A show where every week Jeff Goldblum shows up on set having received absolutely no instruction or script and just has to react to whatever is going on.
It could be a period drama one week and a scifi thriller the next, and he just has to roll with it.
Look up the show Thank God You're Here. It's an improv show where a special guest comedian walks into a scene with no info on the script and has to improv.
This guy.
Love this guy.
Admittedly, I haven't watched the whole movie yet. I tried watching back when I was dealing with some covid stuff and my heart started racing about 20 minutes in and I had to put myself in sensory timeout for a half hour to calm it down. I really need to check it out again one of these days.
Leftist prestige drama in the vein of Andor about the German peasants war, nobles are bastards, Martin Luther a piece of shit, Thomas Muentzer and Florian Geyer are cool AF.
An odd couple comedy of Bin Laden living in New York post 911 with his ultra lib CIA handler.
Copaganda drama with pop-up analysis from real legal experts. Includes corny Blind Date style graphics and bell that goes off every time Constitutional rights are violated.
Shark Tank, but the panel is four minimum wage workers and the guests are VCs who have to justify their current wealth.
A McLaughlin Group style panel discussion but one guest each week is an intentional novelty (reads ChatGPT responses verbatim, foreigner with know knowledge of local politics making it up on the fly, Marjorie Taylor Greene)
South Sesame Street, from the writers of The Wire.
An anthology series set in the world of Conan the Barbarian. Each episode is the story has travelling warriors taking their ease by the fire at night. One of them tells a story. It won't matter that the stories have no continuity or even need to have the same tone, just that they're exciting tales of glory.
Making the end-of-season stinger I want could be expensive from a salary perspective, though. Imagine this.
The last episode of the first season. The warrior telling the story of the episode finishes. His audience gives nods of respect for the expert telling of an epic tale. The warrior turns to a hooded figure on his right who hasn't said a word. The warrior says "Speak, friend. Have you any stories worthy of these men?"
And the hooded figure raises his head, and it's Arnold Schwarzenegger smirking.
Nobody needs to make any more shows until someone makes that show about rick moranis as the gatekeeper to hell that got pitched to adult swim a few years ago and then they did nothing with
Joe Rogan is.... mandela.
I didn't even know you could fly those things
How do you explain this then?
Pathfinder: the series. It's just the Iconics going through the canon routes of APs. Would be a lot faster than playing through them.
I want basically undercover boss, but not undercover and with rock solid legal contracts preventing retaliation. Make their CEOs do the shit work while they are hazed by low level employees and pelted with rocks.
Adapted from an idea I had for a video game: medieval fantasy setting, our protagonist is a local hero renowned for using his array of rare, magical weapons to defeat monsters and thus has the adoration of the locals and the king (who, for the purposes of the show, is one of those title rich money poor nobles). However the back story is that he was a scruffy commoner who had to take out a shit ton of debt from loan sharks to be able to afford his armory and live out his dream of being the chosen one hero.
So the episodes focus on him trying to balance between keeping up his appearances, fight the monsters, not get his kneecaps broken by the loan sharks, and clandestinely doing dirty jobs that get him enough gold to keep the loan sharks at bay but would ruin his reputation if the peasants and nobles found out.
Political drama where we follow an AOC like young Congresswoman but she's actually assisting a revolutionary socialist group (you don't say the word socialist so it can actually get on air). The villain is a billionaire who used to be part of the Republican administration but now runs a secret cabal behind the scenes. Her handler/mentor is her priest, Irish Catholic, who we learn got his start helping the IRA in the 80s and has a personal vendetta to assassinate pedo priests. The main character is constantly torn between pushing reform measures through legitimate channels and helping her revolutionary friends with critical intel. Of course the reformist approach never works and the billionaire cabal gains more power so she takes more extreme measures. This coincides with her personal beef with her priest who is objectively correct in taking direct action against US hegemony, but also kinda groomed her since she was a teenager to lead this double life as a politician and a revolutionary. Also her love interest is a former US marine or some shit who completely hates the military and now helps assassinate members of the billionaire cabal and also occasionally cops/KKK.
The title would be "The Hero" and it is a Dramedy about Ahmed Chalabi cheering the Bush administration from the sidelines early on and eventually working with the Neocons to do regime change in Iraq, and having to come to terms with the fact that he got in over his head and is working with various people that are some combination of evil and idiots.
Or, among somewhat similar lines "The Believer" and it is a White American that converts to Islam and joins the Mujahedin at the very beginning of the Soviet-Afghan War and then "Forrest Gumps" his way through all of the events of "Muslim Extremism" from then until he dies in the Navy Seal raid that kills Bin Laden in Pakistan.
Sorry, I listened to the Remember Shuffle episode today on the Iraq War and followed it up with several Blowback episodes, so this is what is currently on my mind.
"Cal arts" PBS show about Fred Hampton and the Panthers. Teaching kids about their mission, values, and impact.
Game of thrones but in Muslim Spain with assorted Christian, Muslim, and Jewish characters coming from different genders and classes (not just nobility) and also with various mythological creatures from each respective faith being real.
I’m down on the condition that we get biblically accurate angels.
That sounds awesome.
Set it in the 11th century so El Cid can pop up occasionally to be a badass then leave.
HOUSE HIDERS!
The idea of the show is I break into people's houses and see how long I can live there without anyone noticing. The sooner the family finds me the bigger a prize they get!
the protagonist gets fired for drinking on the job, goes on a bender and wakes up 15 years in the past. They have to track down their younger self to prevent them from becoming a fuck up
A medieval fantasy series but it's lower decks type shit, no royalty or court drama or hero's dragon taming or anything.
How to Blow Up a Pipeline... but every season a different group gets together do to some direct action. Emphasis on how nobody is "Rambo" and it takes everybody doing what they can to complete the project.
Deadliest Warrior but instead of historical or fictional groups or people it's a reality show where people send audition tapes. They then demo their arsenal while Experts discuss the pros and cons and Max Geigwer enters the data into their computer program made by Slytherin Studios and then actors dress up as the contestants and pretend to figh
Going on adventures to afford magic college tuition. Realizes that the system is fucked and the capitalists are exploitative.
My critique group chewed up my idea and spat it out because "if he's spending so much time away from the college but you set it up as a magic college story then nobody who wants an adventure will get through the beginning and everyone who wanted a magic college will be disappointed." So now it's in limbo and I think I need a second novel that's pure college.
Maybe have it set in a magic high school where the plot point is that he’s trying to juggle his grades, his social life, and the constant extremely dangerous and shady odd jobs he needs to do in order to afford Magic college. Can contrast that with the spoiled rich kids at his school that are getting a free ride to the prestigious Magic college school from daddy, who’s an alumni so they don’t need perfect Magic SAT scores to get in.
They unvocel sometimes and use drugs to amplify their magic so I didn't want to write them that young. I spent so much time developing a system of international relations, pirates, and destinations to travel to that I've completely jumped the shark on the original idea. I want that story to be told, but someone also needs to study the complex magic system and interwoven college system. Because I was originally trying to tell the story as you imagine in - class relations, juggling a social life, and a prestigious school.
Harry Monterey
Isekai a communist blowhard into a low fantasy late medieval period world ends up on a sinking boat carrying the 7th-in-line heir to some empire, manages to not drown and rescue that fella but ends up in the hands of a band of mercenary brigands.
They decide to try and ransom the royaling and their "only surviving courtier" to a nearby baron who ends up trying to kill them all due to being a low ranking member of an aristocratic plot to turn the imperial family into a controlled dynasty of puppet rulers in order to re-decentralize power and "restore the divine rights of the aristocracy"
Obviously the gang doesn't want to end up on the funny end of of a sword, so the merc brigands leaders do what they do best and capture the baron to hold hostage in a barricaded room while sending our fancy modern day Marxist lad down the castle poop chute to get the rest of the mercenary company to besiege the castle and get their people out safely and riding off deeper into imperial lands instead of towards the borderlands to try and fool their pursuers and that's the end of that arc.
Anyways that'd like like the plot for the first three episodes sorta in the same style that andor presents their stories.
Rashomon style work place comedy like thing. The central event is some challenger like event that has resulted in a bunch of astronauts being stuck in space, each episode is some worker or manager or scientist telling their story of how this fuck up happened and how it DEFINITELY WASNT THEIR FAULT.
The first episode (The pilot) follows some assistant to a high ranking bureaucrat where they're the Kato to their boss' green hornet.
Naruto, bleach, yu yu hakusho, toriko, sailor moon live action show directed by uwe boll. One piece escaped this. Hokuto no ken They need to feel the pain that we felt. There is no growth without pain 
sailor moon live action show directed by uwe boll
Thats just Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (2004) (the show is actually pretty funny and good if you like Sailor Moon and Tokusatsu)
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Band of Brothers but it's in the Halo universe following a squad of ODSTs
maybe the main character is Edward Buck (Nathan Fillion) and it follows him from being a rookie at the start of the war to the grizzled veteran Gunnery Sarge by the end of the war
It's the story of a pig, and he's got really big balls, so much so that when he poops, he's popping on his big, massive balls, and then he's got poop all over is big, massive, enormous balls.
Guy who is the son of a drug lord and is going to college. Has to balance coursework, doing crimes and being gay (dad is phobic, but not as much as the son thinks). Pilot is about the first day of college where the son's room mate finds out about the criminal activities because son brought too much cash to the dorms (rich kid, out of touch about how carrying $10,000 in cash is not normal). Hijinks ensue. Comedy happens. The episode ends with the room mate accidentally dying.
The year is 2027. Travelers from a parallel universe/alternate timeline have arrived on earth. They are very technologically advanced. Except these travelers are just researchers studying other timelines for cultural exchange. Unfortunately, the machine they came to our universe with broke by accident. The researchers will have to stay on earth and find a way to fix their machine. All the while struggling to navigate the absolute chaos their arrival has caused on earth. The pilot follows one of the researchers as he gets repeatedly kidnapped by different groups and tries to escape. The pilot ends with .... uh... I haven't thought that far.
Literally just make the Vorkosigan Saga
Adventures of an owl that travels across dimensions to find that one magic edible beanis but evil bunny block path constantly for mysterious reasons and the journey continues and owle makes many friends but so does their foe for 21 seasons and reverts back to setting of first episode where everything becomes clear
medical drama/procedural about an antivax crystal-faith healer and their apprentice summoned by a reclusive, libertarian "commune" cult (a born rich heir-nutjob with a devoted "polycule" of gardeners/chefs/domestic staff) during a measles outbreak near some place like Ojai. the first season result is a change in leadership and the "ascendance to Godhood" (aka murder) of the rich patriarch by his faithful followers, who now openly worship his image and await his "resurrection" into a "vessel" (most of the polycule women are pregnant).
it's a dark comedy-drama about the lies people tell themselves.
Space owls
A series in the Heretic universe where it's a different kind of reddit guy
every episodecw: violence
getting stabbed in the throat
The pilot is about making a pilot for a TV series, the TV series is about making a TV series....
It's a horror anthology series kinda inspired by the whole LINDA thing from the Dr Who episode Love and Monsters.
Buncha nerds form a paranormal investigation group when they meet on a forum and discover that the weird shit they've been seeing is all happening in the same city.
Pilot episode would be called Case of the Sodden Man:
Bloke gets caught up in traffic on the bus ride home from a late night working. As he looks outta his window he notices a figure in heavy winter clothes dripping with water walk right past the bus turn off into an alley and disappear. Normal stuff if not for the fact that it's a dry summer night, and if the headlights of a car coming to a stop behind the bus didn't show the alley to be a dead end. He thinks nothing of it until weeks later he's out drinking with his mates, and he sees the strange figure again. He calls out to it but it doesn't respond. So he follows. But it's moving faster than it looks like should. Still he it heading for the alley it disappears down before. When our hero arrives at the dead end he finds only a strange wet patch on the wall.
Supernatural events escalate from there, blah blah blah, the building the damp wall is on turns out to've once contained the backdoor an old theater. Blah blah blah, Sodden Man is the lingering spirit of a dead escape artist who died during a botched trick. The protagonist tries to find a way to put his soul to rest, but he stacks shelves at a supermarket so has no fucking clue how to banish ghosts or whatever, so ultimately he gives up. Cue a montage of of him trying to forget about the Sodden Man and get back to living his life interspersed with shots of the damp wall. Until one night he sits bolt upright in his bed walks over to the desk he keeps his computer on and starts searching the internet for advice. Cut to credits.
I came up with several show ideas a long time ago, I'm talking when I was in my like mid-to-late teens. Some of these pitches I only have the title for, or some incredibly superficial notes like genre or main character's tentative name or appearance — other ideas I managed to write more about.
Pitch 1: a show about documenting an endangered language
A trans woman fresh out of high school joins an indigenous language documentation and revitalization program, which sends her to a far-away coastal village full of dolls (à la Nagoro, Japan) with just one remaining resident: a crotchety, conservative old man with a penchant for arts and crafts, who also happens to be the very last living speaker of one of these largely undocumented, incredibly obscure indigenous languages. Thus begins a story of these two contrasting characters — native vs transplant, man vs woman, old vs young, rural vs urban, cishet vs queer — as they gradually come to understand through experience, that a broader system that exploits them both in different ways, has pitted them against each other for its own gain.
Over the course of the show, an orthography is devised for the endangered language, based on the old man's paintings of the village's history; a dictionary is compiled and a comprehensive grammar is written; and more than enough audio samples are gathered to create courses in the language. Our two main characters must at the same time also fight to designate the "village of dolls" as a protected heritage site, as the local municipal council which annexed the village plans to sell the land to some slimy real estate developers, who intend to raze the village and build luxury summer homes over it.
Pitch 2: a queer questioning drama involving a high school cinematography club and light music club
Two apostate teenagers in a small, conservative town — a brother and his younger sister, who was recently adopted from a different tribe — are finally entering high school. The brother founds the school's incidentally-all-male cinematography club, and the sister joins the incidentally-all-female light music club, and in these two clubs the two learn to work through their trauma, frustrations, and stress through art. The sister also works through her social anxiety and culture shock through the light music club. The two clubs with time even end up regularly working together: the cineclub making music videos for the band, the band making OSTs for the cineclub.
One day, however, the brother has to present feminine and kiss a same-gender costar for a film. This sends him spiraling into a period of questioning his gender and sexuality. The brother's crush on his costar gets more complicated when it turns out that the sister is also crushing on the guy, and the brother suddenly starts also crushing on a girl at the same time as he's crushing on his male costar! Yet for the crushing cruelty of the brother's generally queerphobic and deeply religious peers, the brother still has so many supportive friends who help him through his troubles — and by the end of the show he determines with confidence that he's a bi, cis femboy.
Edit: Got rid of the part about child abuse
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
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