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  1. heypartner

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    From NPR, a weekly game, this week is first time I recall him ever doing one that has no definitive answer. He will judge winner by best idea.

    Take a past or present TV Show (cable or network), change the title with only one letter being different to make a new TV Show, and provide an Elevator Pitch to sell it to a TV Producer. He will judge best elevator pitch for the winner. "No more than three entries per person."

    Post your TV Show ideas with one letter different.



    Next week's (two-week) challenge: Television today can be so derivative — and so is this two-week creative challenge. The object is to pitch an idea to one of the networks, either broadcast or cable, in which your show's title is just one letter different from an existing show's title, past or present. Name your TV show and summarize it in 15 words or less.

    Examples:
    N.Y.P.D. CLUE — Manhattan crime investigation in which each case hinges on a single, unexpected piece of evidence
    HAVE GUT, WILL TRAVEL — Portly host tours the best all-you-can-eat restaurants in America

    Entries will be judged on their sense, naturalness of wording, humor and overall effect. No more than three entries per person, please. The person who sends the best TV pitch, in my opinion, will play the on-air puzzle in two weeks.

    Here are my three which have no chance of winning: :D

    My Three Sins -- Reality show following the lives of the accused in the #MeToo era.

    The Cartridge Family -- A coming-of-age sitcom of the Partidge Family nieces and nephews, who stubbornly cling to the 8-track cartridge style of their parents in the age of the Millennials.

    Sex and the COTY -- A Superstar Athlete and his Wingmen (one loyal and one wingman who might backstab the star) execute plays designed by their HOF coach, complete with two timeouts per episode. The Show's Premiere features Phil Jackson coaching Kobe Bryant and Wingmen Mark Madsen and Derek Fisher. Ep 2 is Mike D'Antonio coaching James Harden with Wingmen Bobby Brown and Chandler Parsons.

    Big Bong Theory: (OK, I couldn't resist a 4th). Sitcom of fraternity brothers attending CU who love Netflix Documentaries and inhaling life's big questions together with what to do tonight.

    Too Real??!!: The PBS Jews Hour or NBC Jews Nightly. Someone post an elevator pitch for them.
     
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    Sign Field ~ Discovery Channel reality show following the shenanigans of 4 generations of the Mertle family as they struggle to keep their billboard empire afloat in an online world.
     
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    Is that Seinfeld? only one letter can be changed. Isn't a rhyming thing or I would have posted The Mary Tyler w**** Show

    keep trying...lot of ideas out there.
     
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    Lust in Space -- Sex is not easy when working in zero G. This sitcom explores office romance in space, starring Jennifer Aniston (and her breasts) in zero G.

    Speed Raper starring Sean Connery -- This show was cancelled in pilot.
     
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    Family Buy - An HBO styled show following a family involved in human trafficking. Also there's a talking baby and dog.

    Greg's Anatomy - A documentary styled show following a man named Greg as he embarks on his journey of becoming a transgender.

    How I Bet Your Mother - A comedy about a married man and his family where he explains to his kids his crippling gambling addiction, which many a times included betting everything he had, including his wife!
     
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    Full Mouse - A cynical burnout forced to work at Disney by his father, is hired as Mickey.


    The Cosby Chow - Bill Cosby cooks up delicious dishes to serve to beautiful young women from his apartment.

    (Sorry couldn't resist)
     
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    Cattlestar Galatica: Bovine humanoids battle android chickens for intergalatic supremacy.

    That 70's Shoe
    : A group of international fashionistas and footwear buffs scour thrift stores for the perfect vintage score.

    American Midol: 3 women with uncontrollable PMS are chronicled in this reality show that comes on too early and ends too late.
     
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    saved by the hell

    a game show for nba executives and refs. basically every time they decide to save their favorite team or golden boy, they go to hell for eternity.
     
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    Near White People - A black family moves into what was previously an entirely white community. Hijinks ensue.
     
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    Chunk
    Goonie Chunk opens an e-mail that has been encoded, subliminally, with vital government secrets, triggering a massive download of critical information to his brain. With assassins and international terrorists eager to nab Chunk's noggin, it falls to Sloth to protect the government's newest and most-unlikely secret agent.
     
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    The Price is Fight- A harrowing game show of contestants pitted to fight one another for the ultimate top prize: a used 1999 Toyota Corrolla.

    Impractical Tokers- This traveling show brings you into the life of 4 friends that traverse the US to find and toke on the finest herb as they try to solve the worlds problems by reviewing and rating which brand of frozen pizza has the best/most pepperonis on average.

    Hoard Talk Empire- A talk show that discusses and polls a hoard of zombies on which taste better: the brain of females or the larger brain of their counterpart males.
     
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    The Beverly Hellbillies - A new show from Rob Zombie. Fallow the misadventures of the Firefly family as they try to fit in in Beverly Hills.
     
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    House of Tards: A 24-hour live camera feed of the West Wing and Communications department of the Trump administration.

    Bangin' with Mr. Cooper: A black orgy ensues as Mark Curry simultaneously has sex with Dawnn Lewis, Holly Robinson Peete and Sandra Quarterman.

    Falcon Wrest: A show, with the name Falcon in the title for nine years, shows somebody doing something with falcons, at least once.
     
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    Thank you for watching another airing of NBC Jews Nightly. Stayed Tuned for the much anticipated Premiere of the critically acclaimed ...

    Black Fails -- Based upon the success of America's Funniest Home Videos, this series is exclusively Epic Fails of black people caught on camera.
     
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    Breaking Bed- A deadend high school teacher discovers she has a terminal STD and decides to sell herself to the underworld for one last play in a life full of missteps.

    Ball in the Family- This dark comedy details the life of patriarch Lonzo as he takes on colleges, pro leagues, the media, finally the POTUS!

    Slaw and Order- In the BBQ industry, the people are fed by two separate yet equally important groups. The cooks who prepare the meals and the waiters who serve the customers. These are their stories.
     
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    Bestworld: A determined man's Willy Wonka like quest to create a utopian society where we all win and we all get prizes.
     
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    MBA on TNT - Shaq and Chuck struggle as Ernie tries to explain the nuances of financial accounting. They all shiit on the Rockets for some reason.
     
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    Diners, Drive-Ins, and Fives: Guy Fieri travels across rural America looking for local eat spots and semi-attractive ladies. Kid Rock guest stars in every episode. Bought to you by Axe Body Spray and The makers of Valtrex.

    The Flesh Prince of Bel-Air: Pretty much just Fresh Prince but they are zombies. Think about it. It would work.

    Downtown Abbey: Stuffy upper crust Brits are suddenly relocated the the inner-city. Class disparity ensues.
     
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    The Zerk - biopic of Oscar Ulysses Zerkowitz, inventor of the zerk grease fitting. Check this out:

    Oskar Zerkowitz emigrated to the United States and changed his name to "Oscar Ulysses Zerk". He was also known as "Oscar V. Zerk". He became a world-famous inventor and one of his most prominent creations was a grease fitting known as "the zerk". This was a lubrication system which became the basis for those used on nearly every car, truck, plane, and other mechanized vehicle. At the time of his death in 1968, it was estimated that 20 billion of these fittings had been manufactured.

    During Oscar's long life, he patented 300 other inventions including leg-slimming hosiery, quick-freezing ice cube trays, spatterproof nail brushes, fail-safe brakes for trolley cars, vibration-free camera tripods, oil well recovery systems, and refrigerators for cars. He is also credited with designing and patenting stamped metal wheels and wheel covers for automobiles (which, in the 1920s, replaced wire wheels). Additionally, he devised a type of non-skid brakes for cars.
    . . .

    After graduating, Oscar went abroad in 1901. He spent four years in Bradford, England, a British textile center, where he developed and improved his weaving machine. He then returned to Austria for several years, where he turned his attention to the automobile. He designed the first six-cylinder motor car and later, a forerunner of the automatic transmission. Intent on studying an American-made car, the White Steamer, he came to the United States in 1907. He arrived at Ellis Island on 9 February 1907 on the ship "America" out of Cuxhaven. He is listed as "Oskar Zerkowitz", born in Vienna, "motor car engineer", single, and 5'8" in height. On a later voyage, while mid-ocean as a passenger on the "Lusitania", he got the idea for a new, and vastly improved, system of auto lubrication. [Ellis Island records show that "Oscar Zerk" arrived on the "Lusitania" on 31 October 1913.]
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    Oscar Zerk was brilliant and eccentric. He loved art and music, science and natural history. He was a social and sociable man, but could be impatient and irascible. Although he was known worldwide for his inventions, particularly in the automotive industry, he made important cultural contributions to the Kenosha community as an early supporter of the Kenosha Symphony Association. He was known to friends as a muscian of near concert-level ability, playing a piano which had been personally selected for him in 1912 by the great pianist Paderewski. He loved classical music, but also, the glitzy Hollywood musical films. No recluse, he was often seen during his bachelor days attending movies in local theaters.
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    One night, in February 1954, Oscar had retired to his bedroom when three armed men broke into his home. The gangsters, part of the organized crime syndicate in Chicago, tied the 75-year old inventor to a chair, struck him in the nose, and threatened his life. Then they stole some $150,000 worth of artwork and antiques. This brazen robbery attracted national attention. But the case was quickly solved by the FBI. The men were arrested and imprisoned and most of the loot -- which Oscar later donated to the University of Wisconsin -- was recovered.

    In a 1963 interview, marking his 85th birthday, he was quoted as saying, "Inventors have a high responsibility to serve mankind by using their gifts." He kept right on inventing until shortly before his death at the age of 90.

    Oscar's four marriages were all to women much younger than himself. He married his first wife in 1919, when he was 41 and she only 18. That marriage ended in divorce in 1934. He married his second wife about 1944, when he was 65 and she only 23. After her death in childbirth in 1945, he married a third time. His new wife was 19 while he was close to 70. That marriage was annulled in a "messy case" that went all the way to the state Supreme Court.

    Finally, he was married -- this time happily -- to his fourth wife, Dorothy, 33 years his junior.
    This one gets an NC-17 rating because of all the explicit sex there will be on screen with all those wives that were younger than him.
     
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    Family Pies - Michael J Fox reprises his role as Alex P Keaton when he opens a bakery with his son Alex Jr, an ambitious ultra-liberal Democrat, and his daughter Valerie, a venture capitalist obsessed with music, clothes and boys.
     
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