My family arrived in Berlin on Thursday and my daughter couldn’t wait to get to the set. She’s made herself right at home, as you can see in the picture. So far, the response from the studio and the network to the dailies has been very enthusiastic, so I’m optimistic about our chances to go to series. We wrap production on the pilot at the end of next week, and then I go off to France on vacation before returning to Germany in mid-July to do my cut. After that, I head off to Lohr for five days to teach another Writer’s Room class with a major American showrunner (whose name I will share once things have been firmed up) and then it’s off to Munich to present the final cut of the pilot to the network in early August. But now that my family is here, I’m not in such a big hurry to get back home…
The one thing I am missing is the chance to go out and promote the hardcover release of MR. MONK AND THE TWO ASSISTANTS. If I wasn’t shooting FAST TRACK, I would have arranged full a schedule of booksignings in July & August. But I still have MONK work to do… I have to start writinng my outline for my sixth novel.