A lighthearted mystery program about a professional assassin who solves “impossible” crimes while carrying out his day job. Our “Hero” is setting up a sniper nest.)
“Lavrenti Beria is supposed to have said: ‘Any fool can shoot somebody. Any halfway trained operative can stage a convincing suicide. But it takes a true artist to pull off a convincing natural death.’ All respect to Mr. B, but he had no idea how much work it takes to shoot someone right.” (takes shot)
Of course most of the deaths on the show are of the “convincing natural death” type,
Show about five ex cons (1-5) who are trying to start a normal life together. Or continue commiting crimes, whatever is more realistic or interesting. Combination of drama, dark comedy, thriller etc.
Crimes they are guilty off (ex con one=1, ex con two=2…)
rape, theft, bank robbery, arson (that’s a career criminal, that’s what he is)
1st degree murder
embezzlement
terrorism, 1st degre murder (personal reasons, no political agenda)
vehicular manslaughter
Sort of like Oz, only it shows their lives after prison, and there are both men and women involved (their genders from 1 to 5: man, woman, man, man, woman).
Hmmm. The focus groups say they want something the whole family can watch. Can it be a family of intrepid explorers? And maybe to emphasize their dependence on each other as a family, they get lost early on in the series and have to work together to find their way home again?
Young MEN raped, dismembered, murdered, knocked off by a cunning serial killer, kept in dungeons. Detectives are on the case! Just for a change of pace.
Could we work in some FBI agents so the viewers have someone to identify with? Maybe a Jack & Jill team, but give them some conflict. Maybe she believes in the conspiracy, but he’s a skeptic? Or the other way around, I don’t know, whatever you think works best.
Slightly derivative, but I think it would feel like a pretty different beast, but I’ve been thinking that I’d like a heist TV show that actually took the time that such an operation would take in real life. Like, if you consider The Wire compared to CSI, they show the whole process of staking someone out over the course of a full season, rather than introducing everything and resolving it in the span of a single episode, every episode.
With the protracted heist, you would see people casing the joint, building contraptions, using scientific testing to figure out how to defeat security measures, brainstorming problems that could come up dependent on different issues that could come up while the heist is underway, committing smaller heists in preparation, to gather materials and knowledge, etc. The final episode would then have the whole thing play out and you’d get to see how everything and all their plans finally come together (or fail).
Pan Am is the only one I know of. But it quickly changed from a ‘workplace drama’ about sexism and the goings on during the golden age of the air travel industry to a show about cold war espionage.
I’m not sure if there was another flight attendant drama recently but this show did but heads and ultimately win against The Playboy Club, which I never saw, but I think it took place during a similar era so if you never saw either it may be easy to assume they were both about the same thing.
A show about search-and-rescue dogs and their owners/handlers. The episodes could deal with things like kidnappings, runaways, natural disasters, etc. Most of the people involved in this are volunteers, a fact that could be used for interesting plot points and conflicts. Also, the training is quite rigorous - you could have episodes depicting that as well.
A really evil criminal has the cops stumped. To beat him, the government has to bring in the one person who can beat him: his twin from another reality! They’d make it clear this was a very expensive procedure and not easily duplicated to stop all kinds of shenanigans (until sweeps week). I guess that’s not too original.
Another: Every week, a look at another department of the government and the challengers it faces: Agriculture, Education, Health, to the United States Women’s Bureau and Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations. Well, I think it would be interesting.
