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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,256188,00.html

Has the entertainment industry run out of ideas to such an extent that an insurance company ad campaign is now a source for programming? :rolleyes:

That's just pathetic.

pah. thats fox news, which is not a reliable source. why should I believe it?

Where would we be without lowbrow sitcoms?
Oh yeah. A lot better off.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,256188,00.html

Has the entertainment industry run out of ideas to such an extent that an insurance company ad campaign is now a source for programming? :rolleyes:

Yes.

This has been another installment of short answers to simple questions. ;)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,256188,00.html

Has the entertainment industry run out of ideas to such an extent that an insurance company ad campaign is now a source for programming? :rolleyes:

Isn't the free market a beautiful thing?

Ya gotta love teh lowest common demoninator.

Silly peoples! We all know real quality programming is on the internet in the form of such things as:

God Inc (http://youtube.com/watch?v=b2f4heaG288)

and

Smosh! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=cvHeVdlZQPs)

I don't see that it's any worse than the bullshit "reality TV" and everything else you people - yes, you people posting - watch.

I don't watch TV much anymore.

I don't see that it's any worse than the bullshit "reality TV" and everything else you people - yes, you people posting - watch.

I watched the cavemen on youtube. They are not funny. I don't expect that this will make it beyond the pilot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGmhrA-LAoc

I like the cavemen.

Anyway, it could be worse. In the movie Idiocracy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy) the characters awaken in a future where a movie called "ass" or something, which is just 90 minutes of someone's bare ass on screen, is the most popular movie ever.

If you can have shows about aliens living among people why not cavemen living among modern humans?

pah. thats fox news, which is not a reliable source. why should I believe it?
because it's also network television... and not even Fox could make up a story like this...

Next, Saturday morning cartoons (oh wait they dont have those anymore do they?) will be host to the new esurance.com cartoon.

Next, Saturday morning cartoons (oh wait they dont have those anymore do they?) will be host to the new esurance.com cartoon.

I'd watch that.

Oh lameness.

I'd watch that.


Quiet you!

Someone in the biz might see this and think it's an actual good idea or something.
:p

Quiet you!

Someone in the biz might see this and think it's an actual good idea or something.
:p

Copyright, quick.

Im waiting with wide frightened eyes for them to try reviving old series with modern casts and settings. I don't want them to mess with my old shows- I fear for their safety...

Im waiting with wide frightened eyes for them to try reviving old series with modern casts and settings. I don't want them to mess with my old shows- I fear for their safety...

They already did with Battlestar Galactica. And they did an f-ing AWESOME job at it, too.

Just another reason for me not to watch television -- I think the caveman commercials are decidedly unfunny anyway.

:rolleyes:

Where would we be without lowbrow sitcoms?

How 'bout protruding brow sitcoms?;)

How 'bout protruding brow sitcoms?;)

*groan*

How 'bout protruding brow sitcoms?;)

*dies*

That is just sick. Well, sick coms suck anyway.

TV produces so much crap you have to dig real deap to find something worth.

It's nothing new really. After all, they've made at least one movie based on a comercial previously...

Johnny English (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274166/)
The Johnny English character is based on a cowardly, incompetent spy played by Rowan Atkinson. The character first appeared in a series of television commercials for Barclaycard with his assistant, Bough (played by Henry Naylor).

And that's why I gave up digging.

Oh yeah. Not to mention when you do find something good, it usually gets canceled after one season.

TV produces so much crap you have to dig real deap to find something worth.

And that's why I gave up digging.

Just another reason for me not to watch television -- I think the caveman commercials are decidedly unfunny anyway.

:rolleyes:

Yea, they're just slow and awkward.

It's nothing new really. After all, they've made at least one movie based on a comercial previously...

Johnny English (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274166/)

bah, you got nothin' til yer ad characters have their own christmas special

Haven't you people read Syrup?

Be thankful they're not doing a show around the lizard.

Haven't you people read Syrup?

No.

Be thankful they're not doing a show around the lizard.

Don't be surprised if a special guest reptile appears at some point :D

pah. thats fox news, which is not a reliable source. why should I believe it?

FNC is much more reliable than, say, the New York Times or CBS. But if you don't want to believe it, hey, believe whatever you want.

They already did with Battlestar Galactica. And they did an f-ing AWESOME job at it, too.
They also did Dark Shadows, which was decidedly unawesome. And of course various Star Treks...
bah, you got nothin' til yer ad characters have their own christmas special

Totally forgot about the raisins.


Anyway, I like the cavemen, I think they do a good job with them. Why should there be boundaries about where an idea comes from? If they think they can make a series out of something what difference does it make where the idea comes from?

Oh, right-we're all patting ourselves on the back for our sophistication by seeing if we can top each other by how much we hate TV...sorry...

Oh, right-we're all patting ourselves on the back for our sophistication by seeing if we can top each other by how much we hate TV...sorry...

Hm, well, between the reality shows and the lack of creativity, except for the occasional cable gem, there's not much to watch that isn't mindnumbingly stupid.

How much Fear Factor/The Great Race/Survivor/Big Brother/American Idol/So You Think You Can dance/Dancing with the Stars/You're the One that I Want/afternoon talk shows can one person really watch?

bah, you got nothin' til yer ad characters have their own christmas special

Forget that: Transformers, GI Joe, My Little Pony, TNMT, and the Gummi Bears were all cartoons made just to sell the toys/candy (which all came out first).

And don't forget all the movies made out of video games (The Mario Bros., Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Doom, Mordull Kombat ;), et cetera, ad nauseum. And the remakes (The Dukes of Hazzard, Car 54 Where are You, The Flintstones, The Beverly Hillbillies, etc.).

There is no creativity.

Hm, well, between the reality shows and the lack of creativity, except for the occasional cable gem, there's not much to watch that isn't mindnumbingly stupid.

How much Fear Factor/The Great Race/Survivor/Big Brother/American Idol/So You Think You Can dance/Dancing with the Stars/You're the One that I Want/afternoon talk shows can one person really watch?

You get a Gold Star for Sophistication. Now tell us how you only watch independent movies or read books not on best seller lists.

You get a Gold Star for Sophistication. Now tell us how you only watch independent movies or read books not on best seller lists.

You know where you can put your gold star and your sneering.

How much Fear Factor/The Great Race/Survivor/Big Brother/American Idol/So You Think You Can dance/Dancing with the Stars/You're the One that I Want/afternoon talk shows can one person really watch?considering that many of those are still going on... :p

pah. thats fox news, which is not a reliable source. why should I believe it?

Why would Fox news make up something like that?

It's funny that people think that Fox News is "not a reliable source" because most of what they put on is at least as reliable as the New York Times (at least from the news desk, and not from their pundits, who are not newscasters).

Do you have a Jayson Blair story you can tell me about Fox? (that was the NYT)

Do you have an Eason Jordan story you can tell me about Fox? (that was CNN)

And any rational person knows that O'Reilly and such are not reading the news.

It's funny that people think that Fox News is "not a reliable source" because most of what they put on is at least as reliable as the New York Times (at least from the news desk, and not from their pundits, who are not newscasters).

Do you have a Jayson Blair story you can tell me about Fox? (that was the NYT)

Do you have an Eason Jordan story you can tell me about Fox? (that was CNN)

And any rational person knows that O'Reilly and such are not reading the news.

Fox News apologises for Kerry fabrication (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,,1319075,00.html)

Forget that: Transformers, GI Joe, My Little Pony, TNMT, and the Gummi Bears were all cartoons made just to sell the toys/candy (which all came out first).

And don't forget all the movies made out of video games (The Mario Bros., Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Doom, Mordull Kombat ;), et cetera, ad nauseum. And the remakes (The Dukes of Hazzard, Car 54 Where are You, The Flintstones, The Beverly Hillbillies, etc.).

There is no creativity.
I hadn't seen this.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was an independent comic book by Eastman and Laird long before it was a toy or a cartoon.

And of course none of these things where created, and nothing shall be interpreted in more than one medium lest the whole medium be condemned as uncreative.

Which screws opera and Shakespeare, but whatever. Such things are small casualties on the easy road to sophistication.

Isn't the free market a beautiful thing?

Ya gotta love teh lowest common demoninator.

You know, when no one watches the pilot and the series never starts, we can mark that up as a triumph of the free market.

And there's Netflix...

I hadn't seen this.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was an independent comic book by Eastman and Laird long before it was a toy or a cartoon.

And of course none of these things where created, and nothing shall be interpreted in more than one medium lest the whole medium be condemned as uncreative.

Which screws opera and Shakespeare, but whatever. Such things are small casualties on the easy road to sophistication.

Remember: You're the one who's repeatedly calling me sophisticated (as if that's a bad thing, anyhow). I never said anything of the kind. :D

I'm not surprised, I think Marketing and Entertainment will be one and the same in the future.

You know, when no one watches the pilot and the series never starts, we can mark that up as a triumph of the free market.

And there's Netflix...

Except if you've seen the unaired Aquaman pilot, it wasn't bad.

Oh wait, as a sophisticate, I shouldn't know anything about comic books, or anything that's not independent or on the best seller list.

*chucks out her Sierra Mist and breaks out the Dom Pérignon*

Next, Saturday morning cartoons (oh wait they dont have those anymore do they?) will be host to the new esurance.com cartoon.

Don't be retarded. It's going to be on Adult Swim.

FNC is much more reliable than, say, the New York Times or CBS. But if you don't want to believe it, hey, believe whatever you want.

Well, yes. That's true. Whenever I read a story in the NY Times. I don't know if it was written by a conservative, or a liberal. I don't know if it was an honest attempt at journalism or a fraud. Even if I know it's a fraud I don't know if it's fiction by someone trying to pad his resume, or a politically motivated liar.

If I watch FOX I know exactly what I'm getting. Politically motivated slander and half-truths. Never need I ever fear that I am receiving the unvarnished truth or the whole picture. It's like a clock that's 12 hours off. It's always completely wrong, but in such a way that I can figure out what right really is.

FNC is much more reliable than, say, the New York Times or CBS. But if you don't want to believe it, hey, believe whatever you want.
Here's what Fox news will become in a few hundred years.
Actually it's not all that far from this now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlSa7KxsR8M

Meh. Pirates OTC was based off a theme park ride.

Except if you've seen the unaired Aquaman pilot, it wasn't bad.

Oh wait, as a sophisticate, I shouldn't know anything about comic books, or anything that's not independent or on the best seller list.

*chucks out her Sierra Mist and breaks out the Dom Pérignon*

and add to that "Global Fequency"

and Good shows that are cancelled.... "Spy Games", "Commander in Cheif"

*Catches Sierra mist and finishes it off*

Forget that: Transformers, GI Joe, My Little Pony, TNMT, and the Gummi Bears were all cartoons made just to sell the toys/candy (which all came out first).

And don't forget all the movies made out of video games (The Mario Bros., Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Doom, Mordull Kombat ;), et cetera, ad nauseum. And the remakes (The Dukes of Hazzard, Car 54 Where are You, The Flintstones, The Beverly Hillbillies, etc.).

There is no creativity.

What's wrong with making movies from video games? they make movies from books so...

Oh, and don't forget Pirates of the Caribbean. It was a ride. *nod*

Well, yes. That's true. Whenever I watch a story on FOX, I don't know if it was written by a conservative, or a liberal. I don't know if it was an honest attempt at journalism or a fraud. Even if I know it's a fraud I don't know if it's fiction by someone trying to pad his resume, or a politically motivated liar.

If I read the New York Times I know exactly what I'm getting. Politically motivated slander and half-truths. Never need I ever fear that I am receiving the unvarnished truth or the whole picture. It's like a clock that's 12 hours off. It's always completely wrong, but in such a way that I can figure out what right really is.

Fixed ;)

What about if they made the "Im a PC" "Im a Mac" adverts into a sitcom? Or the Cillit Bang adverts? Could be worse.

The Mac-PC one would probably win the world's most pretentious show of the year award.

What about if they made the "Im a PC" "Im a Mac" adverts into a sitcom? Or the Cillit Bang adverts? Could be worse.

The Mac-PC one would probably win the world's most pretentious show of the year award.

If Aaron Sorkin was writing it...





(I actually like that guy, but damn...)

What about if they made the "Im a PC" "Im a Mac" adverts into a sitcom? Or the Cillit Bang adverts? Could be worse.

didn't they do that with "the Odd Couple"?

sorry, the PC/Mac commercials are baised off of "The Odd Couple." :p

We are lucky they didn't make one out of the Gecko.