A show about putting together a tv show (ala Larry Sanders) where the whole episode is the prepping for the taping of the show they’re putting on. The final shot each week would be the the the director yelling “action” for the taping. Each week would focus on different parts of the process, writing the script, casting the supporting players, the network brass, etc.
I hear Mrs. Hilton is investing heavily in this concept…
If you include M’Ress, and do a good job on the makeup design, I can guarantee that you won’t have to worry about the ratings.
You’ve already made this on home video, haven’t you?
Some of us may just be willing to buy a copy!
Friar Ted
Sadly, it’s one of the many uncompleted projects on my list of strange things I must create. If I ever do get an episode done, I’ll probably convert it to a file and share it with the world. I doubt I’d make very much selling tapes, and the more exposure it gets the more chance there is of my having a network pick up the show.
I love this idea. The only problem I can see is that after one season eventually you may run out of ideas. Surely not every single one of those 2000 people had an interesting story that interestingly interwieved with other people’s. Perhaps each season could focus on a different disaster? That probably wouldn’t work. Still, awesome concept.
Bad TV Revenge
Premise: The incessant stomach-turning reality TV series, daytime sensationalist talk shows, news-entartainment shows and so forth, were brought to you by network miscreants who not only approved the airing of such drivel, but who actually went out and convened “focus groups” who would provide statistical justification for this crap. In a critically acclaimed break from the status quo, [Bad TV Revenge** takes you behind the scenes, as our crack team of private investigators finds out who these people are and where they live. You, the viewer, will be right there when our in-house tactical ops team breaks down the doors of these social parasites, and kills them off one-by-one in an attempt to raise society’s collective IQ.
I would like to see a worm’s eye view of the star trek universe. Instead of a top of the line ship with a higly trained crew, the show is set on an ancient freighter doing the worst jobs with outdated equipment and bottom of their class officers. The captain is an alien- a really alien alien. A blob of goo in a tank wired into the captain’s console, with a speaker for issuing orders. The crew is essentially leaderless- although they can never figure out if the blob is totally clueless or incredibly brilliant.
Second idea- Survivor for real: People are dumped on an island WITHOUT backup. No stupid challenges, no voting off, no food, no medical care, no help at all (but you can quit and be evaced at any time). After a few months, viewers vote to choose the person who recieves the prize. For more fun, do the same thing to people kidnapped at random and don’t tell them what’s going on.