NationStates Jolt Archive

So, yeah. Imagine some high-flying executive has put you (yes, you) in charge of producing a new show for their cable TV network. You've got a shoestring budget - enough to build one set, and hire one actor. You can probably afford a few costume changes, so luckily you can probably recycle them. Anyway, you're tasked with creating a show that everyone will want to watch. Think of it as a five dollah Lost.

What would you create as your pilot episode?

So, yeah. Imagine some high-flying executive has put you (yes, you) in charge of producing a new show for their cable TV network. You've got a shoestring budget - enough to build one set, and hire one actor. You can probably afford a few costume changes, so luckily you can probably recycle them. Anyway, you're tasked with creating a show that everyone will want to watch. Think of it as a five dollah Lost.

What would you create as your pilot episode?
I would base it of the book "Summoning the Keeper" by tanya Huff.

a guardian (think Super witch) gets stuck managing a small dingy hotel.... that has a gateway to hell partially sealed in the basement. btw, that gateway also provides central heating for the building. :D

the cast would include...
1) the Guardian
2) The handyman. (the only one not affected by the evil in the basement.)
3) the Guardian's Cat.
4) voice of Hell. possibly two since hell would be skizo...
5) Ghost of a sailor who died hundreds of years ago.

Infrequent casts would include
1) nosey neighbor
2) Hell hound next door.

anyone else would be guest stars as guests of the hotel.

The set, would be the Hotel. rooms can be reused and redecorated to make many rooms.

the feel would be a fawlty towers/charmed/Kingdom Hospital mix.

Pilot episode would outline how the witch gets tricked into becoming the owner of the hotel and her figuring out what needs to be done to keep the Gates of Hell sealed.

I'd do one man, on a tiny island, dingy little thing but with a massive sparkly rock on it. He drowned (so he thinks) and ended up on top of the rock. Actually, quite a bit like a five dollar lost.

I would base it of the book "Summoning the Keeper" by tanya Huff.

a guardian (think Super witch) gets stuck managing a small dingy hotel.... that has a gateway to hell partially sealed in the basement. btw, that gateway also provides central heating for the building. :D

the cast would include...
1) the Guardian
2) The handyman. (the only one not affected by the evil in the basement.)
3) the Guardian's Cat.
4) voice of Hell. possibly two since hell would be skizo...
5) Ghost of a sailor who died hundreds of years ago.

Infrequent casts would include
1) nosey neighbor
2) Hell hound next door.

anyone else would be guest stars as guests of the hotel.

The set, would be the Hotel. rooms can be reused and redecorated to make many rooms.

the feel would be a fawlty towers/charmed/Kingdom Hospital mix.

Pilot episode would outline how the witch gets tricked into becoming the owner of the hotel and her figuring out what needs to be done to keep the Gates of Hell sealed.

I actually rather like this idea. I'd watch it!

I actually rather like this idea. I'd watch it!

Same

I actually rather like this idea. I'd watch it!
To expand (and I concur, I might actually watch that pilot)

If UPN and The WB where still seperate entities, you'd have a sale...

Even so, I think The SciFi Channel might be looking for your number...

shoestring budget? why waste money on sets, actors, and costuming at all?
just mount the camera on the front of a train, airplane or someone walking arround out in the woods. i'd gladly watch an hour of that once a week or even every day. if there were something like that it would actualy be worth turning the damd thing on for.

to me that would be better then ANYTHING that is on there now.

no inane dialog commentary, just the sounds of nature and machinery, maybe some kind of spacy electronica theme music at the beggining and end of the program but that's it. just unlimmited wandering arround, gratifying the urge to be out looking arround and seeing for yourself without anyone attempting to predigest for you what you are seeing.

=^^=
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Easy. I'd save most of the wages for the actor, by hiring some crackwhore to gobble down some MTV exec cum & secure me a good spot on the air. Then I'd take the contract to the local school & show it to the most vacant & pretty people I'd find.

The people would get locked in my cellar for 48 hours, along with £100 worth of fags, beer & vodka.

I'm dead certain I'd be rich after the first 4 episodes.

Easy. I'd save most of the wages for the actor, by hiring some crackwhore to gobble down some MTV exec cum & secure me a good spot on the air. Then I'd take the contract to the local school & show it to the most vacant & pretty people I'd find.

The people would get locked in my cellar for 48 hours, along with £100 worth of fags, beer & vodka.

I'm dead certain I'd be rich after the first 4 episodes.
Wait, isn't that Big Brother?

Wait, isn't that Big Brother?Yups, but with underaged twits, locked doors & no prizes.

Easy. I'd save most of the wages for the actor, by hiring some crackwhore to gobble down some MTV exec cum & secure me a good spot on the air. Then I'd take the contract to the local school & show it to the most vacant & pretty people I'd find.

The people would get locked in my cellar for 48 hours, along with £100 worth of fags, beer & vodka.

I'm dead certain I'd be rich after the first 4 episodes.sounds like a making for "Emo World"

I'd find a remote, wooded area to film in. It would be a story about the last living man/woman on earth after a nuclear war as he/she attempts to survive on cockroach meat and radioactive water.

Instead of building a set and hiring actors, I would simply buy a few computers, set up the camera's in my house, and make a show about a video gaming clan. I would get people who are pretty good to come play, and it would be kinda like G4, except for way more gameplay, and way less reviews, etc.

I think it could get pretty popular, look at starcraft in korea. Whole channels dedicated to it!

To expand (and I concur, I might actually watch that pilot)

If UPN and The WB where still seperate entities, you'd have a sale...

Even so, I think The SciFi Channel might be looking for your number...
:confused:
really, it does sound interesting?
:D
Perhaps I should start a script or something and see if I can get Ms. Huff's approval then.

simple just make a porno series with a moderately priced woman or failing that me

or install secret cameras on NS'ers comps to find out what they do when they go "offline"

Capitol Hill- The Reality show the government doesn't want you to see!

Starring: George Dubyah, Dick Cheny, Bill Frist, Condi Rice, Howard Dean, Al Gore, John Kerry, H. Clinton, Barrack Obama.

Monkey Tennis.

Simple:

Goofball P.I.

:D

Cooking with Ruffy

Today, we are having a bbq, donkey steak for everyone!

Simple:

Goofball P.I.

:D
Oh oh oh... can I be the "Higgins" character?

Animal close ups, With a wide angled lense.