Your own fantasy TV station- what would you put on it?

Supposing you had your own fantasy TV channel which you could put on whatever programming you like- whether you make your own programmes or syndicate existing shows is up to you. Imagine you had infinite funding (no commercial pressure or public service commitments) and had the rights cleared for everything- if you want to repeat some old show or bring over some anime that's never been released in your country, say, it's up to you.

What sort of programming would you put on it and why?

(The only rule is you'll be effectively be broadcasting 24/7 so have to fill the time up somehow- even if you just shove a test card on!)

Cartoons and Led Zeppelin.

What? It's the first thing that came to mind. And you cannot tell me that that isn't an awesome idea.

Blood. Nothing but pools of diseased blood

MST 3 K reruns and the new Rifftrax stuff.

• The odd anime, probably in a Toonami style block.
• Some VH 1 style music lists without adverts during their run.
• Lots of Westerns
• Lots of Sci-Fi
• Those medical shows with live autopsies and other procedures
• British sitcoms
• Fraiser reruns

• Samurai movies
• Kaiju movies
• Rock and metal music videos from all around the world, all around the century
• South Park
• Mecha anime
• Tokusatsu TV from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s

I'd show a wrestling PPV every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9pm. I'd start with Wrestlemania 17, possibly the best PPV WWE has ever put on (TLC 2, Rock Vs Austin, what's not to love?).

The 9pm slot every other night goes to a movie. The Thursday movie will be something like Dragon Wars or that Shark Tornado one, something so bad it's hilarious. The others would be just good movies.

The rest of the channel will just be good dramas or comedy. Firefly, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, QI, House, etc.

I'd buy up all the sports broadcasting rights I could so that other networks' execs with an axe to grind against a show wouldn't be able to put it in the "will totally be bumped or delayed five hours because baseball" slot.

Lots and lots of subbed animé both old and new, some entertaining Let's Plays and live concerts of video game, film and animé music on Sundays. Oh, and one hour every Wednesday dedicated to Touhou fan-videos.

All the other things I'd want on TV are covered by other stations.

• Pony
• Documentaries, mostly about history
• Football
• Handball
• The Muppet Show
• Classic films like Apocalypse Now, Terminator and Pulp Fiction
• Old blues and rock music videos
• All the Van Kooten & De Bie sketches I can get my hands on
• Maison Ikkoku
• Rickrolls and other stupid memes

It would be a channel called CRT TV, and it would play things in 4:3 aspect ratio only.

It would have:

Old MTV cartoons like Daria and Aeon Flux Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z Kai (both are in 4:3 aspect ratio) Movies like Heavy Traffic, Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster and other films where it's in 4:3 Old MTV music videos in 4:3 Basically anything cool that was ever presented in 4:3 aspect ratio.

@0dd: FRAISER FANS, UNITE!

-lightning and shit-

• Anime (particularly stuff like Lupin III, Baccano and Axis Powers Hetalia);
• Music videos and documentaries (particularly those from BBC);
• British sitcoms, Doctor Who and so forth;
• Two 30-minute news show like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report;
• Football matches (particularly from the European leagues and the major competitions);
• Some History documentaries;
• The TV Tropes Show.

24 hour test-card extravaganza

1. The Muppet Show

2. Kirby: Right Back At Ya!

3. Sonic X

4. Jonny Bravo

5. Any sports stuff I could get rights to.

6. The Super Mario Bros. Super Show

7. Criminal Minds

8. Warehouse 13

9. Old Mickey Mouse shorts

10. Survivor

11. Man vs. Wild

12. A bunch of WW 2 documentaries, to cater to my best friend.

Apologies for the length.

Monday through Friday

• 4:00 - 6:00AM - Whatever 80s cartoons I can get a hold of (Transformers, Robotech, etc.)
• 6:00AM - Sesame Street
• 6:30AM - Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
• 7:00 - 9:00AM - 80s-90s sitcoms (Cheers, Golden Girls, Fresh Prince, Cosby, etc.)
• 9:00AM - 12:00PM - 80s-90s dramatic series (Star Trek, Buffy, etc.)
• 12:00 - 1:00PM - An hour long block of music videos.
• 1:00 - 5:00PM - 90s-early 00s kid shows. (Sailor Moon (sub), Batman, Animaniacs, Gargoyles, Cardcaptor Sakura (sub), Yu Yu Hakusho, etc).
• 5:00PM - The Daily Show
• 5:30PM - The Colbert Report
• 6:00 - 10:00PM - More current comedic and dramatic series, with a preference for sci-fi/horror (like Supernatural and Stargate).
• 10:00PM to 4:00AM would essentially be Adult Swim with more anime, and replacing Mc Farlane's stuff with South Park and Futurama.

Saturday

• 4AM The Twilight Zone
• 5AM Original Star Trek
• 6AM - 11AM Block of more current kids shows (Ben 10, Avatar, Adventure Time, etc.) with more kid friendly anime (subbed Sonic X and Digimon).
• 11:00AM - 1:00PM - Two hour music video block
• 1:00 - 5:00PM - Two afternoon movies. (Usually comedy, sci-fi, or action adventure, PG - PG-13 only.)
• 5:00 - 6:00PM - British comedy (Red Dwarf, Monty Python, etc.)
• 7:00 - 8:00PM - Classic Doctor Who
• 8:00 - 9:00PM - Doctor Who
• 9:00 - 11:00PM - Saturday Night Movie (Usually action, sci-fi or horror, PG-13 to R)
• 11:00PM - 12:30AM (Sunday) SNL

Sunday

• 12:30 - 4:00AM Adult Swim/Toonami
• 4AM The Twilight Zone
• 5AM Original Star Trek
• 6AM - 6PM Educational programming, including documentaries.
• 6PM - 8PM A family friendly film (G to PG only)
• 8PM - 10PM Mystery Science Theater 3000/Rifftrax
• 10PM - 4AM (Monday) Adult Swim/Toonami

edited 1st Jul '13 11:40:10 AM by Morgikit

A lot of sci-fi shows. Star Trek (all series), Farscape, Defiance, the Stargate series, Babylon 5, The X Files, etc. Then there'd be a "cartoon corner" where I'd run a lot of old nostalgia-inducing stuff like Rocko's Modern Life and Gargoyles. I would probably run some anime too, but depending on the content and the year it was originally syndicated, it might come under the regular sci-fi schedule; it'd be stuff like Neon Genesis Evangelion and Ghost in the Shell. Commercial breaks would be filled with ads for metal albums.

Ask A Ninja as a TV show, And things that follow the Rule of Cool, like Discworld-based shows and movies. Also: Rv B, The Humongous Mecha Roleplay: The Show, and Mythbusters. Can't forget Transformers. ALL OF THEM. (Except Animated)

edited 11th Jul '13 6:28:31 PM by OmegaShadowcry

I know I'd have cooking show-like programs, only about making cocktails.

Aside from that, anything that strikes my fancy. WILD CARD TV, MOTHERF*CKERS!

Also late night Weds night, porn. To celebrate Hump Day. I think I've heard a channel in Canada used to do that. Time to bring it back.

A satelite-based hi-def TV camera looking downward as it orbits the Earth. 24/7 live feed.

Anime. ALL OF THE ANIME. And Western Animation. Basically Cartoon Network + Nickelodeon + Disney.

I would also like some of those fun, pop culture savvy shows, like The Soup and I Love the Exties. And Cinematech would be a permanent fixture. PERMANENT.

I would also like Max Headroom to host the station.

My channel would be called the FUCK OFF channel.

The FUCK OFF Channel: So manly your balls will become a mangina.

It would show:

Wrestling.
War movies.
Pony.
Star Wars movies.
Animations sent in by viewers of what THEY would've done to Hitler.
Morgan Freeman reading bad fanfiction.
Gangster movies (Like Scarface, the Warriors, ETC.)
Mecha shows. Especially Megas XLR.
A show about a time police guy jumping around history, punching people.
Seanbaby reads the latest novels.
Survival shows.
Weapon shows
"Shit God Hates and Why You Should Totally Do It," hosted by Vin Diesel.
An hour a day dedicated to the pursuit of peace.

I bet I could make a bloody fortune doing that.

edited 11th Jul '13 8:43:43 PM by Steventheman

It stopped being "manly" as soon as you said "Pony."

You assume it means MLP. It could actually be a show about a pony who punches things.

But yeah, it's MLP.