Dear NYTVF Community Member,

Tune in FRIDAY NIGHTS for Season 2 of NYTVF SPOTLIGHT on NYC LIFE

The Spotlight’s second season launches in conjunction with the new primetime lineup on NYC Media’s NYC life.

The NYTVF Spotlight brings New York viewers some of the best selections from past Festivals in a weekly show hosted by NYTVF Founder, Terence Gray. The show will be featured as part of NYC life’s “Entertainment Block” on Friday nights.

New episodes begin tomorrow, Friday 5/14, at 9:30 pm EST on NYC life – Channel 25 on most systems and Channel 22 on Cablevision.

NYTVF Season 2 Schedule:

	Fridays @ 9:30 PM on NYC Life (channel 25)
		Cost of Living Created by Samuel Frank, Jules DiBiase, Thom Blaylock, Akshay Ahuja Friday, May 14th @ 9:30 pm
	“Cost of Living” is a series that takes a look at the funny side of being young, broke, and broken-hearted in the big city. Coral and Jay struggle to deal with the daily obstacles of living in New York, and the innumerable ways that life is complicated by sharing a tiny, over-priced studio apartment with your ex.
	Fridays @ 9:30 PM on NYC Life (channel 25)
		Team A.P.O.C.A.L.Y.P.S.E. Created by Nick Armstrong Friday, May 21st @ 9:30 pm
	Set in a post-apocalyptic future, three strangers are kidnapped by a cocky-yet lonely former millionaire and forced on a mission to stop the extinction of the human race. Their mission is to find women–who have all but disappeared from the face of the Earth–to re-populate the planet. During their first adventure, they encounter a desert nomad who has a strange but limited power that threatens their lives.
	Fridays @ 9:30 PM on NYC Life (channel 25)
		Why Can’t I Sell My House Created by Russ Johnson & Sandy Abernethy Friday, May 28th @ 9:30 pm
	“Why Can’t I Sell My House?” tells the story of cameraman Gus Glair, who forfeits a successful Hollywood career and relocates in Nashville to follow his recently promoted executive wife. Despite an impressive resume, Gus is forced to settle for a position with a cut-rate HGTV-style cable show called, “Why Can’t I Sell My House?” Hosted by a priggish neurotic and produced by an ego-centric horn dog, the low-budget home show vexes Gus at every turn, as his first day on the job devolves into a pride-shattering string of public humiliations.
	Fridays @ 9:30 PM on NYC Life (channel 25)
		Calvin & Freddie’s Cosmic Encounters Created by Troy Rowland, Sabina Cabe, Rugg Williams Friday, June 4th @ 9:30 pm
	When two brothers, Calvin Cosmic and Freddie Cosmic, are visited by the alien Milo, he reveals to them that their planet is in grave danger. To defend Planet Earth from an alien invasion, Milo asks them to become Cosmic Avengers. Using powers in their phones and super-cool sunglasses, the Avengers battle evil Etomites, who have invaded their school cafeteria. From here on out, Calvin’s and Freddie’s lives just got a whole lot more Cosmic, literally.
	Fridays @ 9:30 PM on NYC Life (channel 25)
		NYCMusicShow Created by David Schumacher The New 20s Created by Tracy Taylor Friday, June 11th @ 9:30 pm
	NYCMusicShow “NYCMusicShow” is the place to learn about the New York music scene: a show dedicated to NYC music and musicians, where we discover new talent, talk to living legends, and visit local music venues. A wide variety of artists tell their own stories in this HD series of mini-documentaries, giving the viewer candid glimpses into a range of scenes, people, and music as diverse as the City itself. Three episodes: ReRedux (members of Brazilian Girls’ electronic side-project), Ninjasonik (Brooklyn punk/rap group) and Navegante (electro-Latin funk band) “The New 20s” Ten years after college, Chrystal Myers wakes to realize her life has changed. Instead of the wild dreams she had for her future, she finds herself in a passionless marriage with a writing career that is going nowhere. As she looks at her friends from college, she realizes that they too are going through transitions of their own. Now all in their 30’s, they are dealing with issues they had not faced in their 20’s. Chrystal defeats her writer’s block when she decides to use her friends as subject matter in a new book titled “The New 20’s.”
	Fridays @ 9:30 PM on NYC Life (channel 25)
		Man-Man Created by Tom Silvestro & Chris Prine HomeSchooled Created by Justin Tyler, Alden Ford, Matt Fisher Friday, June 18th @ 9:30 pm
	Man-Man Population City is a thriving East Coast metropolis filled with criminals and the superheroes who battle them. This series follows the adventures of Population City’s lamest superhero: Man-Man. Man-Man is a delusional superhero with no real discernible powers. He works his days at a video rental store with his coworker/roommate Chip, under the supervision of the store owner, Ms. Carlson. He spends a lot of time watching “Mr. Amazing,” a cheesy 70’s superhero TV show, which sometimes serves as inspiration for a new, moronic Man-Man scheme. HomeSchooled “HomeSchooled” follows the adventures of three highly intelligent but socially inept home-schooled brothers trying to make their way in New York City. The pilot follows their first big day in town and shows how Davis, Grant, and Booker try to fit in to their new cosmopolitan world. The series will keep putting them in situations where they are totally out of their depth; however, they always end up making their unique, childlike worldview work, like “Entourage” crossed with Tom Hanks in “Big.” Can these three naïve twenty-somethings make it in the Big Apple or are they about to get “HomeSchooled?”
	Fridays @ 9:30 PM on NYC Life (channel 25)
		Leaving Bliss Created by Shanna Micko Friday, June 25th @ 9:30 pm
	Patience Owen, a leprechaun-collecting optimist, leaves her hometown of Bliss, Idaho to pursue her dreams in Hollywood. Upon arrival, she is floored to discover that the female roomie she expected to have “late night gossip sessions over Nutter Butters and hot cocoa” with is actually a handsome, endlessly sweet man. Having grown up with her grandma and sister, Patience is unaccustomed to male company, and her awkward discomfort intensifies as she develops an undeniable crush on Madison. Patience learns to assert herself with her new love, all the while coming to terms with her Irish identity and tackling the hardships of life in Hollywood.
	Fridays @ 9:30 PM on NYC Life (channel 25)
		Monster Brothers Created by Josh Golembeske & Ryan Golembeske Friday, July 2nd @ 9:30 pm
	“Monster Brothers” is a reality hybrid that chronicles the adventures of Ryan and Josh Golembeske, two rowdy country boys pursuing their childhood dream of capturing the world’s most famous monsters on camera. Monster Brothers infuses the investigative monster show format with colorful characters, real family drama, and a partying, blue-collar approach to hunting monsters. This is pure fantasy fulfillment for guys: camping with buddies in remote locations, busting peoples’ balls, and hunting things that go bump in the night armed with girls and beer.
	Fridays @ 9:30 PM on NYC Life (channel 25)
		Blog of a Pool Boy Created by Lou Perez, AJ Morales, Greg Burke Friday, July 9th @ 9:30 pm
	When Dave, a young novelist, falls flat on his face after college graduation, he is forced to come back home and work for the family pool care business. There, he reconnects with his cousin Billy, a horny slacker whose erotic escapades as a pool boy just might help Dave break into the publishing world.
	Fridays @ 9:30 PM on NYC Life (channel 25)
		Green Room Created by Vince Parenti Friday, July 16th @ 9:30 pm
	An inside look at a fashion sales agency, The Green Room, and what it’s like to be at the epicenter of fashion. Hailee, the showroom owner, deals with the craziness of the industry and her designers while looking for her hopeless romantic counterpart in a world of pretty people and mega-egos.
	Fridays @ 9:30 PM on NYC Life (channel 25)
		Genetisphere Created by Earthstar Jai Smith Streak to Win Created by Adam Bedient & Sean Tice Friday, July 23rd @ 9:30 pm
	Genetisphere Humanity is an outdated term. The earth is a zany metropolis full of cyborgs, mutants and the genetically modified. Join Hugo, a private investigator, as he tackles a profession fraught with lively perils in this vivid quirky world. A place where anything is probable and tales of a far-fetched society hit close to home. Streak to Win “Streak to Win” chronicles the Hamilton College Varsity Streaking Team’s rise to Division III Champions. The squad transforms the age-old college prank into a college sport, wreaking tongue-and-cheek havoc through college classrooms, libraries, quads and sporting events across New England. With an incredible sensitivity to pop culture and the mythology surrounding America’s greatest athletes and sports stories, the tour is a parody of the classic sports tale rife with internal conflict, but also a greater desire to succeed.
	Fridays @ 9:30 PM on NYC Life (channel 25)
		Ex-Pats: Bangalore Created by Kevin Napier July 30th @ 9:30 pm
	Set in the rapidly growing, chaotic city of Bangalore, this series follows four ex-pats who are living and working in India as part of the global outsourcing boom. In the pilot, Kelly, an American who’s never traveled overseas before, finds herself dealing with the aftermath of a one-night stand with a bi-polar Norwegian. David, a British IT consultant, and Priya, his Indian-American wife, prepare for the arrival of Priya’s guru. Nathan, an American corporate trainer, faces a crisis of confidence after his tried-and-true techniques fail to impress his Indian audience. These characters mingle at a regular happy hour in a trendy Bangalore bar and, by the end of the episode, their stories converge in a way unique to the insular world of ex-pats.
	Fridays @ 9:30 PM on NYC Life (channel 25)
		Dear Harvard Created by Anne Jarmain Friday, August 6th @ 9:30 pm
	Honor Caldwell, a privileged Manhattan teenager, has always led a charmed life. But when her father is charged with securities fraud, she goes from golden girl to scholarship student overnight. Old friends abandon her, her mother falls apart and the IRS freezes her family’s assets. Now, she must learn to navigate her socially elite, private girls’ high school under very different circumstances than the ones she has always known.
	Fridays @ 9:30 PM on NYC Life (channel 25)
		Red Hook High Created by Trac Minh Vu Friday, August 13th @ 9:30 pm
	Red Hook High is an ensemble series that explores the lives of students, teachers and families of an alternative high school in Red Hook, a forgotten Brooklyn neighborhood that lives in the shadow of New York City. On the first day of school, students and teachers from Red Hook High do their best to get the school year going, despite what their everyday lives might throw at them. Matt, a math teacher, takes on a new role in the faculty. Justin, an openly queer student, prepares to battle at home and on the way to school. Lenae and Star, best friends, face a very adult situation and can’t stop giggling about it. And Peter discovers just how hard it is to get to school sometimes.
	Fridays @ 9:30 PM on NYC Life (channel 25)
		Living in Captivity Created by Nicole Greevy, Uma Incrocci, Erica Jensen Friday, August 20th @ 9:30 pm
	Living in Captivity is a workplace comedy set in a zoo and styled like a wildlife documentary about the mysterious species Homo Sapiens. When novice zookeeper Alexandra Vogel is left in charge of the zoo on the day of the arrival of a new chimpanzee troop, her disgruntled co-workers plot to sabotage her leadership role. But when bonobo apes- the porn stars of the animal kingdom- are delivered instead, Alex makes the controversial decision to put them on exhibit, resulting in a media frenzy that puts her job in jeopardy.
	Fridays @ 9:30 PM on NYC Life (channel 25)
		The Gauntlet Created by Scott Patterson Friday, August 27th @ 9:30 pm
	The Gauntlet receives home video submissions from people with unusual jobs who have workplace scores to settle. Our host visits the person being challenged and throws down the proverbial glove, outlining the cause of the dispute. Once the challenge is accepted, the host goes behind the scenes of the jobs, demonstrating their unique skills and tools. Featured in the pilot are epic confrontations between two competitive ice sculptors and cutthroat Zamboni drivers. The winner of each battle wins a cash prize and ultimate bragging rights.

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