The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas

Well, I’m proud to announce that TZ won a very prestigious award last week - it won an “Audie Award” for “the best audio adapted from another medium.” It was up against some major competition including “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” and TZ came away with the prize! The Audie Awards are to audio what the Academy Awards are to motion pictures so I’m very honored that it won such a coveted award.

Last year TZ won 8 radio awards of excellence including AFTRA’s highest honor “The American Scene Award.” It also won The XM Nation Award for best radio drama on Sonic Theatre, channel 163 (which is XM’s radio drama channel). It’s really great to win awards but what makes me most happy is to see that TZ is finally getting its due. Last year, besides winning so many awards, it was picked up for national syndication by Westwood One and we got the green light from CBS to begin adding new story ideas into the mix - - that’s what I’m really jazzed about. It’s funny, but being so close to it, I just expect everyone to love TZ as much as I do but it’s like anything else, things take time and success doesn’t happen over night.

Being so “into” radio drama (old & new) it’s so rewarding to begin to see the series finding its fan base and carving out its own little niche. One of the things that has helped us find an audience is that some of our radio shows appear as bonus material on DVDs of The Twilight Zone TV shows sold in Image Entertainment’s Twilight Zone Definitive Collection of 28 DVDs. This is the most amazing collection of The Twilight Zone TV show you will ever find. My friends at DeepDiscount.com sell this complete collection of the Twilight Zone TV series on DVD for the incredibly low price of $164.89 (I don’t believe anyone, not even Amazon sells it for less). The retail price is $299.96 so you save a whopping $135.00 off the sticker! Here’s what DeepDiscount.com says about it: “Explore the depths of the unknown in this complete collection of TV episodes from THE TWILIGHT ZONE. Funny at times, heartbreaking at others, THE TWILIGHT ZONE was one of the most unique and inventive television shows ever created. Rod Serling developed the series on the premise of watching people experience things so bizarre they can only be part of a fifth dimension. Serling appears at the start and finish of each episode, acting as the viewer's guide through the TWILIGHT ZONE. Consistently compelling, moral, and thought provoking, the series still inspires remakes and contemporary spin-offs. All 156 episodes from the classic show are collected here.” And for those of you that might be interested in purchasing this amazing series on DVD from DeepDiscount.com, here’s the link: http://search.deepdiscount.com/dvd/Twilight%20Collection

Well, that’s all for this week, catch me next time for more NEWS FROM THE ZONE!