Starwalker

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2009/11/23/astronaut-reality-series-set/

http://realstarwalker.blogspot.com/

Hi,

I am Jonathan Nolan, showrunner of a new worldwide reality TV phemonenon called STARWALKER...

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STARWALKER REALITY TV SERIES

Starwalker is an inspirational reality TV show that demonstrates the
accessibility of space, its benefit to humanity, the potential for private
investment in space and the ability for the whole world to get involved in
this New Age of Discovery, via a televised competition to select and train
two astronauts from the ranks of the common global population, assisted by
world experts in human spaceflight. The show culminates in two winners
flying into orbit as fully-fledged astronauts on a Soyuz rocket. There
will be two main competitions run in parallel: one for citizens of the
Southern Hemisphere and another for those of the Northern Hemisphere, each
involving physical, psychological and skills testing along with such
activities as survival training, skills testing, joy flights and analogue
studies. A significant portion of the show will be dedicated towards
showcasing the facilities, achievements and projects of space agencies,
companies and organisations around the globe to demonstrate the global
nature and interconnectedness of the space industry and excite the public
in a 'Top Gear' style approach.

The contest to find the final two astronauts shall be a worldwide
competition with people from literally anywhere on Earth able to enter for
free on the Starwalker website or alternatively by premium call mobile
phone access. This allows people from the entire planet to enter – anyone
from any background can dare to dream and try out to become an Astronaut.
Registration for contestants shall open on December 12 2009. All entrants
will then be reviewed and processed prior to the filming of the show in
May 2010 onwards.

All funds and insurance to cover this "astronomical" cost are in place.
Starwalker is thus a television show featuring the most powerful media
alliance, largest competition and richest prizes not just in television
history but in human history.

The show was the brainchild of Katherine Bennell, Campbell Pegg and Rogan
Shimmin, Australian and British postgraduate students within the space
industry and three young people who are extremely passionate about
humanity's destiny to explore the solar system.

It was during the International Space University SSP 2009, held at NASA
Ames Research Center, that Katherine, Campbell and Rogan conceived and
developed the idea for the television show STARWALKER. Surrounded by space
pioneers and experts and encouraged by their example, this experienced
provided these students with the belief that they could make their idea
succeed. The show concept was largely inspired by the journey of Soyeon
Yi, a fellow participant, and how her experience so enthused the
population of South Korea. The concept was originally to replicate her
experience in Australia, but fully funded by the media rather than the
government. However, the potential benefits to the world and the enormity
of this undertaking were deemed so great that the show went global, to
encompass entries from any country on the planet.

The show is carbon positive, with carbon credits issued under the official
Australian government backed (world's best practice) CCGAS scheme
eliminating the entire show's carbon footprint several times over,
including the entire overseas carbon footprint of every aspect of the
launch into space of each of the two winners.

The competitions on the show will potentially feature contributions from
every type of space agency and space business on Earth. The audience of
the show is UK, Europe, the USA (35% of the world's television audience
all on its own), North and South American, India, China, Africa, the
Middle East and Asia. The biggest audiences in history. For ten weeks
(about half) of the show, voting lines will be open for the population of
the Earth to vote for their favourite contestants.

Starwalker also features the on air talents of worldwide scientist
celebrity Stephen Hawking, and on the production side the award winning
talents of Dave Mousley and Red Vision UK, together with showrunner and
executive producer the award winning film director, novelist and
documentarian Jonathan Nolan. Red Vision has just concluded a multimillion
dollar filming project with Discovery Channel, INSIDE THE MIND OF STEPHEN
HAWKING, detailing and showing to the public the wonders across the known
universe. The "bounce" generated from that project for the massive
undertaking of Starwalker is significant indeed.

Behind them is a team including the most award winning television and film
production specialists ever assembled outside of the combined team for an
Olympics broadcast. Segments, feature episodes and background clips on the
history of space travel and rocketry, the countries of origins of the
contestants, the existing space agencies and industries worldwide will be
filmed across the whole of the planet.

Starwalker will screen on free to air, cable and digital television
worldwide as well as eventually being made available online as free
webisodes and downloads. It will only be available online by paid
subscription during the show, after which it will be provided for free to
any web visitors. This is to protect the investment of the show's backers
and producers.

SHOW SUMMARY
Starwalker is being made by The Starwalker Partnership. This is a legal
partnership created between Jonathan Nolan and his media firm created
specifically for this project, and Red Vision UK, a massively powerful and
highly expert production company with impeccable contacts for bringing a
true and wonderful vision of space to the small screen. The funds are in
place in trust and escrow. Red Vision UK and Jonathan Nolan together will
realise the plotted episodes and creative vision of Campbell, Katherine
and Rogan.

Starwalker has as its central commitment and ethical charter the messages
that humanity belongs in space, that our destiny as a species must be to
expand from Earth across the cosmos in the peaceful exploration and
colonization of the universe. Reality television for the first time will
provide an honest look at peaceful competition, cooperation and the
achievements in the space sciences. Contestants will still be entertaining
for the viewers at home during the episodes, but the star of the show is
space travel. Not just as live cargo, as passengers, but as CITIZEN
ASTRONAUTS productively conducting science and exploration. That is, not
'Big Brother' but rather as civilian astronauts taking their place in
space. Walking amongst the stars, following selection supported by space
agencies and organizations from around the globe.

All stakeholders in the space industries and sciences will be shown at all
times as the champions of humanity that they are. Space and its
exploration will be shown as the inevitable "next big thing" for the human
race. In the process, inspirational television history will be made on a
weekly and at times daily basis, with an inclusive message of scientific
achievement for the whole of the human race.

Starwalker is the best, and indeed biggest, attempt ever made to create a
permanent shift in the consciousness of the public back to the sense of
wonder and the majestic human glory of the Apollo era. And Starwalker is a
direct appeal to the people of the Earth, without the detrimental
filtering effects of governmental or journalistic interpretation. Space
experts will speak truth direct to the people, and the people will answer
with the love and respect that space travel deserves.


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