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Guest Booker with Terry Taylor - The UWF Sale to Crockett 2hrr DVD

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  • It's 1987 and Jim Crockett Promotions is about to claim ownership of Bill Watts' legendary territory. With that will come an influx of talent from Watts' roster. In reality, that purchase was rather unspectacular and nothing interesting was ever made of the acquisition.
  • But through the magic of Guest Booker, we will have Terry Taylor, a booker who has worked creatively for WWE, WCW, and TNA, analyze the purchase and use his talents to try and conjur up a more complelling use of the expanded roster. Taylor was working for UWF at the time of the purchase, but we ask him to switch hats and display the skills and philosophies that made him such a valuable creative force in the eyes of the bosses at pro wrestling's majors. Join us as Terry Taylor gives a veritable booking master class.
    • Sell the Shoot
    • Talent earns their place
    • Heels lose on their feet
    • Babyfaces win on their backs

Guest Booker: Al Snow   2hr DVD

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  • Al Snow booked for OVW, and today holds a spot on TNA's creative team. Snow was also a featured wrestler during WWE's white-hot "Attitude Era," where TV ratings were hitting the stratosphere in a way they have never seen again. So it would seem that he'd be someone that would have a lot to say about the paltry results that pro wrestling garners in viewership these days.
  • The critically acclaimed DVD series profiles wrestling's most creative minds -- its bookers and decision makers -- and Al Snow's episode covers the style and decisions that made that "Attitude Era" so successful. Naturally the questions are posed against today's backdrop of one major federation going "PG" and living in a major drop-off from "Attitude" numbers, and the other major federation firing all of its arsenal at once and returning ratings in the 1s. Different time, baby.
  • And Al Snow centers his discussion on "Guest Booker" along those lines. The compare/contrast with today's anemic and largely dispassionate following lives in the heart of realism. And perceived reality. And the outrageous characters being closer to the actual star than not. Sounds like reality-tv. Snow feels that's where wrestling hit its groove, even before the reality craze. And they've abandoned it.

Guest Booker: Dutch Mantell  2hr DVD

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  • On 1/4/2010 TNA was to give birth to a new era in pro wrestling. They said they were poised for the relaunch that would reinvent the company. And in doing so, they captured the imagination of the wrestling world.
  • But what interested us was the creative workings of that company. So we bring you an individual that was on the booking team in TNA from the day Jeff Jarrett pitched him the crazy idea of starting a new company.
  • Welcome inside TNA. Join Dutch Mantell and explore the TNA before any re-launches and "new directions." You will get the philosophies of this well travelled booker and what he brought to TNA.
  • And while we are at it, we'll see what HE would have done on 1/4/10 and where he would have taken the company had he still been booking.
  • Hogan, Bischoff, Russo, Cornette, Dixie... they are all here. Join Dutch and relive his TNA years... and rewrite wrestling history.

Guest Booker... Jim Cornette  4hr  DVD

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  • What could have been remembered as pro wrestling's most complelling storyline, has come to be known as the sport's biggest blown opportunity. The WCW Invasion angle fell short of expectations and the wrestling world watched WWE swallow WCW without fanfare.
  • Jim Cornette has a thing to twenty to say about that! One of wrestling's most outspoken and creative minds attacks this edition of Guest Booker with unmatched vigor in the 2 disc set.
  • Watch Jim turn the tepid Invation into a flaming hot angle as he books in remarkable detail with extensive explanation for each move.

     

Gabes Book of ROH Secrets 2hr  DVD

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  • Join Gabe as he takes us back to his days working for ROH and decribes his recipes for success, as well as his missteps that may have led to his firing.
  • Gabe then shows you week-by-week what was written for the shows following his dismissal, as well as for 2009.
  • See what Gabe had in store for ROH fans.

 

Guest Booker with Raven  2hr DVD Master

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  • BOOKING HALL & NASH IN ECW
  • It is June 1996.  Scott Hall and Kevin Nash leave the WWE and prepare to head to the competition.  But in our world here, they land NOT in WCW... but rather ECW.  And what if total creative control of their angles were given to the ECW champion of the moment?
  • In this very special "Booker-at-Heart" edition of the show, Raven steps in and takes the book in June 1996 and books Hall's and Nash's angles right up to and including the first ECW pay-per-view "Barely Legal," in April 1997.
  • Raven steps in and proceeds to take over the show.  He moves to the booking board for total control, and doesn't come up for air until the end of the show.  Raven books all of Hall's and Nash's angles in astounding detail.
  • WATCH RAVEN BOOK NASH'S AND HALL'S EVERY ACTION IN THEIR TOP OF THE CARD SPOT IN ECW!

Guest Booker  with Gabe Sapolsky 2 hr DVD Master
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  • Description:
    It's June 2006 and ECW will be ramping up again. With one exception...Gabe.
  • Vince Buys It, Gabe Books It.
  • That's how it will go in our new installment of the critically acclaimed series, Guest Booker. Gabe Sapolsky, three time Wrestling Observer booker of the year and booker of Ring of Honor, joins us in this booking experiment.
  • Gabe's task is to take over ECW for Vince in June 2006, and book the remainder of the year up to and including the December To Dismember PPV.
  • Gabe steps from the shadows for the first time and applies his booking philosophies to the new ECW.

 

Guest Booker... Kevin Sullivan  2hr DVD

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  • Join Kevin Sullivan in this remarkable DVD as he sits down in our mock booking office and proceeds to rewrite the year 1984 in the WWE.  The task we're given him... make 1984 the breakout year it was for the WWE, but without Hogan.  Watch as Sullivan hires, fires, and books scenario after scenario in the wrestling organization that he never actually booked for!
  • Kevin Sullivan is a former booker/wrestler and he now brings his experience and vast knowledge to our booking session in the first edition of Guest Booker!
  • Hop in our time machine and watch as Sullivan books twelve months of pro wrestling culminating in a Christmas Day Supercard, before your eyes.  Watch the onscreen calendar as new Heavyweight, Intercontinental, and Tag Champs are decided, as of booking... You'll Watch It!
  • A must see for the smart fan!

Guest Booker... Greg Gagne  2hr DVD

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  • Gagne, Crockett, Watts, Jarrett, Barnett. The biggest names behind the scenes in pro wrestling sat in a room in a1984 with one mission... beat Vince.
  • Months of talent raids and interceptions of TV arrangements stripped the territories of their power, and it was time to fight back.
  • But egos, skullduggery and divided interests destroyed the final attempts at preserving the system. Now our Guest Booker, Greg Gagne, details the secret meetings, the interactions, and the fiasco that was Pro Wrestling USA.

Guest Booker... Gary Hart  2hr DVD

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  • In 1986, the world came crumbling down around Fritz Von Erich's World Class Championship Wrestling empire.  Although the federation remained active, this crucial year was the blow they never recovered from.  They lost talent, their association with the NWA, and their booker Ken Mantell.
  • We now hop in the Guest Booker time machine and reinstate former WCCW booker Gary Hart in the driver's seat.  Under his direction can WCCW be saved?
    • How will he use the NWA talent share to his advantage?
    • How can he capitalize on Fritz's national TV exposure?
    • How does the Dallas territory work in conjunction with the other Texas territories?
  • Join us for this exploration of the mind of the lae, great booker, Gary Hart.   Gary's talent's are as remarkable as his tales from the road, all explored in this his final DVD. We are proud to enshrine Gary into the Guest Booker family.
  • Through the magic of Guest Booker, we travel back and take another shot at consolidation the world of wrestling.
  • National TV, dozens of wrestlers, the cooperation of all the territories. Can that get it done?

Guest Booker... JJ Dillon  2hr DVD

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  • Hear how WWE did it.  SEE how we do it.
  • The most crucial aspect of pro wrestling's salability, its television, is explored here.  The man who wrote WWE television beside Vince McMahon and Pat Patterson for years, JJ Dillon, joins us to explore the art and science of doing just that - writing wrestling television.
    • When should a run-in be employed?
    • How to use promos and packages?
    • How does one choose a TV arena?
    • What does it mean politically if Wrestler A makes the save for Wrestler B on TV?
  • We gave JJ a fictional pay-per-view supercard from the early 90s era and gave him one month of TV with which to advance the angles.  See how JJ uses the weekly A and B shows, as well as a Saturday Night Network Special to build up to the pay-per-view at month's end.  He then books the results of that big card.
  • JJ shows us how to use just the right amount of exposure for select angles for a most effective build-up.  The booker's job doesn't end there, as we hear about the very delicate practice of employing diplomacy in dealing with the "big egos/TV time" equation.

Guest Booker... Jerry Jarrett  2hr DVD

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  • RE-BOOKING W.C.W. 2000
  • In Spring of 2000, having extended their supply of bookers, World Championship Wrestling turned again to Vince Russo.  But they almost didn't.
  • Now Jerry Jarrett, a man poised to help the ailing company, finally gets his chance in the latest edition of the critically acclaimed series, Guest Booker.
  • Jarrett is given control of the bloated failing empire and an opportunity to revive it before ultimate peril.
  • Jarrett is asked to trim a roster of dozens down to the bare necessities and use the remaining talent to create the angles that would finally allow them to be competitive with the WWE product again.
    • How many guys?
    • How many titles?
    • How many angles?
    • Just what on earth can get WCW back in the race?

 

In the Office with Rene Goulet  2hr DVD

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  • You are tonight, as you join your assigned Road Agent for a journey inside the massive WWE operation.
  • Join us as one of Vince McMahon's most trusted Road Agents takes us inside the locker rooms, offices, hotel rooms, and just about anywhere he was assigned in his career as an agent.

Kevin Sullivan and the End of WCW  2 HR DVD

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  • This spell-binding DVD takes you inside the last months of the legendary WCW with the man who was given the steering wheel to the out-of-control company.  You'll hear about all the booking decisions, you'll go inside the meetings, and you'll go week-by-week with Sullivan as he tries to breathe life into the fading megapower.
  • You will get a never before seen look inside Turner and Time Warner's power structure and how it crumbled the federation.  You'll experience the endless barricades thrown up by talent and executives alike, and the determination of this head booker who refused to be a 'fall guy.'