TWtv-About Us

ABOUT TIDAL WAVE TV Tidal Wave TV is a Los Angeles-based reality TV and new media production production company providing powerful, provocative signature entertainment that redefines your reality. Its first series, "Remixed!", was part of BET/Viacom's 2005 new programming line-up, which earned the network its highest ratings in its 25-year history. Its founder, Donna Michelle Anderson (p/k/a DMA), is joined by a team whose expansive non-fiction credits span dozens of years, the range of unscripted genres and virtually every major broadcast and cable outlet.

ABOUT DMA For the past ten years, DMA has worked as a writer, producer and show runner of dozens of high-rated non-fiction television programs for such networks as CBS, UPN, Fox, AMC, Travel Channel, Bravo, History Channel, A&E, Lifetime, Disney Channel, TLC and more. She is a member of both the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the Producers Guild of America. DMA also is the founder and director of the popular Movie in a Box one-day screenwriting seminars, based on her "1-3-5 System" of story structure, which she has taught at the UCLA Extension Writing Program, Robert Townsend Tech and community colleges and schools across

America

. She is the author of the popular screenwriting guide The 1-3-5 Story Structure Made Simple System: The Nine Essential Elements of a Sellable Screenplay and the first-of-its-kind TV production guide The Show Starter Reality TV Made Simple System: Ten Steps to Creating and Pitching a Sellable Reality Show.

Show Running and "Rescue" Highlights

Cast, produced, shot, edited and delivered thirteen half-hour episodes and aired ten in twelve weeks.
Screened, logged, paper cut and fed editor over 100 hours of footage to deliver a one-hour doc episode in five days (with a commendation note from the network president when it aired).
Developed computer program to convert extensive field transcripts into paper cuts in one day (now available through Show Starter!).
Lost ten weeks, nearly 50%, from a tight 13-order schedule and modified production process to come in on time and under budget.
Built and managed database and form system that output full delivery documentation on over three dozen interstitials in less than one minute.
Predicted the 1906 San Francisco earthquake within 1.5 minutes of its occurrence. Okay, not that one.

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