Posted on 04/08/2014 6:33:56 PM PDT by SkyPilot
Got an idea for a sitcom? NBC wants to hear from you.
The broadcast network announced “an unprecedented effort to discover fresh comedic voices” on Tuesday by launching a national campaign offering aspiring comedy writers from around the country the chance to pitch their sitcom ideas.
“We are taking a bold, alternative approach in what we hope will uncover original comedy minds who are looking for a way to get into the television business,” said NBC entertainment president Jennifer Salke.
The initiative, dubbed “NBC Comedy Playground,” pledges to reach beyond the traditional talent labs of film schools and comedy clubs by giving everyday people the opportunity to submit ideas directly to the network.
NBC has enlisted a roster of well-known producers and actors to help them choose the winning concepts. The panel includes Aziz Ansari, Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Mindy Kaling, Adam McKay, Seth Meyers, Mike Schur, Amy Poehler, and several others. “We love that an incredible A-list roster of producers, writers, and performers have jumped in to help us find that untapped talent,” Salke said.
Here’s how it works: Comedy writers will submit their idea via an NBC site set up for the contest (below). The network will choose up to 10 finalists. NBC will fund each finalist to produce a pilot presentation based on their pitch. The producer-actor advisory board, in consultation with NBC, will pick two winners from the 10. The winners, who will be paid, will have their show broadcast on NBC (a pilot plus up to four additional episodes, at the network’s discretion).
The crowd-sourcing concept is yet another way that the television development process is becoming increasingly democratized. Amazon previously broke the pilot season mold by putting all their pilots online for viewer voting.
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Stephanie and Bubba. Sitcom. Stephanie and Bubba are married. They live outside New York City in a trailer. That was a compromise. Bubba is from the south, Stephanie is from the north, but since Bubba is a typical southern redneck, he doesn't have a real job. So he agrees to live in NYC because Stephanie is the only one earning money. They met when Stephanie was on an anthropology college trip down south to study strange American cultures. She inexplicably fell in love with Bubba who changed the flat tire on her van since none of the lib, male wimps on the trip knew how to change a tire.
Stephanie is a brain surgeon-supreme court justice-and community organizer for the poor and oppressed. Bubba stays at home sitting on the sofa, watching fishing programs, shooting handguns out the window, and spitting tobacco juice into an empty beer can. Of course Bubba drinks beer all day long when he's not drinking shine. Bubba also likes to watch FOX News and is naturally a bigot who hates "nigras" and "mud people." He is also the president of the local Tea Party.
Stephanie belongs to a long list of lib and leftist orgs. She is always trying to save the world. She is diverted many times by Bubba's racist, sexist, and violent actions. When Stephanie brings her female friends over, Bubba makes passes at them even though a number of them identify as lesbians. Bubba's Republican-voting friends are all like Bubba. Haters. Every episode Stephanie thwarts Bubba's anti-women/homosexual/minority actions and shows him up. At the end of every episode after he is shown the error of his ways, Bubba hangs his head, apologizes, and promises to change his hateful ways.
First, hire writers over 30 who have graduated High School....
(I had to “dig” for THAT one!!)
Nailed it!
How about “The Guns over RIO GRAND”
Plot: A Marxist President and his Corrupt, communist Attorney general whom between them have Zero management experience or education, plan a Conspiracy to flood Mexican drug cartels with Class III firearms knowing hundreds of expendable Mexican Citizens will be killed and the public outcry would push gun control laws in America. Only the plot turns when their incompetent actions turn the Public’s and the Mexican Government ire at their actions.
Nice plot line. I think you have a future pitching shows to NBC.
(B) An architect has a talking horse living in a stable behind his house
(C)Dick van Dyke's brother buys an antique automobile and finds out it is his late mother reinCARnated
How about one of mac daddy pretending to be a truthful POTUS.
Oh never mind, nobody would watch it as they see him on TV almost every day doing the same thing and quickly switch the chanel.
Here’s a few of mine.....
RESERVATIONS FOR TWO - The wacky shenanigans of a young Italian couple trying to pass themselves off as Indians while they manage an upscale Indian resort on a reservation in Massachusetts. Lizzy Warren has a cameo role.
BUSTED! - The wacky shenanigans of two large-breasted policewomen on patrol on their beat in Tampa, Florida. I see Barney Frank as one of the stars.
FIXER UPPER - The wacky shenanigans of the gang at a real estate office in Phoenix, Arizona. I think there’s an Emmy in this neighborhood.
BREAKING FAD - The wacky shenanigans of a group of meth addicts as they piss their lives away. George Soros is the Executive Producer.
Love her too that would be a great idea
here is a clip of Ed Oneil surprising her on set of her own show its cute and wholesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVygOBHV3HY
Many years ago, someone posted on FR asking for ideas for movies. I wrote back “You know what would make a great movie? The story of Paul Rusesabagina, who saved many people’s lives in Rwanda.” I never heard back from the poster. A few years later, “Hotel Rwanda” was made. 99.99999 percent chance that was just a coincidence, but you never know.
Here’s a sitcom idea they would never take: a National Guard unit in a rural setting. You could do something like M.A.S.H. (just not as liberal) where they mix the serious and the comedy. My Navy reserve unit had many comic moments, although we were pretty serious about our mission.
“GUN FREE ZONE”
My older Brother was a great idea man. When we were kids he used to tell us stories, mostly of our family set in the old West. Joe was 5 years older than me and two year older than Roger. We all slept in the same bed when we were younger.
I am in no was exaggerating. He would come up with the most interesting made up tales and he seemed to do so with no effort. We would both ask him to tell them every night.
He became a great high school football player, in fact the best running back I ever saw. He was big fast and strong. He married a pretty girl and they raised 5 stunningly beautiful children. Joe worked at TV stations for many years as a broadcast Engineer and later as chief Engineer at a chemical plant.
I guess those jobs did not bring out his real talents.
One day out of curiosity I asked a couple of my nieces if their Daddy still told good stories and they all said he told great stories.
I firmly believe if he had ended up in Hollywood, he would have been a perfect idea man.
“THE LIVES OF MUSLIM WIVES”
How about a sitcom about a national news organization that’s committed to lying for a nitwit leftist president.
Call it “NBC News”
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