Pitch a reality show

Thought there was already a topic for this, but I can't find it.

My idea is, you put a bunch of unemployed sitcom writers in a house, and their task is to improvise a sitcom plot every week without private planning sessions. Every week, the one who managed to deliver an appropriate Aesop speech first has immunity from being voted off.

The winner gets to have one of their concepts produced as a pilot.

Ballroom Blitz - you take 30 people, a starting line-up of dicks, douchebags, hooligans, and other riff-raff, put them in a small convention hall, add alcohol, and watch the fight ensue.

It'd be like Thunderdome - 30 people enter, one leaves.

Fangirl Brigade: Lock 20 fangirls/fanboys in a house for a week and see what happens. Each episode follows a different fandom. I garruntee there'd be a ship war within an hour. Wank-filled drama within a day.

^ Oh that's good.

I would watch that.

A talent competition to see who could be the largest ham. It would have judges who would score on things like loudness and melodrama.

^ That's also good. It could be called "Are You Hammier Than BRIAN BLESSED?!"

Impossible of course but a good title.

A contest to find the biggest asshole in the country. The "winner" for each season is then stranded on a deserted island so we don't have to deal with them.

Alternatively the prize is to become part of a pool for asshole that other reality shows need.

edited 30th Jul '11 9:55:39 AM by BigMadDraco

This reminds me of a conversation I had the other day. It was basically every reality show (That includes MTV shows like Teen Mom and Jersey Shore) on TV right now mixed with other shows like American Idol.....and WRESTLING.

I would watch that. It would be so insane.

I would love to see Snooki, The Situation, and a spoiled brat from Super Sweet Sixteen try to beat each other up. Whoever loses... we win.

Take two or more teams of non athletes, train them for a sport then run a competition between them. Repeat with a bracket style tournament for an entire season then move on to a new sport.

It wouldn't even have to be a team sport or use non athletes just so long as they had no experience somewhere else, like a discus thrower in water polo, an archer in horse racing or a football player playing a different kind of football. Jock wars!

Survivor: Surrealist Nightmare Dimension

Nuns With Guns. Says it all.

1. Each season, pick a different society from a different time and place in the world.
2. Construct a small settlement based on that society.
3. Select a group of contestants to live a historical lifestyle in the settlement until the end of the season.
4. The winners are the people who are able to most quickly and effectively adapt to the historical lifestyle.

edited 1st Sep '11 12:41:31 PM by annebeeche

PBS did that with the 1800s (Frontier House or something like that).

There was also a show I think was on ABC where they put a bunch of kids in a ghost town and had them build a society on their own. (Kid Nation)

edited 1st Sep '11 1:37:09 PM by TParadox

My reality show pitch is called "Celebreality Saw". It's a Saw-like game of life or death featuring TV's hottest D-List stars, like Mike "The Situation" and just about everyone on Dancing With The Stars. Needless to say, it'll be ratings dynamite. With literal dynamite, too.

   Hello, Mike. I'd like to play a game. You call your chest The Situation, so I've arranged a little situation in your chest. In thirty minutes, the sun lamps in this room will turn on, bathing you in three million watts of deadly radiation. As you can see from those x-rays to your left, the remote shutoff switch is encased in your abdomen. You have thirty minutes to choose between roasting to death or destroying the six-pack you're so proud of.   

edited 2nd Sep '11 10:25:04 PM by TParadox

That's so awesome I am dissuaded from coming up with something myself.

(I have never seen any of the Saw movies)

(Me either.)

Once I had an idea for a game show where if you won, you get a lot of money, and if you lose, you have to watch your car crushed without compensation.

The Couriers: Similar to The Amazing Race in that contestants learn of where they're going as they go, challenges are required, etc. At the beginning of the show, each contestant is given a large briefcase that they must carry with them at all times. They must get this briefcase from Hollywood, California to Kyoto, Japan in 30 days, while being rapidly pursued by a fleet of CIA-type operatives. Contestants are "safe" from the operatives for 12 hours when they reach certain stopping points along the way (no one should die in the production of this show). The first one to get there, without being caught by the operatives, gets 1 million dollars.

I imagine that there would be a very extensive audition and training progress for both the contestants and the operatives. Also, there would have to be a fairly large cast, considering that the operatives can remove several players every episode.

Sheesh. Didn't mean to get so detailed. Oh well.

We take a bunch of people desperate to be on TV and put them in a room where we deprive them of sleep. Then we see how long we can drag this out for.

Let authors, television actors, film actors, musicians, etcetera listen to some of their biggest criticism and see if they learn from it. (Stephenie Meyer, I'm looking at you)

Harsh Reality: Get a bunch of people (at least a dozen, maybe a hundred or more) from all walks of life (rich, poor, accountants, mechanics, librarians, trekkies, you name it), find one of those abandoned towns (as seen on Mythbusters for their driving myths), let them all loose in said town and see what happens. The only rule: NO MONEY.

The point? To see what might happen when if the economy completely crashes and money becomes worthless.

A real-life version of The Running Man.

I don't have a title.

Basically, with the help of hidden cameras, parents spy on their teenage children while they're at school, to see what they really do when their family isn't around.