Josh Bernhard

Season One has finally arrived on DVD and Blu Ray! Order through our Hackerthreads store.

Special Features Include:

• Commentaries on each episode with director Bracey Smith, writer Josh Bernhard, and members of the cast
• Deleted and alternate scenes
• All 32 behind-the-scenes video blogs
• Episode 3 original rough cut, containing 20 minutes of excised footage
• Image galleries
• Hidden easter eggs
• Episodic subtitles in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Swedish
• And more!

Control is a pilot for a drama series set in the Mission Control of a manned space mission, written as a hybrid of Apollo 13 and The West Wing in style and tone.

An International coalition has come together to send the first humans to Mars–but a race is on with a Chinese mission to see who gets there first.
When a military stand-off between the US and China threatens to start a war, Flight Director Peter Lacey must fight to keep his astronauts from becoming pawns in the Earthly conflict. But a secret has been kept from him that threatens the lives of both crews, who hang in the balance 150 million miles from home…

Unlike Pioneer One, we’re making this specifically for the 2012 New York Television Festival where the P1 pilot won Best Drama in 2010. This year will see buyers like Syfy, IFC, USA Network, and others, and we hope to get them interested in both properties. Please help support our Kickstarter campaign for Control to help us make it happen: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pioneeronetv/control-a-new-pilot-from-the-creators-of-pioneer-o

We’re very proud to announce that the show has been nominated for a Webby Award! Among the oldest and most prestigious awards for online content, the Webby’s have been called “the Oscars of the Internet.” We’ve been nominated alongside fare from G4, Paramount Pictures, and a show starring Kiefer Sutherland and John Hurt.

You can vote for Pioneer One in the Peoples’ Voice Awards here: http://pv.webbyawards.com/ballot/105

Voting is open until April 26, and the winners will be announced on May 1.

More information on the Webbys here.

This is pretty exciting: our first con appearance! Join us at I-CON 31 on the campus of Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, NY.

Attended by over 6,000 people each year, I-CON is a three day festival, designed to encourage literacy, creativity and interest in science and technology through science fiction and its related genres. Programming at I-CON spans a wide range of topics and interests, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, comic books, Japanese animation (otherwise known as Anime), medieval reenactment, science and technology.

Check the link for more details: http://www.iconsf.org/

We’re proud to announce that the show has been nominated in the Best Drama category for the inaugural IAWTV Awards, alongside such amazing productions as Anyone But Me, AIDAN 5, CELL, and RCVR. The awards show takes place on January 12, 2012 in Las Vegas in conjunction with CES. Congratulations to all the nominees!

Check out the full list of nominees at IAWTV.org: http://iawtv.org/2011/12/14/inauguraliawtvawardsnominees/

It’s been quite a journey but we’ve made it: the first season of Pioneer One is complete. Thank you to everyone who donated and supported us along the way. This was all possible because of you! But now, the obvious question:

What’s happening with season 2?
We’re working on securing more substantial funding for the next season so we can continue the show properly.

What was that teaser at the end of episode 6?
We wanted to make a little something to whet the audience’s appetite for more, and to show that we are most definitely going somewhere with this story. But we have not yet begun production on season 2.

What is “Back in the USSR”?
It’s the title of the next installment of the Pioneer One story, whatever form it takes.

Why can’t you just make it the same way you made the first season?

Good question. There are several reasons:

1. We were able to do the first six with our resources because people worked for free and we called in all the favors we had. Now that we’ve exhausted all that, our expenses are going to increase exponentially. (People can only give so much before the bills start to pile up.)
2. The first season had a scope that was within our means. Here on out, the scale of the show expands with every season and it will cost more to do it properly. We’re scrappy, but we’re not that scrappy.
3. We can’t have months in between episodes if we expect to build an audience. Stopping to fund-raise when we run out of money just isn’t going to cut it. If we’re going to do this, we have to know what we’re working with ahead of time and where the money is coming from.

So you’re abandoning the crowd-funded/crowd-distributed model?
Not necessarily. Whatever opportunity presents itself to allow us to continue the show is what we’re going to pursue. If we can build enough momentum with season one finished and released, maybe we’ll be able to scale the number of donors as well.

How can I help?
We have a lot of debt from season one to pay off (not sexy, we know) and the process of pitching ourselves and the show is going to cost money. So donations through VODO are still incredibly helpful. (If you are interested in a more substantial investment, please email us at contact@pioneerone.tv.) As long as we can stay alive, the show has a shot. But the absolute most important thing people can do right now is to

Spread the Word.

Tell people about Pioneer One. Get them to watch it. Write about it on Facebook and Twitter and your blog. Write an article for a website or newspaper or magazine, no matter how small. If you know anybody with connections who might be interested, send them a link.

Target people like @Netflix, @YouTube, @GoogleTV, @Syfy, @AMC_TV, @FXNetworks, @Starz_Channel, or whoever else you can think of. (@Nerdist, @wilw, @kpereira, @Wired, @EW to name a few more.)   These people do listen. They pay attention to what people are talking about. Even write an old fashioned letter. (Yes, people still do this. And yes, people do read them.)

We are determined to keep on doing Pioneer One in whatever form it takes because, simply, we care about this story. We’re going to do whatever we can to finish telling it.

How’s that for scrappy?

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Episode 6, titled “War of the World”, will be released on December 13 following the premiere screening. Stay tuned for more details!