{"id":560,"date":"2013-05-04T17:51:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T17:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xenovision.ca\/news\/?page_id=560"},"modified":"2013-05-06T18:15:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T18:15:17","slug":"flat-tv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.xenovision.ca\/news\/flat-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Flat TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

All of us at XENOVISION could not be prouder today to make the following announcement: <\/p>\n

\u2018PHIL HARTMAN\u2019S FLAT TV\u2019 COMEDY ALBUM BEING DEVELOPED AS ANIMATED FILM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Award-winning animation company Worker Studio, in collaboration with producers Paul Hartmann and Angel Rosenthal have secured the option to produce an animated property based on the comedy album, Phil Hartman\u2019s Flat TV. The album, holds the seeds of Phil Hartman\u2019s genius, with all the sophistication and bold energy he carried through an illustrious comedic legacy. <\/p>\n

Phil Hartman\u2019s Flat TV was written, recorded and performed by Hartman before his rise to stardom as a beloved cast member on The Pee Wee Herman Show and Pee Wee\u2019s Playhouse, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, NewsRadio, and his feature film work. In 2002, four years after Phil Hartman\u2019s passing, his brother, legendary music agent, John Hartmann, of Leo\/Hartmann Productions, released the album through laugh.com (www.laugh.com<\/a>) after its mysterious disappearance. <\/p>\n

“Phil Hartman’s Flat TV, produced by Chad Stuart (http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0835665\/<\/a>) and recorded just before Phil joined the cast of Saturday Night Live. Wrapped up in the hectic schedule of writing and acting on SNL, he forgot all about the album. In the interim, the recording studio closed and the tapes were stashed and forgotten in a backyard storage unit in San Fernando Valley. After Phil’s death, 25 years later, we searched far and wide and finally found the original masters. This is Phil at his funniest, without the burden of time, censors or committees. It’s pure genius,” John Hartmann explained. <\/p>\n

Comedic writer, animator and performer, Michael T. Scott recently joined animation company Worker Studio as a partner. Before Scott began his career, he shared his burgeoning comedy work in a fan letter to Phil Hartman in 1997 and received a thoughtful and constructive reply. Thirteen years after Phil Hartman\u2019s death, Scott posted the letter online and it went viral. This caught the eye of Angel Rosenthal, business partner of Phil\u2019s brother Paul Hartmann. At the time, Rosenthal and Paul Hartmann were spearheading a campaign that got Phil Hartman a Star on Canada\u2019s Walk of Fame, in addition to working to convert two of Phil\u2019s unseen art projects into animated features. <\/p>\n

Producing with Paul Hartmann and Rosenthal, Worker Studio has begun developing animation around the twenty-two vignettes that make up Phil Hartman\u2019s Flat TV. It revolves around the dysfunctional Sphincter Family and intersperses their daily life with the television broadcasts they consume. It is a satirical portrait of the American family in the late 1970s, but with hilarious insights perennial to our culture.<\/p>\n

Worker Studio founder and CEO, Michael \u201cFfish\u201d Hemschoot said: \u201cAll of us at Worker Studio come to the project as fans of Phil Hartman, he has influenced us at so many levels. We\u2019re honored to have this opportunity to, in essence, collaborate with one of our heroes and intend to bring the same level of craft to the visual adaptation of this overlooked comedic gem.\u201d <\/p>\n

Worker Studio is also proud to be collaborating with the Hartmann family, who along with Rosenthal have dedicated over 13 years honoring Phil Hartman\u2019s legacy. Together they are poised to develop an animated production of award-winning caliber that will excite Phil Hartman fans and capture the comedic imagination of generations to come. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All of us at XENOVISION could not be prouder today to make the following announcement: \u2018PHIL HARTMAN\u2019S FLAT TV\u2019 COMEDY ALBUM BEING DEVELOPED AS ANIMATED FILM Award-winning animation company Worker Studio, in collaboration with producers Paul Hartmann and Angel Rosenthal have secured the option to produce an animated property based on the comedy album, Phil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-560","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenovision.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenovision.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenovision.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenovision.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenovision.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenovision.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenovision.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/560\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenovision.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}