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I've always imagined the hardest part of pitching a series to a network would be choosing just the right "It's like this successful thing meets this other successful thing!" portion of the sell. You'd think one would want to choose accurate examples, whilst remaining not ridiculous, so people will be assured that you're not an idiot and want to invest in your product. Then a week comes along where both a show described as "The Devil Wears Prada meets Taxi" and another show described as "part X-Files, part Raiders of the Lost Ark and part Moonlighting" are announced. All I got to say is I bet all my friends are sorry for laughing at my Hard Rain meets Spy Kids fan fiction now.
OK, first of all, I can't even deal with the first show. Let's just leave it at this: it's called Georgia and the Seven Associates, it's going to be on Fox, and it's about a girl with an evil stepmother and a job at a law office with seven lawyers whose characters are based on the seven dwarves from Snow White. For some reason. I think we can agree that every joke imaginable for the above synopsis writes itself, so let's just move on to something less awful.
This next one is called Warehouse 13 and it just makes me want to throw my jaded blogger baggage right out the airlock, because when I was eight this synopsis would have seriously knocked me on my ass (and for the record, still does!). "It revolves around two FBI agents -- rule-bender Peter (Eddie McClintock) and by-the-book Myka (Joanne Kelly) -- who, after saving the life of the U.S. president, are relocated to Warehouse 13, a location that houses supernatural objects the government has collected over the centuries." So basically, it's based on my tree house productions of Archeology Show (my first original series), but with a bigger budget and scripts not written in crayon. And better actors than that hack Phil Monez, who my mom made me hire because he was "my cousin," which was so unfair [slam!]. Back to business though, isn't there something just gleefully ridiculous about that premise? Why do they have to save the president first? Can't they just start off working at this Warehouse 13? Maybe 8 year olds did secretly create this show! Either way, when it premieres on Sci Fi with a two-hour pilot someday, I will be there with bells on.
This next one is called Warehouse 13 and it just makes me want to throw my jaded blogger baggage right out the airlock, because when I was eight this synopsis would have seriously knocked me on my ass (and for the record, still does!). "It revolves around two FBI agents -- rule-bender Peter (Eddie McClintock) and by-the-book Myka (Joanne Kelly) -- who, after saving the life of the U.S. president, are relocated to Warehouse 13, a location that houses supernatural objects the government has collected over the centuries." So basically, it's based on my tree house productions of Archeology Show (my first original series), but with a bigger budget and scripts not written in crayon. And better actors than that hack Phil Monez, who my mom made me hire because he was "my cousin," which was so unfair [slam!]. Back to business though, isn't there something just gleefully ridiculous about that premise? Why do they have to save the president first? Can't they just start off working at this Warehouse 13? Maybe 8 year olds did secretly create this show! Either way, when it premieres on Sci Fi with a two-hour pilot someday, I will be there with bells on.
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Hmm I would not realy get it, it's possible since I have to be a foolish glee buff, have no idea of if you happen to discovered glee? It is really great, honestly the best t . v . series I ever watched.