TV Forum AMA - boneyarsebogman

Mr E wrote: »

Probably time enough to switch over to the next in line - Also Starring Levar Burton.

1. If you could star in 2 different reality TV shows, what would they be?

I'd love to say Survivor as one of the answers, but the reality of it is I wouldn't be able to handle living on a beach. I'm a creature of comfort.

So the two I'll go with are Big Brother US and The Amazing Race

2. (Related), if they are competitive reality shows, what kind of player would you be?

For something like Big Brother I'd play a really devious game (which I think is the only way to win it), by being sociable and friendly on the surface, but be secretly plotting to stab each and every one of them in the back at a moments notice. Like Dan Gheesling has played it in the past, if you're familiar with the show.

With the Amazing Race it's all about playing cautiously, by Reading the Damn Instructions properly and taking a couple of minutes to come up with a game plan after receiving each clue, instead of rushing off in the wrong direction and getting lost or something.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

This thread is fun, I wanna join in. Let me think now.....

1 - Is there a TV show that's been hugely popular with either critics/awards/viewers that you just don't get the appeal of at all?

Yes actually. Usually I'd chalk most things off to different strokes for different folks, but one I could just not get my ahead around as to why people were obsessing over it is True Detective. I watched the whole series, I thought McConaughey and Harrelson were brilliant, but apart from the strong acting the show did nothing for me and I still don't understand why people think it's so amazing.

2 - If you could pitch your own TV show what kind of show would it be? Vague outline or genre is fine... or if there's a film or game or something you'd like to see get the TV treatment.

This one's a tough question. I'm a writer, so I often come up with different ideas that I think would work great in the right hands.
My favourite idea and one I'd gladly pitch right now is actually a documentary type travel show where myself and a certain African American actor (best known from the TV shows Roots, Star Trek: TNG, and Reading Rainbow) travel the world embracing different cultures and whatnot.
My main reason for wanting to do this is because the title of the show would be Also Starring LeVar Burton...

I have better ideas, but that one would just be a lot of fun to make.

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

What kind of TV do you own, is it good enough for your needs, what would you upgrade to if money was no object.

I own a 14" Mitsubhishi TV/VCR combo that I purchased as a teenager, which I always got along fine with, but currently resides in the back of a wardrobe in my Grandparents' house, where I tend to store a lot of my stuff.

Over the past few years I've moved apartments/houses a lot and also was away travelling, and intend to head off travelling again once I've saved some moolah, so purchasing a HD 50" Flatscreen or something of the like was never really high up on my list of priorities. When and if I finally decide to settle down I'll invest in something a bit more futuristic than the auld Mitsubishi.

I currently have access to a 32" HD Phillips TV set connected to a Sky+ Box which I'll use on occasion, but mostly I just stick to my laptop for my TV viewing needs since everything is online nowadays anyway.

squonk wrote: »

1. As your username might suggest, were you a big ST:TNG fan back in the day?

Yeah, I was only a child at the time and it was early 1990s, but I remember they used to show it on Sunday afternoons on one of the handful of channels we had back then. These were still the days when it was the norm for the whole family to spend Sundays in the pub with dozens of kids abandoned in the corner with a tray full of Fanta - anyway there was a TV up in the corner of the pub we used to frequent and one afternoon this captivating show came on about a crew aboard a spaceship and I began drifting closer and closer to the TV as the episode progressed. Anyway the barman noticed how interested I was by the show and made sure that every week on that TV Star Trek: TNG was playing, even if all the other TVs in the pub were showing a football match or something.

I was somewhere between 4 and 7 years old at the time, so most of what went on just went over my head, but I just enjoyed watching whatever the characters were up to. When I got older I started watching it and the other Trek Series' properly during one of their many repeats on SKY ONE.

Sorry for the lenghty reply on that one, you brought me back to one of my few memories of youth...

2. If 1 is true, who was your favourite TNG crew member?

Believe it or not Geordi La Forge is not my favourite crew member, despite my username. TNG had so many great characters, but my all-time favourite is the leading man himself... Captain Jean Luc Picard

Kirby wrote: »

1. Why did you decide to change your username?

When I first joined boards I put no thought into my username and ended up with CaptainNegative, which was a joke between me and some friends, then decided to change it because the name annoyed me and put a bit more thought into it. Also Starring LeVar Burton has been generally met with favourable approval... :cool:

2. You are Ensign Redshirt on the starship "Expendable" about to go on an away mission. What precautions do you take to ensure your unlikely survival?

I'll Set Phasers To Love Me, use it on myself which will win over the writers, production crew and the viewers and next season find myself in an Also Starring role...