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Invent a TV show

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  • 10-07-2018 9:50pm
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    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,203 CMod ✭✭✭✭


    I'll start. :pac:

    Space Cup - aka (behind the scenes) the World Cup in space

    Cast

    Kyle Chandler - Ambassador for Space FIFA. Is suspicious the Russians have planted a mole somewhere.
    Thomas Jane - Deputy Director, Space CTU. Takes an interest in implementing an unofficial anti-diving policy. Three dives and he'll give you an hour with your legs dangling out an airlock.
    Jessica Chastain - Doctorate in physics, with an interest in space bikes in her spare time. Is regularly given bottles of Mars vodka, but can't stand that crap and uses it to clean her bike.
    Kiefer Sutherland - Manager of up and coming Warp Rovers. Can sometimes be heard shouting 'son of a bitch' from the sidelines.
    Mads Mikkelsen - Inter-planet alien representative. Looks human, has never been to Earth and initially only speaks Danish.

    Set in 2058 after Earth's football pitches declared dead due to climate change.

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



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    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    "Don't Google it"

    Presenter: The OP.


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    Rented Mule
    Registered Users Posts: 5,152 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    Quell the Herd

    You round up all of these beautiful people caught on camera who scream racist/xenophobic hate spew at unsuspecting people.

    You interview them about why they feel the way they do towards the people that they have verbally assaulted.

    You then put them in a Coliseum-type venue where they are stoned to death as if they uttered the name "Jehovah".



    It will need a catchy catch phrase and merchandising, but I think it could be hours of family entertaining programming each week.


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    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    "Tremendous Tantrum"

    Presenter: gugleguy.

    Adult Players come on the show and compete against others. The one who has the most flagrant, shouty, tantrum wins.

    Thread can be closed now.


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    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,840 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    A reality TV show where a group of morbidly obese people have 6 months to trek out of the Sahara desert or across Nepal. They get to discover their true spirit yada yada. Like the Hunger Games, viewers can drone in the occasional donut to their favourite contestant.

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    HappySerious
    Registered Users Posts: 56 ✭✭HappySerious


    Its threads like this that netflix may well pick up shows.


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    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    For your own show happy serious you'd dress Ike Heath ledger jiker


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    Keplar240B
    Registered Users Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Keplar240B


    Ghost Mutt


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    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    I'm not up to date on modern quiz shows so not sure if something like this already exists but someone was saying to me before to have a quiz show where:

    - you have to answer the questions as quick as possible

    - you can use Google to answer the questions and get points but only minimal points

    - if you don't use google for your answers, you get a lot more points against your opponents.

    It was something like that anyway. Could work. I thought it sounded alright.


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    expectationlost
    Registered Users Posts: 11,753 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    monkey tennis


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    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    The Black Oil wrote: »
    I'll start. :pac:

    Space Cup - aka (behind the scenes) the World Cup in space

    Cast

    Kyle Chandler - Ambassador for Space FIFA. Is suspicious the Russians have planted a mole somewhere.
    Thomas Jane - Deputy Director, Space CTU. Takes an interest in implementing an unofficial anti-diving policy. Three dives and he'll give you an hour with your legs dangling out an airlock.
    Jessica Chastain - Doctorate in physics, with an interest in space bikes in her spare time. Is regularly given bottles of Mars vodka, but can't stand that crap and uses it to clean her bike.
    Kiefer Sutherland - Manager of up and coming Warp Rovers. Can sometimes be heard shouting 'son of a bitch' from the sidelines.
    Mads Mikkelsen - Inter-planet alien representative. Looks human, has never been to Earth and initially only speaks Danish.

    Set in 2058 after Earth's football pitches declared dead due to climate change.

    Hi RTE, ye really are running out of money and ideas at this stage yeah?


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    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    My ideas for a TV show all seem to revolve around post apocalyptic types.

    Like the British pound absolutely tanks and London becomes highly ghettoised and all law and order breaks down. A bit like the London riots from a few years ago but over a sustained amount of time. Where there are rolling blackouts. Mass looting and killings.

    Another is where there is a global pandemic where a virus spreads rapidly and kills hundreds of millions within a few weeks. All national borders are closed off, all planes grounded, all ships stuck in port. America blaming the Russians for this super virus, and Russia blaming China, and China blaming India ect.
    The story can be told from an Irish perspective, as we are an island and not densely populated we would have a better chance than most of keeping people from getting infected.

    Also, this is the most mental. A scenario where China, India and Russia sign an international treaty where they have decided to wipe out every single person alive in sub Saharan Africa to plunder all their land. The West can't intervene with nukes and things spiral out of control. But once the mass 'cleansing' happens the West are given a portion of the now available land to plunder. The West, China, India and Russia agree to not allow anyone settle on the land in perpetuity. And it ends with the world carrying on as normal as if it didn't happen.

    Are they weird enough for now? :)


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    Skid X
    Registered Users Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    Going a bit left field here - National Death Notices


    - After the Late Late Show every Friday a scrolling list of everyone who has died in Ireland in the last week, with appropriate music played underneath


    Maybe 10 minutes long, tastefully done

    - Local Radio basically survives on Death Notices read out every evening (which the relatives pay for) so it's really just a case of thinking bigger and you have a good lead in with the LLS audience who love death and misery

    - Huge Sponsorship opportunities from Undertakers and Life Assurance companies

    - This would be proper Appointment To View television among certain demographics, namely those who still watch linear television live and like funerals.

    - It's a type of Public Service Broadcasting thing so it ticks a lot of regulatory boxes


    :P


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    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Toilet Trade Off hosted by Davina McCall

    The challenge is to complete a number of water based tasks with the least amount of water and no more water than the contents of a full cistern. If they use more than that they have to flush the toilet while their nominated game partner sticks their head in the pan. The winner uses the least water. Think of it like TISWAS but for social media era desperadoes on Channel 4.


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    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    There are heaps of programmes about "celebrities" doing stuff I have no interest in like baking, dancing, ice skating etc. How about "Celebrity Dungeons and Dragons" (Dara O Briain commentating: "little do the players know that there are 5 goblins in the next room. Let's see how Jim Corr's Halfling thief, who only has 1 hit point left, reacts when he picks the lock to open the door.") or "Celebrity Few Pints and a Game of Pool"? ("Now Twink has touched the white there but she's a woman so the lads are letting her go again.")

    More seriously I would like to see a series about Irish battles and battlefield walks. Dan Snow did one a few years back about the Boyne which was very good. I'd like to see other ones about Aughrim, Kinsale, Julianstown etc. to name but a few.


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    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    "I WORE THE GREEN JERSEY!!"

    A group of business people participate against each other like the "Weakest Link"

    Each explains why they carried out one particular dirty business transaction from their carreer as chosen by the audience.

    Winner gets to wear a pure silk green Jersey.


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    geecee
    Registered Users Posts: 896 ✭✭✭geecee


    In Thailand they have a reality TV show called "Let me in" in which ugly people compete for a chance to have plastic surgery.

    The weekly winner is sent to Korea and undergoes weeks of life altering plastic surgery...

    Later in the episode they have the dramatic reveal of how the contestant now looks

    example of surgery here:
    https://mekoclinic.com/testimonials/surgerymeko-matt/


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