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Your Time Slot

RobertScorpio

RobertScorpio

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Since many of our storied would work better as a series? What network would your series be on, and what timeslot? Take into consideration the competition on at that time before you decide...where would your show flourish?

Rob
Scorpio
 
Most of the trek fans that I talk to are insomniacs, soo... somewhere between 11pm and 1am. As for the network. I kind of miss it being on UPN. If not there, then sci-fi channel.
 
Fox. On Mondays at 8pm. Then Friday at 10pm. Then Thursday at 11pm. Then on hiatus for 11 weeks. Then on Tuesday at 9:30pm. Then...
 
Mistral said:
Fox. On Mondays at 8pm. Then Friday at 10pm. Then Thursday at 11pm. Then on hiatus for 11 weeks. Then on Tuesday at 9:30pm. Then...
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I like that!!

Since mine is a "wheel" story, I would have 12 (2) hour episodes rotating episodes...Three for each wheel...and I would aim for ABC from 9-11 (following the cushy Dancing with The Stars lead in)....And unlike they did with Boston Legal in that same slot, I would PR my show to the hilt...

Rob
Scorpio
 
I would take over Saturday Night on CBS and call it the "Rewind Block"!

It starts at 8PM with the televised version of Star Trek: My Way (naturally, I'd leave out the "My Way" part), followed by a properly rebooted Mission: Impossible (no Ethan Hunt, none of the time) at 9PM, followed by a properly rebooted Twilight Zone (meaning I'd try to get it as close to the original as humanly and practically possible) at 10PM. Stars from each show would promo the block and their own series, the way CBS does nowadays.

And since Saturday 8-11 has been pretty much garbage time on the original three nets for ages, my only competition would be COPS, America's Most Wanted and local news on Fox, which I WILL DESTROY! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
 
I'd have to say my eternally W.I.P. story about Captain Morgan Bateson (Kelsey Grammar), called "Star Trek: Mandela" would do okay on any American network (ABC, NBC, etc.) as I believe in action, sex/romance & a bit of comic relief in a good sci-fi story. All things in moderation, of course. Time slot? I'd say anytime beyond 9 PM / 10 PM (Pacific Time). Maybe HBO or Showtime, (for a few of the racier "holodeck: after hours" type episodes where two hetero characters get busy, resulting in a VERY visible internal "happy ending". Without a sheet covering the female-on-top from the waist down & just the couple's legs/feet are showing.)

My other eternally-W.I.P. projects, such as the one where I've proposed bringing back a well-worn James T. Kirk in the post-Nemesis 'Trek' universe set just after "Captain's Blood" (or whatever the last book in the Shatnerverse series was,) I'm calling, "Star Trek: Exeter" would go well on Space Channel here in Canada, or maybe the SciFi Channel in the U.S., U.K. (or wherever it's based.)

The other ones I've tried & failed to properly flesh out are staying strictly within my amateur fan fiction anthology.
 
hellsgate said:
I'd have to say my eternally W.I.P. story about Captain Morgan Bateson (Kelsey Grammar), called "Star Trek: Mandela" would do okay on any American network (ABC, NBC, etc.) as I believe in action, sex/romance & a bit of comic relief in a good sci-fi story. All things in moderation, of course. Time slot? I'd say anytime beyond 9 PM / 10 PM (Pacific Time). Maybe HBO or Showtime, (for a few of the racier "holodeck: after hours" type episodes where two hetero characters get busy, resulting in a VERY visible internal "happy ending". Without a sheet covering the female-on-top from the waist down & just the couple's legs/feet are showing.)

My other eternally-W.I.P. projects, such as the one where I've proposed bringing back a well-worn James T. Kirk in the post-Nemesis 'Trek' universe set just after "Captain's Blood" (or whatever the last book in the Shatnerverse series was,) I'm calling, "Star Trek: Exeter" would go well on Space Channel here in Canada, or maybe the SciFi Channel in the U.S., U.K. (or wherever it's based.)

The other ones I've tried & failed to properly flesh out are staying strictly within my amateur fan fiction anthology.
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Uh... that was... graphic. :wtf:
 
Starkers said:
BBC1, 7pm Saturday nights :lol:
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7pm seems kind of early...then again, I don't know too much about the viewing habbits of those in England...here, in America, the so called 'prime time' for viewing shows is 8pm to 11pm. They (networks) usually try to program the more visually graphic stuff (CSI) and adult stuff from 9pm on..

Rob
 
BBC1 7pm Saturday nights is the Dr Who slot.

Things like Spooks/CSI etc usually get shown at 9 here too
 
Kathy -- I'll try. ;) But sometimes you have-to explain why your time slot is important, such as the writing style of an episode / series.
 
From what you've seen so far...if someone WAS going to try and put Sigils and Unions on TV (despite my reservations about such a thing actually catching on), where and when would you put it on?

(Oh, and I would not try to air "Exits in the Haze" unless some VERY clever cinematography was done to make certain scenes come off just as fragmented and abstracted visually as they are in writing.)
 
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