'Original' telly ideas...Hmmmmm

[captain nemo1701]

We were chatting about Gogglebox the other day in our office and I thought that C4 had basically 'nicked' an idea from Youtube in which people video themselves reacting to various TV shows (the Dr Who ones are funny). Then I saw an ad for Carpool Karaoke which reminded me of a good little web series that Red dwarf actor Robert Llewellyn did called....Carpool. If you haven't seen it, it's basically him driving celeb mates around while chatting to them and recording it on about 4 cameras. Great show I thought, as it's not about promoting the latest movie etc, but just general chit chat, even about stuff that suddenly happens when they are driving (one episode had them stopped by the cops).

So James Corden has this new 'show' about singing in the car. Parallel ideas???.

 

[ianrauk]

Monkey Tennis

 

[Haitch]

You are the judge. You get to judge trials for various crimes and then guess what the punishment would be in Peru or Thailand or Sweden or wherever and then have to justify the difference with the UK and the impact on society, crime rates, prison populations, etc.

 

[User169]

Inner city sumo.

 

[swee'pea99]

My missus pointed out to me t'other day that 'Would I lie to you?' is really not much more than a revised version of Call My Bluff. Which of the three is telling the truth, with laughs.

 

[Drago]

Here's mine;

Sideburn.

It's about the work of Larry Sideburn, an unorthodox 1970's New York cop who breaks all the rules, but gets the job done despite blurring the line between cop and crim. A completely unique, previously un-thought of idea.

 

[Glow worm]

Roger Mellie comes up with some cracking ideas for game shows. Sadly the swear filter won't allow me to repeat any of them.

 

[Racing roadkill]

Put a camera in a box in a room somewhere. Put 1 million quid on a table, and a tenner worth of toys from a pound shop in the corner. Put a toddler in the room, and the parents in a separate room. Tell the parents whatever the toddler goes to first, they get to keep. Film the two rooms with a split screen format. It's a winner I tells ya.

 

[Drago]

Chav Combat.

Get a bunch of hoodies, chuck them in the ring with assorted street weapons, fight to the death. The survivor then gets to try and rob an old lady of her handbag containing the shows large cash prize, but the old dear is all tazered up and has one of those giant pepper sprays that hunters use to fight off bears.

 

[classic33]

Chav Combat.

Get a bunch of hoodies, chuck them in the ring with assorted street weapons, fight to the death. The survivor then gets to try and rob an old lady of her handbag containing the shows large cash prize, but the old dear is all tazered up and has one of those giant pepper sprays that hunters use to fight off bears.

If the "Old Dear" isn't actually old, it's been done.

 

[Chromatic]

My missus pointed out to me t'other day that 'Would I lie to you?' is really not much more than a revised version of Call My Bluff. Which of the three is telling the truth, with laughs.

A very generous description there.

 

[booze and cake]

ITV will no doubt soon release the series 'I've never done that before', in which pampered celebrities, royals and other vacuous super rich oxygen thieves do normal, mundane every day tasks for the first time.

Tamara Beckwith taking out the bins
Princess Charles cleaning the oven
Posh Spice doing some hoovering
Jimmy Carr filling in his tax returns
Philip Green queuing up in the Post Office to collect his pension, and then having to live on only that for a week
Boris Johnson, pushed down the stairs, just because he's worth it. He's probably had it done to him before, but it would make good telly

That's the first series right there, when do I get my monies?

 

[booze and cake]

That will have moved over from radio then, where it is called 'I've Never Seen Star Wars'.

Ahh I'd not heard of it. Can't be very good viewing on the wireless though

 

[Vapin' Joe]

A true to life Eastenders style soap, where the lead characters are all racist, homophobic misogynists and the local pub has been boarded up for years.

 

[marknotgeorge]

I'm going to take a shedload of drugs, write down whatever comes into my head and get a respected thespian to narrate it.

In The Night Garden? Wassat?