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It’ll be called: "Queer as Chucky"

Posted by Dave

Hello World.

A starship captain who is secretly gay has a baby with a parolled murderer who’s a mannequin come to life. Stars Marion Ross and Kelly Ripa. Genre: Action

This is the concept for a new TV show as proposed by The TV Show Pitch Generator.

It is interesting to hear concepts presented in this way, because as bizarre as they sound, they’re really not that different from what is actually on television:

A city girl, whose estranged father dies, moves to the country to ride horses with mysteriously good-looking farm-hands.  After a few years, there will be no one called McLeod remaining on the show. Stars Generic Replaceable Blonde Actress and Generic Replaceable Brunette Actress.  Genre: Crap

– [via TVSquad]

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4 Comments to It’ll be called: "Queer as Chucky"

1. 

   Thanks for the mention via TVSquad. We had a lot of fun making the TV Show Pitch Generator and you’re right, I think some network execs might do a better job developing shows with it. Of course we’d expect a commission.

   Mike & Joe
   http://www.generatorland.com
Mike R on May 30th, 2007
2. 

   I can’t help but notice your nasty jibe at McLeod’s Daughters. Firstly, while your criticism is fair, what I want to know is, why do you know that much about it? I’ve never watched one episode, mostly because I was put off by the fact that one of the actors (who I heard in an ad) is the voice over on those ‘40 Winks, 40 Hour Sale (…save up to 40 percent, but only for 40 hours…) ads, which I find so intolerable. Secondly, it is on Ch.9, which has rarely broadcast a show that has ever piqued my interest. I will watch CSI on a Sunday night, maybe, on those weeks when SBS isn’t showing something more interesting, like Komissar Rex or Erotic Tales. But that’s about it for Ch.9 and me. Oh, and the Bridgeview Hotel in Willoughby seems to show 20 to 1 quite regularly…which is a real dampener on the $10 steak meal deal….but enough rambling on from me, back to work…Oh, and I used to watch Stingers and Water Rats…cop shows were the only thing that Ch.9 ever did better than other networks…except the ABC which produced great shows like Wildside and Police Rescue and who managed to avoid employing Gary Sweet, who is a prat (There was also one episode which starred (?!) the same 40 Winks guy…instead of watching this one, I indulged in a long term relationship with my toilet). But anyway, did you ever see a film called ‘Tempe Tip’? It was a movie about Gary Sweet living near the rubbish dump at Tempe, near Marrickville. This film was absolute shit. It too was screened on Channel 9, which truly didn’t surprise. It had the visual qualities of amateur pornography shot on a Hi-8 video camera bought from a Redfern pawn shop. Except of course it replaced graphic sex scenes with dialogue containing Gary Sweet, who speaks with the combined smugness of Peter Costello and the guy on Lateline, Tony Jones, who I presume is smug about having been let into the ABC in the first place. His sort of self-aware TV journalism belongs on VHS car repair documentaries that get sent into Ch.31 after some knob end in Mount Druitt decided that his bodge job fixing the window winder in his Holden Camira is worth recording. So, the only redeeming feature of Tempe Tip was the inclusion of the Tempe Tip itself, which Tim Freedman used to live nearby to in a house with Louis Burdett, a middle aged bald man who played drums for The Whitlams in the mid 90s and is a well known saxophonist in sax circles (SAX circles…jeez Dave, get your mind out of the gutter). From what I’m told, Louis is a bit of a whinger and likes to bag out the band. I think I’d like Louis Burdett, because I like to bag out my friends’ bands for being shit too, which without wanting to labour the point, they always were. Speaking of which, I used to have a website called thedropbears.cjb.net which did just that. It became defunct when divorce proceedings began between Jerry and I. After a 6 month interlude writing on dropped.wordpress.com I find myself here at Da Patch, being paid in sex to write brief articles about nothing in particular.

   Suck it,
   I’m TomHB.
TomHB on May 31st, 2007
3. 

   Jesus H. Christ. That comment is about six times longer than the original post it’s referring to.

   I, too, have never watched an episode of McLeod’s Daughters, however it seems to be the type of show in which the entire plot can fit into a 30 second advertisement once a week. It is also the case that for a few years my father was working on the show, and I seem to have absorbed knowledge of it by some sort of osmosis.

   And whilst I tend to agree with you regarding Gary Sweet (ie, “is a prat”), I can’t say I agree on Tony Jones. Personally, I find his particular brand of smugness rather reassuring. It’s as if, by his very presence, he’s saying “It doesn’t matter about all the terrible things that are happening in the world today, nor about the failing state of the government. Just look at me. Aren’t I clever.”

   Also, he seems to at least have a sense of humour - completely unlike Kerry O’Brien, ever the stalwart of bland, humourless Kevin Rudd pandering.
Dave on May 31st, 2007
4. 

   Think of it as an unparagraphed performance art. Why is it art? Because it isn’t…der. Ooh, toity toity toity. Look at my beret`. Lets do an interpretive dance about it. Fucker.
TomHB on May 31st, 2007

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