If you had to create your own TV show,what concept would you go with ?
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What, no love for Star Travel?
It doesn't involve people getting naked, I swear 
(not Curse.) (I'll write something, and that'll be the story, and who ever's buying stuff like that, I'd edit it to their format. As you do.
What, no love for Star Travel?
It doesn't involve people getting naked, I swear (not Curse.) (I'll write something, and that'll be the story, and who ever's buying stuff like that, I'd edit it to their format. As you do.
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I'd do a modern take on Dracula, but I'd re-imagine him as a sexy loner vampire in touch with his feelings who falls in love with a local girl who is misunderstood by her peers. I'd write the girl as a complete Mary Sue, but that'll eventually be explained as it will be revealed that she (and the rest of her family) comes from a long line of wizards and witches. As the series goes on, we learn that the town also has a pack of warewolves, one of which is also in love with the girl. Then, just when we think a war is brewing between vampires (who Dracula is taking a stand against...for some reason) and the warewolves, the zombie apocalypse happens...
I think I'll call it ...And the Kitchen Sink.
I'd do a modern take on Dracula, but I'd re-imagine him as a sexy loner vampire in touch with his feelings who falls in love with a local girl who is misunderstood by her peers. I'd write the girl as a complete Mary Sue, but that'll eventually be explained as it will be revealed that she (and the rest of her family) comes from a long line of wizards and witches. As the series goes on, we learn that the town also has a pack of warewolves, one of which is also in love with the girl. Then, just when we think a war is brewing between vampires (who Dracula is taking a stand against...for some reason) and the warewolves, the zombie apocalypse happens...
I think I'll call it ...And the Kitchen Sink.
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A space travel series about traders on a seemingly unnecessarily huge spaceship where they spend most of their time goofing off in their simulacra and ignoring each other, trying to pawn off their wares on strange planets and having all matter of horrible things happen inside their again far too big spaceship.
Sometimes they solve those problems, more often then not they just find a way to live with them - yes, a race of carnivorious plants occupy two floors, but the rampaging space beetles that occupy a nearby wing are keeping them busy, so fuck it, let's turn out the lights and listen to seventeen hours of impenetratable albeit subtitled alien opera.
Getting drawn into the increasingly volatile politics of space where delicate alliances are exploding as often as supernovas (and neither are a good sign) when they'd rather keep to their addicted cyberpsace pursuits would definitely be a part of it.
...obviously, I'd never be let near a TV studio.
A space travel series about traders on a seemingly unnecessarily huge spaceship where they spend most of their time goofing off in their simulacra and ignoring each other, trying to pawn off their wares on strange planets and having all matter of horrible things happen inside their again far too big spaceship.
Sometimes they solve those problems, more often then not they just find a way to live with them - yes, a race of carnivorious plants occupy two floors, but the rampaging space beetles that occupy a nearby wing are keeping them busy, so fuck it, let's turn out the lights and listen to seventeen hours of impenetratable albeit subtitled alien opera.
Getting drawn into the increasingly volatile politics of space where delicate alliances are exploding as often as supernovas (and neither are a good sign) when they'd rather keep to their addicted cyberpsace pursuits would definitely be a part of it.
...obviously, I'd never be let near a TV studio.
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Didn't get the memo? Fairy tales are the in thing this year. Throw in Miss Muffet and you got a deal.
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Why do you think I made the girl a witch?
Why do you think I made the girl a witch?
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I have an idea for a show but am not gonna go into it just yet... but it's called Candlelight.
I'd love to see a show like Firefly but made with West Wingisms instead of Whedonisms - a new solar system is found to call home, one with several habitable planets and moons, and we deal with the creation of the new order. Probably Firefly but from the Alliance side of things.
I did do a synopsis for a tv series ages ago about Earth coming under 'attack' from an alien ship who do nothing but leave Earth trapped inside an energy barrier, cutting it off from the rest of the solar system, then sod off again. Mars then takes over the running of it, ruling the surviving colonies with an iron fist but all the while knowing the aliens might return. I wrote a full story arc for it but got bored so shelved it years ago.
Plus a show about horny russian lesbians and their attempt to take over the world.
I call it 'The Red Carpet'.
I have an idea for a show but am not gonna go into it just yet... but it's called Candlelight.
I'd love to see a show like Firefly but made with West Wingisms instead of Whedonisms - a new solar system is found to call home, one with several habitable planets and moons, and we deal with the creation of the new order. Probably Firefly but from the Alliance side of things.
I did do a synopsis for a tv series ages ago about Earth coming under 'attack' from an alien ship who do nothing but leave Earth trapped inside an energy barrier, cutting it off from the rest of the solar system, then sod off again. Mars then takes over the running of it, ruling the surviving colonies with an iron fist but all the while knowing the aliens might return. I wrote a full story arc for it but got bored so shelved it years ago.
Plus a show about horny russian lesbians and their attempt to take over the world.
I call it 'The Red Carpet'.
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After watching Ben Elton's Stark, and completely disagreeing with the ending, I had an idea. And this was back before global warming was much talked about.
The elite (well off/ politically connected/military industrial/uberscientists/etc) get away from an Earth where the climate is out of contriol. As a parting gift they seed the atmosphere with an airborne version of blue-green algae, which will reduce the carbon content, but over time kill most of the population off, again easing pollution concerns (I've put a lot of thought behind it, you're just getting the shorthand).
Determined they are not going to die. a group of determined people put together an anti-gravity device that can lift many, many things into orbit quickly (yes, there are engines to get them up to orbital velocity, have faith!) So 98% of the human race is moved into huge orbital facilities (which are built in orbit - shorthanding it!). The anti gravit device is inverted to provide artificial gravity, and radiation shields make it as safe as living on Earth. the 2% below maintain space elevators ferrying essential supplies (no space station can be fully self-sustaining). And so the human race sits out the algae plague (which will last a hundred years),a dn finds a whole new way to live, in orbit.
So, basically, it's your granny and uncle and you in orbit. How different will life be?
There is of course a lot more to it than that, but Stark (as well as Alternative 3) was the starting point.
I have another half dozen ideas, but... no, I'll play them close to my chest for now.
After watching Ben Elton's Stark, and completely disagreeing with the ending, I had an idea. And this was back before global warming was much talked about.
The elite (well off/ politically connected/military industrial/uberscientists/etc) get away from an Earth where the climate is out of contriol. As a parting gift they seed the atmosphere with an airborne version of blue-green algae, which will reduce the carbon content, but over time kill most of the population off, again easing pollution concerns (I've put a lot of thought behind it, you're just getting the shorthand).
Determined they are not going to die. a group of determined people put together an anti-gravity device that can lift many, many things into orbit quickly (yes, there are engines to get them up to orbital velocity, have faith!) So 98% of the human race is moved into huge orbital facilities (which are built in orbit - shorthanding it!). The anti gravit device is inverted to provide artificial gravity, and radiation shields make it as safe as living on Earth. the 2% below maintain space elevators ferrying essential supplies (no space station can be fully self-sustaining). And so the human race sits out the algae plague (which will last a hundred years),a dn finds a whole new way to live, in orbit.
So, basically, it's your granny and uncle and you in orbit. How different will life be?
There is of course a lot more to it than that, but Stark (as well as Alternative 3) was the starting point.
I have another half dozen ideas, but... no, I'll play them close to my chest for now.
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The pirate show thread reminded me of a topic I'd like to see: more historical dramas with sf/f elements. A Western with supernatural elements would be fun (there was supposed to be a Supernatural spinoff series like that) or a 1920s mentalist who stumbles across a true supernatural realm.
The pirate show thread reminded me of a topic I'd like to see: more historical dramas with sf/f elements. A Western with supernatural elements would be fun (there was supposed to be a Supernatural spinoff series like that) or a 1920s mentalist who stumbles across a true supernatural realm.
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I'd like to see more historical dramas about periods and locations you're less likely to see historical dramas about. Maybe a series about Emperor Justinian, or Graeco-Bactria, or Axum.
I'd like to see more historical dramas about periods and locations you're less likely to see historical dramas about. Maybe a series about Emperor Justinian, or Graeco-Bactria, or Axum.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: a reality TV version of Koshun Takami's Battle Royale, but with celebrities. Call it Celebrity Death Island.
I think Channel 4 would definitely pick it up.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: a reality TV version of Koshun Takami's Battle Royale, but with celebrities. Call it Celebrity Death Island.
I think Channel 4 would definitely pick it up.
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Anything before 1950 is underrepresented.
Anything before 1950 is underrepresented.
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I want a biosphere sandbox show with a cast of men and women sealed in for 2 years. It's a soap opera and also a science-based show. Sort of like ABC's Defying Gravity but Earth-based set way out in Utah at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS). Sometimes it has already happened in real life similar to the CBS reality show Big Brother.
Drama and science-based but it would have to be men and women all over 25 (for some maturity).
check out this amateur video shot at the actual MDRS location in Utah.
NDX-1 Space Suit in Mars Desert Research Station
see this for a reality genre show based on a simulated biosphere space mission over 18 months.
I'd like a series set at NASA's training facilities that has astronauts training 2 years for a manned mission to Mars. It would all be Earth-based except a trip up to the ISS in orbit and then back to Earth. Total soap opera with science. Men and women group of 16 principle characters training. Spread out over 4-5 seasons.
or that other show in development "Plymouth Rock" series on CW for 2010
or another show like Deepwater Black AKA Mission Genesiswhich are both deep space crew-on-a-ship series.
I'd also like a show based on the sandbox environment utopian facility underground in the desert in the 2005 Michael Bay movie "The Island" with everyone wearing those white uniforms. It is a soap opera in a sci-fi environment sort of like THX-1138.
A show set in 2025 about China setting up a Moon Base with humanoid robots and a few astronauts just like Space 1999. Mostly set on the Moon and some on Earth stuff.
I want a biosphere sandbox show with a cast of men and women sealed in for 2 years. It's a soap opera and also a science-based show. Sort of like ABC's Defying Gravity but Earth-based set way out in Utah at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS). Sometimes it has already happened in real life similar to the CBS reality show Big Brother.
http://www.geekosystem.com/mars-desert-research-station-mdrs/
Drama and science-based but it would have to be men and women all over 25 (for some maturity).
check out this amateur video shot at the actual MDRS location in Utah.
NDX-1 Space Suit in Mars Desert Research Station
see this for a reality genre show based on a simulated biosphere space mission over 18 months.
Yes I second this. For a TV series though to be set on Earth and that far in the future would be very expensive to produce. Great idea Temis.
This one: Beyond (2006)
I wish this show would have gone to pilot and series from last year's development: "Mars Direct" NBC series in development about a mission to Mars
I'd like a series set at NASA's training facilities that has astronauts training 2 years for a manned mission to Mars. It would all be Earth-based except a trip up to the ISS in orbit and then back to Earth. Total soap opera with science. Men and women group of 16 principle characters training. Spread out over 4-5 seasons.
or that other show in development "Plymouth Rock" series on CW for 2010
or another show like Deepwater Black AKA Mission Genesiswhich are both deep space crew-on-a-ship series.
I'd also like a show based on the sandbox environment utopian facility underground in the desert in the 2005 Michael Bay movie "The Island" with everyone wearing those white uniforms. It is a soap opera in a sci-fi environment sort of like THX-1138.
A show set in 2025 about China setting up a Moon Base with humanoid robots and a few astronauts just like Space 1999. Mostly set on the Moon and some on Earth stuff.
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Fashions will change more than hairstyles, with info technology woven into clothing, but for hair, who knows, maybe it will be fashionable for everyone to be bald, that would hold down costs.
Transportation will probably evolve pretty quickly. That's where a lot of the SFX budget should go. I can see people having very small pod-like cars that hook onto the street grid and drive themselves, with only other pod-cars being allowed. The job that trucks and trains do now could be handled by long chains of pod-cars, keeping the system safe and standardized.
People will never give up the personal-car concept, because everyone wants their own gizmo in the color they like, and plus where do you store all your crap? People like to surround themselves with crap, but the present size of cars is really more crap-storage-space than needed. SUVs are popular because people want to feel safe (a train-like system of pod cars will solve that) and feel superior to everyone else (there are status markers other than size that can be added to pod-cars: gold-plate the suckers if you must).
Forget flying cars, far too dangerous in the hands of people who can be careless or drunk, or just forget to change the oil. However transportation evolves, it can't be fatal simply because the driver is foolish.
Oh, I dunno. 100 years from now, we'll have a lot of the same buildings. The place where I live is 100 years old, and that's not even that old, even by American standards. Throw in a few advanced-looking structures every now and then, and come up with futuristic but believable hair and clothing styles.
Fashions will change more than hairstyles, with info technology woven into clothing, but for hair, who knows, maybe it will be fashionable for everyone to be bald, that would hold down costs.
Transportation will probably evolve pretty quickly. That's where a lot of the SFX budget should go. I can see people having very small pod-like cars that hook onto the street grid and drive themselves, with only other pod-cars being allowed. The job that trucks and trains do now could be handled by long chains of pod-cars, keeping the system safe and standardized.
People will never give up the personal-car concept, because everyone wants their own gizmo in the color they like, and plus where do you store all your crap? People like to surround themselves with crap, but the present size of cars is really more crap-storage-space than needed. SUVs are popular because people want to feel safe (a train-like system of pod cars will solve that) and feel superior to everyone else (there are status markers other than size that can be added to pod-cars: gold-plate the suckers if you must).
Forget flying cars, far too dangerous in the hands of people who can be careless or drunk, or just forget to change the oil. However transportation evolves, it can't be fatal simply because the driver is foolish.
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Earth 2-from the pilot
After watching Ben Elton's Stark, and completely disagreeing with the ending, I had an idea. And this was back before global warming was much talked about.
The elite (well off/ politically connected/military industrial/uberscientists/etc) get away from an Earth where the climate is out of contriol. As a parting gift they seed the atmosphere with an airborne version of blue-green algae, which will reduce the carbon content, but over time kill most of the population off, again easing pollution concerns (I've put a lot of thought behind it, you're just getting the shorthand).
Determined they are not going to die. a group of determined people put together an anti-gravity device that can lift many, many things into orbit quickly (yes, there are engines to get them up to orbital velocity, have faith!) So 98% of the human race is moved into huge orbital facilities (which are built in orbit - shorthanding it!). The anti gravit device is inverted to provide artificial gravity, and radiation shields make it as safe as living on Earth. the 2% below maintain space elevators ferrying essential supplies (no space station can be fully self-sustaining). And so the human race sits out the algae plague (which will last a hundred years),a dn finds a whole new way to live, in orbit.
So, basically, it's your granny and uncle and you in orbit. How different will life be?
There is of course a lot more to it than that, but Stark (as well as Alternative 3) was the starting point.
I have another half dozen ideas, but... no, I'll play them close to my chest for now.
Earth 2-from the pilot
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