get this actor a job!

[Temis the Vorta]

What genre actors do you want to see back on a show in the fall? Either because they are currently at liberty or likely to soon be. Describe the role you'd like to see them in, if you want.

My list:

Ben Browder - Villainous Empire type on the vaporware live-action Star Wars show.

Lee Pace - Some kind of psycho villain.

Zachary Quinto - Mirror Universe Spock on a Mirror Universe Star Trek series.

Adrian Pasdar - Anything. Literally anything.

Joe Flanigan - Want him back, but no idea as what. Maybe Hermiod can suggest something?

 

[Hermiod]

^For Flanigan, I've got a clever idea for a show.

Basically, it's like Quantum Leap but instead of putting right what once went wrong, he has to make sure that things that went wrong happen. This means that at the end of each episode, he dies a horrible, violent death - sort of like all the deaths in the Final Destination movies.

The rest of each episode will be like that fake show Exposé from Lost - basically a poor excuse for a trio of hot women to walk around in skimpy outfits. I suggest Missy Peregrym for the brunette, Diechen Lachman for the exotic type and Yvonne Strahovski for the blonde. Oh, and Christina Hendricks as their boss. And none of them are interested in Flanigan's character, only each other.

There you go, I just saved NBC. I'm a frakkin' genius!

 

[Temis the Vorta]

WOW! You're fast!

Okay, here's my idea for Joe: he plays a guy who has been cursed by the gods. They give him everything he wants, but if he looks at a hot chick in a bikini, he immediately dies in some very messy way (never the same way twice) and then is resurrected. He does his best to avoid hot chicks in bikinis (for instance, moving to a cabin in Alaska) but the gods wickedly keep contriving ways for hot chicks in bikinis to come knocking on the cabin door... It can be called Prometheus and the Hot Chicks in Bikinis, coming this fall on FOX!

Couple more:

Michael Trucco - Can't be spoilery but regarding that role he's going to have soon on that show - I want it upgraded to a recurring role and the show to get another season.

Skeet Ulrich - Has the lead on some mawkish-sounding CBS medical show - either it should be cancelled asap or maybe it can become a sci fi medical show?

 

[Hermiod]

WOW! You're fast!

Okay, here's my idea for Joe: he plays a guy who has been cursed by the gods. They give him everything he wants, but if he looks at a hot chick in a bikini, he immediately dies in some very messy way (never the same way twice) and then is resurrected. He does his best to avoid hot chicks in bikinis (for instance, moving to a cabin in Alaska) but the gods wickedly keep contriving ways for hot chicks in bikinis to come knocking on the cabin door... It can be called Prometheus and the Hot Chicks in Bikinis, coming this fall on FOX!

I like the title at least. Joe Flanigan is Joe Prometheus in Prometheus and the Hot Chicks in Bikinis. Co-Starring Diechen Lachman, Missy Peregrym and Yvonne Strahovski as The Hot Chicks in Bikinis and Christina Hendricks as The Boss.

Oh, and after the third episode, the show will be retooled so the Hot Chicks in Bikinis basically have no interaction whatsoever with Flanigan who is only on screen for about thirty seconds a week - that'll be the violent, horrible death part.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Wait I got it! The HCinB are Furies, who are charged by the gods with the task of killing Joe Prometheus each week. They lounge around the swimming pool in Olympus getting their nails done and discussing how they're going to off Joe this week. Christina Hendricks plays Hera, who is the Furies' boss. I have no idea who the Furies' boss is really supposed to be, but since Hera comes off as the biggest bitch in ancient Greek mythology, I vote for her.

I think we may be onto something here. At least it's not another frakkin' cop show.

 

[Hermiod]

^It's already better than Heroes season five.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

^It's already better than Heroes season five.

We have such high standards!

And speaking of that train wreck...Robert Knepper has jumped from being wasted on Heroes to being wasted on the upcoming season SG:U. He needs a real job, and this time he should be a heroic character, a nobly self-sacrificing underdog in some thankless situation. I'm envisioning...the captain of some grungy space vessell...no, not Firefly, something more humble. He's a common working joe, no military background, always been an unassuming sort of guy, just trying to make a living, but gets caught up in some interstellar chaos that tests the limits of his character and from which he emerges as an unexpected hero, though always struggling with self-doubts and fears, not to mention a self-preservation instinct that tells him to just go back to flying his garbage scow and stop risking his neck!

 

[Hermiod]

^Yeah, but that idea involves spaceships and you know nobody except Sci-Fi's going to invest too heavily on a show with those.

 

[McCoy]

This doesn't exactly fit your criteria, but last night I was watching African Queen, which I think is just about a perfect storm of a film, and thinking no one would be crazy enough to remake it. And if they did I wouldn't watch it.

But then I thought, if Michael Emerson played the Bogart role, I totally would.

 

[Lindley]

What's Von Flores doing these days?

 

[JiNX-01]

CONNOR TRINNEER!!!​

"The most criminally underused
actor in television."​

-- The Flick Filosopher​

So, I have to come up with a TV series, too? I'll get back to you.

 

[Morpheus 02]

^It's already better than Heroes season five.

We have such high standards!

And speaking of that train wreck...Robert Knepper has jumped from being wasted on Heroes to being wasted on the upcoming season SG:U. He needs a real job, and this time he should be a heroic character, a nobly self-sacrificing underdog in some thankless situation. I'm envisioning...the captain of some grungy space vessell...no, not Firefly, something more humble. He's a common working joe, no military background, always been an unassuming sort of guy, just trying to make a living, but gets caught up in some interstellar chaos that tests the limits of his character and from which he emerges as an unexpected hero, though always struggling with self-doubts and fears, not to mention a self-preservation instinct that tells him to just go back to flying his garbage scow and stop risking his neck!

i'd like to see Robert Knepper as Abraham Lincoln....but i think due to his height, it'd have to be something like Night at The Museum 3 (to explain it away)...but he has the face, and the acting chops to pull it off .

interesting concept, Temis...maybe that could work as a web series until they can get money to make it onto TV?

 

[Morpheus 02]

What's Von Flores doing these days?

Indeed...he really needs to be on something. He was great as Sandoval, even during EFC's worst times...

 

[Morpheus 02]

One last thought...based on the first few responses, it looks like "Hot Tub Time Machine" will make enough to last more than 2 weeks!

 

[Magnum]

James Spader.

But I don't think he'll ever be a regular on a television show again.

And any former cast member of the first 4 Star Trek shows.

 

[WHF]

What's Von Flores doing these days?

Funny, I was watching an episode of Crash & Burn a couple of days ago and he showed up.

Spoiler: Spolier

I thought he was going to be the episode's big guest star and he was dead about 2 minutes into the episode.

He was also in the TV series The Line not too long ago where he played a drug dealer working for his mother-in-law. I thought he was pretty good in that. Ed Asner, Linda Hamilton and Sharon Lawrence were also in it.

 

[Aragorn]

Jill Wagner

 

[Hyperspace05]

Jill Wagner

Doesn't Wipeout count?

 

[Dream]

The entire cast of LOST since the show is ending this year. They need to be on my television.

 

[O'Dib]

My man Kiefer William Fredrick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland will be needing a job after 24. I'm torn between a role in which he's even more badass than Jack - maybe as a Viking Dragon Slayer (I saw the trailer for that new Dreamworks animation.. why does the dragon look like a kitteh?), and one that's just funny, but he still gets to say dammit a lot, like a family sitcom or whatever.