Posted on 11/27/2005 2:48:32 PM PST by wagglebee
The TV networks are getting edgier in their '06 pilot plans.
The nets have filled their development slates with a bevy of brave ideas and bold format experiments, VARIETY reports on Monday, including shows about THE END OF AMERICA!
ABC alone has at least two would-be shows set in post-apocalyptic America ("Resistance" and "Red & Blue") while Gavin Polone and Bruce Wagner are teaming for the comfy-sounding plague drama "Four Horsemen" at CBS (which also is developing "Jericho," about life in a small town after America is destroyed).
Says Fox exec VP Craig Erwich: "The creative community appears to be really inspired this year," he says. "It was an exciting time to be buying. I came away pretty encouraged about network TV."
Developing...
Not to mention the Geena Davis sitcom.
:-)
They must think the Republicans are going to win in 2008. The last apocolyptic fad Hollywood went through was during the Reagan years.
Note to Hollywierd: My offer's still open. If you wanna know what'll sell in the red bits, give me a call.
Oh Brother! Haven't watched network programming in years, I guess the trend continues.
Wishful thinking, obviously. Jerks.
That's going too far...
The LameStream MediumWhores Expose their true selves and agendas.
If they want me to watch, then it had better have been caused by reality TV.
Lame, but played.
I hope Hollywood dumps billions into these show and let the flooping begin. You can only predict disaster so long before people get tired of it. I think that's why much of what comes from the left falls on deaf ears.
Just recall the 2004 election. If Bush won a second term there was supposed to be massive increases of rape, abortionists were going to be executed on sight, massive unemployment, Iran invaded, a draft, and a host of other whack-a-doo predictions that never came close to being true. People just stopped paying attention to the left.
OK,back to the real world.
Like reality TV.
Thermonuclear war has been scaled back in Hollywood since the 50s. In those days there might be a pocket here and there that hadn't been hit by at least an inch of radioactive dust. Now it is merely a handful of cities that are hit and there are lots of miserable survivors.
What attraction is there for re-runs of old network news?
It reminds me. In the 1980s I wanted to get up to speed on the Sandinista / El Salvador confrontation. Who were the good guys and who were the bad guys.
Quickest way was to watch one evening of TV network news to see which was favored -- they'd be the bad guys.
It worked.
I am old enough to remember the 80s, where Reagan was going to get us into a nuclear war and wipe out life on earth. You only get to cry "Republican" a few times in each generation, because people remember the things that don't come true, and then they can only sell it to the young who haven't heard it yet.
What is flooping?
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