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I'd love to see an improvisation soap. The actors decide what's going to happen next!
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Not a unique story, per se, but I'd like to see a series where producers take famous episodes of various 1980s-1990s TV shows (soaps, sitcoms, dramas, you name it) and re-enact them with popular current actors. The licensing fees would probably be outrageous, but seeing favorite shows redone with familiar faces would be fun. Actors can put their own spin on a script just as singers will 'change' a song when they do a cover version, but they can't change the lines. Actors of my generation who grew up with these shows would likely jump at the chance to play such iconic characters as Archie Bunker, Dorothy Zbornak, or Jessica Fletcher.
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I've always wanted to see a science-fiction primetime soap opera about a rich family along the lines of Dynasty or Dallas only set in the distant future. But no aliens or zombies, just a sci-fi soap grounded in technologically advanced reality.
I also have in my mind a catfight scene Krystle vs. Alexis-style, only the two leading ladies are trapped in a Holodek type of machine which goes completely berserk, so -- as they're bitch-slapping the hell out of each other -- they keep changing scenery, one second they're in a swimming pool, next atop a high-rise building, etc.
I also have in my mind a catfight scene Krystle vs. Alexis-style, only the two leading ladies are trapped in a Holodek type of machine which goes completely berserk, so -- as they're bitch-slapping the hell out of each other -- they keep changing scenery, one second they're in a swimming pool, next atop a high-rise building, etc.
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I don't know that I mind seeing the same elements of plots and stories, just their handling of them. I hate the predictability of how plots go, the excess and over-plotting, and the predictability of the dialogue. On Grey's Anatomy, for instance, patients have monumental exposition and fights as they are being carted off to surgery. And shows have become so bereft of creativity, they don't realize that for people's lives, drama and shock do not have to do with buildings exploding, meth labs, mafia hit-men, or even fatal diseases.
I think the most relatable show I remember was "Once and Again," which accepted that everyday lives are full of ordinary but often seemingly insurmountable strife, without hyperbole. Even they could not resist throwing in the lesbian teen, but overall they kept it as low key and as tension-driven as people's lives actually are.
I think the most relatable show I remember was "Once and Again," which accepted that everyday lives are full of ordinary but often seemingly insurmountable strife, without hyperbole. Even they could not resist throwing in the lesbian teen, but overall they kept it as low key and as tension-driven as people's lives actually are.
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I want to see a drama-comedy about collegues that don't get along very well on a less than glamorous work place. Then they go home and rant to their family or their cat. Their boss is a weakling trying to keep a positive atmosphere, scared of taking sides.
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Now THAT would be a reality show. Heck, it'd be a documentary.
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A series set in the 70s or 80s about rock bands - when the rock music business was at its peak. Everything from local bands trying to get a record deal to rock stars and the lifestyles. The extreme competitiveness of that business with thousands of musicians failing for every one that became a star. The difficulty of maintaining both their families at home and their lives on the road. Some of this would have been difficult to do at that time because the TV censors wouldn't allow it but now they're getting away with a lot more in what they show in TV. So the stories about the drugs, groupies, the types of things that couldn't have been shown in any detail back then could be done very well now. It would probably be done best on a network like HBO or Showtime.
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I love this idea. I think the fictional record label should be based on Casablanca Records, it was so over the top: the founder, Neil Bogatz, changed his name to Bogart; it was the label of Kiss, Donna Summer and Village People; a secretary would go to each office at the end of the day to take people drug orders for the next day.
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A soap from the point of view of the minor characters, e.g. a group of male secretaries who have worked for Alexis Colby.
They would talk about the Moldavia massacre, the doppelganger, the kidnappings but they wouldn't be in it. Their lives are extremely boring but every time they try to get close to the action someone yells "get the hell out of my office" (or worse: "you're fired!")
These characters would eavesdrop on their bosses, their clients and maybe someone's aunt who married a rich man, and we never get to see the faces of the Big Soap Characters.
They have no idea that they themselves are soap characters too.
They would talk about the Moldavia massacre, the doppelganger, the kidnappings but they wouldn't be in it. Their lives are extremely boring but every time they try to get close to the action someone yells "get the hell out of my office" (or worse: "you're fired!")
These characters would eavesdrop on their bosses, their clients and maybe someone's aunt who married a rich man, and we never get to see the faces of the Big Soap Characters.
They have no idea that they themselves are soap characters too.
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Thanks! That's a good idea too, re: Casablanca Records. As you suggested, there would be a fictional record label or record labels, but the clubs could be real. Some of the legendary rock nightclubs of the Sunset Strip in Hollywood are still around, clubs like The Whiskey, The Roxy, and The Troubadour.
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The problem is, if it's very good then I want to see more of it.
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Yeah, I would love to see that. You know, like a comedy show about the men in this clip
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The Originals
A story about ex-soap stars, their characters have been recast with other actors.
They decide to create their own show and of course they end up playing characters very similar to the characters they played on the other soaps.
This could result in lawsuits and maybe a crazy recast who wants to kill the original performer because the peeps on social media think he/she is a piss-poor replacement.
A love affair between an Original and a Recast, a treacherous Original who's being approached by the Network to reprise his/her original role (but this turns out to be an evil trick).
There's a possibility for a spin-off: The Cancelled
A story about ex-soap stars, their characters have been recast with other actors.
They decide to create their own show and of course they end up playing characters very similar to the characters they played on the other soaps.
This could result in lawsuits and maybe a crazy recast who wants to kill the original performer because the peeps on social media think he/she is a piss-poor replacement.
A love affair between an Original and a Recast, a treacherous Original who's being approached by the Network to reprise his/her original role (but this turns out to be an evil trick).
There's a possibility for a spin-off: The Cancelled
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"The Strike": actors on a daytime soap during a writers strike. They don't want to go without work so they decide to write the scripts themselves.
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Do everything themselves. The backstabbing divas would give each other terrible lighting on purpose. The far-sighted leading man is forced to read the script revisions off cue cards. The child actors are put in charge of sound effects, leading to farting noises rather than doorbells and phones. The alcoholic matriarch serves the actors real booze in their dinner scene. It would be....interesting.
One of the funniest iterations of this concept was an episode of Murphy Brown where she was "detained" by an angry mob of her fired secretaries. Over ten seasons she had fired about 150 secretaries. But in her defense, HR hated Murphy and purposely sent her the worst secretary candidates they could find.
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The Adapters - a story about change.
First scene: some friends are in a karoake bar and one of the guys boos his friend because he doesn't get all the lyrics right.
"Are you too drunk to read the lyrics?"
"But those were the lyrics"
"Yeah, right. Let me get you another beer"
Later that night, alone in his flat, the guy puts on a record (his favourite LP) and he likes to sing along to the music.
Suddenly he realizes that he's not singing the exact same lyrics as the ones coming out of the speakers. But that's impossible, he's heard the song a million times before.
He plays the part again, and it's still the lyrics that weren't supposed to be there.
In another part of the world someone notices that the eyes of the Mona Lisa have turned blue. Big alarm because they think the painting has been tainted or stolen and replaced with a copy.
But after a thorough investigation it turns out it's the real thing, including the paint used for the eyes.
In a native English country, some people start to use German words eventhough they've never studied the German language.
More panic in Australia, when all the kiwis taste like mandarins.
In Finland there's a scream of terror when a person discovers that his face has turned black.
Nothing makes sense anymore, but what could it be? And does this mean that everything has to be re-discovered?
First scene: some friends are in a karoake bar and one of the guys boos his friend because he doesn't get all the lyrics right.
"Are you too drunk to read the lyrics?"
"But those were the lyrics"
"Yeah, right. Let me get you another beer"
Later that night, alone in his flat, the guy puts on a record (his favourite LP) and he likes to sing along to the music.
Suddenly he realizes that he's not singing the exact same lyrics as the ones coming out of the speakers. But that's impossible, he's heard the song a million times before.
He plays the part again, and it's still the lyrics that weren't supposed to be there.
In another part of the world someone notices that the eyes of the Mona Lisa have turned blue. Big alarm because they think the painting has been tainted or stolen and replaced with a copy.
But after a thorough investigation it turns out it's the real thing, including the paint used for the eyes.
In a native English country, some people start to use German words eventhough they've never studied the German language.
More panic in Australia, when all the kiwis taste like mandarins.
In Finland there's a scream of terror when a person discovers that his face has turned black.
Nothing makes sense anymore, but what could it be? And does this mean that everything has to be re-discovered?
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Special Guest Star Adam Sandler as Brad Pitt...