TV Show Meme!

[thisbluespirit]

I got this off jjpor and I love the whole idea, so here goes:

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.

I am devising the show from the prompt jjpor gave me, but that might take a while - I thought I'd set the ball rolling here sometime before next year. (I'm adding the disclaimer that I may be leaving the casting to my hypothetical casting director.)

(If you're interested, there's now a comm for it isurrendered for TV synposis and even fan fic for the hypothetic shows. Heh.)

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Completely insane but I surrender!

[thisbluespirit]

I know - it's so insane you have to, isn't it? :lol:

Okay: Long running medical drama with a twist - the lead is already dead...

;-)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I think you do, yes...

And your suggestion made me go "Bwuh?" And then I had AN IDEA!! *giggles*

[thisbluespirit]

*grin*

Will your casting involve Freema, by any chance?

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

SPOILERS!

Wait and see!!

(I'm just looking at the comm...)

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

The isurrendered is amazing! Not only are people writing fanfic for the nonexistent shows, but they are writing fanfic with spoiler warnings!

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

That's COMPLETELY insane! And I love it!!

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I *know*! People already have entire seasons/series mapped out in their heads, so they know what's a spoiler and what isn't . . . all the creativity is fantastic!

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Brilliant!

[thisbluespirit]

And are you surrendering, or just marvelling at the insanity from afar? :-D

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I'm just watching the insanity from afar, at least for now . . . it's much more fun to see what other people come up with than to try to come up with something myself!

[pitry.livejournal.com]

OMG! This sounds so insane I might just start playing along! I might feel at home! :D

[john_amend_all]

Oh, go on then. I surrender.

[thisbluespirit]

:-D

Okay, prompt: Future sf setting with an actor-turned-detective on the trail of a Shakespeare obsessed serial killer.

[paranoidangel]

Wow, I can't believe all the things people are coming up with and the details they have!

I surrender, with the caveat that if I don't like the setting you give me, I get to ask for another one :)

[thisbluespirit]

I know. Some of these really ought to be shows! :-D

And, fair enough, because I did that to jjpor anyway!

Hmm. Detective drama set in the 90s/80s/70s/60s/50s (take your pick; you can sell the resulting soundtrack album even if the show doesn't take) around a disgraced ex-spy and his daughter who's had to leave / finished her boarding school. They're forced to form a detective agency to fight crime and avoid poverty (because working in Tescos is less dramatic). With supporting cast as large or small as you like.

Sorry. That got kind of detailed in itself... *cough*

[paranoidangel]

Ooh, I like that!

[thisbluespirit]

:-D Yay.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

I surrender! :D

[thisbluespirit]

Okay, then.

She's an amnesic. He's deceased. Together they fight crime!

(I'll give you the same option you gave me if you actually want me to think of something for you!)

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, that will do very nicely indeed thank you! :D

[pitry.livejournal.com]

*surrenders*

[thisbluespirit]

Okay...

SF sitcom set in an undertakers' where they've just landed up with some strange space/time anomaly (I leave the details to you). There's an even stranger flower shop next door. The lead is desperately trying to leave the undertaking business.

Erm. Sorry - I thought you might like something a bit weird. :lol:

[belantana.livejournal.com]

I will never surrendaaaaarrrrr!!!1!!1! But this sounds totally mad and I can't wait for your show.

[thisbluespirit]

Are you sure? Because I thought of one right off in case you did, you know. :-p

[belantana.livejournal.com]

Oh, now you have me intrigued, damn you! And the ones you thought up for everyone else are so awesome. Ok ok. There is a 0.3% chance I'll ever actually get around to doing anything with it though.

[thisbluespirit]

Heh heh.

You don't have to do anything you don't want to! (Not round here, anyway.) ;-)

And here it is (you'll probably be disappointed): Post-apocalypse sf future drama. People are turning into zombies. With much sarcasm and snark between the surviving leads. Feel free to blow up a beautiful location of your choice. :-D

[belantana.livejournal.com]

Um, would you like to see the 29 pages of it I've been writing for the last few years?

I AM FOR SERIOUS. Ohhhh you know me too well.

[belantana.livejournal.com]

Not to give you any wrong ideas: 29 pages of self indulgent, fatally flawed comfort fic, where the cast and plot and the nature of the apocalypse change regularly. Nevertheless - it's been on my mind for a while, so. I might just sort it into a Surrendered one day!

[thisbluespirit]

Heh. Well, I know your love of Zombies... :lol:

And, yes, I'd like to see 29 pages of just about anything from you. ;-) Plus, that means it should take you days to come up with a workable show like me if you did want to surrender. (And then you get the fun of challenging your flist to make more shows. GIven yor flist, probably more Spooks casting, too... It can't be bad.:-D)