🎧 THE G.Y.M. | Trailer
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Manifest Media / TABLE READ
4.0 • 440 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
🎧 THE G.Y.M.
Welcome to THE G.Y.M.
Not a gym. A situation.
Valerie inherited a neighborhood gym from her mother.
What she actually inherited? Debt, broken equipment, a failing business… and a staff that turns every small problem into a full-blown emergency.
Across the street, a sleek corporate fitness empire is opening with glass walls, perfect lighting, and zero chaos.
Inside The G.Y.M.?
Flooded hot tubs.
Out-of-order bikes.
A spin class that may or may not be a lawsuit waiting to happen.
And a “Grand Re-Opening” that could either save the place… or finally finish it.
This is a workplace comedy where nothing works, nobody communicates, and every attempt to fix things somehow makes them worse.
Think Parks and Recreation meets It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, set inside a failing gym where the stakes are low… until suddenly they’re not.
Recorded live at SXSW /. Podcast Movement, this Austin Film Festival award-winning script by Dani Hanks delivers fast, character-driven comedy with just enough heart to make you root for people who absolutely should not be in charge of anything.
You don’t come here to get fit.
You come here because something is definitely about to go wrong.
🎭 Cast
Allison Dunbar as Valerie
Yasmine Al-Bustami as Kayla
Kensington Tallman as Alexa
Shaan Sharma as Wade
Joe Nemmers as Gary Hughes
Jacob A. Ware as Bryan
Brian Villalobos as Chris
Amy Bailey as Mary
Heather Foster, Narrator
Special appearance by our attorney Scott Hervey as Client Carlin
🎬 From Table Read Podcast
Executive Producers: Jack Levy, Mark Knell, & Shaan Sharma
Produced by Manifest Media Productions
Recorded live at SXSW / Podcast Movement
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| 0:00.0 | Okay. |
| 0:01.0 | All right. |
| 0:02.0 | I don't know where Mark went, but... |
| 0:03.0 | Oh, there's Mark. |
| 0:04.0 | Were we ready, Mark? |
| 0:05.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:06.0 | Heather, take it away. |
| 0:07.0 | All right. |
| 0:08.0 | Trailer, over of not just pop music like an early 80s 2000s ad spot. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to the GYM, your favorite rundown fitness shithole. |
| 0:18.0 | In this pilot episode, we follow neurotic girl boss Valerie and her |
| 0:22.0 | rag-tag employees as they attempt to film a commercial for the grand reopening of the GYM. |
| 0:28.1 | Valerie grew up in this shitty local gym as her second home and purchased the failing establishment |
| 0:33.0 | after the former owner was exposed as the Flamingo King in a scathing tell-all documentary. |
| 0:39.3 | The FBI took the birds and Valerie spent her life savings to keep the place from being bulldozed. |
| 0:45.3 | Can she restore the GYM to its former glory so it lives up to her childhood's rose-colored memories? |
| 0:51.3 | Or will it pale in comparison to its sleek and modern competitor |
| 0:55.0 | across the street? |
| 0:57.0 | Solstice! |
| 0:58.0 | To find out, come on down to the GYM |
| 1:00.0 | and get a full ab workout laughing in the comfort of your own home. |
| 1:10.0 | The GYM pilot, written by Danny Hanks. |
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