NETWORKS PLAN 'END OF AMERICA' SHOWS

Drudge Report ^ | 11/27/05 | Matt Drudge

[weegee]

What we REALLY need is a remake of Red Nightmare.

"Diversity training" IS re-education.

Political Correctness IS despotism. It does not tolerate dissent on the issues.

And yet the left still can't face facts

This film succeeds, and fails, on several levels. It doesn't succeed as a camp classic, like "Plan 9 From Outer Space," as it's too well made for that. It doesn't succeed as a straightforward piece warning of the dangers of Communism, as it's too simplistic and one-sided for that. What it does succeed at is as an insight into the mind of the hysterical right wing that dominated U.S. public life at the time--and still does today, in fact. This is the kind of film from "the good old days" that the Bush/Cheney/Ashcroft crowd yearns for: We're right, they're wrong. We're good, they're evil.

A warning against the evils of communism is "too one-sided". Better be careful describing the evils of Nazism, I guess. They had healthcare, the people's car, and trains that ran on time. National pride was restored too. Liberals are STUCK on stupid.

[SteveH]

Proposed theme for "Resistance"

by SteveH

In the months after a successful far right-wing coup in the United States (set in the near future), a diverse, multicultural band of Beaverly Hills public high school students turned refugees slowly organized themselves into an effective peace, environmental, and social justice movement to turn back the ruthless coup leaders, led by a failed presidential candidate named George W. Wallace.


;-)

[af_vet_rr]

The nets have filled their development slates with a bevy of brave ideas and bold format experiments......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."

HAHAHAHAHA

It's called "we have a reality show about damn near anything, and ratings are dropping, so we'll have to find something new. Of course, none of us are really that creative, so we'll just take an older idea like "The Stand" or "Day After Tomorrow" or "Amerika" (Hey! Kris Krostofferson is probably available) or "Red Dawn" or any of the old sci-fi novels from the 1960s and just change a few things and present this as "new". Hopefully people have forgotten the 1980s."

If we are unlucky, we'll suffer through a slew of books that retread the 1960s - 1980s "post-apocalypse" America.

You know the ones I'm talking about - hit up a half-price bookstore, and you'll see entire series devoted to the apocalypse/survivalist stuff from the '60s and '70s.

Actually, it may not be because they are running out of ideas (although I'm sure it helps), it could be that those Kirk Camron Left Behind movies maybe doing well, and they want to copy that (per the normal industry standard of copy anything that makes a buck).

[af_vet_rr]

How is this any different from the made for TV movies in the late 80's? We had movies about the take over of America by the Russians, destruction of America and Great Britain by a nuclear bomb.

It's not - there were a slew of movies/novels/shows in the 1960s about this stuff, that were retread in the '80s, and now in the 2000s.

Remember the Twilight Zone with Burgess Meredith where he was the last man, and the whole glasses bit (I won't spoil it for you in case your not old enough to have watched the original TZ)..

I'll make a bold prediction - 15 years from now we'll have a whole bunch of Asteroid/Earthquake/Tsunami movies/shows.

Upon further reflection, I'm wondering if maybe this is the networks attempts at injecting more sci-fi into their lineups, without calling it sci-fi, since sci-fi is proving to be incredibly popular (Lost, Battlestar Galactica, etc.).

[Starter]

Yep. It didn't help that it took Costner 45 minutes to get to the point that Brin got to on page 5...