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@jalefkowit They were careless people, NBC.
@jalefkowit How is this even a spin? This is just taking names of characters and making them into entirely new characters in a new story
@jalefkowit Maybe they figured, hey, if it inexplicably turned out ok for Gaiman’s Lucifer, why not slap the Fitzgerald brand on it as well.
Why bother thinking up something new when you can just generate intellectual property instead
How does that even vaguely connect to the novel? 😕
@FediThing "What's a novel"
@jalefkowit I think some of these networks some slot machine wheels that combine "format" + "theme."
Next year we'll see a buddy cop show set during the Spanish Inquisition. Followed by a three's company situation in space -- one of them's an alien, pretending to be human! Hilarity ensues!
@jalefkowit “Ahab is a fresh procedural spin on ‘Moby Dick’, with Detective Darin Ahab as the cop obsessed with justice, and junior cops Pete Ishmael and Alexander Queequeg as his team members…”
@michaelgemar Whale Cops. Tuesday night on NBC
@jalefkowit gatsby, nothing like gatsby!
@jalefkowit oh, it got the green light
I'm remembering the old (probably false) story that Brandon Tartikoff invented "Miami Vice" by going up to a whiteboard and writing MTV COPS on it. I guess this time someone wrote GATSBY COPS
https://www.cbr.com/tv-legends-revealed-did-miami-vice-really-begin-as-mtv-cops/
At least the story about James Cameron getting ALIENS greenlit by taking a blank sheet of paper, writing ALIEN, putting an "S" on the end, then drawing two lines through the "S" to turn it into a dollar sign is true. Assuming you believe James Cameron
@jalefkowit Is this like when Netflix made a neural network that generated random film and TV show ideas?
@jalefkowit This is still not the worst idea I've ever heard for a police procedural. Not in a world where the unsold pilot for "Poochinski" exists.
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@jalefkowit I guess NBC is throwing pasta at the wall and going "well, we tried more scripted bullshit. Didn't work? Guess that's another block of time we can cede to National Sports coverage."
@jalefkowit if they really wanted a modern take on a public domain classic, they would option New Romancer (a comic about an AI trained on Lord Byron's work starts hitting on its creator in typical Byron fashion)