Helen Walsh is a novelist and screenwriter. Her first novel, Pull Focus, was published in late 2021 by ECW Press. KIRKUS gave it a starred review and named it to their Best of 2022 Mysteries & Thrillers List, saying: Two thumbs up for action, suspense, and lust…a taut, thrilling literary novel. It was also named to several other year-end/best-of lists.
TV PROJECTS
DEATH AND THE GLITTERATI
Each season of DEATH AND THE GLITTERATI takes Jane (a film festival director) and her posse behind the red carpet of a different film festival (The Bahamas, Sundance, Toronto, Berlin, Venice, Cannes) and into a sizzling powder keg of glamorous parties, dirty money, weaponized sex – and murder.
It’s a darkly funny but deadly serious inside look at global financial crime, politics and the glitterati set against a backdrop of the entertainment industry.
Each season: 10 x 60min drama.
If you’re an industry professional and would like to read the Pilot Script and Pitch Deck, please email helen@walshrarebit.com for log-in password.
MUSCLE MASS
Muscle mass is 13 x 30min comedy set in a LA gym that’s long on reputation (and cameo appearances) but short on cash. It revolves around physiotherapist Georgia and her partners Nathan and Larry, both ex-football players who crashed out of the NFL after a couple seasons. As well as the regular trainers and clients who find family in this most unexpected of places.
Like TAXI, Muscle Mass explores the everyday lives of those who live close to the line, but not with a melancholic undertone, but rather an appreciation of the exquisite side hustle that gets them through this 21st-century gig economy. It’s a profound love letter to sport.
If you’re an industry professional and would like to read the Pilot Script and Pitch Deck, please email helen@walshrarebit.com for log-in password.
ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING – SPEC SCRIPT
Mabel is arrested for murder when a disgraced former NYC mayor, Gary Rudigano, is pierced through the groin with a sculpture at a pop-up installation in the Arconian, and his secrets spill out like confetti at a funeral.
If you’re an industry professional and would like to read the Spec Pilot Script, please email helen@walshrarebit.com for log-in password.
ARTHUR AVENUE
Protagonist Michaela Licari was born in the Bronx but raised in Italy after her parents are killed when she’s a child. She must learn to navigate the country of her birth as an immigrant in NYC’s original Little Italy, four square blocks in a borough that’s 85% Hispanic and Black. The series brings a social and cultural satire to network television at a time when duality, and immigration, is under attack.
It asks: what is the line between cultural appropriation and appreciation, between gentrification and community revival, between political exploitation and representation?
If you’re an industry professional and would like to read the Pilot Script and Pitch Deck, please email helen@walshrarebit.com for log-in password.