If you had to create your own TV show,what concept would you go with ?

[Warped9]

Re: If you had to create your own TV show,what concept would you go wi

I always rather liked the basic idea behind the defunct Now And Again that starred Eric Close and Margaret Colin, but I'd tweak it.

An elderly retired cop, somewhat bitter over his career and life going off the rails is given another chance. A mysterious woman shows up at his door one day offering him an opportunity. Eventually he takes the chance and finds himself in a small secret facility where he is rejuvenated and enhanced that give him abilities beyond normal.

I thought of this long before Heroes and was also partially inspired by a program I saw on Discovery that put animal abilities in human terms. Strength of a gorilla, speed of a cheetah, that sort of thing.

We later learn that this isn't a highly classified government organization, but rather an alien group who are concerned about humanity's development. Are they using this man (and perhaps others like him) to help humanity, to help guide us along by example...or do they have another agenda?

My working name for this idea was Enigma.

 

[iBender]

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I want to make a ton of money of Talking Toilet so there'd be merchandise too.

 

[Australis]

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(Fun fact: in 1932 a group of 'concerned citizens ' approached General Sir John Monash to form a solid government like those sensible chappies Mussolini and Hitler had done. Monash, you may have realised, declined).

I think you need to check your sources.

Sir John Monash died in October 1931. The Nazis did not seize power until 1933. And Monash was Jewish. So that must have been a pretty stupid bunch of concerned citizens, if they wanted him to follow Hitler's example.

I'm not saying that the incident you describe didn't happen. US Marine Major General Smedley Butler was approached by a similar group of "concerned citizens" in the States. But I think some of the facts got tangled up along the way, and you might want to straighten them out if this is part of your pitch to production companies.

On the OT: If I could create my own TV show, I'd adapt Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op stories, the same way the BBC did for Sherlock Holmes. There are thirty-six stories, so it would run for three seasons of twelve episodes, or six seasons of six.

It definitely did happen, but I'm working off dodgy memory. I'll get back with a link tonight (my time ).

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

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Okay this will sound really silly, but lately I have been imagining creating a live-action show based around The Infinity Gauntlet from Marvel Comics. It won't be based on the comic though and won't have superheroes it will be set in the "real world". Basically it would be about an ordinary, decent but somewhat troubled human who stumbles upon the Soul Gem which tries to manipulate him into finding all the gems for its own purpose.The series would be about his pursuit of the other gems, how he grows and his personality alters as he gets more gems, the corrupting effect of power on a good individual, different factions with different agendas in pursuit of the gems. Probably run six seasons, one for each gem. Maybe a few characters from the comic will make some appearances though. Now i just have to tackle that whole getting the rights business.

 

[Mr Light]

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I've been working on my own tv show since 1993, a sci-fi epic space opera.

 

[iguana_tonante]

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A TV series about a fictionalized version of my life.

It will feature Mafia mobsters, Catholic nuns, mad scientists, ninjas, pagan gods, and space aliens.

I will call it The Iguana Chronicles.

 

[iBender]

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My own show, the iBender show, like iCarly, but with Guitars, Marijuana and Escorts.

 

[brianbeercan]

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I've always thought that an Office like mockumentary format would work great with a restaurant, but nowadays with Parks and Rec and Modern Family, I don't think there's room for another mockumentary show.

Anyways, here's my other more workable idea:

Nineteen Years

Synopsis: Five friends in their twenties are driving and get mysteriously transported 19 years in the past. They have no way to get back. It's basically Land of the Lost, except instead of dinosaurs it's break dancing. The tone of the series would be similar to Psyche - it's not a comedy exactly, but it's light hearted - It's about friends and family. Other than the initial instance of time travel, there would be no other sci-fi or fantasy elements. The guys have no way to get back to their time except to wait it out.

Characters:
Dave Chan: The most normal one of the bunch. Jackson and Eric's older brother. Although the ensemble pretty much gets equal screen time, he's the de facto lead.

Brian Greene: Borderline obnoxious an opinionated, yet with a laissez faire way of thinking. He's a smart guy, but often acts against what he knows to be the best thing.

Al Kohl: A guy with mild Asperger's. Prone to not thinking anything out and coming to wildly misguided conclusions. Likely the breakout character of the series.

Jackson Chan: Very cold and logical. Dave's younger brother, Eric's older brother. Not exactly a bad guy, but he's just the one who's more likely to leave his morals behind.

Eric Chan: More quiet and reserved than the others, but not to the point of being introverted. Into sports and is way cooler than the other four guys. Dave and Jackson's younger brother.

Storyline: The first season would have a lot of parallels to illegal immigration issues - the characters try to assimilate, but they have no legal documentation. Although several of them have just finished earning college degrees, they start off by washing dishes to make ends meet. One of the characters needs meds to function, and there is an episode spent trying to procure health care for the guy. As the series continues and the characters get more established, they start using their knowledge of the future to their advantage. They buy lots of stock in Yahoo and Google. One of the guys performs covers of songs that haven't come out yet and tries to get famous. One of the characters is a politics junkie and dedicates a year of his life trying to tweak things so Gore wins the presidency in 2000. In the final season, the guys try to stop 9/11 from happening, and they manage it, but some of them end up getting arrested in the process. There's a five year jump, then some episodes to wrap things up, and the final episode is the guys talking to themselves from the past on the morning they originally went back in time.

A running storyline throughout the whole series is the story of how the guys interact with their families.

The Chans do the predictable thing: They poke around in their parent's business from time to time trying to tweak the past and make their lives better.

Brian Greene tries not to interact with his parents at all, but through whatever contrived TV circumstances happen, he ends up interacting more times than is probably realistic. A few times he messes something up for his parents and has to do damage control.

Al Kohl goes the other direction all together: early in the series he shows up at his parent's house and says, "Hi mom and dad! I'm your son from the future!" Hilarity ensues. A restraining order also ensues.

Format: The characters are able to change the past at will - nothing is inevitable. The series would only be paced to last a few seasons and would need to cover 19 years, so a break of a year or two in between episodes wouldn't be all that uncommon. A couple episodes may last a year or six months. The cast would need to be aged slightly after a few seasons. A five year break is worked into the plot so the actors who play the main character's younger selves can be switched from child actors to the main cast themselves. In order to show how things happened during the first time cycle, the show would employ flashbacks that take place during the same period of time. As the series progresses, the flashbacks and the main narrative become more and more divergent.

 

[Goliath]

Re: If you had to create your own TV show,what concept would you go wi

A TV series about a fictionalized version of my life.

It will feature Mafia mobsters, Catholic nuns, mad scientists, ninjas, pagan gods, and space aliens.

I will call it The Iguana Chronicles.

No wine? No cheese?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

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I'd write my own sitcom about a foul mouthed toilet that can talk and call it Talking Toilet.

Make it and put it on YouTube. Worked for this, and your idea cannot possibly be more idiotic.

 

[iBender]

Re: If you had to create your own TV show,what concept would you go wi

I'd write my own sitcom about a foul mouthed toilet that can talk and call it Talking Toilet.

Make it and put it on YouTube. Worked for this, and your idea cannot possibly be more idiotic.

Au contraire, I believe Talking Toilet can be way more idiotic than that orange.

Talking Toilet's pissed off, everyone dumps on him, some people even take the piss and for Talking Toilet, life is shit.
Of course, he's not evil, he just got born a Toilet. Hehehe

 

[Temis the Vorta]

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Eh, sounds too philosophical for network TV.

 

[iBender]

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Yeah, I'd have to stick to producing Talking Toilet comics on old Pizza Hut boxes.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Re: If you had to create your own TV show,what concept would you go wi

A TV series about a fictionalized version of my life.

It will feature Mafia mobsters, Catholic nuns, mad scientists, ninjas, pagan gods, and space aliens.

I will call it The Iguana Chronicles.

No wine? No cheese?

I'll keep them for the grand finale with the ignominious toga-clad robots powered by an artificial singularity.

 

[Goliath]

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Now that's a show I would watch.

 

[JediKnightButler]

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I am working (slowly) on developing a novel series about a futuristic space-based action/adventure series about the adventures of a couple of intergalactic special operatives (code named "Knights") whom help defend an intergalactic organization called the "New Galactic Order", which was formed after a devastating invasion by another alien species. I know that some people will probably suggest that it's derivative of Star Wars and I suppose that it is (I am a fan of SW after all) but I'm trying to weave in elements of the Arthurian legend into the storyline and characters. The way I'm setting it up is that these two characters eventually help create an an actual Arthurian-style Order of Galactic Knights by the end of the series- which I plan on developing into a spin-off anthology series featuring some of the individual characters. The working title for the first series is "Knights of the New Galactic Order" and the second series "Order of the Star Knights". I think that it would make for a good TV series, though I'd want it Japanese Anime-style.

 

[Data Holmes]

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I'd love to do a show adapted from the concept of GIJoe. It would be set in current times, and follow a special task force operating under the US JSOC with support from the CIA, NSA, and FBI, tasked with taking down a foreign/domestic terrior group. The terrior group would be run, and created by, a brilliant but deranged multi-billionair business owner in the US. He funds his terrior operations from his legit multinational corporation based on a structure like GE or Samsung, hand in everything. He has a private military, owns several small countries, hires numerous mercs, cuts deals with arms dealers, organized crime syndicates, and drug cartels to further his goals.


The other show I would love to do is a take of how the west was won, called how the system was won, which would follow a fictional future history of the colonization of the solar system, through the generations of several families. Starting from earth's first orbital colony ou to larange colonies, moon bases, to mars station, to the belt mines, to the moons of the gas giants, all the way out to Pluto city. Along the way there would be a few wars, some natural diasters and illness outbreaks, corporations going too far, ect. Overall the show would adhear to science fact, depicting the events as true to real as possible. I would prefer to go for an HBO pay channel for the story freedom, also for structure, 50 min shows with a five min little bumper covering the real science of/inspiring the episode and a small little update on US and international space science efforts done in connection with NASA.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

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Just leave out the lightsabers and Lucasfilm won't have a leg to stand on. They don't own Arthurian legend.

 

[BrotherBenny]

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I'd like to make a TV series like Prey, the one with Debra Messing as a scientist trying to stop a dominant species of humanity from subjugating the rest of the human race, but take it in a different direction. Add in more overt genetic engineering, a pharmaceutical company experimenting on them and stuff like that.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

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I yearn to tell the story of an idealistic young Hindu, pushed too far by convenience store bandits. I call it 'Hands Off My Jerky, Turkey.