Pitch your idea for a series to the network execs!

[terrya]

Ok, you get a chance to pitch an idea for a television series to the programming execs of any network.

What would your series idea be? And you get full creative control!

[Westegg]

1. Uh, hello? Those bloodsucking thieves read this, you know...

...Ain't no way I'm giving up my brilliant ideas for free.

[Blue-Jay]

2. New reality show!

"Tipsy Builders"

Get a dozen guys and a shitload of dangerous power tools. Give them blueprints for a structure of some sort (I dunno....maybe a shed or something), and let them start building. Every 1/2 hour, they have to take a shot of whiskey and then chug a beer.

Here's where it gets fun!

You pass out, you're out.
You puke, you're out.
You hack off a finger, you're out.

The last one standing gets to keep all the tools, plus a coupon for a free stomach-pumping at their local hospital.

Hey. I'd watch it!

[meegbear]

3. Every 1/2 hour?

You won't get tipsy doing it that way. Every five minutes at least.

[Blue-Jay]

12. I dunno....

Hot sun. Shot & a beer. That'll make power tools fun for the whole family. Maybe they should be kept from eating for 24 hours prior to the build...

It's a work in progress, sure. Maybe after 6 hours, they'll need to switch to every 15 minutes.

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. I think every half hour, in the sun, with no water or food,

and give them all the beer they want to quench their thirst...

Oh, wait, you could go film that at any house construction site.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. That's brilliant!!

I love it!!

And then every four hours should be a "challenge round" where the ex-wives and/or abused girlfriends or whatever get a few minutes to set up an obstancle course of nail guns, thrown 2x4s, hammer tossing, etc.

But even without the challenge round, yours is a truly brilliant idea!

[Blue-Jay]

13. Ooooo! Good ideas!

Thanks for the praise, Rab+(rx6)!

Hopefully, we'd get to see a hacked off thumb, and the resulting transplant of a toe to replace it. Toe-thumbs kick ass!

[BurtWorm]

4. Smokers' Island

Put 21 chain smokers on an island with one pack of cigarettes. Whoever makes it through the series without smoking a single cigarette wins $1 million--or a lifetime supply of the brand of their choice. To make the show more interesting, have them perform tasks that require steady nerves or intense focus--like 50 long division problems or keeping 10 plates spinning.

[DS1]

5. Hunt and Kill Billy Ray Cyrus

/credits to Bill Hicks

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Every week we let loose the hounds of hell and chase down

that no-talent cracker asshole...

[Tom_Foolery]

6. Title: HE'S THE PRESIDENT...

It would be a show about a bumbling idiot who stumbles his way into the White House, and all HELL breaks loose. Oh yeah!! We have that in real life, don't we? Never mind.

[TEXASYANKEE]

7. Republican Reality

George Bush is stripped of his money and his family's influence. Must work at WalMart, support wife and 2 children, get health insurance, car insurance, pay mortgage, buy food, gas, school supplies ... all on $19,000 a year. How long will he last? Yup, that's one reality show I might tune in for.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Take 12 legitimate, struggling artists, give 'em baseball bats,

and have 'em live in a house for 30 minutes with 24 no-talent hacks that "look good" that the music industry/movie industry/gallery industry knows they can sell to an ignorant public. And then let the legitimate artists bludgeon the others to death, thus removing some of the taint on our collective unconscious. They don't win any BS awards or BS recording contracts or BS roles in a "new blockbuster movie with famous actor" - they still have to drive their own careers, like any legitimate artist should - the show is simply a chance to reduce the rolls of the fake artists and to know that they had a hand in ridding the world of fevered egos. Okay, there is one reward - the killing is gov't okayed, so legal action taken against them.


Pick two new groups every week.

E.g., first week: Legitimate Artists with bats vs. N'Stink, New Kids, Beyonce, Kinkade, Tom Cruise, the cast of Friends, Clay Aiken, Brittney, Tiffany, and Tommy Hilfiger.

[HEyHEY]

27. oh that' like my idea

Take 20 people and put them on an island......that's it. Give'em nothing but a hatchet. I mean for each one, then it's every one for themselves.

The last guy to literally leave the island wins....;no stupid games, no voting..... just have the camera crew do progress reports on the group.

You'll see some people with a nice Swiss Family Robinson style life, and you'll see others huddled under a rock crying for food and water (these people will be removed on advise of a doctor)

I think it would KILL survivor.

[Rabrrrrrr]

29. Can they kill each other?

or is that not allowable? I could see it being equally entertaining either way.

[HEyHEY]

30. Give one guy a gun...

and another guy the bullets...sit back relax and enjoy.

[Rabrrrrrr]

31. Make it an island full of type-A SUV driving weekend warrior wannabes

who actually have no skill at being a warrior, or even a camper, and I'll find the money to put it on the air.

Every time one of those type-A fucks is nailed by the cops for speeding in their porsches, SUVs, three-wheelers, speedboats, or jet-skis, or nailed for driving while talking on the cell phone and drinking coffee and eating a bagel while chewing at like goddamn 400 chews a minute, they will be given the choice of taking a HUGE fine and maybe serving jail time, or spending a month on the "HEyHey and Rabrrrrrr Island of Death and Reward".

[Paragon]

9. A handsome message board poster gets into a series of adventures...

...and bones Lindsay Lohan at the end. :silly:

Code Name: Paragon -- box office gold.

[Speck Tater]

15. Then goes to jail Lindsay is 17.

[Paragon]

16. Yes, I know.

:silly: = joking

[Speck Tater]

14. "Who wants to be the President?"

Start with a pool of hundreds of contestants and, just like on Idol kick some out every week. Last person standing gets to be POTUS for a year. Can't be any worse than letting the Supreme Court appoint presidents for us.

[kodi]

17. grizzled ex-cop becomes medical marijuana user, opens florist shop

the whacky adventures of a man who is legally stoned all the time & interacts with his flower buying customers and his ex-buddies from the violent crime investigation unit who stop in for visits and advice.

think of a cross of columbo, the character dick shawn played in the producers, and jack klugman's quincy character

[Blue-Jay]

18. Is that autobiographical?

Just wondering...

[kodi]

21. its the basis for a screenplay a buddy is writing in la

and we have been working out the details.

[Blue-Jay]

25. OK.

I see Dennis Hopper or Cheech Marin as the lead in that one.

[kodi]

32. philip baker hall, as the ex-cop, we wanted that grizzledness to come out

the opening scene starts with a sound of the phone ringing repeatedly. a pan to a dishevled room with open, empty pizza boxes, a dog lapping up spilled beer, a bag of weed on a frisbee with zig-zags, and hall snoring on the couch.

he's late for work at the florist shop his late wife and he started after he retired, but she died and his solace is alcohol, weed, and growing flowers.. he also talks to his dog a lot....the joke here is that although he can see, he got an old cia friend to get him listed as legally blind so he can bring the dog with him anywhere.

we want to use his gruff character as the wall which all the insanities that reach him bounce off of. we were thinking of a fawlty towers where the basil character was stoned but not the source of the humor, but was the only sane one in the whole show, even stoned.

we figure that the age of that character using weed (for purely medicinal purposes only) would be a reverse of the druggie adolescent films, that his past rough life as a cop would be a weird juxtaposition for the florist trade and his dotting over his dog, and the interaction of his regular customers with his old cop buddies would be a goldmine of humor.

[Deja Q]

19. Well, I know what I want to pitch, but execs would hate it.

It requires thought on the part of the audience. Today's audiences don't want to think.

[Rabrrrrrr]

22. Tell us what it is anyway!

And I agree, the audience doesn't want to think, and the networks are afraid to give it a shot. And I don't blame them.

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. A group of six friends hang out together in NYC while they struggle

with jobs: one wants to be an actor, one watns to be an artist, one a business owner, the women - who knows what the hell the women want to do with their lives - and they have lots of hilarious hijinks dating each other, being jealous of each other, supporting each other in their down times, going on vacations, helping each other with relationships and career choices and are just all around FRIENDS, but - and this is the what is gonna make the networks go for it, folks, because creativity is NOT what they want - what makes it ENTIRELY different from the other friends show is that instead of hanging out at a coffee shop, or hanging out at a bar, or at an airport, they hang out at *a diner*.

[HEyHEY]

26. Or how about a show where

A family lives in a house with the living room on the left hand side, kitchen on the right....with a door going to the backyard from the kitchen. As well, the stairs going up HAVE to be right by the front door. Then we go over the hilarious "problems" the family goes through on a regular basis....maybe they even have a kooky nieghbour.....oh man it'd be SOOOO funny.

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. OMG! A kooky neighbor!

You're a fuckin' genius!! I never would have thought of that.

Quick, go pitch it! You're sitting on a mint right now - you can basically print your own money from that idea.

[HEyHEY]

23. No way would a network air anyshow I came up with

I'd like to make a comedy about municipal workers though. I was one for a bit and the stories that happened day to day would make anyone laugh.