hey everyone,
The HGTV show "Crafting Coast to Coast" is still casting for Austin, San Antonio, Houston, San Francisco, New Orleans, NYC, Philly, New Jersey, Boston, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Los Angeles. I know much discussion has been in Glitter, but I just wanted to remind everyone we are still looking to put you on HGTV. Feel free to call or email with any questions.

chris jones
weller grossman productions
818-755-4800x182
cjones@wellergrossman.com

Here is a new flyer :

HGTV TALENT SEARCH!

HGTV is looking for fun and charismatic independent crafters to profile on our brand new show, “Crafting Coast to Coast”! If you have a special talent for creating cool and unique items that have your friends and family raving, then you just might be the perfect candidate for our show!

In order to be considered for this exciting and hip new show, you must email a recent picture of yourself (smiling!) along with images of your craft. Pictures must be sent as attachments. Include your contact information, location, and a short bio to: coasttocoast@wellergrossman.com

Please do not send multiple or follow-up emails. Due to high volume of submissions, only selected individuals will be contacted. Thank you!

so if you're not smiling in your picture, fageddabouddit!

How come everyone always skips over Sacramento?
There's a lot of creative/crafty gals & guys here too! :(

Maybe the hotels aren't as nice.

ursonate,
You may be on to something there!

Phoenix is always skipped too, so don't feel bad :-(

do they require a photo so if they think you are not "pretty' enough for tv they wont waste their time?
:'(

Probably. What was i watching the other day? Some sci-fi tv show and at some point I realized that every single character was wearing a body suit and I thought, "Hmmm, It's a good thing no one has a weight problem in this universe." Somebody call me when they cast less than perfect people on The Bachelor.

hrm, they're still looking for people but discourage follow-ups due to the high volume - they either don't like the photos or people are in the wrong cities!

Or they're aiming at the wrong cities.

or they turn down people like me...

D) all of the above

:)

ditto. who are they looking for if they don't like any of us? :)

See, it just gets more curious by the day...

I got kicked to the curb, too. But they're the ones who hunted me down and called me up. I wonder if they're getting cold feet about the "edgy, indie" thing and falling back on the Carol Duvall Grandma-craftin' thing. (Not that there aren't some great projects on Carol Duvall...)

I'm curious what the deal here is - was HGTV only looking for crafters in specific cities all along? If so why did they encourage everyone and their grandmother from everywhere in the USA to send tapes, projects, photos, videos and their firstborn?

Seriously, can anyone clarify?

I'm so sorry to hear that :-(

Who HAS been accepted? Anyone from here? I know Karen from Fresh Crafts is still waiting for her answer. Anyoen else? Just curious?

Don't let it discourage you! We all have rockin' crafts and it just makes us all the more cool to be outcast (for whatever reason). Good things are ahead of us all!!

Faith -- I think it was b/c at first they wanted to see where all the crafty people were located so they could then decide what locales were best to pursue at first. I think the point of the show is that each episode is a different location (so they may get to the other areas eventually, but are just taping a few to start). I could be wrong.

Has anyone been contacted? I submitted an email yesterday. *crosses fingers*

I dunno, but sitting here thinking about it for a moment, I'm surprised that HGTV doesn't have this extensive network of craft people so that they would have know who/where to go to in the first place, but then again I live in some kind of fantasy land...