submit your reality TV ideas

[Temis the Vorta]

Your chance at fame & fortune & to contribute to the ongoing destruction of the TV audience's IQ.

Endemol co-founder John de Mol's Talpa Media Group has launched a website, TalpaCreative.com, that reality fans can visit to pitch ideas.

The site launches this week. Users will register as members and then receive an opportunity to submit ideas as well as respond to assignments posted by de Mol and Talpa execs.

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According to de Mol, users will be compensated on a scale depending on how far their idea goes. Some website users may even be asked to join the production as full-fledged producers, depending on their TV expertise.

My only idea is a reality show that somehow kills other reality shows. Anything else from the peanut gallery?

 

[Hermiod]

I like Grand Theft Auto IV's idea - America's Next Top Hooker.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I like Grand Theft Auto IV's idea - America's Next Top Hooker.

I'm sure if they could do that, they already would have. There's the legal issue. Hmm, wait...if it were broadcast from Nevada...?

Hah hah you're not an American so you can't submit that idea! I just might.

 

[Hermiod]

I like Grand Theft Auto IV's idea - America's Next Top Hooker.

I'm sure if they could do that, they already would have. There's the legal issue. Hmm, wait...if it were broadcast from Nevada...?

Hah hah you're not an American so you can't submit that idea! I just might.

^Rockstar's lawyers, however, are American.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I like Grand Theft Auto IV's idea - America's Next Top Hooker.

I'm sure if they could do that, they already would have. There's the legal issue. Hmm, wait...if it were broadcast from Nevada...?

Hah hah you're not an American so you can't submit that idea! I just might.

^Rockstar's lawyers, however, are American.

Considering that the minute the suggestion box is open, about half a billion people will suggest that idea, they're going to have their hands full tracking us all down.

...I'd actually love to read an uncensored version of the popular suggestions. I doubt they'll ever see the light of day and the "winners" will be relatively boring and tame.

 

[TheSeeker]

The Biggest Gainer: Contestants compete to see who can gain the most weight in the allotted time.

 

[Pingfah]

18 contestants are split into 2 groups of 9. The challenge, to concieve and produce a crappy reality TV show in time for broadcast during next years TV season.

Screw it, they already get away with not writing scripts, building sets or hiring actors anymore, why not do away with the people that think this idiotic shit up while we're at it.

 

[Scout101]

I have the winner for this idea: 2nd "Lady" Bill Clinton!

It was going to be named "1st Lady Bill Clinton", but since Hillary lost the nomination, best she can do is VP, so Bill got knocked down a spot.

Either way, just follow him around the White House with a camera for 6 months. Think about how much trouble he got into when he was President, now imagine that he has all the same resources, but nothing to do!

 

[Hermiod]

How about Celebrity Porn Star ?

Male celebrities are tested by an expert panel of judges on their appearance, penis size, ability to come on command, stay hard, how big their load is etc.

And the female celebrities are judged on how convincing their fake orgasms are, boob size, ability to do anal, double penetration, deep throat duration etc.

Then, at the end of each week the public gets to vote one of the contestants off the show.

 

[Othello]

Well, here's my idea. Me living in a mansion and having twenty bisexual women come and live with me and party and have a good time and have me winnow it down to just two ladies that will live with me in a three person relationship.

 

[JoeZhang]

No Camera! - A group of z-list celebrities are put on an island. There are no cameras.

 

[Aragorn]

Survivor: Bird Flu

Survivor: South Central

The Biggest Gainer: Contestants compete to see who can gain the most weight in the allotted time.

Would tryouts take place at Old Country Buffets around the country?

 

[Mistral]

I kinda like "Survivor:The Black Plague". Imagine the drama, the ratings.....

How about "Gladiator Games" ? Real gladiators, real weapons...

 

[Gryffindorian]

I have a couple of ideas ...

The Office: The Real World - It would be just like watching Steve Carrell's series; only it's a reality TV show. Oh, the drama, the comedy, the horror!

Work Swap - Imagine a lawyer switching places with a surgeon, or a gourmet chef trading places with an exotic dancer for a week.

EDIT:

So You Think You Can Sing With the Celebrities? - American Idol meets Dancing with the Stars as average Americans team up with professional artists as judges Paula, Randy, Simon, Hasselhoff, and Sharon Osborne pick the winners.

 

[M'Sharak]

My only idea is a reality show that somehow kills other reality shows.

How's this:

For each week's sixty-minute installment, ten network executives from reality-programming divisions will stand in front of a firing squad composed of nine people, each having a single cartridge to fire. Give it the full Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? treatment, complete with artificially-injected drama, moody pedal synth notes, and other meaningless tactics which only prolong the nothing in a feeble attempt to conceal the fact that there's only about 30 seconds of actual content. Surviving network execs at the end of each installment go on to participate in a "Bonus Round" at the end of the season which features fully-automatic weapons.

Hey, it's not as if they're real, fully-evolved human beings we actually need to care about, right?

 

[Starbreaker]

Puerto Rican Idol

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Do Project Greenlight, except with TV shows. People are constantly saying how they can do better TV shows than all the crap on TV, let's put it to the test.

 

[Mistral]

Do Project Greenlight, except with TV shows. People are constantly saying how they can do better TV shows than all the crap on TV, let's put it to the test.

Never work. Do you realize how many TV producers we'd put in the unemployment line? "We" being the very creative and mostly intelligent Trekbbs residents. I've seen threads similar to this one (but more serious) with ideas for shows/movies that I would very much like to see...

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Do Project Greenlight, except with TV shows. People are constantly saying how they can do better TV shows than all the crap on TV, let's put it to the test.

Never work. Do you realize how many TV producers we'd put in the unemployment line? "We" being the very creative and mostly intelligent Trekbbs residents. I've seen threads similar to this one (but more serious) with ideas for shows/movies that I would very much like to see...

I was particularly thinking of threads in the sf/f forum when I posed that idea. And Project Greenlight; Sci Fi TV Series is seriously a show I'd watch...maybe I should see if that site is taking suggestions yet.

Edit: well, submissions are open but due to all my flash-killing filters I have, I can't sign up for the stupid thing and it's not worth my while to figure out what I need to disable in order to do so. But if anyone wants to go to www.talpacreative.com and "steal" my idea, be my guest!

 

[loldrey]

I think there should be a TV show where people audition and then compete their way to the top of the competition by singing in front of a panel of judges, and people call in their votes to determine who stays on the show.. the winner gets a record contract......

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Damnit.