Combat Model TV Show

Dan Couto, a Toronto television producer, pitched Combat Model, a TV show in which ten fashion models train in martial arts for one month at an isolated tropical resort before competing for a cash prize. Dan asked for $850,000 as a zero-interest note repayable in 18 months, in exchange for 15 percent of the company's profits for four years, with filming planned over seven weeks using a small run-and-gun crew of three cameramen and a cast of 27. Dan said he previously produced Naked in the House, which aired on Fashion Television and won a Gemini award, and that Combat Model had been pitched to and rejected by the W Network, Shaw, and Rogers, with a plan to stream the show online on a subscription model and an estimated net worth of $4.1 million by the end of year four.

Michael Wekerle went out doubting the low-budget shooting approach could work for a seven-week location shoot. Michele Romanow, Joe Mimran, and Manjit Minhas went out saying the show needed to be pre-sold to a network or platform before production, which is not how the industry works. Jim Treliving went out saying he saw nothing here that would sell on television. Dan left without a deal.

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