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09-20-07, 10:58 AM
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Post your TV show ideas!
With all the stupid shows coming out this fall that aren't going to last 4 episodes I thought we could post our show ideas to see if we could to better.
Ok here's mine.
Fantasy/comedy
There is a Magician named Pete that leads a bad life. Kinda like the magician character in Smoking Aces. So one day he dies and goes to Heaven but before God lets him in he has to help people to redeem himself. Here's the catch. His body is decomposing and he only has a few days to accomplish his mission or his body rots apart and he goes to Hell. But when he helps someone and accomplishes the goal he starts out again with the way his body was when he died. He has to keep doing this until God says he has made up for his past. Kinda like a funny Highway to Heaven but it's a dead corpse!
The best part is the name of the show: Abracadaver!
You guys have to be able to do better than that!
Ok here's mine.
Fantasy/comedy
There is a Magician named Pete that leads a bad life. Kinda like the magician character in Smoking Aces. So one day he dies and goes to Heaven but before God lets him in he has to help people to redeem himself. Here's the catch. His body is decomposing and he only has a few days to accomplish his mission or his body rots apart and he goes to Hell. But when he helps someone and accomplishes the goal he starts out again with the way his body was when he died. He has to keep doing this until God says he has made up for his past. Kinda like a funny Highway to Heaven but it's a dead corpse!
The best part is the name of the show: Abracadaver!
You guys have to be able to do better than that!
09-20-07, 11:13 AM
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Genre: Situation Comedy w/Laugh Track
Title: ‘Maude & Roseanne’
Original idea started by Nateman in the: ‘Roseanne: The Complete 8th Season, not so complete?’ thread.
Starring
Roseanne ‘Whatever her last name is that day’
&
Bea Arthur
With Special Appearances by- Ed O’Neil as "Al Bundy"
How about this for a new sitcom pitch: Roseanne teams up with Bea Arthur. Roseanne reprises her role as Roseanne Conner & Bea Arthur reprises her role as Maude Findlay. The 2 move in together & their political views are the vocal point of this “for-sure” hit sitcom! Let the hilarity begin!
Title: ‘Maude & Roseanne’
Original idea started by Nateman in the: ‘Roseanne: The Complete 8th Season, not so complete?’ thread.
Starring
Roseanne ‘Whatever her last name is that day’
&
Bea Arthur
With Special Appearances by- Ed O’Neil as "Al Bundy"
How about this for a new sitcom pitch: Roseanne teams up with Bea Arthur. Roseanne reprises her role as Roseanne Conner & Bea Arthur reprises her role as Maude Findlay. The 2 move in together & their political views are the vocal point of this “for-sure” hit sitcom! Let the hilarity begin!
09-20-07, 11:22 AM
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Premise: What happens when Jack isn't saving the word.
1/2 hour 1 camera shoot as we follow Jack Bauer as he eats, sleeps and watches TV and goes to the bathroom.
Starring Kiefer Sutherland.
Premise: What happens when Jack isn't saving the word.
1/2 hour 1 camera shoot as we follow Jack Bauer as he eats, sleeps and watches TV and goes to the bathroom.
Starring Kiefer Sutherland.
09-20-07, 11:23 AM
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This is not mine, this one belongs to David Addison (Bruce Willis):
"Bus Stop"
Every week, new couples meet on a bus and fall in love.
Buses...all shiny and new...
Come aboard, we've been waiting for you...
"Bus Stop"
Every week, new couples meet on a bus and fall in love.
Buses...all shiny and new...
Come aboard, we've been waiting for you...
09-20-07, 11:48 AM
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My idea is whatever was hot last year, but on a different channel. Sometimes the same channel. A never-was actor or washed up comedian could be the star/host.
09-20-07, 11:49 AM
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The Ghost Club
A rift in the 4th dimensional space-time continuum traps a ragtag gaggle of wandering spirits in the year 2050, where they team up to fight crime and adjust to their new surroundings.
Season one stars Gen. Ulysses Grant (John Rhys-Davies), Confucious (James Hong), Cleopatra (Vanessa Hudgens) and Fatty Arbuckle (Kevin James). Periodic temporary "burps" in the rift will allow a vast array of historical guest stars, both hero and villain!
Mud Puppy
10-year-old orphan Daisy Tuggle (Elle Fanning) makes a wish for a friend after seeing a shooting star, and her dreams are answered when a glob of wet dirt she is playing with becomes her new four-legged pal!
Resourceful Daisy and wise-cracking Mud Puppy (a CG character voiced by Steve Carrell) criss-cross the country on a quest for her real parents, chased by the evil Miss Thornapple (Suzanne Pleshette) and her band of black-shrouded Orphan Eaters.
A rift in the 4th dimensional space-time continuum traps a ragtag gaggle of wandering spirits in the year 2050, where they team up to fight crime and adjust to their new surroundings.
Season one stars Gen. Ulysses Grant (John Rhys-Davies), Confucious (James Hong), Cleopatra (Vanessa Hudgens) and Fatty Arbuckle (Kevin James). Periodic temporary "burps" in the rift will allow a vast array of historical guest stars, both hero and villain!
Mud Puppy
10-year-old orphan Daisy Tuggle (Elle Fanning) makes a wish for a friend after seeing a shooting star, and her dreams are answered when a glob of wet dirt she is playing with becomes her new four-legged pal!
Resourceful Daisy and wise-cracking Mud Puppy (a CG character voiced by Steve Carrell) criss-cross the country on a quest for her real parents, chased by the evil Miss Thornapple (Suzanne Pleshette) and her band of black-shrouded Orphan Eaters.
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09-20-07, 12:01 PM
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Medal of Honor
Weekly one hour dramatic reenactments of the acts of individual gallantry which merited the awarding of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. With over 3400 medals awarded, this program could last for several years.
Weekly one hour dramatic reenactments of the acts of individual gallantry which merited the awarding of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. With over 3400 medals awarded, this program could last for several years.
09-20-07, 12:06 PM
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"My Left Nut"
Jittery, nervous, and unlucky in love, Wesley, played by Rob Cordrry finds a lump on his left testicle while playing with himself in the shower. After a full workup, the lump is found to be cancerous, and is treated with radiation. After his therapy, the lump not only doesn't go away, but begins to speak, voiced by Artie Lange!! Hilarity ensues! It is a raucous race against time as Wesley and his left nut not only try to find a cure for his rapidly metastatic testicular carcinoma, but also simultaneously trying to find true love in all the wrong places!!! Deep-doop-deep-doop-deep-doop.
Theme song: "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey
Jittery, nervous, and unlucky in love, Wesley, played by Rob Cordrry finds a lump on his left testicle while playing with himself in the shower. After a full workup, the lump is found to be cancerous, and is treated with radiation. After his therapy, the lump not only doesn't go away, but begins to speak, voiced by Artie Lange!! Hilarity ensues! It is a raucous race against time as Wesley and his left nut not only try to find a cure for his rapidly metastatic testicular carcinoma, but also simultaneously trying to find true love in all the wrong places!!! Deep-doop-deep-doop-deep-doop.
Theme song: "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey
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09-20-07, 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Charlie Goose
A large house with many bedrooms is bought by the city and turned into a halfway house for pedophiles. Starring Jason Ritter and Mark Addy.
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09-20-07, 12:21 PM
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We'll call this one.... Under Rage. Jason Ritter's character runs the large house, and he's named Jason Rage.
classic!
Theme song: "Sweet Child O' Mine" by G'n'R
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09-20-07, 12:35 PM
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"Rock of Ages"
I think it would be great to do a show about a kids trying to start a Band in High School
A heavy Freaks and Geeks vibe, with a dash of my so called life tossed in with a helping of School of Rock.
I think it would be great to do a show about a kids trying to start a Band in High School
A heavy Freaks and Geeks vibe, with a dash of my so called life tossed in with a helping of School of Rock.
09-20-07, 01:34 PM
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More seriously, I always thought Donald Westlake's Dortmunder books could be the basis of a good series.
09-20-07, 02:37 PM
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I would have loved to see 24: Atlanta, or wherever it was they
It would have great to have a 24-esque series with them alone. You know, with cameos from the original series.
Spoiler:
09-20-07, 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by 12thmonkey
We'll call this one.... Under Rage. Jason Ritter's character runs the large house, and he's named Jason Rage.
09-20-07, 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Charlie Goose
That took me a second to get, but I like it! We'll need someone gruff yet lovable for the parole officer. Maybe Ed Asner, he's a bleeding heart as well as Emmy bait.
09-20-07, 04:12 PM
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Medal of Honor
Weekly one hour dramatic reenactments of the acts of individual gallantry which merited the awarding of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. With over 3400 medals awarded, this program could last for several years.
Weekly one hour dramatic reenactments of the acts of individual gallantry which merited the awarding of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. With over 3400 medals awarded, this program could last for several years.
09-20-07, 04:26 PM
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Three Female lingerie models solve crimes, using the martial art of jazzercise.
Any three hotties in their early 20's could play the models. They could even switch mid episode and no one would know. Ben Stiller plays the wacky sidekick.
Three Female lingerie models solve crimes, using the martial art of jazzercise.
Any three hotties in their early 20's could play the models. They could even switch mid episode and no one would know. Ben Stiller plays the wacky sidekick.
09-20-07, 08:10 PM
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I want to see an alien conspiracy show along the lines of the XFiles, except the Earth humans are the "aliens" and the aliens are the paranoid ones preparing for the attack. So the roles would be reversed, basically.
09-20-07, 08:48 PM
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Picture Serial Mom, but a tv series where each episode someone is killed(ala six feet under). Only killed at the end by said serial mom. Comedy, dark.
Picture Serial Mom, but a tv series where each episode someone is killed(ala six feet under). Only killed at the end by said serial mom. Comedy, dark.
09-21-07, 12:58 AM
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I keep thinking that after the first season of 24, they should have kept the one hour real-time concept but changed everything else about the show. Cast, genre, writers, everything. Each season could have been a different 24 hour story.