Marculations

I’ve inexplicably started working on a television series.

I think it’s because I’ve been watching a lot of TV lately, and I keep thinking, I could do this. I could do it better. Shows like “The War At Home”, for instance. Who’s watching that? Does it appeal to anybody? It’s mindless humor, I guess. It’s formulaic. Television audiences typically don’t respond well to things that make you think. Shows like “The Office” appeal to a different demographic than shows like “Desperate Housewives”.

I’m not quite sure where I’m going with that.

Basically, I’m writing a television series.

It’s based off of some people I know, only more fictionalized. I’m taking elements of my life, and fusing them with elements of other people’s lives. You might call it stealing. I call it adapting. Or retelling. Or revamping. Anything that’ll get me off the hook.

Some people know that I was working on another television series, called Addict. It was adapted from a short script that I had written. Unfortunately, the idea never got off of the launch pad. I just wasn’t feeling it.

This show, though. This one is different. I’ve got synopses for the pilot and about fifteen episodes written already. I’ve never written for television, though. It’s hard! It’s very hard. You have 22 minutes to tell each story. Now, I don’t subscribe to the “x jokes per page” nonsense. I want to tell the story as I see fit. If it doesn’t mesh with the formula they want, well, they should look at their ratings and see if maybe they want to reconsider that formula. And if they still want it reformatted to fit that structure, well, they can pay someone else to do it.

As long as I get kept in the loop!

Tags: Rants

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