BIG SOUND is a wickedly funny satire set in the big-money, bigger-ego, music business that follows the day-to-day exploits of successful, but disillusioned music manager. Bill Sutton is used to success, money and life at the top of this gold-plated dunghill. Recently however, he’s begun to feel the tinge of age dulling his edge, and a creeping emptiness shadowing his life. He’s surrounded by naked ambition at the agency, and embattled by capricious talent. Now he’s unexpectedly struggling to survive in a business that is nothing but mayhem, reminded daily that in the ‘Music Biz’ over thirty is “over-the-hill.” He’s caught.

Jessie, his ‘out-in-left-field’ right-hand office gal is deeply devoted and ever anxious to help, but she can’t protect him from either the sharks who circle below or from the mystifying whims of the BIG SOUND owner Gabe Moss. Nor can she shield him from the almost constant arbitrary, eccentric, neurotic and just plain strange demands of the talent he represents.

There’s Melissa Etheridge, whose heart is set on an obscure photography process for her latest album cover. Then there’s Randy Bachman who just wants him to keep some pet fish alive, and MC Hammer, who is frantic about a 90-lb. weakling stalker fan. Stewart Copeland wants him to make jam, Jann Arden wants his support for an ill-advised makeover and John Hampson wants a disease, any disease, to raise his profile.

This constant parade of needy talent all want a piece of him, while almost everyone else at BIG SOUND wants to be him, from Nick Keester who thrills to the ‘game’ and openly tries to out manouevre him, to Donna, who just wants to get ahead.

There’s no relief in his private life either. Bill’s teenage daughter Phoebe thinks she has all the answers, is increasingly rebellious against all constraints, and wants a career in the very business that he feels is strangling him. His ex-wife Michelle is civilized in public, but still harbours a grudge against Bill for their failed marriage. She never fails to land a barbed jab when she can, and Bill seems unable to truly connect with another woman. It may be a dog-eat-dog world, but for Bill there’s always the love of the music and the occasional shining moment when he uncovers raw talent. His shining world may be dulling, but Bill’s still got ‘it’ and he’ll hold onto it against all odds.

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It is Phoebe's 15th birthday and Michelle goes all out with a present of studio recording time, pre-arranged by Keester. Bill will do anything to stop his daughter from joining the music business rat race, but he can’t stop himself from a little one-upmanship over his ex-wife. However, this time he may have gone too far when Keester incites some family strife.

 In an attempt to increase record sales and improve sales in the U.S., Jann Arden agrees to an image makeover involving over-the-top consultants and record label executives. Bill is with her through every rocky step. Phoebe’s dreams of fame in the music business fade as she watches Jann become virtually unrecognizable to herself and to her fans.

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Jann Arden agrees to a makeover by scapel-happy image-makers in an effort to increase record sale.  Trying to top Michelle, Bill gives Phoebe a birthday present that may mean more than he bargained for.

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Bill Sutton's waning career can't withstand another desertion, so he's desperate to keep a huge client like Melissa Etheridge happy, at any cost. Her current whim is an album cover shot in ultraviolet, a medium that only bees can register, and only one photographer can shoot. Always poised to take Bill down to become king of the Big Sound heap, Nick Keester would jump through any hoops to outmaneuver Bill and steal his clients. Further complicating things, Bill's girlfriend Rebecca manipulates a reluctant Bill into giving her a key to his apartment. Meanwhile, Bill's daughter Phoebe is a nervous wreck over her talent show. Bill has promised he'll be there, but his daughter stopped taking his word for anything years ago. When the pressure gets to Bill and he is caught on tape vandalizing Keeser’s car, the threat of blackmail spices up the battle.

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Melissa Etheridge stopped in at Big Sound to create the worlds first album cover that can only be seen by bees.  An Ultraviolet album cover.  Nick Keester acquired the services of the world famous ultra violet photographer Osulto to shoot the cover.  And Bill Sutton discovers a new musical talent while spending time with his daughter

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Bill manages to steal Osuto, "the world's best ultraviolet photographer," right from under Keester's nose. But Nick Keester is not a man to give up easily, particularly if it means winning favour with Big Sound boss Gabe Moss. In this bitter battle, every little bit helps. A befuddled Osuto is swept from the talent show into Jesse's arms as Bill attempts to woo Toby, a young performer at the talent show who may turn into his next big "discovery". Bill's assistant Jessie is going beyond the call of duty, in more ways than one, and even the manipulating Donna, who is scheming her way up the Big Sound ladder, seems prepared to pitch in. But in his efforts to keep Keester from winning it all, Bill is letting things slip, including paying attention to his daughter, keeping his girlfriend happy and looking after an aquarium of exotic fish given to him by Randy Bachman.

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The battle to fulfill Melissa Etheridge's latest whim continues to rage at Big Sound as Bill and Keester race to claim victory with ultraviolet photos.

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Bobby Talisman's music is being used in a commercial that sells an adult diaper called Johnny Pants. Unable to withstand this artistic degradation, Bobby pleads with Bill to have the song pulled. An apprehensive Bill is forced to explain that the record label owns the song and Bobby loses control. With a gun in hand and a roomful of hostages, he threatens the ultimate retribution if Bill can't make this right.

 Donna and Marty come back from a late lunch and find Big Sound deserted. When Marty likens it to being the last two people on Earth, Donna’s deepest fantasies come to life.

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Bill's client, Bobby Talisman, takes "artistic integrity" to a new level and a hostage taking ensues.

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Seamus O'Malley, lead singer of New Publicans, is in hot pursuit of a woman and will go to any lengths to get her, including converting to Judaism. This means he has to observe the Sabbath on Fridays, reneging on three dates already booked for the next month. Bill manages to coerce him to stick to he contract, but at what cost? Keester and Bill's ex-wife are dating and he is pretty certain it is love. Michelle is not so certain. A desperate Keester pleads with Bill for some tips on winning Michelle's heart. Jessie is day trading on her computer during office hours to make a few extra bucks. Marty catches the bug and goes overboard.

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Bill negotiates the treacherous waters of family, religion and romance as his client Seamus O'Malley, cause a family feud, jeopardizes concert dates, as a result of his lust-inspired conversion to Judaism.

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Bill's client jeopordizes concert dates when he converts to Judaism for a woman, while Keester seeks Bill's advice on how to win Michelle's heart; Jessie takes up day trading during office hours.

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Pete Osgood fires Bill as his manager, but on his way out stops in the ladies' washroom and keels over, stone dead. Moss insists that Big Sound provide an impressive funeral. Bill, who thoroughly disliked his late client, wants to avoid having anything to do with it happily sells Keester the planning rights. Moss however makes Bill responsible for giving a eulogy for the man he despised and Bill appeals to Osgood's ex-wife Bif Naked. Keester has to make Creed lead singer, Scott Stapp, wear shirts in public - the complaints are too numerous to ignore. The trouble is - shirts just aren't a Scott "thing" and the struggle to cover up becomes epic.

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When Pete Osgood dies in the Big Sound washroom Bill has trouble composing a eulogy for Big Sound's most obnoxious client.  Keester schemes for ways to capitalize on the tragedy.  Scott Stapp and Keester are having artistic differences - over shirts.

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Rebecca is planning a rosy future with Bill, who just feels more and more trapped. When she decides they need a puppy, with Phoebe's unexpected support, he feels the leash tightening. At Big Sound, Ronnie's client book has mysteriously gone missing. It's his "bible" stuffed with precious mementos of his past triumphs and the home phone numbers of his most valuable contacts. Donna promises to leave no stone unturned until she finds it, but Donna's rule is always to help herself first, and helping Ronnie out of the door may be just part of the plan. Everyone else at Big Sound is watching the action and waiting to see who wins the office pool predicting Ronnie's departure.

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Ronny has lost his address book - his client bible and professional lifeline.  When it doesn't show up, Donna convinces him that there is a conspiracy at work while the Big Sound staff place bets as to how long he can last.

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A room reservation mix-up prompts Bill to invite singer Matthew Good to stay in his apartment, urging him to treat it like his own hotel suite. It's a generous gesture, but one that will cost him, not only his television set, but some of his furniture. Dan and Kerry are one of Bill's best composer/songwriter teams, but their working and romantic relationship is in crisis. Dan isn't keeping up his end of the bargain, in any regard, and in desperation Kerry uses Bill as a pawn to spark Dan's passions. Much to Jessie's surprise Bill has signed her ex-boyfriend Dakota on as a client. the only problem is that now Bill can't seem to make him go away! Jessie is disgruntled about her career after poring over her latest college alumni magazine. In an offhand attempt at appeasement, Bill gives her the go ahead to take on some clients of her own. When she realizes that she needs to learn a few tricks of the trade she turns to Keester for help. Keester has recently bought a thesaurus and rhyming dictionary and fancies himself a lyricist. In exchange for helping Jessie, he gets her to anonymously slip one of his songs on Bill's desk.

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Jessie, Dan, Kerry, Dakota and Matthew Good all have burning issues to resolve and what better place for them all to simultaneously converge than in Bill's living room.

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Bill takes Phoebe and two friends to Stewart Copeland’s concert. During the show, Bill is horrified to see Phoebe flirting shamelessly with a roadie! Overreacting and overprotective, Bill runs interference and exposes her age. Humiliated in front of her friends, Phoebe disappears into the night. Bill manages to track her down at Michelle’s house but hell hath no fury like a teenager scorned and she is not prepared to forgive and forget so easily.

Steward Copeland’s flammable concert shirts creates a deep rift with Bill, who has to redeem himself somehow. When an opportunity presents itself in the form of 400 jars of jam, he reluctantly jumps in. Steward wants to give them away at the end of the tour and he is counting on Bill to make them, in just under a week. Bill’s in a jam in more ways than one when he receives a surprise visit at the office from Veronica that leads to some inspired harmony in the sound booth. Later that evening, when appealing to Michelle for help with Phoebe, he manages to strike a similar cord.

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Steward Copeland wants Bill to make amends for the flammable T-shirt fiasco and all Bill has to do is make 400 jars of homemade jam.  Bill has a falling out with Phoebe, but easily falls into bed with two women, neither one being his current girlfriend.

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Carla and Juanita Harper are Bill’s most successful mother/daughter act and something is threatening to break them up. As Bill struggles to keep them together, Keester has managed to lure Juanita into his bed and very nearly under his management. Does Bill have what it takes to keep mother and daughter together?

 Michelle and Bill need to pick a new legal guardian for Phoebe in the event of their deaths. Jessie overhears the conversation and jumps at the opportunity to pacify her ticking maternal clock. In the meantime, Moss’s wife has gone to Europe to have an affair and ponder the fate of their marriage. Marty senses his pain and steps in with some creative distractions to see him through this difficult time.

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Juanita Harper wants to go solo and her mother Carla is anxious to stop her, meanwhile Phoebe needs a new legal guardian and Jessie is desperate to fit the bill.

Moss's Marriage is on the rocks and Marty is there to help him through it.

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Devin McAllister is convinced that he has received a message from Heaven and much to Bill’s irritation quits mid-tour to fulfil his destiny as a prophet. Christian Rock is not Bill’s thing, so he drops McAllister despite Jessie’s warning that God will take offence. Keester’s vengeance is manageable, but can Bill withstand reprisal from a higher being?

Jessie is concerned that her current boyfriend might not be her soul mate. How could he possibly be if the man can’t even pee in front of her? Distraught, she composes a life-partner quiz for him to fill out, but accidentally emails it to the entire office. Meanwhile, Marty has a secret. While working in Washington with Elvis, his father was given a genuine alien space suit. Stashed in a safety deposit box for years, Marty decides that the time has come for an unveiling and Keester wouldn’t miss it for the world.

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When Radio shock-jock Stan Shagalove makes fun of Chantal Kreviazuk's name refusing to play the music of an unpronouncable star, Bill invites him to lunch to sort things out. Thinking he has won Shagalov's favour he tunes in to the next days show only to be blasted by a barrage of on-air ridicule. What could ha have possibly done to provoke the D.J. and what can be done to stop him? Bobby Talisman submits to the eighth step of his program and apologizes to Bill for pulling a gun and threatening his life, but nonetheless, has decided he wants Keester to be his main man at Big Sound. Bobby prove to be more than Keester can handle and he finds himself living in fear of his new client. Marty invents a new board game called "So You Think You Have What It Takes To Be a Music Manager, Do You?"

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Radio shock-jock Stan Shagalove is out to get Bill and his unflagging on-air mockery goes too far.   Bobby Talisman still harbors resentment and Bill had better watch his back.

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A radio shock-jock refuses to play Chantal Kreviazuk's music because of her name; Bobby Talisman apologizes to Bill for pulling a gun on him, but wants Keester to be his manager; Marty invents a new board game for wannabe music managers.

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Ezra Hope’s latest album is filled with racism, homophobia, and bigotry. He convinces Bill that it is all satire, and part of a heartfelt artistic vision. However, the backlash at the office, in the streets and at home becomes so extreme that Bill is forced to decide how far he will go to support his client.

 When Keester’s client Gem tells him she is ready to have a baby, he is all ears. She says she has the perfect gene pool picked out and ovulates in three days. Nick gallantly offers his services to help her out; for him it is a dream come true. Gem, indeed, wants Keester to do something for her, but it’s to get Bill to agree to be the donor. Nick never quite accepts his obligation.

 A documentary is being filmed at Big Sound and, much to her surprise and delight, Donna has been chosen as the main focus. Keeping their attention amidst the chaos in the office, however, is hard work!

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Ezra Hope's new hate-mongering lyrics are as bigoted as they come, but Bill can rationalize anything for the right money! Gem wants Bill Sutton to father her child and as her manager it is up to Keester to arrange it and Donna is finally getting the international attention she deserves.

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Bill's support of a musician is stretched to the limit over the artist's shocking lyrics; one of Keester's clients is ready to have a baby and, to his chagrin, wants Bill to donate his seed; Donna becomes the main focus of a documentary being filmed at Big Sound.

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Eddie Valour hates being dumped and, after shelving his previous recordings, that is just what his record label has done. Bill proposes Eddie stay modern and current by distributing his music on the Internet with a live concert netcast. Eddie's ex-record label gets wind of the scheme and moves to protect their interests. Eddie and Bill are squeezed between: critical, ethical and legal issues, the record company’s legal department and two brash seventeen-year-old CEOs of a start-up dot.com company. The Simon Keane Band is touring in Nigeria and Simon himself has been arrested for drug trafficking. After several futile attempts to set him free, Keester appeals to Donna for help.

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Eddie Valour's record label has dropped him and Bill proposes distributing his music via the internet.  Simon Keane is jailed in Nigeria for drug trafficking and he is counting on a befuddled Keester to get him out.

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Bill tries to rekindle Eddie Valour's career by distributing his music over the Internet; Simon Keane is arrested for drug trafficking in Nigeria and appeals to Keester for help.

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Panic ensues around the offices of Big Sound when the Dire Need record label president flees to the South Pacific with all his company’s embezzled money. Bill hatches a plan to buy the label himself, with the financial backing of several bands currently on the roster. He envisions a world of music controlled by musicians, until he gets a glimpse of what this world would be. Meanwhile, Bill almost misses out on signing an up and coming young singer who patiently waits in the offices all day for a meeting with him, only to be shunted aside again and again. When the label gets scooped up by a most unexpected buyer, Bill returns to his roots with the discovery of a promising new talent.

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The president of Dire Needs has bolted with all the label's assets, leaving Darryl and Lisa holding the bag and Big Sound clients in a frenzy.

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Bill tries to rescue a floundering record label on behalf of many Big Sound clients.

Randy Bachman guest-stars.

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Keester is shot, and it's his new client who's caught holding the smoking gun.

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Bill's client, Trevor Finian, returns to performing after a two year case of stage fright

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Jessie's sister, Eve, comes to town and tries to manipulate her way into Big Sound; Thomas Dolby (guest-starring as himself) tries to launch a children's astrophysics show.

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Trevor Finian’s fans have waited two years to see him perform live again. Stage fright immobilized him in the past, but the legendary rock star assures Bill that he’s conquered his fears. All goes well until Trevor does the pre-concert sound check, gets jittery, and seeks out Bill for reassurance. Meanwhile, The Drips, Keester’s hot new band, have just released their first EP and the fifteen minutes Bill has allotted them as Trevor’s opening act just isn’t enough exposure for Keester’s schemes. A few well-chosen words later, Trevor has barricaded himself in Bill’s office, refusing to go to his comeback concert. Between hands of an office poker game, the Big Sound gang all pitch in to try and "counsel" Trevor out of his panic attack.

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Bill and the gang at Big Sound try to cure a rock star of his debilitating stage fright, while Keester capitalizes on the singer's fears to place his own clients centre stage.

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