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

[thisbluespirit]

You know, this may actually BE how they devise new TV detective shows... It would explain a lot.

8-o

[john_amend_all]

TV Tropes seems to agree.

(The second link on that page is to a Random They-Fight-Crime generator. The possibilities are endless. <rory-bremner>And indeed pointless.</rory-bremner>)

[thisbluespirit]

Hah. That's very entertaining and bonkers. Oh, the endless potential for time-wasting there is in netland... ;-)

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Heheh - well, glad to have been of assistance! He is a hero, on the quiet, even if he's got a bit of a slow-burning fuse; effectiveness or otherwise have nothing to do with heroic status, I'd argue. And I'd also argue that Nat is probably someone you wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of, because if you'd done something bad enough to get him, of all people, after you, then it must have been really bad and you will thorougly deserve the comeuppance coming your way soon...

SHE's Queen Victoria! HE's Karl Marx! Together...

Yes, you can do it for anything... :D

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Heh - that's a hoot! One or two of them are actually good prompts, too...

And TV Tropes, now _there_ is a way of wasting hours of your life that you are never going to get back ever...

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Complex? I like it! I'm trying to cast a New York subway train-driver, and discovering that my knowledge of actors includes a big blind spot when it comes to ones who would be suitable to play New York subway train-drivers... :D

[john_amend_all]

Aren't they?
"He's a suicidal umbrella-wielding werewolf with acid for blood. She's a beautiful snooty cab driver with the power to see death. They fight crime!"

Sylvester McCoy and Lalla Ward?

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Definitely! ;D

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, now I want to see that one! :lol:

(And John's randomiser gave me among other silly things an out of work former first lady from beyond the grave...).

Heh. To be honest, if you got on the wrong side of Nat, he'd probably just get frustrated and kick things after you were gone. :lol: (Tilly, now... ;-D) But, yes, it helped. One of those 'I have everything written but the actual link to the ending' (Why does that seem to happen so often? Or possibly it's just my lack of planning details.)

[thisbluespirit]

Heh. I reserve the right to wimp out on the casting if need be. I'm always completely hopeless at those 'dream cast your fave novel' type conversations.

So am not much help with NY subway train drivers. You could have 'one of those US actors who turn up in minor parts in absolutely everything'?

[thisbluespirit]

I think the obvious retort I was aiming for there was: And for some reason I'm trying to cast a corpse. Any suggestions?

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, someone who possess a certain dramatic stillness and doesn't mind not having any lines... :D

Yes; you're right, one of _those_ sort of "hey, don't I know him from somewhere?" actors...

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Eleanor Roosevelt?! Talk about high concept...

I have that problem all the time - I generally think of the beginning and the end of a story first and then it's a question of getting from point A to point B...I often end up getting lost somewhere in the middle too... ;D

Oh, now Tilly...I wouldn't like to get in her bad books... ;D

I'll read the rest of that story at some point, I was enjoying it greatly, but you know I keep adopting daft memes and signing up for ficathons and trying to write things for Big Finish...

[thisbluespirit]

:lol: It didn't say which first lady - only that she was dead!

Not just me, then! :-D

Don't worry - it's slow going writing it anyway. I think there's still only 2 more parts (or is it 1?) since the last bit you read. The next bit is ready barring the last paragraph, so I was thinking of putting that up tonight, but no hurry. (Although you do now have to read the middle-end linking section so you can see what I'm on about! ;-D)

[thisbluespirit]

Yep, that's it.

And I cast my corpse, only he ended up completely different to how I planned. (I'm so impressed with myself for managing actual casting, although I started off being so determined I'd be realistic and not all fantasy-casting, and being realistic is hard work unless you're a proper casting director, I've decided. :lol:)

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary Todd Lincoln continue their age-old battle for mastery of time and space from beyond the grave...only one person can stop them and save the universe! Er...

An-y-way...

Well, I look forward to it. I'm hoping to put retro-TW to bed this week, and then concentrate on useful things like Big Finish and The Black Bore (and that ficathon thing...keep forgetting about that one...), but I will endeavour to catch up with it when I can.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, somehow I think casting Jack Nicholson in a BBC Three sitcom kind of destroys the verisimilitude or something... :D

Or, you know, actors who you'd really like but are kind of, well, dead...

Actually, someone like that would be perfect for your role! Aw, it's already taken...

[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.

[thisbluespirit]

No, you can't have that as a prompt. I hear you have enough already. :lol:

Nice. I shall be away shortly - sounds like I'll have something to read when I get back, then? ;-D

I know the Big Finish and the ficathon are going to co-incide quite a bit, aren't they?

[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.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

I'll just make a note of the undead first lady thing for later... :D

Well, you know what I'm like when I make big claims about all the writing I'm going to do... I'll try to have _something_ for you when you return...

Well, I've got more than a month to do both of them, if I just put other things aside I shouldn't have too much trouble. I know what the ficathon thing is going to be, it's just a question of actually writing it. I'm having more trouble deciding on an idea for the Big Finish thing at the moment...

[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 ;)

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Thanks - once again, I really like what you did with this prompt.