The Magic Ethnic Snarky Fairy Unicorn Princess Giant-Eyed Puppy Cats Hour.
The scripts would write themselves. It’s an idea that I’ve been thinking of selling, because it would sell.
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Life on the rez. A fictional drama of a family of Native Americans living on a non-casino reservation.
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ISLAM. A Saturday morning cartoon based on the life and times of Mohammed (peace be unto him)
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The Underdogs. A show that outlines the world’s underdogs who never won.
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The Homeless Camp. A reality show where the contestants have to learn to survive with the local homeless folks with prize money being shared with the homeless folks.
Shades of ST: TOS “The Alternative Factor.”
Options 2 and 4, to reflect reality, would need to include rapes.
Because we cancelled cable over 10 years ago (DVDs is all we have now), I have semi-joked with people that if society survives long enough, someday there will be a show that might be called CELEBRITY DEFECATION. It’ll be a combination reality/game show where contestants compete to guess which is each panel member’s…well.
Don’t tell me people wouldn’t watch it.
I’d make a series about a irredeemably terrible son of a bitch who each week does all sorts of terrible things to other people and either never gets caught or never gets punished. He simply wanders through life harming and cheating new people each week and has no regard for the consequences of his actions.
I call it The Sociopath.
The best part is that since you only need 100-115 shows to get a solid syndication deal and there are easily dozens of stories in the media daily from which to draw, you could easily reach the necessary number of original programs. It works as either a series of story arcs (he moves in with his new girlfriend(s),drains their savings and runs up their credit cards while promising to marry them and never doing it). Or it could be a series of standalones ( he gets hired at various jobs using false pretenses and ends up costing his boss his after he’s finally fired. He scams a range of charities and religious organizations into giving him money and shelter only to abuse their trust as often as soon as he can;etc)
It literally writes itself.
A law show, but all the lawyers are secretly aliens. They don’t really understand American law at all. Hijinks result.
GOLDEN ROCKET PONY!!!
That’s all I got right now. I could use some help fleshing it out.
-So I goto NBC and tell them I have an idea for a show, they say ‘what’s your show about’ and I say ‘nothing’?
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Fecal Matters
A character named John Fecal hosts a news mag type of TV show and is supposed to discuss current events. Instead, he turns every conversation into poop talk.
Political debate shows always seem to have hacks equally divided between the two parties, and as such they quickly take easily predictable sides on things.
I think it would be interesting to have a political debate show that has panels made up of all people from one party or the other, but from different factions within that party. That way you’d have at least some common ground, so the debaters would be a little slower to vilify each-other. At the same time, I think there is enough variety within each party that you could get people to have plenty of room to argue, with the added feature that the grounds of argument wouldn’t be the same predictable Dem v. Republican that happen on every other show.
So one week you could have a religious social conservative, a paleo-conservative, a neo-conservative and a pro-business type. The next you could have a DLC member, a blue-Dog Dem, an Occupy wall-street supporter and a labour leader.
Well, that won’t upset anybody.
North of 60. Great show.
Unfortunately, you couldn’t get away with having a lovable dog in that one……
Hard to do when you can’t show the title character.
The (Alternate) History Channel’s “(Alternate) Battlefields.”
Standard respectable documentary series about military battles…as from alternate histories, told “in universe” style.
See Operation Sea Lion; or the atomic bombing of Axis-held Ireland; or the Bismarck’s famous final death ride against the USS Iowa and HMS Vanguard; or the Haitian-Cuban aerial skirmishes of the Cold War!
Mostly told with stock footage, repurposed war movie clips, 3D infographics, and historians interviews, bulked out with photoshopped historical photos and film clips.
Best of all, after there’s been a season or two produced, you can just take existing episodes, change the ending, and call it an Alternate-Alternate History…you might be able to pull it off two or three times!
Wasn’t that called Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em?
You could,however, show things from Mohammed’s perspective. As long as you avoided reflections, you’d probably only get a minimal number of fatwas and death threats…
Do a show based on the Beagle Boys, those Walt Disney comic book characters. They are three convicts who wear little black masks and orange shirts, and those round convict caps. They are bald, and have black doggy noses. They call each other by prison numbers instead of names. And they are always plotting to steal Scrooge McDuck’s money, but you never actually see McDuck. Or any other duck. It would be a serious adult drama.
OMG this is brilliant. That would be an excellent way to start a first episode.
There are some crime shows where serial killer is solving cases (Dexter, Hannibal) but I kinda got tired of all those serial killers-professional assassin could be a nice change, and show being lighthearted would make it more fun to watch. Not to mention that he would have to use different methods to kill his victims, which would make it all the more interesting.