Create a show for Patrick Stewart to star in?

[Owain Taggart]

Yep, I know which one you mean. He should star in a spinoff based on his Frasier character.

I've had an idea for a while, though I see it more as a movie, had it since Generations and after watching the Shat's 'The Captains' (which is very, very good btw), this is it:

Two ageing detectives, one British and one American (guess who?), get together to crack one last case, the case that they've each worked on from different directions at different times, to finally defeat a mastermind. It's set just after WW2. We get a few glimpses of them in the past in the 30s, and hints of different adventures. Two legends, one last case.

Could work. There's a Canadian movie that was released awhile back that was brilliant. It had officers from Ontario and Quebec working together to solve a case, playing off on the bilingualism, each of them using their respective languages and used subtitles to great effect, and depending on which version you saw, you saw something different, and it played off pretty much the way you're describing.

So, it could work if you you'd take two high profile actors from each country. You could even make them ex-MI5 and CIA agents. Patrick Stewart and John Lithgow?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Stewart is the founder/director/lead actor of a Shakespearian acting troupe on the verge of bankruptcy. It's saved when a hollywood star invests in the troupe in an attempt to become a "serious actress". Hilarity ensues in a battle of the sexes, ages and cultures.

I like it. I'd also add another sci-fi Shakespearean, James Marsters, to the cast. And I think Stewart's character should be gay (mostly because I'm having flashbacks to that episode of Frasier where he played a gay theatre director who was "dating" Frasier).

The key is finding the right actress to play the hollywood star.

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

This isn't my idea, but I think it would work.

So in this series, he plays a man who controls the world with his mind. For instance, he's walking along, and he sees this beautiful girl, and he thinks he'd like to see her naked, and so all her clothes fall off and she's scrabbling around to get them back on again, but even before she can get her knickers on, he's seen everything. Yeah. He's seen it all.

It's about what would happen, you know, if these things were possible.

He does other stuff; like he's riding his bike in the park, and this policewoman says "Oi! You can't ride your bike on the grass!" and he goes "Oh no?" And her uniform falls off, and she goes "Ahh!" and she's trying to cover up, but he's seen everything anyway. And he gets on his bike and he rides off.

On the grass.

Stewart really isn't the comedic type...

You ever see him at a convention? VERY funny man. Not to mention his roles on Frasier, Extras (see above), American Dad, Family Guy, etc. And my favourite line in TNG, delivered so deadpan perfectly, "I'm a roll model".

I think he can handle anything he's enthusiastic about.

 

[JacksonArcher]

He should star in a show called Professor X is a Pervert.

Bonus points for anyone who gets the reference.

 

[JoeZhang]

Stewart is the founder/director/lead actor of a Shakespearian acting troupe on the verge of bankruptcy. It's saved when a hollywood star invests in the troupe in an attempt to become a "serious actress". Hilarity ensues in a battle of the sexes, ages and cultures.

I like it. I'd also add another sci-fi Shakespearean, James Marsters, to the cast. And I think Stewart's character should be gay (mostly because I'm having flashbacks to that episode of Frasier where he played a gay theatre director who was "dating" Frasier).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea7bj5MsyAU

 

[Broccoli]

The British version of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

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There's an overconfident statement for ya, considering it's a pretty bad idea. Stewart really isn't the comedic type, and certainly not the Jewish-nebbish comedic type (or whatever the British equivalent might be, I figure some working class schlub, maybe one of those guys with indecipherable accents?)

Beyond your comment being completely ironic considering you are the one saying it and the obviousness that you've never actually seen Curb... to make a legit comment about it, Stewart not the comedic type?

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg_cwI1Xj4M[/yt]

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

Beyond your comment being completely ironic considering you are the one saying it and the obviousness that you've never actually seen Curb... to make a legit comment about it, Stewart not the comedic type?

For those that missed it, my post a few posts up is a line for line transcript of this, changing the speech to third person and taking away Gervais' lines.

 

[Pingfah]

There's an overconfident statement for ya, considering it's a pretty bad idea. Stewart really isn't the comedic type, and certainly not the Jewish-nebbish comedic type (or whatever the British equivalent might be, I figure some working class schlub, maybe one of those guys with indecipherable accents?)

Good grief, you've missed just about every mark you could miss. You do realise Stewart IS one of those guys don't you? He's a born and bred working class Yorkshireman, who's posh accent is something he learned, as well as being the comedic actor others have pointed him out to be.

Unbelievable.

 

[Broccoli]

Patrick Stewart: SERIOUS ACTOR!!!

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRgnrsFwenI[/yt]