# Pitch a TV sitcom (or critique my idea) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 21, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-a-tv-sitcom-or-critique-my-idea/647950 "2013-01-21T21:51:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-a-tv-sitcom-or-critique-my-idea/647950/21 "2013-01-22T04:12:53Z")
Oh yeah, I forgot. The guys who made It’s Always Sunny circumvented a lot of this: > **[KCRW 89.9FM | Music, NPR News, Culture Los Angeles](https://www.kcrw.com)** > > KCRW creates & curates music discovery, NPR news, cultural exploration and informed public affairs. From Los Angeles to around the world, KCRW.com. > [@](#): > > The origin story of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is a lesson in chuztpah and initiative. Three friends and aspiring actors – Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton and Charlie Day – made a pilot as a short film for themselves. But what began simply, quickly developed into something more significant. They shopped it around town as a potential TV show and got a lot of bites. FX President John Landgraf talks about how the pilot came out of nowhere from three guys with no experience but how he was taken with it immediately. > > McElehenney and Howerton tell The Business producer Darby Maloney about those early days, what motivated them, and how they had the confidence to insist that they be the producers and show-runner despite having absolutely no experience producing TV. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-a-tv-sitcom-or-critique-my-idea/647950/22 "2013-01-22T04:22:56Z")
What about three female roommates using on ad and deciding which one should/gets to field the responder. Flesh out the living arrangement angle so that you can build stories that do not rely on the dating part. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-a-tv-sitcom-or-critique-my-idea/647950/23 "2013-01-22T04:38:35Z")
What about three female roommates who have an S&M thing going on, with the tallest one being the sex slave of the other two, and each of the dommes hatching elaborate plans to degrade the other? Pitch it to Showtime. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-a-tv-sitcom-or-critique-my-idea/647950/24 "2013-01-22T04:51:10Z")
I had the germ of an idea for a sitcom recently. Two brothers (Lee Pace and Zachary Levi) marry two sisters (Kristen Bell and Mena Suvari). They are each happily married, though life takes its quirky toll on them at times. The A plot involves the one brother, Zac, who works for the other’s wife, Kristen, and the madcap adventures they get up to in the workplace. It’s not actually relevant where they work, but lets say they are in something sad and colourless like making rope and string - then the title could be _Entwined_. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-a-tv-sitcom-or-critique-my-idea/647950/25 "2013-01-23T02:22:51Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > Okay, here’s my (not yet fully realized) pitch: middle-class African-American family from a northern city decide to pick up stakes and move down south. It’s too expensive up north, too cold, too whatever - they’re part of the [reverse Great Migration](https://www.google.com/search?q=reverse+great+migration) trend. They move to a small southern town where the wife has some relatives. She spent summers down there as a kid and is super excited to move back for good - she totally buys into the southern charm. Her husband, meanwhile, is miserable at the thought of trading his northern metropolis for this hillbilly town. (Think “Green Acres” but with the genders reversed.) Comedy ensues as they settle into the pace of southern life and both of their expectations are confirmed and upended. Like this! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitch-a-tv-sitcom-or-critique-my-idea/647950.md?page=1)