The TV comedy Broadway Books released its pilot episode, “The Tipping Point,” on YouTube last month for Independent Bookstore Day. The creators noted that the debut came “after a successful bookstore tour (with stops including the Brooklyn Book Festival, Baltimore’s Atomic Books, & Boston’s Porter Square Books)” last year, along with showing the pilot at the Dances with Films fest in Los Angeles, Calif., and New York City’s the Downtown Festival. Crowdfunding is underway to produce additional episodes for a full season and you can be a producer (for a donation).

Written and directed by Carianne King, Broadway Books was developed in the Upright Citizens Brigade Pilot Writing Program and inspired by King’s experiences as a bookseller on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Featuring music by Martin Courtney (of the band Real Estate), the project’s cast includes Carlos Dengler (founding member of the band Interpol), NYC comedians Joe Apollonio, Lauren Servideo, and Ruby McCollister.

Describing Broadway Books as “a love letter to neighborhood bookstores everywhere, and the important role they play in our communities,” the creators said the series will portray “a group of over-educated, under-employed bookstore workers struggling to keep their independent bookstore in business using increasingly desperate measures. In the pilot, the team scrambles to raise the numbers for that night’s Malcolm Gladwell reading, drawing upon lessons from The Tipping Point to do so.”