Create Your Own

No apologies this time for my lack of posting—none at all—and for that I’ll work on something different to the normal blogs around here.

I was going to post some abbreviated reactions, like Melissa did, but that’s not fresh or creative at this point and so I won’t bother to try and tell you about all of the shows I’m watching right now.

Instead, I want to put out a meme that I saw elsewhere that seems perfectly apt for a site about television. One of my friends had asked me to create a template for a new television show (per her specifics for me) and then the idea is to cast the show and give some general background information about the characters.

My friend M suggested that I come up with a dramedy about substitute teachers, which turned into quite a fun project. From finding the right balance of substitute teachers to real teachers, to finding the perfect descriptions of the principal and her assistant, to finding some students that we’d want to care about in the process, it was a very different end result from what it could have been.

For the sake of everyone here, I won’t copy the cast or descriptions here, but I will ask this question. Is there any sort of show that you wish was on the air right now? Not something we’ve seen in the last fifteen years that you’ve wanted to see developed. If so, I’d be very interested in hearing about them for the sake of getting this meme into a different part of the online culture.

As pilot season is gearing up, what do you want to see as part of the landscape of television next year?