Now that the "The Will" Has Become a Won't ...
CBS has already cancelled "The Will", the show in which dysfunctional family and friends of a rancher compete to inherit the Kansas ranch. Can we come up with a more compelling family-n-friends competition to take its place?
How about ...
"The Audition": Members of the Fonda family compete for a role in a Major Motion Picture (or a CBS Movie-of-the-Week). Competitors would include:
- Jane Fonda/The Sister ("They thought I played dirty during the Vietnam War, but they ain't seen nothin' yet!");
- Peter Fonda/The Brother ("This Easy Rider's willing to work as hard as it takes to get this role!")
- Bridget Fonda/The Next Generation ("I'm too young to be this washed up! Once I win this contest, I'll be taken seriously again!")
- Jenna Elfman/The Wacky In-Law ("I'm so totally not into this competition thing. But I gotta admit, I dig winning!")
- Jennifer Jason Leigh/The Stalker ("Sure, I can compete with the Fondas. In fact, I am a Fonda -- didn't you see "Single White Female"?)
- Justin Fonda/Who? ("I'm a Fonda, damn it! Not in that Jennifer-Jason-Leigh way -- I really am a Fonda!")
Other show pitches ... ?
posted by Molly B. @ 11:51 PM
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In "The Hookup", an extended group of friends (including several brother-sister pairs, two devoted couples, and two sets of exes) are gathered together and told that among their social group, there is a secret and shocking romantic relationship going on among two of the participants.
There are two sets of challenges: In clue challenges, the boys compete against the girls for clues as to who the secret couple is. These clues are things like: "It started in Fall 2002" and "They had sex in the apartments of four people here. "
When someone loses an elimination challenges, they are excluded from being able to win the contest, but they remain in the house and participate as if they were normal participants.
Depending on how desperate NBC is, this is just up Fox's Alley.
Then there's "The Candidate". Two families -- the Kennedys (complete with "Cousin Arnold") and the Bushes -- compete, team versus team, in a series of competitions to test their mettle and aptitude for running the country.
Then at the end Karl Rove comes out and picks Jeb Bush as the winner.
The prize? A mandate.
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