The Incomparable

00:00:00 ◼   ► the incomparable number 212 September [TS]

00:00:11 ◼   ► welcome back everybody to the [TS]

00:00:12 ◼   ► comfortable i'm your host Jason smell [TS]

00:00:14 ◼   ► and we're joined here today for a little [TS]

00:00:16 ◼   ► bit different kind of episode we're [TS]

00:00:17 ◼   ► gonna be talking about [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► it's not a draft i know that's shocking [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► to many of you it's instead what we've [TS]

00:00:24 ◼   ► been calling the TV reboot pitch session [TS]

00:00:26 ◼   ► where we will [TS]

00:00:28 ◼   ► my-my associated panelist will and I [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► will be pitching TV shows that we think [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► should come back and how they should [TS]

00:00:36 ◼   ► come back so let me introduce my fine [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► guests to you tonight who will be [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► pitching to our imaginary TV network [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► that has access to all old intellectual [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► property [TS]

00:00:47 ◼   ► David lower hi hello there are you [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► prepared [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► I i am prepared i have notes oh god okay [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► voice is too jaan is out there high [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► moisture is hi Jason are you prepared [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► I hope for I hope you're ready for a lot [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► of things involving mustaches [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► I'm always ready for some things [TS]

00:01:10 ◼   ► involving mustaches Indian eiko is also [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► out there Andy are you prepared to [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► reboot something I i'm prepared i will [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► say that I'm probably not as prepared as [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► what I now think the rest of you are but [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► this is going to be a hollywood-style [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► pitch where we have a long-standing [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► relationship with my production company [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► we're all casual right here and we can [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► just sort of work things out [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► also joining us is mr. Philip Michaels [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► hello are you put on now yes i'm [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► prepared i have i have as many as two [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► browser tabs open that's research you [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► putting David Lord shame they're all [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► right well we should get started this is [TS]

00:01:47 ◼   ► again it is not a draft i know and that [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► is shocking and I'm expecting that the [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► other panelists may want to jump in at [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► some point and ask questions and that's [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► fine and if they want to do their own [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► alternate pitch go for it but we're [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► going to let everybody to their initial [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► pitch as if they were in the room with [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► the fictional TV executives so who is [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► nice and go first [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► Jason I can i request that Phil get to [TS]

00:02:14 ◼   ► go first because he he said before we [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► started that he's prepared backups [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► okay justjust I don't think any of us [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► want to step on Phil's toes i pass [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► courteously uh-oh let's go to David Lord [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► okay well you know I was thinking about [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► shows that I you know that i wrote a [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► spec script for and things that like to [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► see again but most of those i just want [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► to bring back as is you know I wouldn't [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► reboot them so much as just start them I [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► thought about you know maybe an hour [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► long musical about the ennui that sits [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► in with a long-running Broadway show and [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► call it after smash but no well there [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► goes my idea thanks [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► ya see and no mustaches yet but a couple [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► years ago I I got to thinking about this [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► this was a show that I had the lunchbox [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► when I was in kindergarten because my [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► grandparents thought I liked the show [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► and I guess I watched it and I came back [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► to it many years later I had the action [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► figures i had the playset space 1999 and [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► the thing is I mean a couple years ago I [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► saw that someone was trying to get the [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► rights to do it and call it space 2099 [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► and it's like it doesn't sound right [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► if you're gonna change the name just do [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► something original by that point so then [TS]

00:03:41 ◼   ► I thought well how would you do it [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► without changing the name so i thought [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► well alright what if we have like a you [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► know do like Battlestar Galactica do a [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► miniseries right if you just get to tell [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► the one story and tell the one-story so [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► it starts off well i guess i should give [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► a little background for the show right [TS]

00:04:03 ◼   ► it's set on the moon in the far future [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► year of 1999 the base was run by [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► Commander John Kane egg played by martin [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► landau and dr. Helena Russell barber [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► bein they were sort of a couple i don't [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► think they ever explicitly made the [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► characters a couple but it was kind of [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► implied since they were married in real [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► life and basically in the in the first [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► episode there's a nuclear explosion that [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► might be sabotage [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► and the moon is blasted out of the [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► Earth's orbit and basically becomes the [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► starship enterprise and goes across the [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► galaxy and finds new planets and it's [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► very exciting [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► that's good physics right that's all it [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► fit yeah yeah and and everything else [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► back on earth is going to be fine and [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► you know they'll come back to earth [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► someday and they'll find it just in you [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► know so so yeah it's you know it's not [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► exactly great TV so I thought all right [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► well he keep the name and he get rid of [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► the the silliness of ripping the earth [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► out of its ripping the moon out of the [TS]

00:05:05 ◼   ► Earth's orbit and turning it into a [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► spaceship and I thought well alright you [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► start where you're at this planet [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► it's the year 1999 and they're they're [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► building an ark ship that is of moon [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► size and shape and it's just out past [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► the moon's orbit and you find out that [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► well this is a planet that's in trouble [TS]

00:05:30 ◼   ► right the the environment is collapsing [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► the upper classes are financing and [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► funding this and building this and [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► they're planning to escape kind of Atlas [TS]

00:05:40 ◼   ► Shrugged style and as this is going on [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► as they're preparing it there's an act [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► of sabotage and it blows that out of [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► range at the same time it knocks the [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► moon out of its orbit and causes a mass [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► extinction event on this planet and we [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► find out that it's not earth so as it as [TS]

00:06:04 ◼   ► this sort of basically takes that setup [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► and you know it still run by Commander [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► John Koenig and it travels and travels [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► and discovers a planet that looks very [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► similar to their planet and its earth [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► and the weird thing is on earth it's the [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► year 2014 9 there's no space program [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► there's no exploration there's no [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► anything because they gave up and people [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► that are missing from our heroes [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► timeline our heroes existence you know [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► commander john candy grins the station [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► but his Helena wrestle died years before [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► on earth there's dr. Helen [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► wrestle but the cake the john candy she [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► knew died years before so you have this [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► sort of underlying mystery of why are [TS]

00:06:54 ◼   ► their parallels why are their timelines [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► out of sync [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► you know it's 50 years off and so while [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► they're sort of getting to know each [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► other [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► boom another sabotage their blown out of [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► the orbit and it effects the moon around [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► our earth and as part of the second half [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► of the miniseries they have to figure [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► out how to basically save the earth and [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► themselves and from there it sort of [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► goes forward as they you know they have [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► a way of propelling this thing through [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► space it's not the moon it's an actual [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► shape it just happens to be shaped like [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► the moon [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► you know it's like it's like that but [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► but you know you get to do all your [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► daughter throw moon that's no moon [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► you get to have all your star trek [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► strange new world stuff you get to have [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► the underlying mysteries of those [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► disconnects and parallels and why did [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► they happen and what's going on and you [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► know maybe you get to the end of the [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► first season they discover another earth [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► now what's going on I don't know but it [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► sort of seemed interesting to me to have [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► that as your mystery and to sort of take [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► the point of view of this other planet [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► as you know that's where we start [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► so you can sort of step back and look at [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► humanity that way like Roddenberry like [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► to do so in in a sense to our heroes the [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► the earth manner are the aliens so there [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► you go [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► it's not an elevator pitch but it's at [TS]

00:08:28 ◼   ► least not the 30 paragraphs i wrote out [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► a couple years ago interesting now when [TS]

00:08:32 ◼   ► you told me this pitch in san diego a [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► while ago I i suggested my alternate [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► version of space 1999 you mind if I [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► throw that out there [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► well i was going to say that was before [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► I had found all the notes because it's [TS]

00:08:45 ◼   ► I've had this for a couple years now so [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► that's more worked up than I told you [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► back then but i like your solution [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► because it's more sciency her science [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► fiction endorsement by the lady that's [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► the technical to science and space [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► 1999 meets cosmos yes interesting with [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► the animation interesting so my pitches [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► that there's a actual astronomical [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► phenomenon called the rogue planet where [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► the planets that are not tied into solar [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► systems and that they are uh you know [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► this this rogue planet is is shooting [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► along it and he comes through our solar [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► system and rips the the moon out of its [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► orbit which actually could happen and it [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► lays waste to the earth [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► so what happens is is the moon is taken [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► away in the people on the moon base are [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► taken away from the earth and I don't [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► know whether they're going to go into [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► outer space like deep space or whether [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► they're gonna be in a weird orbit around [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► our Sun in the end but there's [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► opportunity for them to discover what [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► else is on the moon discover what [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► mysteries are down on the rogue planet [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► and then also potentially have survivors [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► from Earth who have fled who are trying [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► to chase after the moon because the [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► earth has been laid waste and they know [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► that there's a survivable base on the [TS]

00:09:55 ◼   ► moon and there's a bunch of kind of [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► stuff that could go on so that was mine [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► then you probably called space 2099 [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► because really it's 1999 already [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► happened [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► yeah means my one challenge was trying [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► to keep the name and how do you explain [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► that right could pull a galactic in 1980 [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► and have people travel back in time from [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► the future into the present world of [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► 1999 well you know can't record isn't [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► doing anything right now [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► sure [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► it's sort of a farscape cross over there [TS]

00:10:26 ◼   ► still be like a dark side of the moon [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► that we never get to see and you're sort [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► of holding that off for like your end of [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► season three like big reveal [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► yeah that would work like it turns out [TS]

00:10:35 ◼   ► there were these there's like a huge [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► like mall of america like covering the [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► entire thing and like people out there [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► taco bell's McDonald's or like pants [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► stores everywhere [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► why did we never bother to check okay [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► yeah you know I don't have this mapped [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► out like lost that would also hook into [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► the plot point of like the people from [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► Earth wanted to find it because they're [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► probably gonna pass that at some point [TS]

00:10:54 ◼   ► and there may be there might be an [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► Orange Julius over there [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► ok then have a gap is just an old navy [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► store but even like twenty dollar really [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► cheap as crap jeans you know [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► beggars can't be choosers coming in some [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► network higher indian tacos and [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► executive because i like your notes [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► thank you thank you I i I'm as a [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► creative professional I pride myself on [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► being that idiot executive will be [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► saying okay I mean pixar you're great [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► I just need you to walk me through the [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► idea that their cars on the planet out [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► what did there used to be humans are you [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► going to ask about this question or not [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► or maybe I'm just not getting so fossil [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► fuels exist so this is a world in which [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► dinosaurs existed and cars have evolved [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► to be the dominant is getting hung up on [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► the fact that these people have seats [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► and yeah well you know if their seats [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► inside these living beings what's [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► supposed to sit on those seats what's [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► the purpose of the seats great pitch [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► only backburner before we go on with [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► everything if there are talking cars in [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► David's match tonight I'm all for it [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► so the thing I like about Andy's notes [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► as think of all the opportunities for [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► product placement there go the distance [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► just like look what battle on five [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► different zima the ones you're fine i [TS]

00:12:05 ◼   ► didn't just have to take your star away [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► what I have to pick apart Nandi [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► suggestion areas that he suggested that [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► we that we would find that out in season [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► 3 and we know for a fact that no TV show [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► would be able to resist that for like [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► halfway through season one probably [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► right that we have you want to be a [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► season finale [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► yeah cuz cuz we have mid season finales [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► now why I don't know how about now [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► no I mean I'm just going to mail this [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► there are no bad suggestions were all [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► here in a better pitch meeting all right [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► what if we were make to make it like the [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► 19th is the future version of them [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► that life blimp and it's like coca-cola [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► has like has this big floating space [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► platform that keeps the logo up there [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► and then it that's what gets blasted [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► into into into deep space [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► ok and they still have a study that's [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► also with the lab where they keep [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► developing their new coca-cola products [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► so when it's like berry burst mellow [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► yellow [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► they could still be drinking that [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► because that's where that product was [TS]

00:12:59 ◼   ► developed and then one of the first [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► things they do to test the time portal [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► to see that just like in Voyager season [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► five where they've freakishly figure out [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► a way to send messages back to like the [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► the previous time they could you send [TS]

00:13:11 ◼   ► back the formula for berry burst mellow [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► yellow and then boom it's on store [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► shelves that you just synergy wager [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► well you know share a space platform [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► with a friend so I I think so anyway i [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► like i like your idea i like the kind of [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► bizarre like almost like they're [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► traveling parallel worlds kind of thing [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► it's a spider's kind of thing we're [TS]

00:13:32 ◼   ► going to put that on the whiteboard we [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► will come back to later [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► yeah but I like red planet it's a little [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► like a jack mcdevitt novel or something [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► you got the mystery of this alien planet [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► that was hurled through space from [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► somewhere else what might what secrets [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► might have perhaps there's more to [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► what's down on that planet than we even [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► know strange things happen and then [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► there's the refugees from Earth and in [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► fact may not in fact like a I I was [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► measuring like a win worlds collide [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► thing where they're coming off the [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► surface of the planet before the end [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► because they think they're going to be [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► destroyed but who's to say if it's in a [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► we know weird orbit but they're still [TS]

00:14:00 ◼   ► orbiting the Sun who's to say that we [TS]

00:14:02 ◼   ► don't make contact and it turns out that [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► the what happened on earth is actually [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► not what they expected so I think you [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► feel greater lots of wacky twist that [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► you could do in the moon base without it [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► completely violating the laws of physics [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► like the original one like i said in san [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► diego [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► I'd almost do your version as its own [TS]

00:14:19 ◼   ► show because that's a really good idea [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► or space [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► yeah 2015 I'm smelling third season [TS]

00:14:27 ◼   ► spin-off I don't know about the rest of [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► you guys but it sounds like gold to me [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► while you went to the UN to the guy the [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► the pitch guy voice the old formula [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► we're going to do this hold out episode [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► like I'm not David what I like about [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► your idea is that it's fresh i mean it's [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► a reboot of an old show and if we're not [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► fresh but yet it feels fresh even though [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► we're not [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► yeah Jason I see what you're saying i'm [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► going to restate exactly what you said [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► could sound like like I said sometimes I [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► was very good to me i think that's a [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► good idea is better in an invoice on a [TS]

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00:14:57 ◼   ► executive Peter Parker's colombo I i'm [TS]

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00:15:06 ◼   ► just make sure you do we have to do we [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► have hair about space 1999 before we [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► move on I could pitch it again in [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► bullwinkles voice I think it goes [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► something like this [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► I think it's so adorable the way Jason [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► keeps trying to steer this back on topic [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► let's let solid form of it [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► look at you and so it's blown out of the [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► Earth's orbit it'll be amazing it's like [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► he wants this to be a comfortable [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► podcast not an incomparable podcast so [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► thank you David that's your that's your [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► that's your pitch I appreciate it [TS]

00:15:39 ◼   ► alright let's put the brakes on the [TS]

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00:18:06 ◼   ► move on to the next pitch let's go to [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► assess so I thank you so much free time [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► everybody I've got a good pitch for you [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► I gotta get a few other spins on it too [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► because I think there's a lot of [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► different ways we can go this way I i [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► think the only way forward is magnum p.i [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► and i'll give you a reason why CBS [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► already has hawaii 50 on the year and [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► magnum p.i came in as Hawaii five-o [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► needed to go gently into that good night [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► and and I think a lot of people would [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► agree that the current version of Hawaii [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► five-o needs to need to do the same [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► thing so so there's a version of this [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► that we could do with Tom Selleck and in [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► the way that they restarted maverick [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► with a show called Bret maverick [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► starring James Garner 20 years later I [TS]

00:18:51 ◼   ► feel like we could do effectively [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► thomasmagnum go ahead and call it magnum [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► p.i all over again and and and have him [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► just a just pick up the reins and keep [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► going we could do that we could do that [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► alternately [TS]

00:19:06 ◼   ► we could friends right there with the [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► way that lets just do that [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► yeah just go ahead and I want let's [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► listen to your idea to so so so there's [TS]

00:19:13 ◼   ► you know the kids these days that they [TS]

00:19:15 ◼   ► like they like their moustaches yeah I [TS]

00:19:17 ◼   ► like a mustache [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► I've got a mustache it's something [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► treats me well we could we could you [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► think it up we could we could go to you [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► we could go magnum p.i junior you know [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► there's a cartoon called James Bond [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► junior so why not magnum p.i jr. we can [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► basically he'll be wearing the mustache [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► ironically he's wearing a mustache [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► ironically to piss off his dad who takes [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► on the Higgins role so it's his dad's [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► mention that his dad is like what you [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► know what you kids with these raves and [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► these laser lights what did Thomas [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► Magnum get a mansion [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► I roadmaster grass just left it left [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► Terra yeah why wouldn't he don't know [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► why wouldn't you get when you let the [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► guy drive all of your fancy cars I mean [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► that there must have been some sort of a [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► significant relationship you know I [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► where were these guys are really just [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► got along [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► I mean age it just makes sense because [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► we're talking about TV [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► I mean right so Thomas Magnum is now the [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► Owens and is also the the operator of [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► this mansion on on Oahu ok he's the one [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► saying oh my god and he's gone he's [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► eating dogs of course he's got dogs and [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► instead of Zeus and Apollo there [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► Hera and Aphrodite why not ok ok so so [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► we've got magnum p.i jr. and we [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► effectively do magnum p.i but with a kid [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► ok so maybe maybe maybe let's say you [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► want another option [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► I've got another option for you Jim [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► Henson's magnum babies sold that was my [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► fourth that was my fourth page but but [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► but no let me get there let me get there [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► let me let me get there let me get there [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► when we get there let me go please don't [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► tell the worst picture for us gents week [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► James realize your hobbies gentlemen [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► let's think it's think the city is that [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► like a character we go hip we want to go [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► young we want to do magnum p.i meet [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► Veronica Mars lady magnum junior so [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► madam has a daughter instead of a male [TS]

00:21:09 ◼   ► son we reenact the opening set of setup [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► of the pilot where it's magnum a couple [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► of attractive girls so we're really just [TS]

00:21:17 ◼   ► faking people out there making him think [TS]

00:21:19 ◼   ► it's it's it's magnum junior with his [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► hipster mustache and and his his douchey [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► ways but in fact one of the girls is the [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► one that threw the party and they're in [TS]

00:21:26 ◼   ► trouble with dad who owns the mansion [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► just like just like in the just previous [TS]

00:21:30 ◼   ► version now different than that of [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► course is that is the magnum jr. is a [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► girl on top of that now let's see let's [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► see how many magazines we got tcf [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► daughter [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► mhm TC had a daughter who went missing [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► and her name was melody and guess who [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► mag lady magnum juniors best friend is [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► Lady magnum junior you get together we [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► got a lot of titles in there can say [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► that you hear what was going I might [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► have we might have some intellectual [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► property problems because i believe [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► there is a feminine deodorant called [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► lady Beckham jr. it was the men's [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► deodorant and then they came up with the [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► lady magnum and then they want it was [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► too dark for Lady Anne are so we can get [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► being a clearance I'm just saying that [TS]

00:22:10 ◼   ► don't be wedded to ladyman interesting [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► product placement smells like Tom [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► Selleck but i like it to you don't like [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► smelling like Tom Selleck my god what's [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► wrong with strong enough for Rick ragan [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► respect almost everything about somebody [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► alright so once you've got you've got a [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► you've got Thomas magnums daughter and [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► TCS daughter is Rick involved somehow or [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► offspring of Rick or ice pick [TS]

00:22:37 ◼   ► I think Rick's trying to date them I [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► think it would be amazing to bring Larry [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► Manetti back as Rick I think that he's [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► really busy these days he's he's he's a [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► he actually just joined the the hawaii [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► five-o reboot last year [TS]

00:22:55 ◼   ► mhm so he basically is playing roughly [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► the same kind of his characters in [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► Hawaii and available he's he's in hawaii [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► and available [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► alright we chance to tell to in Hawaii [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► and available indicate as sort of like [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► Oh could you just move to got a bad [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► relationship she's moved away to get a [TS]

00:23:12 ◼   ► fresh start [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► she doesn't have a place to live so she [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► lives and she rented a room in a mansion [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► run by a guy wearing a detroit tigers [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► baseball cap but we never named him we [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► only see him from behind right well yeah [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► then he has to wear the baseball cap [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► turned around so we can see the do is [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► just a blue baseball cap we want to pay [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► major league baseball for the licensing [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► fee so it's just [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► bingo baseball cap think i am I I don't [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► want to diminish although the fine work [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► and effort you put into this but I was [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► waiting for this this is going to make [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► the whole evening for it [TS]

00:23:45 ◼   ► I i feel that i feel that you're really [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► giving short shrift to the Higgins [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► character i think that Higgins character [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► was so essential to the the the series [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► and to make it highly [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► yeah old man magnum I don't think really [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► cuts it is Higgins that but i agree [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► about the thing about Higgins was the [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► tea you know had his own adventures and [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► the the two directions i would take it [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► in one would be the Higgins chronicles [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► where it's all of all of these [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► adventures that Higgins is always [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► recounting only there only there they're [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► set to film and its star John Hodgman it [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► could try that would be I i think that [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► is good really SR John high-fat when I [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► say that I think he is the theological [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► error to John Hillerman I think he could [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► play all of the different uh [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► half-brothers and have brothers of the [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► Higgins guyana with aplomb [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► no I like the show i'm not going to even [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► bring up the other one which i think [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► would be old man magnum which is magnum [TS]

00:24:48 ◼   ► uh leaves the islands after the the [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► unsatisfying a season of magnum p.i go [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► to Kansas City yeah is what you're [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► saying [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► yeah it goes back to the mainland and [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► has adventures and I i was always struck [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► by a the young indiana jones chronicles [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► where they had the one book and episode [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► where was Harrison Ford and he was [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► wearing an eyepatch and how did Harrison [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► Ford lose the I neighbor [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► yeah that's all they left the fit friend [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► actually on all the old thomasmagnum and [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► uh adventures [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► yeah old thomasmagnum wandering around [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► maybe maybe goes back to Virginia for a [TS]

00:25:25 ◼   ► while and finds that you can't go home [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► again maybe he tries to make a go of it [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► in Detroit catch tigers game that he was [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► so cruelly denied in season 4 of magnum [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► p.i maybe he travels from city to city [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► like the fugitive for reasons that we [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► don't quite understand but I daughter [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► cycle like reading [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► yes exactly I got one alright how about [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► old man magnum he's still at the estate [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► he's pretty much living in the computer [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► room now and he has a protégé a young [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► not not a relative Overlord perhaps [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► award on and he's controlled by this [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► computerized Hawaiian shirt and he [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► guides the young Ward through all these [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► adventures magnum beyond you know tom [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► selleck's only 69 he could he you know [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► he could do he could make some [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► appearances I'm just saying that blue [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► blood show has to end soon because a [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► Wahlberg brothers luck can only last so [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► long i have to admit the the Higgins [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► chronicles intrigues me and hit i didn't [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► i'm a variety and in the in the inspired [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► John Hodgman casting I wonder if John [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► Hodgman would be up for an eight year [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► long Hawaiian vacation [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► well I his chronicler yeah they will [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► happen all over the place yes he would [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► be a world traveler like the the [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► reclusive billionaire that he is exactly [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► yeah this is the these are all these are [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► all good possibilities [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► I mean we basically have a network full [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► of magnums shows now which only makes me [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► happy [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► you know I would dive that i would i [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► would throw the remote control out the [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► window there are mad I just want to say [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► that i am actually currently missing the [TS]

00:27:07 ◼   ► deja who episode just to record with [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► your job because I've seen it before and [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► I remember if i keep seeing it again [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► sure sure alright met any other any [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► final thomasmagnum comments before we [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► move on I mean we could we could ruin [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► the Higgins Chronicles by then doing a [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► spin-off i call as they're saying in the [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► chatroom of the sons of higgins where [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► where you would expect magnet to have [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► loads of illegitimate children but but [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► Higgins own o'higgins got no interest no [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► no it's all the half brothers because [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► how many Higgins have brothers are there [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► there are at least three and Randy dead [TS]

00:27:41 ◼   ► three or four [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► yeah I I think you can also spin off one [TS]

00:27:45 ◼   ► of the characters on magnum p.i who was [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► really crying out for a [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► their own show and that's Agatha Chumlee [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► could could get a nice little series [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► where it's sort of her adventures on the [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► island murder she pondered he has a life [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► too you are missing one thing that he [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► Higgins had all these half-brothers [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► right but they all suspicious looked [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► exactly like him so we do like sort of a [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► westworld twist where they're all every [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► Higgins you see is actually an android [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► sent back from the future and that's the [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► best the mission of magnum who had [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► failed in his mission because now he's [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► too old now he has to basically have [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► like a Batman core of of magnums to [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► basically to handle the the Higgins [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► incursion so it's sort of like a [TS]

00:28:27 ◼   ► terminator meets magnum p.i Terminator [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► meets magnum p.i with a nicely groomed [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► mustache and then of them calling about [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► up the edges I want to be just basic [TS]

00:28:41 ◼   ► hard-working Marlboro Man style mustache [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► he isn't his knee is nothing but [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► business is dead [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► these are all good ideas now you know [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► when you said earlier that there there [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► are no bad ideas i really believe that [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► extends the magnum p.i know it is the [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► Rosetta Stone of TV drama [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► yeah yep yep first show everyone [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► respects script for i would like to read [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► that spec script i will get home alright [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► perhaps even acted out no do all the [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► party you know is there a part for me [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► and that David uh oh of course [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► okay good you know heavens and I approve [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► of your script [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► no all right let's let us uh that was [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► all under the byline of Moises xian [TS]

00:29:28 ◼   ► little just coming file and Moyes is [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► Andy do you have a reboot pitch for us [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► yes I do and I'll oh I'm glad because [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► otherwise why are you here [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► really excellent i'm here because it's [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► nice to hear human voices [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► okay fair not unless you also got a [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► pitch that's nice well I also have to [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► thank like this group because I thought [TS]

00:29:49 ◼   ► that's what this was a rock-solid pitch [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► before but there was one four-syllable [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► word to add to add to the end of the [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► this title that makes it about thirty [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► percent more awesome [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► ok [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► Rockford Files 1999 ok rock first of all [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► located the awesomeness of the Rockford [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► Files is that though the basic concedes [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► that you have this incredibly likeable [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► but kind of down-on-his-luck private [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► detective who he's an ex-con but he [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► wasn't one of these like serious ex-cons [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► just like okay I made some mistakes now [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► I really just don't want anybody to pay [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► any attention to me so he's always [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► taking these like sort of low-level [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► low-level things and not trying to get [TS]

00:30:31 ◼   ► his you get his nose out of joint he [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► wants to basically go go straight and [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► also not be bothered and that's the tone [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► of every single episode of the Rockford [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► Files my idea here is that we I'm seeing [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► this as one of these like cable sort of [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► series where there's like six episodes [TS]

00:30:47 ◼   ► per season because what I really want to [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► do is I want to populate this show with [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► nothing but great character actors [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► people who are necessary were usually in [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► demand but if you say that [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► look we're doing another 6 episode arc [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► you saw how many emmy nominations we got [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► last season it's only going to take [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► about five days shooting days out of [TS]

00:31:05 ◼   ► your time it's gonna be a blast can come [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► on come on board also the other twist [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► about this not necessarily twist but [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► there's not going to be any like [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► season-long arcs you will never street [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► the rockford will not spend six episodes [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► trying to get to the hatch of the bottom [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► of the ladder and then open the hatch [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► and find out oh my god it's a no clocks [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► door don't see you next year every [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► single episode is a self-contained [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► 90-minute show of awesomeness now I've [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► got I've got some got some casting ideas [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► here now I want Matt Damon as rockford [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► because you have to get that guy perfect [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► james garner the idea was that you're [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► familiar with them you could get a part [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► you get a part of his career he's still [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► hot but willing to sort of trade you [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► know eight months in Budapest shooting [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► what movie were just doing nothing but [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► waiting where what if we just live in a [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► comfortable house and you commute about [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► six months to get this done [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► he's got these are you can't believe [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► he's had a rough for you refuse you [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► can't believe he can he can beat people [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► up but also its he has a likable quality [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► and also I don't think he's at a low in [TS]

00:32:06 ◼   ► his career but i think that he's at a [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► point where if you tell them what if we [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► book you for five months out of the year [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► to do this TV show I think he's got [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► three four kids now I think that he'd be [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► excited [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► animal to it now there's angel who is [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► the his best friends are confident and [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► sort of assistant in being a private [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► detective I see jack black in this role [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► he is the you got a parent together you [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► need a funny guy to be the the second [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► guys some guys punching someone out some [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► guys being held hostage and saying witty [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► things about drawing inside and groaning [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► and beer second because i assume that [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► would be your character that would be [TS]

00:32:39 ◼   ► right for a gender reversal [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► well I have well I haven't general [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► rehearsal coming home always all I yeah [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► he also he also has like his the the cop [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► that kind of put them away but now it's [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► like still active [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► first of all this is all happening so la [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► la is another character and rockford [TS]

00:32:56 ◼   ► files you need another signature cities [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► of the character for Matt Damon of [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► course has to be Boston so for his four [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► days before Jim Rockford unofficial [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► liaison to the Boston Police we have Amy [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► Adams who has had a lot of promotions [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► since he essentially first put rockford [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► in jail now she's sort of a Deputy [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► Commissioner sort of person where she's [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► got access to intelligence and access to [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► lots of information but she's not so [TS]

00:33:21 ◼   ► high up that you can occasionally be [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► seen hanging out with with Jim Rockford [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► I am scribbling so many angry notes [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► right now okay that's not contain you [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► mind if we do that's fine just keep [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► going you know that somebody had to be [TS]

00:33:35 ◼   ► the worst to one who let out the rest of [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► his life so yeah I'm the guy who turned [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► down the Beatles that's my legacy that [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► we need he was part of the story right [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► now but today we're talking but we're [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► talking about like I'll just go through [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► i'll just go through some some other [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► casting ideas John Hodgman as sort of [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► his liaison to the mayor's office I sort [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► of see him as the nerdy guy who has [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► access to the IBM PC 80 the 386 packard [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► bell computer that controls all the [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► information inside the mayor's office to [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► this is this is why 1999 is a great [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► place to go because not everybody has an [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► iphone in their pocket there you need to [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► have act not everybody knows how to use [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► technology but it's there so we can use [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► that for the shortcut to get the [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► information but this doesn't mean that [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► rockford doesn't have to still busting [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► shoe-leather kevin Pollak as pops as [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► Rockford's dad [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► Anjelica Huston is his pops is a wife [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► and and Rockford's mom but they're [TS]

00:34:26 ◼   ► divorced but they still like our buddy [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► buddy together [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► I want to put honeysuckle weeks in here [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► somewhere after after seeing everything [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► foyle's war we need castor something I [TS]

00:34:37 ◼   ► see here sort of as a sort of a son who [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► owns or is responsible for company that [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► has a fleet of trucks and go to the city [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► of Boston I'm thinking either MBTA [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► official or taxi dispatcher sanitation [TS]

00:34:49 ◼   ► or liquor distributor so she's the [TS]

00:34:51 ◼   ► person who can not only have that sort [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► of street-level experience but also tell [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► Jim you dr. Fineman well you know I had [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► one by one of my trucks was like late [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► for delivered because because church [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► street was blocked for like 45 minutes [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► because of it the one of his one of his [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► cars and that's that but that's the the [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► third act reveal that gets you on the [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► other place [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► robbie coltrane as in thats the local [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► minor crime lord who is is in and out of [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► almost every story he's not controlling [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► everything but he sort of he doesn't [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► have people killed he just simply has he [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► has the deliveries diverter he's like og [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► hijacking a shipment from from logan [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► diverting into it other places i also [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► want to get william h macy in there [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► somewhere maybe as the mayor who makes [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► occasional guest appearances that they [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► will be talking about him but we never [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► see them until there's a really good [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► reason to sing but when we when we need [TS]

00:35:41 ◼   ► the mayor of Boston will get me really [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► makes me see [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► but that's it 1999 lack of technology [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► but some technology front loaded with [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► lots of really great character actors [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► and no season arcs you can miss the [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► Deaconess for shows in a row and time to [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► an end for the fifth and that will look [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► you to get you to binge-watch the first [TS]

00:35:59 ◼   ► for every single one of them is going to [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► be a beautiful little inexpensive many [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► movie set in the city of Boston about [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► this very very likeable guy that we've [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► all seen in a hundred different pictures [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► i have I brought an empty pillowcase for [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► the money [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► yeah i will pass before you may each put [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► about a quarter million dollars inside [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► it all right [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► interesting interesting Phil DF thoughts [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► I I think you might have some notes I [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► have some thoughts [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► hey you know when I said that I had [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► multiple pitches prepared one of them [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► was for the Rockford Files I was [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► expected lower to pocket haha [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► but I never knew until this day that was [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► not come along haha I i will say that i [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► was lucky enough [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► well lucky might not be the word to read [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► the script for the attempt they made at [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► rebooting it a couple years ago and all [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► I will say is thank God that did not go [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► exactly because now it's in play for my [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► pitch to thank you very much for your [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► support [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► see anything with by sending in 1999 we [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► can keep the answering machine opening [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► and it'll be sort of a signature thing [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► for rocker that even in 1999 it's sort [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► of weird that you're still using a [TS]

00:37:08 ◼   ► cassette answering system is now in in [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► in my version it would be AT&T iphone [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► voicemail accepted hardly ever works [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► eight years in advance [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► yeah well I wouldn't no I wouldn't set [TS]

00:37:21 ◼   ► in 1999 here's the problem with your [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► pitch [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► Andy decides it's too perfect it'll [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► raise the bar for everybody yes if it [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► will make all other TV shows feel bad [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► and what if we give Howie Mandel role as [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► the medical examiner because that would [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► like a st. elsewhere reference the kids [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► will or not the four-year-old and fifty [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► year old kids will love that he has the [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► kids and guys are very many loads you [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► can lower the bar of anything he's in [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► believe me so my piece is probable [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► problems that's all I'm saying [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► besides the fact that it's set in Boston [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► which i I really don't think is in [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► movies and TV shows enough at this point [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► in our history [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► it's really weird looking like symptom [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► yeah we could i I was thinking about [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► what would update rockford for the [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► modern era and Jason hit upon it earlier [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► I i would i would make rock I its Jane [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► rockford when one of us is colombo was [TS]

00:38:17 ◼   ► such a hit [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► well no here's why I think that uh [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► rockford files would work with a female [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► uh lead is because so many of your [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► female crime-fighters female Crime [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► Solvers it's always i'm going to its the [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► avenging angel its Mariska Haggerty on [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► crime on l lon order SUV or where yet or [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► or the lady with the bad hair on the [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► show where she saw the cold cases [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► what was it called bad hair I don't [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► remember but you really don't have the [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► gym rock [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► preferred style female character where [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► it's sort of someone who's down on their [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► heels kinda you know is okay with where [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► they are in the world and I i think that [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► would be a more interesting [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► I I think making that character uh a [TS]

00:39:03 ◼   ► woman allows for a some more interesting [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► storylines and for some a unique [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► storytelling and I was racking my brains [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► with a blue 22 cast in that part and and [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► two names came up [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► you can pooh-pooh them if you like but [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► doing right now [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► yeah on the most recent season of [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► justified i really liked which was not [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► one of justified best seasons but i [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► really liked Alicia wits work on it [TS]

00:39:29 ◼   ► I i kinda thought she did a very good [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► job of playing someone who was coming [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► from a lower station in the world but [TS]

00:39:39 ◼   ► had enough with 22 maybe uh sorry to uh [TS]

00:39:45 ◼   ► uh move beyond that and I I could see [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► her doing a rockford thing if you wanted [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► to make the show a little bit more [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► goofier uh Casey Wilson a most recently [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► of happy endings I think would be a [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► would be a fine casting decision i love [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► i love the cheese casey wilson of of [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► happy endings a show that is no longer [TS]

00:40:04 ◼   ► on the year [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► well thatthat's the the most recent [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► reference i could think of I i like to [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► exercise her name at the comic con casey [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► wilson of marry me [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► coming this fall well not not when she [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► gets the Rockford Files guys right did [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► it well as soon as you said gender [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► reversal you know my first thought was [TS]

00:40:23 ◼   ► that just like the film version of [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► Maverick spoiler horn you you would have [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► that moment of you know where you just [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► you're just accepting this like a normal [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► it's just a total reboot and at the very [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► end someone's is why did you get into [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► this and she's as well it did runs in [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► the family and the camera pans over to [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► the like family photos on her wall and [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► there's Jim Gardner guess that's a copy [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► of a 1974 issue of TV Guide yeah I love [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► that you changed it legally changed my [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► name to rockford because i love that [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► show so much i'm not actually licensed [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► detective there let me show you the [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► tattoo on my bomb as the angel character [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► i would i would see if john c reilly [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► would do some television [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► think he would be outstanding in there [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► also also also a good choice we were we [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► wanted we want a funny guy 211 some of [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► the drama that might happen and people [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► say I will say though that i do have to [TS]

00:41:12 ◼   ► say no to the gender reversal because [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► that's get this point this is kind of a [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► hack move that's like oh and guess what [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► Rockford's not a dude Wow blow your mind [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► well I do think that you you need to add [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► more women characters to the cast of a [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► lot of these old shows so but I got [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► don't necessarily like a tool to and the [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► lien behind recast alone [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► I got it I got it I think and and well [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► captain EO Houston a regular recurring [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► role as well David mentioned the captain [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► EO is something we could be good you [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► know they do have that hologram michael [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► jackson now so we've got some not like a [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► license that we can also license back to [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► the lake to the bad era my son Michael [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► attraction i would actually doing who I [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► think is hungry for work is being [TS]

00:42:00 ◼   ► sourced an exact I David mentioned the [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► Dermot Mulroney failed pilot of the [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► rocks reboot on NBC a few years ago I i [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► will say I'll put in a vote if we're [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► doing a little bit of fantasy casting [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► here I feel like the guy who is best [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► suited to play rebooted Jim Rockford is [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► josh holloway formerly of lost and then [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► a bunch of failed TV show since then I [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► think he's the I think he's got the [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► appropriate amount of kind of rumpled to [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► do it while still being a leading a [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► leading man to people like I'm sorry [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► I've already cast him as a as gambit in [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► my X file serious look can we get a [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► medic and dancing kids on The X Files [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► that sky is really wow yeah it's a dick [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► Marcus boards ready to the x-files [TS]

00:42:47 ◼   ► rabbit goes around looking for aliens [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► because he's kinda kooky okay i don't i [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► don't read your funny books and i know [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► it started like whatever he was in the [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► running for the rockford reboot and when [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► they didn't cast him that was sort of [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► like the first rumbling of oh this yes [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► they don't know what they're doing [TS]

00:43:05 ◼   ► because he was the right guy for that [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► that pressure and I wouldn't fit it just [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► thinking always that guy from Los but [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► there was that season loss where he is [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► sort of the sheriff of the dharma [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► initiative in the seventies [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► and uh oh my god and a he perfect [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► perfect at that I could totally do so [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► even even watching the show intelligence [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► which was not going to be marshall awful [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► masculine awful awful awful show not [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► intelligence is not the word for that no [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► but he was still entertaining either and [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► I I hated every second of that show but [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► he was 64 yeah get-get josh holloway [TS]

00:43:39 ◼   ► good show any other uh rockford mm [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► thoughts before we move on i'm open to [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► having him live on a boat [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► I think he's got absolutely no [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► absolutely even if he's it in Boston I [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► think he's got to be like in the harbor [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► or something I think you've got to have [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► that that feeling of being by the water [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► I put him in Seattle myself because I [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► think that has a more today kind of feel [TS]

00:44:03 ◼   ► I don't see this going to want to pick [TS]

00:44:05 ◼   ► up a woman when harry met sally by [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► because that all that's beyond people's [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► mind in seattle where the Harriman's how [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► he said New York and there are no seams [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► and I think I think you might be [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► thinking didn't have the five of us got [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► any mail which is another movie with meg [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► Ryan and it was only your notes [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► Sleepless in Seattle we're both wrong [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► just to show you how nor effort [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► identical very light palette is it was [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► actually Sleepless in Seattle Nora [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► Ephron was painting with like mac paint [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► one point others just not either [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► witnessing the dollars in your Frazier [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► kelsey grammer could be on the show has [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► the governor so we have sort of like we [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► have we need a mayor menino sort of guy [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► like as the as as the mayor so like let [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► the guy who will make sure that the [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► lights in his home neighborhood are [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► always working and are always the first [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► street get plowed in the wintertime but [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► Kelsey Grammer is the guy who's got his [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► eyes on you could we could we could have [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► like it hadn't have presidential [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► ambitions just like another sort of [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► slick-haired made-for-tv character that [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► once ran for president was webmasters [TS]

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00:47:20 ◼   ► ok because i don't i don't feel I i have [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► no notes although I gave it a slight [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► amount of thought i gave it no notes in [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► this way also if you are truly picking [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► gambit in the x-files I will have you be [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► at my x-files reboot does not feature [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► gambit in any one thing but thatthat's [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► my pitches i think i think we should [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► bring back the x-files I think I think [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► that's a great [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► go with a great premise of we talk about [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► standalone episodes great standalone [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► monster-of-the-week kind episodes thread [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► through with a little bit of a [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► conspiracy it was wheezing by the end [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► the last few years were awful i think [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► that the movies have been problematic to [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► awful as well it's a franchise though [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► that I feel like it has a lot of legs in [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► it because at its core it is law [TS]

00:48:03 ◼   ► enforcement people investigating strange [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► happenings and and there are [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► opportunities to tell Twilight Zone like [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► stories but in an anthology format but [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► with some continuing cast and i really [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► like shows like that that's one of the [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► reasons i think i like Doctor Who so [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► much is that it is essentially an [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► anthology show with a recurring element [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► and characters you get a little bit of [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► both you get some jamba shifts and some [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► different locations while also having [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► some continuity which I think people [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► like people don't want completely new [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► characters every week so I think you [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► bring back the x-files what I would not [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► do honestly is go down the path of the [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► world of TV has changed a lot since the [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► x-files one there are lots of shows [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► about teams of people who do autopsies [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► and investigate strange happenings of [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► one sort or another and the mai-mai show [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► pitch is most like how fringe started [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► but fringe went off the rails and in a [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► good way sort of but off the rails very [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► quickly into a very different show than [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► what i'm really describing here which is [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► you've got a team of people it's a [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► obviously a post-911 world there is a [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► department of homeland security group [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► that has people connections to various [TS]

00:49:13 ◼   ► government agencies and it's and it's a [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► team that's investigating various a [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► mysterious happenings and checking them [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► for major security problems and is there [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► terrorism involved and and one of these [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► teams is caught up in something in the [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► pilot episode that is a very strange [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► occurrence that they may be there is [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► missing time maybe they see something [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► that they don't understand but what that [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► does is it leads them to become a to [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► start to wonder that these these cases [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► that they just pawn off and file away in [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► the in the you know the draw big X on [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► them and throw them in a pile because [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► they're they're ridiculous they're [TS]

00:49:48 ◼   ► obviously fake maybe some of those [TS]

00:49:50 ◼   ► strange alien supernatural psychic [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► whatever kind of cases that they they [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► wrote off both [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► or maybe there's something to them [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► because they've all experienced [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► something that they don't quite [TS]

00:50:00 ◼   ► understand and they don't entirely [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► believe it actually think that you you [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► would still have two lead characters who [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► are the two main investigators but i'd [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► like to give them a team I'd like them [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► to have a a an NSA kind of spy computer [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► person I'd like them to have a commander [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► of the group maybe there's a forensic [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► specialist or something like that but I [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► don't want to be I wanted to kind of be [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► the group against the world and not the [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► group against each other where the [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► bottom where the bosses like you guys [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► following your crazy x-files things get [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► back to work I I kind of wanted the team [TS]

00:50:34 ◼   ► to be kind of unified and then have the [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► other agencies in Washington skeptical [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► of what they're doing and yes we will [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► cast John Hodgman since that seems to be [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► required as one of the government [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► something's John Hodgman for everything [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► maybe the condition of the computer guy [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► i'm going to get your digits [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► yeah she could be it could be that's his [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► nickname yea it's not his legal name he [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► gave me the same he will play all of the [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► lone gunman curious people he will be [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► yes they will call him the lone gunman [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► but he's just one guy singular just the [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► one lone government uh so yeah you'll [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► have two characters who are who are more [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► or less the leads are male and female i [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► actually one of the problems with the [TS]

00:51:13 ◼   ► x-files after hundred episodes where [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► Mulder is always right that it's [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► something supernatural Scully saying RG [TS]

00:51:19 ◼   ► Mulder I don't know you seriously [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► believe that yes I he's always right [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► stop being so skeptical so in this i'm [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► thinking more that they'll have [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► different angles on what they're seeing [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► where somebody will be more inclined [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► toward conspiracies or aliens or [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► something like that and somebody else [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► will be more inclined toward the [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► supernatural or psychic abilities or [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► something like that and it's really an [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► argument about not it is this real or [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► not but what is the the form that this [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► strange thing will take so I just I [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► think you do that and then to andy's [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► point about standalone you know i should [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► like this is going to have to have a an [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► overarching archive I'd like it to be [TS]

00:51:51 ◼   ► something not about grey aliens and [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► flying saucers so I'm thinking something [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► like strange events that might be like [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► the emergence of an artificial [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► intelligence that's taking over [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► computers around the world or some other [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► kind of more sci-fi premise that's not [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► the grey alien thing [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► and.and yeah i just think within that [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► you have that a very light story arc [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► that plays out over many seasons but you [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► spend a lot of time going to weird small [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► towns that her probably just vancouver [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► doubling for everywhere else in the [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► world and investigating strange things [TS]

00:52:25 ◼   ► in small towns and discovering bizarre [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► anthology like twilight zone like things [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► week to week which was for me why i love [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► that show when it was on and I think [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► that core got lost when they got into [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► all the mythology and you know David [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► Duchovny made to move the show to LA and [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► it got really popular and they cast a [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► dancer and Lily Tomlin and you got out [TS]

00:52:45 ◼   ► of hand but I think you could dial it [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► back [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► learn some of the lessons of your CSI [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► NCIS is your bones is and and do a show [TS]

00:52:53 ◼   ► that that that is that more modern on [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► procedural ensemble with the x-files DNA [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► and it so that's my pitch [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► so how does josh holloway figuring I'm [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► glad you asked i was gonna say i love [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► the idea of the team [TS]

00:53:07 ◼   ► I just think if you're gonna have gambit [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► you want to balance them out with your [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► particular orgasmic would be on love [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► dance with dazzler I mean come on [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► yeah sure Oh Cheryl me guess in the end [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► the end the end of course professor x [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► who's the leader of the x-files who do [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► you see as Nightcrawler yes I I that's a [TS]

00:53:25 ◼   ► good question perhaps josh holloway [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► there you go [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► uh I collect structure the deal so that [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► you do you have to do like to james [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► michael Straczynski thing where you have [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► the red binder where you personally have [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► written down the entire story arc season [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► four season four season and even put [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► into self-destruct laws so that it can't [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► proceed beyond the five seasons you work [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► it out [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► in fact I've already destroyed all my [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► notes so there's no risk that it will [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► have to be uncovered stays me the [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► trouble there's the door [TS]

00:53:53 ◼   ► I don't know Jason for the part of [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► Scully are you open to Casting vin [TS]

00:53:57 ◼   ► scully in that role [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► I'm walking into a dark and scary room [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► and suddenly is alien dripping subsets [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► of primordial ooze like a young Sandy [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► Koufax but that that's missing an [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► opportunity I i think i think that this [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► works great this is another great [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► opportunity to a gender flips instead of [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► a guy in a woman it's a woman and [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► excellent [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► you know I and I considered that very [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► strongly but i think i'm a bridge too [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► far i actually wouldn't in the [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► characters Mulder and Scully and I would [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► leave open the possibility of as we said [TS]

00:54:29 ◼   ► with these other shows you make the nod [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► and you say yes oh well there were other [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► people who worked on these cases in the [TS]

00:54:34 ◼   ► past and and you you pay its respect [TS]

00:54:37 ◼   ► while also not having it be a direct [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► gets really Andrea's dressed as a guide [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► but Dustin Hoffman dressed as a girl I [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► think vin scully though is very tempting [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► you could be the head of the Union maybe [TS]

00:54:50 ◼   ► as batman's organs up into small pieces [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► of meat like farmer John sausages [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► that's too bad that's just tell me [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► there's that there's like one line in [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► which their superior size now look I [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► won't have you going all moulder on me [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► there you go you know is exactly why you [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► at all [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► I can't believe this horrible hit thing [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► happened under the beautiful cerulean [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► blue sky and and the most important [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► thing [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► whichever network picks it up that's the [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► first name of the lead actor ever [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► that's right that's right el rey moulder [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► how can you do that now given the [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► contemporary audience could you started [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► off as a reboot of the x-files and then [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► slowly turn into a reboot of twin peaks [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► without telling anybody any of the [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► audience was way too late it's possible [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► i think that in some ways for motor [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► starts like eating cherry pies that said [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► that could have could all work in the in [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► the Timothy Westfall unified theory [TS]

00:55:47 ◼   ► universe if we're if we're shooting area [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► if we're shooting in Vancouver then it [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► will we might as well make it twin peaks [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► because you know international exposure [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► to friend we've been traveling all over [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► the country and yet it's the same phone [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► company that runs all of these phone [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► company all these billboards and pay [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► phones [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► it's part of the conspiracy or Phil we [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► take a page from the old television City [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► Chronicle premise of TV and we have them [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► investigate various things each of which [TS]

00:56:13 ◼   ► is itself a reference to some strange TV [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► show or other so there's a murder [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► insistently Alaska there's a murderer in [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► twin peaks you know where the whole [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► town's been abducted and we just go and [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► every every week they investigate a new [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► crime that happened in some other TV [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► show will be another effectively be cops [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► the TV [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► measure reference guest star of the week [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► show of shows [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► yes it could be that but that's not my [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► initial premise but you know I'll do [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► whatever it takes to get this baby on [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► the air [TS]

00:56:40 ◼   ► I'm just saying if you don't have Angela [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► Lansbury in there in the murder she [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► wrote tribute episode you know why are [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► you doing the show I i would write that [TS]

00:56:48 ◼   ► show in a heartbeat is their part for me [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► why did he leave town will be back he [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► just went down about you go to talk to [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► his psychoanalyst where where where [TS]

00:57:00 ◼   ► Angela Lansbury ends up being an [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► extraterrestrial monster that his [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► convinced a small town that she solves [TS]

00:57:06 ◼   ► all the murders and she's been the one [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► doing all the murders that was the [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► original I that because around that one [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► is after you not remember we have [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► murdered shot it is that's exactly how [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► it and i am now closing my browser tab [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► for murders everybody uh I thought that [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► was at the Chumley yeah murder she [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► caused anyway I I like exhales I feel [TS]

00:57:27 ◼   ► like they it's sitting right out there [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► as a premise and making these terrible [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► movies every few years is not the way [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► they should do what they should bring [TS]

00:57:32 ◼   ► back and i think i think it works beyond [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► the actors way so what movies [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► yeah complete that's this example plate [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► will put good [TS]

00:57:41 ◼   ► hey Phil help me out here what do you [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► have I have two pitches Jason ok one a [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► serious pitch and on one first for us [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► okay and one a very serious [TS]

00:57:52 ◼   ► alright alright let's start off with the [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► series but first let me take you back to [TS]

00:57:57 ◼   ► a a time in our country that i like to [TS]

00:58:00 ◼   ► call 1986 alright it's a fantastical [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► time where there's music television [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► also I've got I've got a tab open for [TS]

00:58:09 ◼   ► google music what's what song from the [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► era shall be playing as the background [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► think you deserve the air tonight by [TS]

00:58:14 ◼   ► Phil Collins might be good [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► that's the that's the guess i'm going to [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► make here it's a very good guess because [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► attribution there was a very popular [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► series called Miami Vice yes you may [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► want to play the collected works of yon [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► hammer now Jan Hammer as his friends [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► column let you do the gender switch and [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► yeah sure [TS]

00:58:34 ◼   ► yes ok 96 Miami Vice josh holloway might [TS]

00:58:37 ◼   ► be excellent [TS]

00:58:38 ◼   ► it's a very popular show that's not the [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► one I'm rebooting now the 1 i'm [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► rebooting is the follow-up series to my [TS]

00:58:44 ◼   ► advice that Michael man did when NBC [TS]

00:58:46 ◼   ► said you're brilliant we give you carte [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► blanche I'm gonna do it showed called [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► crime story I'm story i love you [TS]

00:58:56 ◼   ► that's two of us baby crime story was [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► set in the nineteen sixties it started [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► off in Chicago it gradually moved to Las [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► Vegas it was a very stylish show very [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► good madam respects not so good in some [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► other respects in that it went crazy and [TS]

00:59:20 ◼   ► went off the practicals several times um [TS]

00:59:24 ◼   ► the the first season 1 cliffhanger was [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► that the main villain was blown up in a [TS]

00:59:30 ◼   ► nuclear nuclear test in las vegas desert [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► only he didn't die he came back alive [TS]

00:59:36 ◼   ► but didn't have Hulk powers and and they [TS]

00:59:40 ◼   ► had one plot line where the main villain [TS]

00:59:43 ◼   ► after surviving the nuclear blast flew [TS]

00:59:45 ◼   ► down to like a banana republic to set up [TS]

00:59:47 ◼   ► some crime domain just as it happened in [TS]

00:59:50 ◼   ► real life and it it it was um it was in [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► many ways a very good series and in many [TS]

00:59:57 ◼   ► ways a very bad series and do not [TS]

00:59:57 ◼   ► ways a very bad series and do not [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► if you go back and watch some of the [TS]

01:00:01 ◼   ► episodes as i have uh because some of [TS]

01:00:04 ◼   ► the movement posted to YouTube what [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► you're struck by is how slow the pacing [TS]

01:00:09 ◼   ► is because um somewhere around the [TS]

01:00:12 ◼   ► mid-nineties with ER in such the pacing [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► for TV shows became very very different [TS]

01:00:18 ◼   ► so that some of your ad shows and crime [TS]

01:00:20 ◼   ► story is a a prime example with this you [TS]

01:00:23 ◼   ► are just sitting there waiting for [TS]

01:00:24 ◼   ► things to happen going to come on [TS]

01:00:27 ◼   ► so what I would do is reboot crime story [TS]

01:00:30 ◼   ► uh and the main thing i do is make it a [TS]

01:00:33 ◼   ► limited run series so you don't have [TS]

01:00:35 ◼   ► these stupid cliffhangers where a guy [TS]

01:00:38 ◼   ► goes out into the desert and gets blown [TS]

01:00:40 ◼   ► up by a nuclear bomb and comes back [TS]

01:00:42 ◼   ► alive [TS]

01:00:43 ◼   ► you don't have these of these open ended [TS]

01:00:46 ◼   ► things rather you have 12 episodes you [TS]

01:00:49 ◼   ► madman the hell out of it where it [TS]