'Courage, New Hampshire': Tea Party's Shot Across Liberal Hollywood's Bow

A local Tea Party group hailing from Pasadena, California is making an end run around Hollywood’s production blockade. The production company is called Colony Bay. Kudos and credit to none other than The Hollywood Reporter for delivering a fair presentation of the fledging production company’s offering.

Watch the trailer:

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The one-hour drama is called Courage, New Hampshire, and it premiers Sunday at a movie theater in Monrovia, Calif. Co-hosting the red carpet activities are Saturday Night Live alumna Victoria Jackson and radio personality Tony Katz, both of whom regularly speak at Tea Party rallies.

Courage has the pacing and feel of a soap opera, though its set in Colonial America. While its creators are making it as a TV show, there’s no distribution partner, so it’s going straight to DVD after the premiere. The company, Colony Bay, is also trying to strike deals with conservative online TV outlets, like Glenn Beck’s GBTV and Kelsey Grammer’s Right Network, and are seeking a television VOD partner.

Colony Bay was founded by James Patrick Riley and Jonathan Wilson, who started in Hollywood as an assistant in ICM’s motion picture literary department and became director of development for Peter Hyams, working on films like End of Days with Arnold Schwarzenegger. They met when Wilson was forming the Pasadena chapter of Tea Partiers and he recruited Riley, an experienced Patrick Henry impersonator, to perform at an event.

Tickets for the June 26th premier are already sold out; however you can pre-order the DVD to fund the growing conservative militia in Hollywood.