Social and Political Commentary and Satire
The Alien News NetworkTM with its various programs like Space CenterTM look "down" on the Earth and take a closer yet removed look at the Terran crap that's going on.
Back Story
They're the #3 Galactic network in the Solar System. Space Center is near the bottom in the ratings, and they're always battling cancellation. But they're proud and unapologetic. They'll try anything, twice. And if they're going down, they're doing so in a glorious journalistic conflagration.
Format - The Five Minute Show
3-4 Alien Anchors deliver news stories from the solar system and beyond, but Earth is like their never-ending episode of COPS. Earth is the trailer park of the Solar System; with no dearth of stories of outstanding stupidity, hypocrisy, and human rights violations. Each Alien Anchor will have a different personality and differing views and political affiliations.
What if the most famous wizard of all time never died? What if he was trapped
inside a tree and cursed to age backwards through time? What is the spell
was lifted, and he appeared in modern times...and looked to be around 20?
“Young Merlin” was pitched to and went into development with Paramount TV with senior
VP of Comedy Dan Fauci as part of the production team.
Industrial Smoke and Magic.
If you're a serious fanboy, you will recognize that we've altered the most revered company name in all of visual effects history: Industrial Light and Magic. Long before CGI came into play, the creative geniuses creating visual effects for movies had to rely on….creative genius. There was no software to model a spaceship nor a Na'vi.
If you wanted a rocket for your film, you got a paper towel core and went from there. Real smoke and fire was probably next on the list. Let's return to "the good ole days" of visual effects!
This show is about doing visual effects "Old School." Each week a team is challenged to create a visual effects sequence for an already filmed mini-story. Winners are chosen, and, as the weeks progress, the VFX guru is chosen.
Following in the popularity of SyFy's "Face Off," each episode showcases the creative talents of people that must make "something from nothing." Each team and person will have access to the local home-center and common household items. It will be up to them to spin those into space nebula, lift-off, or a time travel.
Drive-In Game-Show
“Fans today” might hang at the Cineplex, but the indisputed center-of-the-fanverse of yester-year was the drive-in. The only people actually watching the movies were nerds (the others went there for “other” reasons. Wouldn’t it be cool to have a game show wherein the winners don’t drive out with a car, but all of the contestants actually DRIVE IN in a car? Each contestant team is “wired” in just like the old days, but now the image and audio go both ways. Each car is a mini-studio, secluded from the other teams.