A quirky, brilliant-but-unstable playwright and her adoring but financially-challenged husband plunge into crippling debt and their ONLY escape to save their loving family is to win TV game shows again and again.
Based on a true story
If The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and The Queens Gambit had a favorite child, she would be a two-season series named TV Dinners, a moody dramedy about living your dream or losing your mind. This original series hooks viewers on TV Game Shows and the couple who got their family out of debt, again and again, by winning on them. Based on a true story and the internationally distributed documentary, Game Show Dynamos, the series follows ALICE, a children’s playwright, and HARRY, a history teacher, who find themselves buried in debt. Each time Alice gets pregnant, they panic. How can they ever feed another hungry mouth? Alice and Harry turn out to be perfect players in the lavish, new playground of TV Game Shows. Game On! Or is it? When the secret spills that TV Game Shows are rigged, they go off the air. Harry discovers newly-invented credit cards and digs their financial hole even deeper. Alice is forced to give up writing and breaks down, ripping the family apart. Game Off! Or is it? Over two seasons, the charmed and quirky pair appear on more game shows than any other couple in American history. They finally pursue their career passions and get their family out of debt. Always and forever, Alice returns to her writing and continues to inspire those around her to write and star in the script of their own personal American Dream.
Patricia is a writer and documentary filmmaker originally from "The Projects" in Queens, New York and for 35 years thrives in Seattle, Washington. She collaborates with all flavors of creatives to tell transformative true stories that have demonstrated marketability. She is known for her ability to pull resources out of hat and host standing-room only potlucks for her community of writers, actors, filmmakers and their audiences in the Seattle area.
