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Post by ganews on Sept 8, 2014 20:12:00 GMT -5
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Post by ganews on Sept 8, 2014 20:13:51 GMT -5
I will again pitch my idea for "Drunk or Delicious?": 1-2 minute intro where our host arrives on campus 6-8 minutes of host interacting with drunk students in the colleges bar/restaurant district, getting reccomendations for local eateries. 10-12 minutes of host visiting the establishments in the light of day, chatting with the owners/cooks, seeing if the food holds up while sober 1-2 wrap it up with some sort of cute outro skit It wouldn't be great television, but it would definitely be watchable television. You would end up watching 4-5 episodes in a row on a lazy Saturday and wonder where the time went. And I want Dave Attell to host it. "Insomniac" was extremely watchable 12 years ago. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Sept 9, 2014 2:24:25 GMT -5
It's already been said, but apparently CBS isn't listening. So, one more time: STAR TREK.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Sept 9, 2014 8:23:07 GMT -5
I will again pitch my idea for "Drunk or Delicious?": 1-2 minute intro where our host arrives on campus 6-8 minutes of host interacting with drunk students in the colleges bar/restaurant district, getting reccomendations for local eateries. 10-12 minutes of host visiting the establishments in the light of day, chatting with the owners/cooks, seeing if the food holds up while sober 1-2 wrap it up with some sort of cute outro skit It wouldn't be great television, but it would definitely be watchable television. You would end up watching 4-5 episodes in a row on a lazy Saturday and wonder where the time went. And I want Dave Attell to host it. "Insomniac" was extremely watchable 12 years ago. You know, I've never actually seen Insomniac, but every other place I've encountered Attell I've found him kind of irritating. I can sort of see why other people like him, but he doesn't click for me. |
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Post by ganews on Sept 9, 2014 10:01:08 GMT -5
You know, I've never actually seen Insomniac, but every other place I've encountered Attell I've found him kind of irritating. I can sort of see why other people like him, but he doesn't click for me. He's in the subspecies of comedian that primarily discusses debauchery and shame, but his affability kept him from being to irritating to me. His old Comedy Central Presents was the best of his work that I've seen, but that was a while ago. Perhaps he has slid into a Benson-esque rut by now. |
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Sept 9, 2014 10:16:36 GMT -5
You know, I've never actually seen Insomniac, but every other place I've encountered Attell I've found him kind of irritating. I can sort of see why other people like him, but he doesn't click for me. He's in the subspecies of comedian that primarily discusses debauchery and shame, but his affability kept him from being to irritating to me. His old Comedy Central Presents was the best of his work that I've seen, but that was a while ago. Perhaps he has slid into a Benson-esque rut by now. Yea, I saw him when he came to ISU my freshman year (2006) and it was 60 minutes of "Jaggermeister messes you up, doesn't it?!" Just a little too on the bro-y side for me. That being said, that's probably the kind of host that would work in the context of that show, so who knows. |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Sept 9, 2014 10:37:59 GMT -5
I would love a show set in the near future where we have colonized the moon, or at least have a decent amount of people living there to follow. And treat it as realistically as possible. . Though you'd probably have to minus the "realistically" part what with the "and then they find a new lifeform" bit. But still! Bryan Fuller! The moon! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2014 11:33:18 GMT -5
I would love a show set in the near future where we have colonized the moon, or at least have a decent amount of people living there to follow. And treat it as realistically as possible. . Though you'd probably have to minus the "realistically" part what with the "and then they find a new lifeform" bit. But still! Bryan Fuller! The moon! I'm excited! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2014 11:47:53 GMT -5
There should be a Discworld TV show where each season focuses on a different character / storyline. Sort of like The Wire but lighthearted! Mostly.
Seasons:
-Wizzards / Rincewind
-Witches
-The Watch
-DEATH
-Ankh-Mopork / the Vetinari / Moist von Lipwig stories
I'm going to stop thinking about this now, because the more I think about the logistics of fitting the novels into episodes of TV, the less I'm sure that this would even work. I'm less sure about the order of the seasons; my initial thought is to start with Rincewind / Wizzards but I could see using "Guards! Guards!" as the pilot and doing some of the earlier novels in flashbacks.
I still like the idea, though I wonder if it might work better on British TV than American TV...maybe HBO can pick it up when Game of Thrones ends. It might even make more sense to do it as an animated series, though this begs the obvious question of casting, and I better stop there.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Sept 9, 2014 12:23:33 GMT -5
I would pay so much money to see The Watch on TV on the regular. Vimes is my favorite of all time.
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Post by Smacks on Sept 9, 2014 13:22:57 GMT -5
- Nutbusters: Like Mythbusters, But For Porn
- America's Funniest Homeless People, Hosted by Mitt Romney
- Adam Richman's "Are You Gonna Finish That?"
- Gordon Ramsay Screams At...(Join Gordon Ramsay on his quest to scream himself hoarse at workers in every service industry! From bartenders to hospital orderlies, NO ONE is safe from Gordon Ramsay!)
- Eating With The Stars
- So You Think You Can Drink?
- Clarissa Explains It All, starring Richard Dawkins as Clarissa
- Neil Degrasse Tyson Presents: Just Kidding, It Was Jesus The Whole Time
I humbly submit my application for SYTYCD. |
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Post by Electric Dragon on Sept 10, 2014 8:51:36 GMT -5
I would pay so much money to see The Watch on TV on the regular. Vimes is my favorite of all time. A Watch TV series was in development at one point a few years ago. As is the way of these things though, I've heard nothing about it since. |
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Post by LazBro on Sept 10, 2014 11:07:58 GMT -5
A limited-run series based on Alan Wake could be strong. I mean, the game is already episodic. It's built for it. This would be a suggestion in the same vein of Silent Hill 2, which was also a great idea.
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Sept 10, 2014 11:11:28 GMT -5
I still like the idea, though I wonder if it might work better on British TV than American TV...maybe HBO can pick it up when Game of Thrones ends. Been tried, sort of. British TV thing Sky has produced a couple of Discworld miniseries. I think it could work on American TV, but HBO strikes me as the wrong place for it - Discworld's not exactly heavy on the R rated content. One of the non-premium cable channels or network TV (because at the end of the day Discworld should be closer in tone to Sleepy Hollow than Game of Thrones) would make more sense to me. The Watch strikes me as far the best Discworld candidate for TV. I mean, it's essentially a procedural series with serialized mythology and a no-nonsense cop; this is a framework that feels extremely natural for TV (though any of the longer book series could work - the Wyrd Sisters, etc.) |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Sept 11, 2014 7:39:32 GMT -5
I still like the idea, though I wonder if it might work better on British TV than American TV...maybe HBO can pick it up when Game of Thrones ends. Been tried, sort of. British TV thing Sky has produced a couple of Discworld miniseries. I think it could work on American TV, but HBO strikes me as the wrong place for it - Discworld's not exactly heavy on the R rated content. One of the non-premium cable channels or network TV (because at the end of the day Discworld should be closer in tone to Sleepy Hollow than Game of Thrones) would make more sense to me. The Watch strikes me as far the best Discworld candidate for TV. I mean, it's essentially a procedural series with serialized mythology and a no-nonsense cop; this is a framework that feels extremely natural for TV (though any of the longer book series could work - the Wyrd Sisters, etc.) : to be showrun by Terry's daughter Rhianna and be sequel to the Vimes books (ie, characters already in play rather than adapting the Watch novels). The flavour is described as CSI:Ankh-Morpork. Why the fuck don't we have this right now instead of more fucking costume drama shite? |
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Post by Lady Bones on Oct 8, 2015 10:15:07 GMT -5
Douay-Rheims-Challoner: So the most recent word on that Tick reboot is that Edlund and Warburton are on board, but Amazon has yet to greenlight the script.
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