues. (She was in Las Vegas – fresh from pool party at prop-comic Carrot Top’s house when she got the call from Costner’s Business Manager inviting her to the show.) Yeesh. Pretty cool life…especially for a chick from Chicago (by way of Miami and New York), who has shirked convention all of her life and scratched out a meager living doing what she loves: making music, painting, writing…and interviewing celebrities. The Show: Sure, The Green Room interviews are cool. But it occurred to us that the interviews themselves were an end – and the really cool part is the means to that end. The “how” to the “what.” So, A Katz Life is about Kim’s life. The half-hour show is a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes for Kim to get from her studio apartment where she sleeps all day and works all night (Hmmm…sort of like a cat…) to rubbing elbows, holding hands, and talking with people you have heard of.