How did you pitch your idea for Ice Pilots to Buffalo Joe McBryan, and then to Canwest?
David Gullason: I called Buffalo Airways and spoke to [Joe’s son] Mikey McBryan, and he’s pretty savvy. He knows about television and what a show needs – the storylines, the characters — so right from the start he was saying, ‘You could do this, you could do that.’ I worked with him on who the people were, what they do, and what happens when things go wrong. I wanted to get an idea of what the stories would be and what the characters would be. It started there. Mikey spoke to Joe and pitched him the idea because Mikey got it right from the start. TVG: And what about History? What was the pitch to them? DG: I wrote the treatment for it, and went to some TV markets and everyone said that they were interested, but wanted to see some tape. So we went up there about three months later and shot for about five or six days. I sent a director up there with a camera and said, ‘See what stories you get.’ And he brought that back and we turned it into a three-minute demo of a couple of stories. Mi
