A few Sloggers—and my boyfriend—are wondering why I’ve been in LA all month. I’m down here working on what’s called “a non-airing presentation pilot for HBO.” Or… “Savage Love,” the (potential) TV show. According to a draft of press release that’s sitting on my desk here at HBO—in my own office! with a lock on the door! I could be naked in here!—”Savage Love,” the (potential) teevee show, “will focus on current events and cultural trends with sex as the filter.” I’m hoping to bring a new kind of conversation to TV about sex—an honest conversation, one that’s informed without being (too) wonky, funny without being (too) cruel, sexy without being (too) cheesy. Basically, my sex-advice column—but on the teevee!
If any Sloggers are in LA next Thursday or want to come to LA next Thursday to be a part of the live studio audience at the taping of the “Savage Love” pilot—I’ll save you a seat, Loveschild!—you can get tickets by clicking here.
I know, right?
Wow. I’m a little scared as to what happens the first time Santorum gets brought up.
I may get my HBO back for this.
Congratulations. This sounds like an excellent idea.
I loved it when it was on HBO before as “Real Sex”. Or will this be a Real Sex and Daily Show mashup?
Wow!
This explains why the question “If Dan had his own TV show who should he interview?” was asked.
Congrats, Dan. Hope it is a success.
Well I’m in LA that week anyway so may as well try to get tickets.
Wow. Congrats, Dan, and good luck.
You can stay for the party, Cato. I know someone who can get you in.
Congrats, but does this mean that Seattle loses one of it’s prized local figures?!
oooh, HBO Late Night! will it be as boring as every other POS show on there? how long till Mistresse Matisse comes on to talk about herself?
Damn, you done came up, haven’t you! Congratulations Dan!
Congrats, Dan!
Oh! I was hoping that you were prepping to permanently replace Larry King. :^(
Be sure to buy some new shirts before taping starts.
WOOOOOOOOOOO!
(lindy says girls like to say that, so i am saying it)
THEY ARE GIVING HIM A TV SHOW.
OHHHHHH FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU….
On a serious note, HBO wanted me to spank it on camera when I was in college for the show “sex bytes.” Hopefully your show won’t involve anything like that.
Yay! Living in Southern California may finally pay off for me!
Hmm. I’ll be in LA two weeks from next Thursday. Too bad I’ll miss it… good luck and hope it goes well.
oh i hope it works out!!! i think youd be great on teevee 🙂
Holy EFF that’s exciting!
I’ll try to get tix. I live in LA, it sounds fun, and who else has a name so close to mine (Van Savage). Congrats!
I will drive in from Palm Springs for this… and skip work.
BTW, does this mean that you have to buy some additional TV shirts?
just make sure you have a wacky sidekick/bandleader…
And iron the shirts too, Dan. You do own an iron, don’t you?
Congratulations!
Jeezis, how old is that picture?
That sounds awesome! Congratulations Dan and I hope it all works out!
I hope you have some porn stars on your really big shoe! And maybe a couple of horse fuckers too! Don’t be predictible or too conventional or you’ll be just more white noise. Break a leg!
Wait, you tagged this post with “cats”…now I’m wondering exactly what is going to be on this show? Not that it would stop me from attending, but I thought you were anti-bestiality?
Cha-ching! Dan’s probably makin’ some serious coin off this! HBO probably pays a bit better than Slogging.
The format is going to determine whether it’s hit or miss, I think. If you have to do a lot of ass-licking with guests, I’m thinking it might be a miss. Good thing you have very successful back-ups with the column and the podcast.
Best of luck to you though, Dan – sincerely.
I’ll be your GE Smith!
I’m in LA, and THIS I HAVE to see!
Great news! Congrats Dan. Looks like all those CNN appearances have finally paid off.
You should get your old radio co-host Mary Martone on to join you. She was great. I still remember the macaroni-and-cheese episode, and the butt plugs.
Wow, Dan! I hope it works out. Maybe you could have a live comments feed, since I’m sure that the entity of Loveschild would be too scared to show up.
Also, wasn’t “Savage Love” a movie by Garrison Kiellor?
Fantastic. Bravo!
If the show is a success (gets a development commitment, etc.) you will keep your day jobs (column, podcast, Slog/The Stranger) and ties to Seattle, won’t you?
I’m asking even though I know that your workaholic nature makes it likely that this show would be added to the Savage Empire – still, I’m wondering how you
Really? Doesn’t that seem a little… know what? Who cares. I hope it works out for you. I hope you don’t go the way of This American Life and ditch your original, much-loved and highly succesfull pursuits. (What will The Stranger do without your blogs and column?)
Anyway, congratulations and good luck to you.
All the best, but get a good stylist. As noted above, shirts have not been the strong point of your previous TV appearances 🙂
I can’t wait to steal your show!
@36, once they get the “non-airing pilot” out of the way, I can’t see why they can’t tape it here in Seattle. We have studios too, and interwebamajigs.
@Fnarf – YESSSSSSSS. I swear, those old Sunday night shows were what got me through high school.
@40: I would hope that would be the case.
please. you are all so gullible. this is the cover story for Dan’s forced vacation, a la Glenn Beck.
Whoo-eeee! Awesome! I KNOW you can pull this off!
But episodes will be posted online, right? What’s a teevee?
What time of Day? I live near enough to LA that i could almost justify skipping out of work.
Alright! Good for you Dan.
Whenever I tell someone I’m from Seattle, they say “oh city of nirvana, grunge, pearl jam” (I live in Brazil). Now I get to add “city of Dan Savage!!!”
We’re excited. And we’re excited because you’re going to make the world a better place by being on TV and talking about sex. Fuck yeah!
Can’t wait to get the bootleg! (I’ll be buying the series legitly too)
I hope your show has a lot more penis than Real Sex or Hung. 😉 I signed up for tickets, hope I get in!
That’s awesome, Dan! I hope it works out.
Picked the wrong month to leave LA I guess! Rock it!
a door knob,
with a lock…
how is the tongue action on that baby?