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If you could control the airwaves, what would you force the whole world to watch?

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If I was feeling particularly depressed, I would show an alternating red and blue screen... that changes every frame... with a sound playing at 11 Hz in the background.

If I just wanted to piss people off, I'd run "2 Girls, 1 Cup" on an endless loop in Time Square's Jumbotron.
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The Star Wars trilogy. The ORIGINAL trilogy. Or Adywan's revisited, I can't tell.

A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em

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I'd ban all talent shows, reality shows, celebrity talent shows and celebrity reality shows.

And Ant and Dec.

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I would show nothing and see what everybody did with no TV.

War does not make one great.

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I'd show all of Pat Condell's "Godless Comedy" videos. :D
Fez: I am so excited about Star Whores.
Hyde: Fezzy, man, it's Star Wars.
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A double feature of Buckaroo Bonzai and Real Genius. :)

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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MeBeJedi said:

A double feature of Buckaroo Bonzai and Real Genius. :)


What about "Buckaroo Bonzai" and "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"?

I love everybody. Lets all smoke some reefer and chill. Hug and kisses for everybody.

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I'd like to nominate 2 ABC 20/20 specials with John Stossel.
"Stupid in America"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx4pN-aiofw&feature=user

"Is America Number One?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZpDjxIPpFc&feature=user

Take back the trilogy. Execute Order '77

http://www.youtube.com/user/Knightmessenger

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Moth3r said:

I'd ban all talent shows, reality shows, celebrity talent shows and celebrity reality shows.

And Ant and Dec.
Same here but no idea about the latter.

I'd have a network only playing classic television shows. Unaltered and in their original broadcast versions. All HD broadcast.
Mission: Impossible (1966-1973); Mission: Impossible (1980's); The Saint; The Prisoner; Space: 1999; Doctor Who (Every Doctor, From Hartnell to McCoy); Remington Steele; Rawhide; Maverick; Quantum Leap; Superman and alot of mini-series.
Another channel would be for National Geographic type stuff and that show Leonard Nimoy hosted way back when. More of a retro-History Channel.
Have another channel showing single season shows such as The Flash; Timecop; Now and Again; and many others.
The Gojira/Godzilla and Kaiju channel. Showing nothing but the original and in Japanese versions of Gojira and Kaiju films. All OAR'd and with subtitles.
The Movie Serial Channel. Rotating network with literal weekly cliffhangers. For each day of the week, a different classic serial with the next chapter the following week on its timeslot in true serial fashion. Lots of Flash Gordon; Dick Tracy; The Shadow; and others.
A network in HD and where everything is in OAR where they show films not even on DVD. Perfect for preservation efforts. High Road to China; alot of Robert Montgomery, John Garfield, Errol Flynn, Stewart Granger and alot of other underrated actors. Alot like TCM but only like I mentioned.

Quality TV instead of all that Reality shite on now. I'd cancel all of them i.e. same way Moth3r would. And have no more. Remember when MTV was about music videos instead of all that reality-shite? I'd have them come back to form.
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DarkGryphon2048 said:

Moth3r said:

I'd ban all talent shows, reality shows, celebrity talent shows and celebrity reality shows.

And Ant and Dec.
Same here but no idea about the latter.

Oh you lucky person!

War does not make one great.

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I would strap George Lucas into a chair and force him to watch the original versions of the star wars trilogy, and THX 1138 for eternity. LOL

This would be the Dante's Inferno kind of poetic justice.

“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.

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skyjedi2005 said:

I would strap George Lucas into a chair and force him to watch the original versions of the star wars trilogy, and THX 1138 for eternity. LOL

This would be the Dante's Inferno kind of poetic justice.
Hold a grudge much?
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Chuck marathon every month. With two more seasons.
New Star Trek tv show with The Sisko, Seven of Nine, Jake Sisko, Captain Tom Paris, Torres, First officer Ayala, Nog, Naomi Wildman, Kira Nerys, Ezri, and Julian Bashir.

First episode a ship goes through the DS9 wormhole causes the Prophets to get sick due to it's different metal. Out comes Dominion ships in the Delta Quadrant. Ship also caused wormhole to destabalize and, connect Delta and, Alpha quadrant. Dominion kill Neelix and, company on that asteriod. They detect no other targets go back start attacking DS9. The Sisko is sent back to DS9 series begins. Chakotay is initially Captain he gets killed three episodes before the season 1 finale. Seven has to deal with his death. Tom and Torres' kid sometimes appears.


Firefly gets three more seasons.
The 4400 gets a final season.
Kings gets a wrap up miniseries.
Portal gets two more seasons. I want to know the answer to the tube mystery damn it!!!!!!!!
The Sarah Connor chronicles gets wrap up miniseries.
Persons Unknown gets wrap up miniseries.
Heroes gets one last season.
Caprica gets four more seasons.
V gets a final season.
No Ordinary Family gets 5 seasons.
Kyle XY gets wrap up season.
Crusade gets wrap up telemovie.

I'de also put Misfits on tv. Also 2ndBSG and, Babylon 5 get marathoned.

Pulse
Arena with Wil Wheaton and, Travis Oates.
G4tv.com with Scot Rubin, Laura Foy, and Tina Wood.
Game On
Reviews on the Run
Filter with Diane Mizota
Solitary



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This was an amusing thread. Good necropost, Twist. Also, very creative ideas on a new Star Trek series.

 

I'd do what YIYF said he'd do all those years ago. I'd cut it off and show nothing, then sit back and watch the world go to hell, hopefully followed by the rewarding experience of seeing how they begin to cope without it.

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twister111 said :

Firefly gets three more seasons.

The 4400 gets a final season.

Kings gets a wrap up miniseries.

Portal gets two more seasons. I want to know the answer to the tube mystery damn it!!!!!!!!

The Sarah Connor chronicles gets wrap up miniseries.

Persons Unknown gets wrap up miniseries.

Heroes gets one last season.

Caprica gets four more seasons. V gets a final season.

No Ordinary Family gets 5 seasons. Kyle XY gets wrap up season.

Crusade gets wrap up telemovie.

I'de also put Misfits on tv.

Also 2ndBSG and, Babylon 5 get marathoned.

I'd begin Crusade from scratch and incorporate the haunted spaceship from Legend Of The Rangers into the story (perhaps as a slightly crap replacement ship should The Excalibur get destroyed) both spin off ideas had potential but were screwed up from the start.

With you entirely with Caprica but I'd also give The Sarah Conner Chronicles three more seasons and Dollhouse at least one more (if you chucked out the 'lets end this quick' episodes)

Firefly could run for at least seven seasons but you could ease the actors back in with a couple of mini series first (rebuilding the sets again would cost money).

I'd also do straight adaptations of William Peter Blatty's connected novels (The Exorcist, Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane, Legion and Dimiter) as a mini series with the cross over actors played by the same characters and maybe some added interstitial material.

I'd also would have done the other Dune books in the manner of the SyFy miniseries.

Twin Peaks could do with a continuation twenty years on.

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Ooooh, maybe I'd transmit audio book readings of Fahrenheit 451 and 1984.

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Bingowings said:

twister111 said :

Firefly gets three more seasons.

The 4400 gets a final season.

Kings gets a wrap up miniseries.

Portal gets two more seasons. I want to know the answer to the tube mystery damn it!!!!!!!!

The Sarah Connor chronicles gets wrap up miniseries.

Persons Unknown gets wrap up miniseries.

Heroes gets one last season.

Caprica gets four more seasons. V gets a final season.

No Ordinary Family gets 5 seasons. Kyle XY gets wrap up season.

Crusade gets wrap up telemovie.

I'de also put Misfits on tv.

Also 2ndBSG and, Babylon 5 get marathoned.

 

With you entirely with Caprica but I'd also give The Sarah Conner Chronicles three more seasons and Dollhouse at least one more (if you chucked out the 'lets end this quick' episodes)

Firefly could run for at least seven seasons but you could ease the actors back in with a couple of mini series first (rebuilding the sets again would cost money).

Twin Peaks could do with a continuation twenty years on.

Caprica, Dollhouse, Firefly and Twin Peaks all deserved more. 

I'd also give Angel at least one more season - it kept getting better every season and they killed it!  The show Wonderfalls was a great short-lived series as well that I think earned itself more than half a season.

And I'm always down to see more Arrested Development


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"Planet Earth" "Blue Planet" "Life" on nonstop loops.

 

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I have all the currently available "Life On Earth" spin offs on DVD find them a bit difficult to watch though as they are almost a brutal as watching the news sometimes.

Animals and Plants Y U Not Get Along More?

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This thread for next director of television.

I would force everyone to watch The Goodies. It doesn't quite hit the highs that Python does, but overall it is equal to or greater than Flying Circus IMO.

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doubleKO said:

This thread for next director of television.

I would force everyone to watch The Goodies. It doesn't quite hit the highs that Python does, but overall it is equal to or greater than Flying Circus IMO.

I used to think the same until I saw some again.

Still this takes some beating.

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Flying Circus is a skit show, while Goodies is a more of a regular half-hour comedy. While Circus had the luxury of deciding the length of any given skit; Goodies used a format that retained their basic characters throughout the show, as well as having a semi-coherent story running the length of each episode. This would plainly be harder to do and I think that is the reason why I think they may be better.

The Goodies also made 72 episodes versus Python's 45. Python's absurd humour is definitely funnier at its peaks but they were playing in a safer playground. Gilliam's art and animations also helped a lot in defining their uniqueness.

I watched The Goodies again a couple of years ago afraid that it would not live up to the memories. It did, and then some. Although I will admit to possible herbal enhancement ;)

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Clockwork Orange.

After that, Pink Floyd's The Wall. Then, Yellow Submarine. Finally, everyone would watch the dream sequences from The Bear.

Maybe Pink Flamingos.