Zap2it.com Launches 'Project StarrLight' Reality Blog

Zap2it.com Launches 'Project StarrLight' Reality Blog

Actress Jenna Mattison to Chronicle Her Adventures in Getting a TV Film Based on Comics Icon Brenda Starr From Concept to Greenlight

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Zap2it.com launched Project StarrLight, a reality blog that takes readers deep into the day-to-day world of the Hollywood dream factory. Project StarrLight follows screenwriter and actress Jenna Mattison as she tries to take a television movie concept based on the comic strip character Brenda Starr from script outline to the screen. Mattison has partnered on the Brenda Starr TV project with Constance Burge, the creator of the hit television series Charmed and Savannah.

"Project StarrLight offers Jenna's candid, personal observations about the places, people and processes involved in the million-to-one shot of getting her project off the ground," said Rebecca Baldwin, Zap2it.com general manager. "Zap2it readers will see a side of the entertainment industry that is rarely seen from beginning to end."

Zap2it.com is a leading entertainment news and listings destination site with more than three and a half million unique visitors a month and 46 million page views in September 2006.

Mattison wrote, produced and starred in two recent independent films, Fish Without a Bicycle and The Third Wish. She has also appeared on Party of Five, Beverly Hills, 90210, Married with Children and Fighting Fitzgerald's among others.

Brenda Starr is the famous red-headed reporter created by Dale Messick in the 1940s. Brenda Starr has been syndicated continuously in newspapers worldwide since her creation and has also been the subject of comic books and films. She has never been featured on television. Brenda currently serves as the "Poster Girl" for the Society of Professional Journalists' freedom of the press campaign.

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