![]() This whole thing feels like a real misuse of government resources, which all clearly should have gone to stopping the preexisting threat of Sharknados.ĪBC’s Start Up Based on the podcast of the same name, the project follows Alex Schuman (Zach Braff), an inquisitive journalist, husband, and father who dives headfirst into the brave new world of entrepreneurship when he quits his stable job and starts his own business. But when a catastrophe ripped from the pages of the missing doomsday book occurs, the team is brought back years later to prevent the disasters of their own making. The ideas they invented were so dangerous that the list was sealed and the program shut down. government instituted a secret think tank composed of the most creative minds in science and entertainment, tasked solely with dreaming up man-made disaster scenarios and their possible solutions. Direct, we’d really be talking.ĪBC’s Doomsday In the aftermath of 9/11, the U.S. Now, if you’d made the lead a woman and called the show Ms. He’ll become the world’s first consulting illusionist, helping the government solve crimes that defy explanation and trap criminals and spies by using deception. In honor of the latest batch of shows that may just grace your TV screen, here are the ten most absurd pitches:ĪBC’s Deception When his career is ruined by scandal, superstar magician Cameron Black (Jack Cutmore-Scott) has only one place to turn to practice his art of deception, illusion, and influence - the FBI. As Mindy Kaling once parodied, these pilot loglines are written in a strange pseudo-English full of buzzwords only truly comprehensible to people in executive suites. ![]() And among the roughly 70 pilots the networks have in contention ( EW has helpfully tabulated them here) there are a handful that sound utterly ludicrous. The major broadcast networks - ABC, CBS, the CW, Fox, and NBC - have started to assemble their pilots for the fall season in advance of upfronts, when they present their offerings to advertisers. High Maintenance (web series) – A marijuana dealer meets a range of interesting clients as he delivers his product around the city of New York.Time to pack up all your “X meets Y, but this time they’re in Z” pitches for the year. The Big Bang Theory (1/2 hour TV) – Four nerdy scientists’ lives are changed when a hot blonde woman moves in next door to two of them.Ģ4 (1 hour TV) - Over the course of 24 hours, a Counter Terrorist Unit agent must stop a presidential assassination while trying to find his kidnapped wife and daughter and also trying to determine if a coworker is behind it all. The Hangover – Three groomsmen wake up to find they have lost the groom during a memory-erasing drunken night in Las Vegas and must retrace their steps from the night before in order to find him.Īrrow (1 hour TV) – Five years after his yacht goes missing and he is presumed dead, a billionaire playboy returns to his city, determined to clean up crime as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow. My Big, Fat Greek Wedding – A put-upon Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek guy and struggles to get her overbearing traditional family to accept him. Titanic – A poor young artist and an upper-class young woman promised to an arrogant aristocrat fall in love aboard the historic, ill-fated voyage of the Titanic. Ratatouille – A Parisian rat teams up with a no-talent wannabe chef to battle convention and the critics to prove that anyone can cook and open their own restaurant. ![]() Pirates Of The Caribbean –In the Caribbean Sea in the 17 th Century, a roguish yet charming captain joins forces with a young blacksmith to rescue the Governor of England’s daughter and reclaim his ship from his former pirate allies. Liar Liar - On the eve of his biggest case, a pathologically lying lawyer is forced to the tell the truth for 24 hours after his son’s magical wish comes true. ( Die Hard) More Examples of LoglinesĤ Christmases - A just-married couple must spend Christmas at each of their four divorced parents’ homes. and must rescue his estranged wife and her coworkers when their office building is taken over by terrorists. Great Logline: A foul-mouthed, wisecracking NY cop comes to L.A. to visit is estranged wife when he discovers that she’s been cheating on him with another man. Here’s an example of turning a mediocre logline into a great logline:
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