What TV shows should there be?

"Leggy"

-All the Bruce Sterling stories (set from the 80's to 1999) involving his greatest creation: the impresario and post-modern-magical-realist black marketeer, Leggy Starlitz. Would adapt "Hollywood Kremlin", "Are You For 86?" and "The Littlest Jackal" as well as the novel "Zeitgeist", and maybe the space between then and the brief appearance of his grown daughter Zeta in "Love Is Strange". Basically; surreal historical comedy of the late 20th century, ranging from the fall of the Soviet Untio, anti-abortion activism, Nordic minority terrorism (and the Moomins!) and a Spice Girls rip off act touring the Middle East.
Ten part mini-series ending with "Zeitgeist", then newly-written 21st century stuff as Season 2 if renewed.

Oliver Platt IS Leggy.

The Dark Tower series. I don't know how, and it's probably never gonna happen, but I wish it would. I'd even take an animated series.

I'd be all for a David Lynch directed miniseries adaptation of Geek Love.

Horror anthology in the vein of Silent Hill 2. No meta mythology or cults or anything, just psychological horror, body horror, ambient creepiness

A proper Gotham Central-like series about people trying to live in a super hero world but not being or directly dealing with the powered people

Dollhouse S3

MrsLangdonAlger: I feel like it's possible only animation could pull off the Incarceron prison, I don't know how well it could look in live action, even with a huge feature film budget.

Also absolutely yes, we need a better horror anthology series. Also at least a couple more seasons of Carnivale. (I know it's a lot more expensive, but they brought back the Comeback, you guys, I guarantee those small fanbases are comparative in size.)

Inamine: I've often pondered the idea of Silent Hill 2 being directly adapted as a 10, 12 or 13 episode miniseries. But that would be great too.

Perhaps an Amazon reboot of The Tick. Or the manga/anime Monster being adapted by HBO!

Oh, wait.

uproxx.com/tv/2014/08/amazon-is-reportedly-bringing-back-the-tick-with-patrick-warburton/

Not my own idea, but: like all civilized people, I have no desire to see the much-threatened Ghostbusters 3 or a reboot movie...although I think I would be totally down with a TV show, set in the same "continuity" as the movie. Meaning: Ghostbusters has been in operation for thirty years now (but is still always just barely in the black), and it's like a regular job you can apply for with minimal qualifications (so you can add or subtract cast members by hiring/firing Ghostbusters). Get a diverse crew of five or six in there: some people can be legitimately interested in paranormal research, others can just be in it because they'll accept any job they can get in this economy. You can even have a sexy lead or two to appease the networks. Winston is the manager, Ray is trying to open another franchise on the west coast so he isn't seen much, Egon's passed on, and Venkman is "missing." You do it like Buffy, both in tone and in the fact that you have a different Gozer- or Vigo-type as your Big Bad every season.

I also would like to see a sitcom about working at a failing local newspaper (under)staffed by inept malcontents. In the vein of It's Only Sunny in Philadelphia at a newspaper (but with just as much drinking!). This is something I've thought about a lot: I could pitch characters, plots, and everything...if I had, you know, any kind of connection at all to someone who could produce a TV show.

New Star Trek.

Just... new Star Trek.

But past this more medieval/ancient historical dramas that 1. Aren't England and 2. Aren't Edgy Spartacus-y Stuff. My top pick remains, as always, the Emperor Justinian and his efforts to restore the Roman Empire. You got Justinian, Theodora, the brilliant general Belisarius, the gossipy fuck Procopius who wrote a secret history suggesting all kinds of untoward behaviour.


Wait, what? THE TICK IS COMING BACK WITH PATRICK WARBURTON?

Oh yeah and HBO Monster.

Inamine Me too! This is probably half of the reason I occasionally read up on Chinese and Korean historical dramas as if to figure out which one might entertain me. Sooner or later I'll make a K-drama plunge, I suspect.

Unfortunately, something like Netflix's Marco Polo (wait about a TV series about Chinese history focusing on... wait for it... a European!) is probably the only one we'll get anytime soon.

Hey, it'll also fuck up Islamic history... Seriously, can't wait for the Old Man Of The Mountains episode.

If HBO would like to fund my half-baked ideas for an obtuse Russo-Roman inspired space opera or Western infused Fallout adaptation, that'd be great. Bajillion dollars and dictatorial show-runner powers please.

Edit: More seriously (but the above still stands!) I'd like to see a BoB/The Pacific style endeavor set on the Eastern Front.

It's huge enough and the casualty figures dramatic enough that keeping the narrative focus tight could be a challenge, but I think you could make it work by honing in on one family based out of Leningrad. Have the older brother get caught up in the start of the war and the disasters of Barbarossa, join up with partisans and eventually get killed, then shift narrative focus increasingly to the younger brother/sister characters who could follow things through the Battle of Moscow up to the end of the war, along with the Leningrad siege and part of the civilian/female military experience along the way. In practice, it would be basically the same amount of narrative division as in the Pacific, and thus doable.

In order to keep the show's momentum going, maintain the character's geographical consistency (and the show's budget) you'd definitely have to pass on some of the Front's titanic events (like Stalingrad) but really that's fine, it's more than huge enough to support a narrative beyond the major historical checkpoints.

Anthology series of the great eighteenth and nineteenth century scientist-explorer types:

First Season: Cook in Tahiti
Second Season: Humboldt in the Americas
Third Season: Voyage of the Beagle
Fourth Season: Huxley on the Rattlesnake
Fifth Season: John Wesley Powell in the American southwest
Sixth Season: Fridtjof Nansen on the Fram

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.

I would like a nice satire about some of the weirder and sillier moments in history. Things like the Pig War and Emu War and The Count of St Germain with perhaps a Black Adderish tone.

An animated sitcom using Jaime Hernandez's art style.