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]

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)

[thisbluespirit]

*shoves bunnies in hatch with cyanide*

(All right, maybe not, but that makes three bunnies I've had flung at me in one evening - and the other was a suggested sarcasm-fest between Ros Myers of Spooks and Avon from B7.)

Actually, I wrote a DW fic called Emptiness (which I deleted off Teaspoon a while back when I was being obsessively tidy) which began with the same premise. Except the body turned out to be alive on further investigation. (And wasn't in the bath, you'll be relieved to know, as this was DW.) :-D

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Poor bunnies!

Well, obviously great minds think alike...or not, as the case may be... :D

I'm sort of thinking that maybe it's best practice to keep your zombie police partner immersed in ice cubes in the bathtub or something, for the purposes of preservation...

Hey, this was supposed to be a prompt for you, not me! :-D

[thisbluespirit]

Well, it was your idea. :-D

Plus, I don't think we'd ever go about tackling a prompt in the same way, so why worry? :lol: My version is completely different. Or it will be; it's become horribly complex for a hypothetical meme-induced TV show. Such is life.

[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

[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...

[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]

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...