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What would it be and who would be in it?
I would have Marvin the paranoid android from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy go on his own adventures with his therapist.
Marvin would be voiced by either Benedict Cumberbatch or Eddie Izzard and the therapist would be Emma Thompson or Sarah Lancashire.
Also please tell me if you think my idea sucks.
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Monkey tennis
It can be filmed in Norwich if budget is a concern
Starring who? Or whom?
Monkeys. Keith Chegwin would have been the perfect host but I suppose they'll just wheel in Alison Hammond or Rylan Clark again
Don't mock as Youth hostelling with Chris Ewbank actually happened https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGG5OhEcpOQ
On ice
When Gerry Andersron decided to go into live action tv shows I hoped he would do a Thunderbirds spin-off 'The Adventures of Lady Penelope'.
Joanna Lumley would have played her ladyship and Arthur Mullard or Bernard Cribbins Parker with Telly Savalas as the Hood.
They are good cast choices. Now the film version wasn't good but Ron Cook did look quite like Parker though.
Wasn't Noel Gallagher available?
That's a brilliant idea, but it would have to be the BBC Marvin, not Warwick Davies/Alan Rickman
I was thinking a new version but I love the Warwick/Alan one.
It's an acceptable idea, for one of your species to come up with.
I would take funny sitcoms from the 70s and 80s, and do a catch-up of them now.
Using the same actors where possible.
But there's a big twist...
It's no longer a sitcom, but a very serious drama.
E.g. whatever happened to the likely lads, but they're in a home and being beaten by staff
Or
Only Fools...where Rodney is locked up for something and beimg beaten by inmates
Or
One foot in the grave where Victor is in a home, and being beaten by staff.
Just thought I'd mention it.
Bit of a weird obsession with the elderly being abused..
Um… a “catch up of them now” for OFITG would just be a rotting corpse…
There was an episode of One Foot In The Grave with that plot, not with Victor though.
I'd go Rosamund Pike for the therpist.
It would be better if you dreamed up an original idea with original characters.
That's not the way TV works anymore.
But what's your idea?
Well indeed , so to fit in with the current tv standards it would be a daytime TV show called “Celebrity Grave Spotting… with Lorraine Chase” Lorraine is seen visiting various celebrities graves and gives us a bit of history of them and a fun anecdote or two of working with them back in the day. It’s by boomers for boomers, it will be a massive hit and will be absolutely dirt cheap to make. It’s a winner.
They’d really dig that idea…
Nice pun too! Have an upvote!
I think he should bury it.
I think I would watch that actually.
It’s a winner!
https://www.youtube.com/@UnusualThings1 It is actually a good channel
Oh wow! I shall check it out!
I'd just redo The Tripods, but actually finish it this time.
I'm sorry to say I don't know that show, but we'll get it made one day.
He only died a few years back so there is the media rights issue.
“Home Brewing” with George Best. Missed opportunity!
Haha
An adaption of EM Fosters The Machine Stopped. This is out of copyright but so prophetic about of machine dependent near future.Check it out.
I would remake "The A-team" but it would be 18+ rated, bad guys get dispatched in spectacular fashion.
Hanibal Smith ~ Wesley Snipes (now in his 60s)
B. A. ~ Eddie Hall ( absolute beast)
Face ~ Jamie Dornan ( brings international appeal)
Murdoch ~ Ruby Rose ( classy and slightly psycho)
New updated version of "the van" something tactical, black, armoured and cool as hell.
It is a new ITV drama/comedy about a former pop star who turned bus driver 30 years ago after his career ended. He is so depressed he decides to give it another try on a TV talent Show but gets blackmailed and framed by a rival pop star by taking pictures of him having s**x with a fellow worker on The bus, but Martin Clunes and Ruth Jones.
Yeah, ok.
He could work in a car park!
PROSPERO
High concept:
What are Britain's two major pop culture icons? Doctor Who and James Bond. Both clandestine forces for (Britain's) good. Use wacky gadgets. Replaced by a new actor every few years. Smush 'em together.
The idea:
Codename Prospero is Britain's top occult agent. He takes his name from John Dee who was Liz 1's favourite spy, court magician and Britain's first official secret agent (and who went by the code number 007). Some say Prospero is John Dee himself reborn, but that's just wild rumour, surely?
Prospero works for MI9, the UK's occult intelligence service. Operating on misappropriated funds and intelligence, they're a small team of ragtag investigators who get called in when the intelligence services, emergency services or military run into something beyond the scope of human comprehension.
Ideas for cases:
A cult takes over Sealand to perform a ritual that'll summon Cthulhu.
Spring-heeled Jack returns to Liverpool after eighty years.
London gangsters end up with the Necronomicon... now they're desperately trying to get rid of it.
One of Shakespeare's suppressed folios makes an appearance on the black market. The first and only performance led to the deaths of all the main actors. Someone wants to bring it back into the limelight.
The 1980s mine closures. One mine in Nottingham is closed despite still being rich in ore. It gets lost in the noise of the other closures... but was it closed for economic reasons... or because they found something they shouldn't?
Someone's been altering motorway planning records over years so that a section of A-road becomes a sigil for something beyond the stars.
A splinter group of Freemasons are trying to awake the lost giants Gargantua and Pantagruel, buried deep in a pagan temple underneath a major underground station.
Very much NOT Doctor Who in tone. More like Hellboy meets Bond, or a modern retelling of Hellblazer. Or Fringe, if they were dealing with occult stuff.
Prospero exists across multiple decades, played by a different actor/actress in each one.
Sounds like the show Torchwood should have been.
Wow, that's a lot of thought.
Well your idea started badly, it tailed off a little in the middle and the less said about the end the better — but apart from that it was excellent.
Thank you but I do want to see your idea though.
He is pitching Inner City Sumo .
I’d make The thick of it, but for local politics in a council, rather than national politics. I watch politics in my town, and they’re way more eccentric than national stuff! We’ve had coups, attempted running over by car, rotten food posted through letterboxes by granny candidates, fistfights, screaming abuse, drunkenness, arrests for people trafficking, ab*se, fraud, antisemitism, bigotry, libel trials (lost!), defection etc etc.
I love politics!
Not telling you what place.
Who would play the Malcolm Tucker of your version?
‘Eamonn Holmes under the hammer’?
Eamon himself actually under the hammer? So just beating him to death then?
Nonono nothing as grievous as that!, ok maybe just taking a pasting at the end of each episode 😂
Great idea. Only you'd never get past the media rights lawyers. If you had your own robot called Melvin then I'm in. When do we start production.