# You create a new TV series -- what's the premise? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [December 6, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-create-a-new-tv-series-whats-the-premise/927393 "2020-12-06T16:52:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-create-a-new-tv-series-whats-the-premise/927393/1 "2020-12-06T16:52:22Z")
Ever thought up an original idea for a TV series? Tell us about it. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-create-a-new-tv-series-whats-the-premise/927393/2 "2020-12-06T20:16:28Z")
A compelling adult family dramedy where time traveling prostitutes use magic to solve crimes. ---
**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:** [December 7, 2020, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-create-a-new-tv-series-whats-the-premise/927393/3 "2020-12-07T09:39:56Z")
A gentle sitcom set in an Amateur Dramatics community theatre, putting on their yearly show. It’s like _Noises Off_ meets _Vicar of Dibley_. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-create-a-new-tv-series-whats-the-premise/927393/4 "2020-12-07T13:30:54Z")
A costume drama miniseries based off of William Thackeray’s book “The Newcomes”. A will-they, won’t-they romance set in the financial world, the art world, and the church world of mid 19th century England. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-create-a-new-tv-series-whats-the-premise/927393/5 "2020-12-07T14:09:25Z")
A BBC period costume drama about a Khoikhoi herder in 1605 who is kidnapped from what is now Cape Town, South Africa and taken to England. There he is housed in a noble’s country estate, educated alongside the nobleman’s children, interacts with people on the estate and in London where he is shown off at fashionable Jocobean parties, interacting with many personalities of the day - like seeing a first-run showing of _Macbeth_. Although a showing of _Othello_ might be more relevant. And the Covid-based fun we could have with the 1609 plague! Done as a fish-out-of-water comedy. With an overarching plot that advances over the series of the captive’s schemes to be sent back home (aided and abetted by the nobleman’s young kids) Based on a true story, but shifted 10 years earlier so as to have a still-alive Shakespeare in the mix… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-create-a-new-tv-series-whats-the-premise/927393/6 "2020-12-08T15:35:25Z")
_The Exciting Adventures of Three Kids In A Trenchcoat_