O.K. say a director came up to you, gave you a budget and a writer. You make your own show. Your way. All it has to be is good. The publc has to like it for more than one season.

How would you do it?


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Me? I would make a cartoon show (not anime!). I have always been partial to them. Plus you can do things with them that you cannot with real actors.

The show would be following several characters (5 or less). They are just regular joes. They know a little about everything.

Then one day they are taken from their homes nad captured by aliens. They escape the aliens graps but in the effort crash the ship. The rest of the show is finding their way home.

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I would make Star Wars episodes 1 thru 3 and I would do a much better job than Lucas!

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Anyone can do a better job than him right now. he is delusional in his power.

I'm glad to see that the director gives you a writer, for your sake! :wink:

I don't know what I would make for a TV show, something like Stargate I think... or, maybe a cool Blade Runner show, I don't know. I'll give it more thought...

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Well, your requirements are confusing. Does it have to be good AND liked by the public for more than one season? :P

All right, I have a budget and a writer. It'll be a space show, since a lot of people seem to associate sci-fi with space anyway. I'll endeavor to keep the physics and the astronomy accurate, and I don't care if anyone complains about not having a whoosh sound as spacecraft fly by.

It will be set in the early days of solar system colonization. Mars and the Moon have several colonies, and Mars is in the process of being terraformed. There are numerous stations in Earth orbit and at various Lagrange points. I'll even put an outpost as far in as Mercury and as far out as one of Saturn's moons. Titan, probably.

The stories will focus on a spacecraft with a crew of perhaps a dozen, as they make their way around the solar system on patrol. There ought to be plenty of varied settings, and therefore plenty of possible stories. Essentially a Star Trek show without the magical technology and bump-headed aliens, and confined to one solar system.

The website for the show will have technological and historical information for the geeks, as well as a plot of the ship's course. For sweeps weeks we visit a lunar colony inhabited by a fringe group of scantily-clad hedonistic female colonists, and watch the crew try to set up a mass driver on an asteroid to prevent collision with Earth. That should deliver sufficient drama, cool visual effects, and teen-male appeal to hopefully get it renewed.

Mine would be a show that takes place in the "near future". After a period of lawlessness, America is taken over by a totalitarian like regime. (No, not the Bush administration).

The lead character would be an underground rebel seeking to overthrow the new order. His background would be revealed slowly as the series unfolded. The first episode would pair him with two young adults from the pampered elite who discover how bad it is for most people. Also, he would save the life of a government employee who would then be his contact in the inside. I also see a larger network of agents he would use on a irregular basis.

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Ooh! Ooh! Can I make a Galaxy Quest TV series? What do Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver cost these days?

yes, yes you can.

ACtually that would be a great show. it can parody all of the treck, star wars, and other sci-fi shows. :-)

"Never give up, never surrender!"

Almost as funny a slogan as "to boldly split infinitives where no man has gone before!".

Satire shows tend to run out of material after one season (Quark, for example). Red Dwarf lasted quite a bit longer, though.

D. C. Fontana was said to have been working on a series idea shortly after startrek--star ship, small crew, stun guns, relatively populated galaxy. That could have been interesting.

Something akin to the early Polysotechnic League might be fun. To do it justice it'd either have to be animated or feature lots of CGI aliens. It'd be easier to do a serious animated show in Japan (it's almost impossible to get past the "cartoons are for kids" mindset in the US. The Simpsons has changed that slightly, maybe into "cartoons are for giggles"). You could wait for a couple more years for CGI technology to improve.

I say make a series based of David Weber's Honor Harrington.

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(My post got deleted, so I'll post it again

I'd re-make Enterprise - the way it should have been done.

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And how should it of been done?

Ah! i know, with people writing scripts!

That would be a great show, I'd love to see a "space" show that didn't involve aliens or unrealistic technology. Anyone on this board a network executive?

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But would anyone watch it?

That is one condition.

Only the intelligent and informed. That's about 2000 people in North America.

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well, there are 2348 registered at this board...some don't post, and some are trolls...guess that leaves, yeah, about 2000!

(disclaimer:a joke! a joke! don't all the guests come sign up to shut me up!)

*looks around*

*runs*

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To make a show like that work, you'd have to pick your characters very carefully.

You would have to have a "bad guy". I don't think just having the characters overcome technological and natural difficulties would keep the audience's interest very long.

I think there should definately be some politics in the show. Ownership of certain mineral rights, the government vs. the little guy, that sort of thing.

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Since Disney is getting on this kick of turning theme rides into movies (first Pirates next The Haunted Mansion), do you suppose it possible to make a movie based off of Space Mountain?

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Yeah, Hauntd Manision. Anyone else get the irony of Eddie Murphey being in that movie? In one of his more popular stand up videos, he makes fun of The Ammietyville Horror. He says that if it was him there this is how it would go:

Murphey: "Wow, this is a nice house, look at that entryway..."

ghost: "get out!"

Murphey: "Too bad we can't stay!"

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