Don Johnson and NBC Combine Forces to Make the Worst Pilot Ever

[IndyJones]

I'm not even sure that's the worst pilot of this season. Check out this train wreck to be:

Is it just me, or does this sound pretty funny?

Could be dumb fun, but then again, so could the Don Johnson show. Anyway, I think this has the best chance of being the dumb-fun hit of the season:

Brave New World (NBC): Comedy about the staff at a Plymouth plantation-type living museum that have people reenact the way the pilgrims once went about their days.

Why hasn't anyone thought of setting a show in a theme park before? From what I've heard, they are hilariously horrific workplaces. And setting it in a Williamsburg type park is less risky than riling the Disney lawyers by going the more obvious route...

Chuck Palaniuk did it in Choke.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Still 2 series, not a bad acheivement for what looks like an awful show, and well done to Tom Hanks for managing to put this in his past, and going on to have a succesful career.

Bosom Buddies was actually a pretty good show.

it doesnt look very good.

Still ive not seen alot, maybe NBC could revive it, and see how that one goes.

The premise was crap but the characters were pretty good and well performed by Hanks, Peter Scolari, Donna Dixon, Wendy Jo Sperber and Holland Taylor. I guess they ( the producers) thought they need a high concept hook, hence the drag thing.

 

[scotpens]

both series do sound awful, what makes ABC think that a crossdressing series is going to work?

Because it's worked before, remember Bosom Buddies?

Or The Ugliest Girl in Town? Only it wasn’t exactly a hit — it ran for 17 episodes.

If only someone would bring back 'Quark' or 'Wizards and Warriors'

Hell, if only someone would do My Mother the Car: The Next Generation. It would probably be better than Don Johnson as a hairdresser with a midlife crisis.

 

[wamdue]

both series do sound awful, what makes ABC think that a crossdressing series is going to work?

Because it's worked before, remember Bosom Buddies?

Or The Ugliest Girl in Town? Only it wasn’t exactly a hit — it ran for 17 episodes.

at least Patricia Brake was cute, that said looking at IMDB ive seen her before and not realised it.

 

[David cgc]

Link

Don Johnson is returning to NBC for the first time since his Miami Vice days as the star of A Mann’s World, a drama pilot set in a Beverly Hills spa.
Produced by Sex and the City‘s Michael Patrick King, the project finds Johnson playing Allan Mann, a celebrated (and straight) hairdresser in his 50s who is struggling to stay young and relevant in a business fixated on youth. Successful and rich, Allan has no interest in following society’s traditional timeline for retirement. Instead, he decides to expand his beauty empire by purchasing the building next door to his salon to transform into a day spa.

Huh? Wha---Oh, sorry. I dozed off halfway through that description.

CHRIST, that sounds boring.

Just to play devil's advocate, I don't think "30 Rock" or "The Office" would sound any better just describing them in that sort of dry, plot-based fashion.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

I'm not even sure that's the worst pilot of this season. Check out this train wreck to be:

Work It (ABC) - multi-camera comedy about two out-of-work car salesmen - both husbands and fathers - who dress as women by day to get jobs working as pharmaceutical reps.

Oh, yes. Yes, indeed. That's totally going to work as a premise in the long-term.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Is it just me, or does this sound pretty funny?

Could be dumb fun, but then again, so could the Don Johnson show. Anyway, I think this has the best chance of being the dumb-fun hit of the season:

Brave New World (NBC): Comedy about the staff at a Plymouth plantation-type living museum that have people reenact the way the pilgrims once went about their days.

Why hasn't anyone thought of setting a show in a theme park before? From what I've heard, they are hilariously horrific workplaces. And setting it in a Williamsburg type park is less risky than riling the Disney lawyers by going the more obvious route...

Chuck Palaniuk did it in Choke.

You mean this? It's a movie, not a TV show. What does it have to do with Disneyland?

A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother's hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.

 

[David cgc]

His day-job was, I believe, at some kind of Colonial Williumsburg-type attraction. It's been forever since I read it, and all I remember is how much I hated the main character, then hated the author for giving him an epiphany near the end so I couldn't just loathe him unconditionally anymore. I realize that was the point of the character arc, but I didn't go with it. I guess it's interesting to realize that redemptive characters have to start out with some small bit of sympatheticness to them so I actually want to see them redeemed instead of just punished.

 

[IndyJones]

Could be dumb fun, but then again, so could the Don Johnson show. Anyway, I think this has the best chance of being the dumb-fun hit of the season:
Why hasn't anyone thought of setting a show in a theme park before? From what I've heard, they are hilariously horrific workplaces. And setting it in a Williamsburg type park is less risky than riling the Disney lawyers by going the more obvious route...

Chuck Palaniuk did it in Choke.

You mean this? It's a movie, not a TV show. What does it have to do with Disneyland?

Well...it was a book first, as David mentioned. And the main character and his best friend work in a colonial re-enactment park, so I'd imagine it's at least as relevant to this discussion as anything else.

That said I've mostly blocked my family trip to Williamsburg as a child due to the horrible memories, so I may be wrong.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

the main character and his best friend work in a colonial re-enactment park, so I'd imagine it's at least as relevant to this discussion as anything else.

Except if you actually read my post, you'd see that I was talking about a "show," not a movie or a book, and this whole thread is about TV shows, so it's completely irrelevant, but nice try.

 

[IndyJones]

the main character and his best friend work in a colonial re-enactment park, so I'd imagine it's at least as relevant to this discussion as anything else.

Except if you actually read my post, you'd see that I was talking about a "show," not a movie or a book, and this whole thread is about TV shows, so it's completely irrelevant, but nice try.

It's about a fiction where characters work in a colonial re-enactment park. I never said it was exactly the same in every respect, nor do I think it needed to be in order to be relevant to this thread.

What the fuck is your problem here?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

The fuck my problem is that my post had nothing to with a book or a movie. I was asking whether a TV show had ever been made on the topic.

A TV show is not a book. A TV show is not a movie. You need to work on your reading comprehension. Also settle down before the mods come along because they've been known to get cross at rude posts like yours tsk tsk.

 

[IndyJones]

The fuck my problem is that my post had nothing to with a book or a movie. I was asking whether a TV show had ever been made on the topic.

A TV show is not a book. A TV show is not a movie. You need to work on your reading comprehension. Also settle down before the mods come along because they've been known to get cross at rude posts like yours tsk tsk.

And Disney World isn't colonial Williamsburg, but you had no problem making that leap in your post.



My God, I typed 6 words...

 

[PKTrekGirl]

How can anyone know if it's gonna' be bad or good just based on a description?

Because I'm entitled to my biased opinions just like everybody else on TrekBBS!

Tell me about it! Shoot...I was giving out warnings in Trek XI to people who thought the movie 'totally sucked' and that anyone who was looking forward to it was a 'dumbshit', even before the first line was written or the casting underway.

It is very common on this board to make sweeping generalizations regarding degrees of sucktitdute based on virtually no information at all!