"Plymouth Rock" series on CW for 2010

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Younger crews? Why can't it be older crews!?!

Because we don't buy shit.

 

[Michael_One]

My aging memory didn't let me down... I've seen something like this before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Star_Voyager

Here the explanation for teens and twentysomethings starring on the show is that it will take over twenty years to get to the new planet. I'm sure appealing to a younger audience demographic didn't occur to Disney.

Really.

 

[Aragorn]

Since the thread title said CW, I thought this would be a show about hot, angsty, hardbodied young pilgrims arriving at the future United States of America to a contemporary teen pop soundtrack.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Younger crews? Why can't it be older crews!?!

Because we don't buy shit.

Nope it's because advertisers haven't gotten over the 1950s-ish notion that after the age of 49, people's brand preferences are locked in stone and therefore, advertising to them is a waste of time. That's something that used to be true of older people but is rapidly dying with the aging of Baby Boomers, who have never been prone to brand loyalty and aren't going to start developing it just because they're losing their hair and their brain cells. It's a generational phenomenon, not an age-cohort phenomenon, but advertisers have their heads up their butts and won't accept that the ground rules are changing.

That said, there's nothing wrong with CW targetting a demographic slice of the pie like "females, 18-34." Makes life easier on their ad sales departments. The problem is the lack of a corresponding network that targets over-49-year-olds. That's money waiting to be made, but apparently nobody's interested. Idiots.

 

[Warp Coil]

Well, here's the thing... I actually like Rob Thomas so I want to say that Plymouth Rock won't be complete garbage. I liked Veronica Mars and Party Down. However, this is the CW we're talking about. Plus, who's to say that Thomas will remain attached to the project. There's a good chance he'll bail or get replaced by some incompetent moron. It's still very early in the development stages.

As for the rest of the CW's development slate... why won't the network just lay down and admit defeat?

 

[TGTheodore]

From the title I thought maybe it was going to be angst-ridden teenage Pilgrims, battling the Puritanical adults in early America.

--Ted

[ADDED: LOL! Aragorn, I hadn't even seen your post when I wrote mine. ]

 

[jefferiestubes8]

a poster writes at a forum mentioning the development of Plymouth Rock on CW:

Defying Gravity meets Deepwater Black. Nah..they wouldn't do that to us. ..would they?

and then another poster mentions:

somebody might be reworking an old pilot idea.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102681/plotsummary

Replaced to a Lunar colony by a corporate conglomerate that cause an environmental radioactive waste accident at the damaged their old community at Oregon and the relationships of the community at hand on the new environment on the Moon. Collectively they move to a moon base. Despite the agreement that no babies should be born there, because of the risks involved, Dale Midkiff character he plays named- Lunar EVA Worker Gil Eaton[*1](b&s) both Cindy Pickett's character she plays named - Doctor Addy Mathewson M.D. the base's doctor does get pregnant.

Here's the info on that 96 minute ABC TV movie pilot.
Plymouth (1991) (TV)


YouTube - Plymouth-1991 Unsold Pilot TV Movie Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGSnrKrm4-w
Part 1 if just a exposition. Check out part 2 for stuff on the moonbase at least...

Okay it has low production values but it could work as a reboot. I could see this happening before another ship-based Defying Gravity show on network TV.

The idea that CW wants to put it on a spaceship is even better for scifi on TV as its not on the moon, it's all on a spaceship.

check out the related project mention from the above mention:
Deepwater Black/Mission Genesis

and the plot summary for
"Deepwater Black" (1997)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118403/plotsummary
USA:30 min (13 episodes) on SciFi channel (under the name Mission Genesis).
the show was co-produced by the YTV Network

Actually this show could use a reboot. See a few clips on Youtube:
Mission Genesis Episode 4 Part 1

 

[DarthPipes]

Younger crews? Why can't it be older crews!?!

This is the CW. They don't do older crews.

Neither does Hollywood anymore. Case in point...the movie Alien. With one or two exceptions, the entire cast ranged from 30-54 years old. Hollywood would never do that now, especially on a sci-fi film. They would all be twenty-somethings with a minimum of talent.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

scifi and hollywood - actor ages

Hollywood would never do that now, especially on a sci-fi film. They would all be twenty-somethings with a minimum of talent.

The first 15 minutes of the film Fantastic Four (2005) on the privately-owned space station orbiting Earth.
Imagine a feature film set at that space station with that cast...granted one of them Michael Chiklis was 41 at the time of filming...

 

[Chris_Johnston]

So glad somebody remembers Plymouth from 1991! Created by Lee David Zlotoff, who brought us MacGyver, and featuring Apollo 12 commander Pete Conrad as the Chief Suit Tech! Really wish they'd put that out on DVD.

When it originally aired, I was working in the mailroom at Columbia Pictures, and one of the stops on my route entailed a bike ride a couple blocks North to the offices in the Turner Broadcating building, and Mr. Zlotoff's was one of those offices. So, the next day after Plymouth ran he happened to be in his office, and when I congratulated him on a job well done, he got a big smile on his face, and seemed kinda shocked that anybody knew his name in connection to his work. I seemed to have brightened his day.
I'm glad I didn't say some'n cheesy, like "Plymouth rocked!"

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; Plymouth Rock landed on us!

 

[Gaith]

Ok.. it's sci-fi so I'll certainly give it a shot. And the spy school thing I'll watch cause who doesn't like watching hot women running around blowing shit up and beating on bad guys?

Only if they're lesbian.

 

[Hermiod]

Whatever happened to "Bitches," that "Sex and the City with werewolves" series they were talking about a while ago?

Sounds like the perfect companion to "Vampire Diaries"!

Isn't Sex and the City's cast already made up of canines ?

 

[jefferiestubes8]

Re: "Plymouth Rock" series

Well I guess now we know why this series in development stalled:

So, whatever happened to that RAVEN show the CW was developing? I haven't heard anything about that for a while . . . .

The new head of the CW was asked about it recently and he said it was something developed by the previous management team and he's not continuing with it.

http://www.trekbbs.com/showpost.php?p=5202052&postcount=33

For those who haven't read this thread here's the synopsis again:

Soap centers on young people on a ship traveling to a distant planet in order to colonize and save the human race.

Also on the CW docket is the space-themed "Plymouth Rock," from Rob Thomas -- the scribe behind UPN's and CW's "Veronica Mars," and the original exec producer behind the C-Dub's revived "90210."

original source thanks Out of My Vulcan Mind.

 

[Vendikarr]

Re: "Plymouth Rock" series

Well I guess now we know why this series in development stalled:

So, whatever happened to that RAVEN show the CW was developing? I haven't heard anything about that for a while . . . .

The new head of the CW was asked about it recently and he said it was something developed by the previous management team and he's not continuing with it.

http://www.trekbbs.com/showpost.php?p=5202052&postcount=33

For those who haven't read this thread here's the synopsis again:

Soap centers on young people on a ship traveling to a distant planet in order to colonize and save the human race.

Also on the CW docket is the space-themed "Plymouth Rock," from Rob Thomas -- the scribe behind UPN's and CW's "Veronica Mars," and the original exec producer behind the C-Dub's revived "90210."

original source thanks Out of My Vulcan Mind.

I don't think the new guy had anything to do with it. When it didn't show up in the fall of 2010, it was dead. Series sometimes just die in development hell.