Recycled Ideas
Have TV exec's really run out of new ideas? This fall it was Day Break - a rehash of Groundhog Day set in a police drama. Unfortunately for Taye Diggs and Co., the show slipped into a "coma" on 12/18/06 - after just 5 episodes - because of low ratings. Why didn't this remake of a fairly popular comedy [GD grossed 70 M at the box office in 1993] do well on TV? Well first, I like Taye Diggs but he is no Bill Murray and second, the premise worked fine for a comedy but no so good for a drama about a cop who is framed for killing his partner.Next there is word that ABC has green-lit a hour long drama as a sequel to last summers hit movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Again, what made the movie work: Brad Pitt + Angelina Jolie = Eye Candy for everyone, awesome mano-a-mano fight scene in their own home and good gun play/action scene to finish out the movie. The TV show will pick up 6 months later, in a new house and the Smiths back to work, and working through marital problems again. But will anyone watch? Not unless they can cast 2 ultra hot people [plus 1 funny side kick ala Vince Vaughn] and give the viewer shootem' up each episode. I give it 2 airings before it's pulled.
Lastly, tonight is the premiere of The Knights of Prosperity - a show about a group of everyday folks who are planning to rob a rock star - namely Mick Jagger. Now I can see this could be funny, but do they think we will watch for 10 seasons as these obvious bumbling "criminal masterminds" try to pull off the "big job"? I'm not sure we would watch for 10 episodes [on a side note, I do like the quick discussion on why Eugene wants to rob Mick and not someone else]. But where did this idea come from? I can't say for sure but I do remember a song by Good Charlotte with the following lyrics:
Lifestyles of the rich and the famous
They're always complainin'
Always complainin'...
If money is such a problem
Well they've got mansions
Think we should rob them
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posted by TheWino @ 8:59 AM
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