I find myself continually wishing for a TV drama set in Ancient Rome, or even in the Ancient Roman Empire. Yes I know the budget would be incredible and it would probably have to be an HBO series or something, but God would I love to see that.
How about you guys? Anything you wish TV had?
A series set in the Scottish Highlands, around 1650 or so.
Anything else? 
A good middle-ages fantasy (ala D&D - the game, not the movie) that took itself seriously and had character development. Kind of like Roar if they had time to develop it.
An hour-long family drama-comedy (ala Gilmore Girls) set in a third world country.
One word - Pirates. Master and Commander on a weekly basis.
I’d like to see a hard-SF series set in the near future, say, the year 2050, in a hotel/bar/restaurant (“Giant’s Castle”) at the top of a surface-to-orbit space elevator or “beanstalk.” And I mean hard SF: No magic or mysticism; no extraterrestrial life forms, sentient or nonsentient; no travel outside the Solar System; and no “black box” technologies of any kind – no FTL drives, no transporters, no force fields, nothing that is not considered at least theoretically possible in light of our current scientific knowledge. (Which still leaves open the door for a lot of exotic technologies, including some that have been explored in written SF but not much, as yet, in TV SF – e.g., nanotechnology, neural-electronic interfaces, and some stuff you can read about in Robert L. Forward’s Indistinguishable from Magic.)
I once brought up this idea at a panel discussion at an SF convention, and the great SF writer and editor Ben Bova replied, “Where’s the conflict?” As I reminded him, and shouldn’t have had to, you don’t need aliens; you get conflict wherever you have people – religious conflict, political conflict, economic competition, as well as more personal forms. Kim Stanley Robinson managed to work a lot of conflict into his Mars trilogy, without working any aliens or wizards into it. The show I envision would be like an SF version of LAX. The stories and the conflict would come from the lives and relationships of the permanent staff of the Giant’s Castle, plus all the people who pass through the station on their way to or from business in the space colonies at the Trojan points, on the Moon and Mars, etc. – and from the various governments, business corporations, and religious and political movements with which some of those people might be affiliated.
Think the Sci-Fi Channel would touch something like this?
My girlfriend watched Angel a lot. I’m thinking to myself, why not a show about a bunch of Vampires who live in Soho? Kind of like Interview With a Vampire mets Friends except that they don’t dress like dorks, the Kirsten Dunst character is the age she is now and everyone thinks the one who complains about being a vampire all the time is the “gay one”.
No, because it sounds like you are thinking of a quality program.
Check.
Also feudal Japan.
I’ve even got a name picked out for the series: Civilization Type 0.5. Because:
The point being, however awed we might be by our technology, in these terms we’re not even a Type I civilization yet, and not likely to be by mid-century, either. But we’ll be measurably closer than we are now, maybe even half-way there, hence “Civilization Type 0.5.”
For D&D-style fantasy, try Record of Lodoss War (for a sillier parody, try the Slayers trilogy).
For Feudal Japan, there’s way too many titles to name, but it suffices to say that there’s a ton of animated and live-action stuff, and some might be at least fansubbed. (Just off the top of my head, Rurouni Kenshin and Peacemaker Kurogane are two that deal with the transformation to the Meiji era.)
Too too true . . . is there any network, today, that would look at such a project, and that could be trusted not to do a Starlost job on it?
I want In-depth, factual, high-quality History shows. Something like Terry Jones’ “Medieval Lives.” But it would be LONGER THAN A HALF %*$(# HOUR! David McCauley did some good animated/live action specials of his books: “City,” “Castle,” “Cathedral” and “Pyramid.” More shows like that would be wonderful. I’d like to see more emphasis on substance than form in these shows. Basically, the opposite of the History Channel. And not just on War and sensationalist stuff (The history of Murdering, Cross-dressing, porn-stars!). The lives of ordinary folks would be just as interesting to me.
I wanna see a weekly, hour long *Doc Savage * program.
Or The Shadow.
Or a Captain America series, set in WW2.
Any sort of historical drama would do it for me, really. Whether it be as accurate as possible or with a little (LITTLE) bit of magic and mysticism thrown in for good measure.
I’d like to see That '60s Show or some equivalent. Not like American Dreams or The Wonder Years – I mean a show where all the central characters are in the counterculture – hippies, political radicals, etc. – and everything about the world at that time is filtered through their POV.
Bah, there are plenty of sci-fi shows on right now. Just 'cause they may not be great, at least you’ve got 'em.
There are no western shows. I wish there was a show that took place in the old west.
I miss westerns. 
Nude college cheerleader mud-wrestling.
What?
Or “Alice” set in space. Now kiss my grits!
Escaflowne was good, too, though it was borderline clockpunk/steampunk. (And it got kinda heavy on all the interpersonal woo-woo crap in the last half.)
As for myself…
•A series about supervillains/mad scientists.
But not for over the top laughs. Kind of a “dark dramady.” Like “COBRA” or “SPECTRE: The Series,” by the producers of ER.
•An anime drama that doesn’t leave me horribly depressed at the well-written, beautifully rendered finale.
•I’ve heard good things about the “Girl Genius” comic. Maybe it could have TV potential? (Though there’d be about a 20% chance that it wouldn’t get screwed up.)
•Remember “Batman Beyond”? It might be interesting to see if you could do something similar with the Marvel universe. (“Spider-Runner”?; “Stark-tech Crisis: New York 2040”? )