Fake TV Show Meme

[jjpor]

I picked this up from innerbrat  via lizbee 's journal, and I think it's kind of cool:

1. Comment to this post with "I surrender!" and I'll assign you the basis of some TV show idea. (Science fiction show, medical drama, criminal procedure, etc...)
2. Create a cast of characters, including the actors who'd play them.
3. Add in any actor photos, character bios and show synopsis that you want.
4. Post to your own journal.

Comments

[eve11]

I surrender!

(ETA: I also can't spell)

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... A gritty police procedural, I think. Set on Mars.

[eve11]

okay, then! here you go!

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Good work! And quick too!

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Not participating in this meme, but just to pass on the word that it now has its own comm: isurrendered.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks very much for the heads up! :)

[clocketpatch]

I shouldn't surrender, but I think the ninjas might attack me if I don't.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Okay then, your prompt, should you choose to accept it, is a low-budget sitcom set during a zombie apocalypse. Yeah.

[clocketpatch]

Oh noes! Zombie comedy! Strangely enough, there's something quite like this up for free viewing on IMDB. Hopefully that won't taint my final product.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

As long as it's not Shaun of the Dead: The Series or something... :D

I'm sure you'll do an excellent job with it, however you decide to approach it.

[herk227.livejournal.com]

See me surrendering.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Let me see... Okay, a former comic-book-style supervillain now living as part of a witness protection programme...

[herk227.livejournal.com]

Finally reduced it enough to post it.

Here: http://herk227.livejournal.com/21906.html

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

I've responded to your post on the isurrendered comm, but I'll say again - nice work! :)

[herk227.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)
For a more detailed answer - see your comment on the comm ;)

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

I surrender!

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... How's abouts an Edge of Darkness-style conspiracy thriller, set in and around the lovely Faroe Islands...

[thisbluespirit]

I surrender! (It doesn't take much...)

very cool meme.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

It is, isn't it? :)

SHE's a temporally-displaced Victorian housemaid! HE's a slightly bewildered yet quietly heroic research scientist! Together, they fight crime!

I can come up with another one if that one's too obvious/too boring for you! ;-D

[thisbluespirit]

But that one's a sprawling novel in my head. :-(

I'll think about it (but I'm already worrying about even hypothetical TV versions...)

Can I haz other option pls? (I'll spell properly if you do. Oh, wait P-R-O-P- *cough*). This meme could be a plan: come up with TV idea, get someone else to develop it, sell it to TV company and get a cut of the profits. How does that sound? :lol:

(btw, am grinning at the 'quietly heroic' bit, because it's usually a Bad Idea when Nat gets driven to heroics. If I can get the AU version done, there's a fun translation of that to real-life... Erm, well, I think it's a fun translation, I should say.)

Still, a bad workperson complains about the tools - I shall be off, doing what I can with the rotten idea...

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Well, I never said he was _good_ at the heroics, did I? ;-D

Yes, that's my plan involving this meme anyway, LOL!

Er, okay, if you want another prompt, how's abouts... Our protagonist wakes up in a swanky hotel room with no recollection of who s/he is or how s/he got there. Oh, and there's a dead body they don't recognise in the en suite bathroom as well...

[thisbluespirit]

Okay!

One-off drama (or possibly very, very strange ongoing series.) :lol:

[thisbluespirit]

I just thought you can add 'together, they fight crime!' to almost anything, can't you? If you add it to your second prompt, it becomes a whole new ball game. :lol:

(I am strange, I know.)

[thisbluespirit]

Tilly and Nat didn't like the idea. They argued. This will take time:
Tilly: And why are we fighting crime instead of at least having adventures investigating other time-related anomalies?
Nat: Because that’s all people on TV ever do?
Tilly: Well, that doesn’t make sense. You could do something about astronomy instead.
Nat: No, I think Patrick Moore has that covered.
Tilly: Well, that takes the cake. Do we need to fetch DS Reynolds so we have someone who knows about crime?
Nat: Maybe the Colonel would want to be one of those amateur detectives? He’s retired; he’s got the time on his hands.
Tilly: Somehow, I don’t think so…
Nat: No, worse luck. I’m not even much good at alien dissection, so I’m not the right sort of scientist for this. I’m not doing autopsies.
Tilly: I should think not.
Nat: And, what murders are we supposed to solve? The last episode of the series would mean me going after what happened to my Dad and it couldn’t be just falling into the river in this sort of thing. I’d rather not do that, either.
Tilly: Maybe they’ll be historical murders.
Nat: I’m not doing any grave robbing. And they’d be better off with a historian, or at least a palaeontologist for that. We could ask Professor Colby.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Heheh - very nice! And all fair objections, too! I've given you another prompt, if you want it...although it is a bit derivative, I feel, and maybe not the kind of thing you'd like, but...see what you think of it...

Colonel Crichton as an amateur detective in his retirement? Colby, Nat and Tilly in the same story? Couple of fic bunnies for you there, if you want them (although I suspect the last thing you want is more fic bunnies)