Come up with a TV Series!

That is one of those ideas that would either be shit, or incredibly awesome. I'd definitely tune in to watch an episode to find out which.

You can have almost anyone as a private detective with a hidden past. Check it out:

1. The last of the Knights Templar, he helps people in need and takes on the tough cases, while trying to bring down the Illuminati. He is... PALADIN, this fall.

2. Max Wallace was an ordinary Hollywood photographer, until a camping trip turned his life upside down. Bitten by a werewolf, he uses his powers to sniff out dirt in tinseltown. He is... News Hound, this fall.

3. Cast from heaven for trying to intervene, an archangel tries to save lost souls on the mean streets of Philadelphia while fighting the forces of evil. He is... Fallen, this fall.

Seriously, I mean, what's already been done? Vampire (twice), Wizard, accountant, CIA-agent, a benedictine monk, a mountie, ANYONE can be a private detective and make a cool show.

Try and think of something that COULDN'T be a good premise for a private detective show.

I also plan firefly episode were chewie gets inara and politico babe fromt hat episde

Mark Spencer was an ordinary prostitute when amnesia left him naked in the streets of Manhattan. Now he is.. Que?tion Mark.

That's actually a pretty cool concept. made me think of the one I wanted in my post and couldn't remember...

i'd like the idea of a series based on The Question....Jeff Combs in a animated - or even live action - series about the ultimate consperacy nut...who just happens to be right...

he'd need a flakey sidekick/secretary like the Teri Garr role in Assignment: Earth...could be lots of fun with the right writer....what's Tim Miner doing nowdays?

Better this way.

Ghost Detective - A dead PI uses his supernatural influence to help his ex-partner solve crimes. His job is made more difficult because he can't actually touch or move anything, and he can only be seen or heard by his partner's 10-year-old son, who no one takes seriously. Starring Bruce willis.

That's been done with the X-Files.

Honor Harrington - Space opera based on David Weber's acclaimed series of sci fi novels, follows Honor through her troubled and glorious career.

Arc-based series that would transliterate the books in chronological order, using however many episodes needed for each novel. Could do from two to four novels per 22-episode season.

Would need to cast someone young enough to be wet-behind-the-ears Middy Harrington in the first season, yet grow into the role enough to be seasoned Admiral Lady Dame Honor Harrington by the fifth season.

CGI treecat? Animatronic treecat? Both?

Ringworld - Let's face it, there's enough material on the Ringworld to make one of those "wandering hero across strange worlds" series that'll last forever. A world 600 million miles long by a million miles wide? Infinite possibilities.

Outpost Idea

A few decades after the Louisiana purchase and right before the Mexican/American war, the US took over a few Spanish built forts along the western frontier to keep the areas relatively safe for the traders and to keep tabs on possible foreign movement. The series would focus on a single fort as close to the middle of nowhere as possible and dealing with the eccentric, strange and unique people that call the edges of civilization home as well as various tribes of Indians, Mexican and Russian influence, etc. Basically mix Deadwood and DS9 to get what that extremely convoluted sentence is about.

Return to the Frontier

In the late 22nd century, mankind has colonized the solar system. Unfortunately man still wars over resources no matter where he lives. Earth is fighting with it's colonies on Mars, Ganymede and Titan over their rights to live as independent colonies.

Paul Bowen is a young doctor with the Earth medical corp. He believes in Earth's right to govern the colonies and they should stay under Earth control.

He is on an ambulance coming back from the front lines, when the ship has a mechanical malfunction and they are forced to abandon ship and get into the escape pods. He climbs into an escape pod with a badly injured patient. As the escape pod tumbles towards Earth, it passes through some odd turbulance. The pod crashes in the desert of New Mexico, and as Paul awakens he discovers that his patient has died due to the crash.

None of the instrumentation in the escape pod works, so he leaves the pod and tries to find the nearest town. He walks for two days until he comes to a small, frontier town. Except it was not what he was expecting. The town is something out of the old west. Paul wanders through the town thinking at first that it was some kind of amusement park. Until reality sets in that this is no theme park, he has actually traveled backwards through time. He is in a small town in the 1850's and is in the New Mexico territory. He comes to realize that he cannot go home, and must make a life for himself there.

He becomes the towns doctor and wonders if he is changing history by saving the lives of his patients. Is he contributing to what will be his future, or is he changing the past?

As he lives his new life, he also starts questioning his old beliefs about the Earth colonies and their right to independence.


Yet another rough draft.

I just want cop/detective shows with car chases, explosions, and shoot outs where the hero gets by with a smirk and some wit and ALWAYS gets the girl at the end of the episode.

Think Miami Vice, Magnum, PI, Airwolf, Tales of the Gold Monkey, Knight Rider.

Enough with the melodrama. Give me action adventure tv shows that don't have arcs, character development, or anything that reuires any thought. I want my junk food for the brain!

By all means!

I say remake the Rockford Files with Nathan Fillion in the title role!!









yes.
I am serious.

I would base a series on this one Kids In The Hall sketch.

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It would be the most politically incorrect thing ever, and I would put it on ABC at the family hour.

I would win all the money of Jesus, and be able to talk to boulders.

It would STILL be better than 7th Heaven.

I actually have a great idea for a 30 minute sitcom, but I'm not letting you guys steal my idea.

Does it involve a poor farmer coming home after the Civil War and having to adapt to his new neighbors, the family of colored he used to own? It would be kind of like the Jeffersons meets Married With Children.

A recurring character could be the Yankee colonel in charge of the local Reconstruction garrison. Col. Winterbottom would be his name and he'd be completely inept.

The main character's catchphrase would be "This is all Abe Lincoln's fault!"

His daughter will marry a Yankee artist in the first episode and will move in with him.

Hilarity will ensue.

No, but I like the idea.

Except for the daughter marrying a Yankee.

there are also a couple of cartoon ideas me and a mate have thrown at each other:

the league of extraordinary piss artists - oliver reed, richard harris, keith moon and a time-shifted courtney love accidentally solve global problems whilst out on incredible benders in an alternate 70's universe

and i mentioned the thoroughly fucked up "thalidomide hitler" concept in another thread a while back.

the inital storyline i've planned out has Death (an unfamous amy winehouse type singer) asking for his help to track down a missing fan and brings him into conflict with the antichrist (who runs a prostitution and people trafficking ring)

his assistant is a large valkyrie (think dawn french) who takes no shit, and as for the other horsemen, War is neo-nazi football hooligan (looks like vinnie jones) and Famine (looks like mr creosote) runs a chain of burger and hot dog stalls.

i'm really aiming for a douglas adams feel, although i doubt i'm up to the task - but the funs in trying, and there are worse hobbies i could indulge in

It's a sitcom. The daughetr marries the man her father can't stand. Instant conflict = instant laughts.



Miranda: Father, you'll be so pleased. You're to be a grandfather.
John: This is all Abe Lincoln's fault!

(roars of applause!)

Ares

Based on the first six people to travel to Mars and live there.

Given the launch windows, about every two years, some new explorers arrive and join the group while others leave.

Explorers on Mars face a variety of challenges.

duststorms, rockslides, mountain climbing in spacesuits. equipment that quits working unexpectantly in the harsh environment, while their support team on Earth must deal with budget cuts, rocket malfunctions, weather delays, protestors at KSC and JSC. .

And back on Mars the hard work opens personality conflicts among the team. Including unexpected changes to crew members sex drives caused by the prolonged exposure to low gravity and other factors.

"Ramen of Honor"

I travel to Australia and make love to beautiful women. The caveat is that the entirety of the woman will be pixelated and the camera gets closeups of only my ass and sack. I make sure to eat plenty of foods that will guarantee a white, pimply buttcheek complexion. Also, the commentary will be only of me asking the beautiful women how lucky they are to be on my show.

Basically the worst porno ever. The program would have to be shot in slow-mo as to extend my usual 87 second session.

All in he Family: The First Generation?

Pretty much, but with more wacky adventures and neighbors.

Think Al Bundy level desperation at life with Basil Faulty's disposition and you've got the main character.

Faulty never has been properly captrued in an American production which is a shame.

Meh! Since somebody always steals my ideas anyway, here it is.

You old-timers know I used to be a mortician. My show would be called "Rest in Peace". It's a 30 minute sitcom about a 40-something funeral director (from the South, of course) who fulfills his life's dream of buying his own funeral home in a small, Southern town. His staff (that come with the funeral home) include a 70-ish year old funeral director who's a crotchety, old curmudgeon, a secretary who talks on the phone and emails all the time but gets her job done very well, and 2 guys who set up the graves - one is an avid fisherman and the other is an ex-cop/Barney Fife type. The FD is married with 2 kids, but his wife and kids don't quite know how to deal with his career.

I have some good stories based on my own experiences in the business. The comedy style is somewhere between The Andy Griffith Show, News Radio, and Evening Shade.

So there you have it. Go make millions with my idea.

Survivor: Mars!
(Granted we may have to wait a few decades to get this one ... off the ground)

They drop 12 people on Mars, each in a spacesuit with three days of oxygen.
They have to walk to an established shelter. Which is a six day walk.
The shelter has food and oxygen for three people, for three days.
The rescue ship is due to arrive nine days later.

Winner take all, baby.

Live cockfighting hosted by Ricardo Montlebahn.

Title says it all.