Reality Show: The Antichrist

Two distribution companies are interested in the following idea. Flesh it out and peddle it. I don’t have time to. Choose six contestants, to compete over six weeks, solving six tasks or completing six projects. Bear down on the 666 thing. Offer a disclaimer at the beginning and end of every show, making it clear [...]

Reality Show: Tea Party!

There is a lot of Tea-Party interest and energy out there. This show is designed to draw in viewers who want to learn more about the phenomenon. I’ve been shopping the idea around Hollywood and there is quite a nice little bidding war going on for it between the major reality-show players. The show recruits [...]

Reality Show: When Nuns Marry Nuns

I’ve already sold this one, so don’t bother trying to rip it off. The studio searches the nation, the world if necessary, to find five nun couples who secretly want to get married. A ten-week competition is held. Each week the viewers vote. The winning couple is awarded ten million dollars. Week 1 – Get [...]

Reality Show: Sports Wives

Screenwriters: Write up your reality-show sports ideas and they will make you some money, irregardless of their stupidity and questionable value to the human race on our warming planet. Write them up, buy new cars, and spew carbon while you still can, before the government takes away our cars and makes us ride bicycles. In [...]

Reality Show: An Election

Election time is coming, screenwriters. Time to throw your script into the ring. You can include a scene in it where men throw their hats into the ring. I haven’t seen that in a while. I don’t even know what it means. Anyway. Here’s an idea that I’ve been selling on my professional scriptwriting site. [...]

Five Favorite TV Shows 2011

I don’t have a television set that is hooked up to anything and don’t use streaming much, so anything that I know about TV shows comes from seasons boxed on DVD. Ruling out all the canceled and concluded shows and miniseries that I’ve liked, my current favorites: Top 5 5. Sons of Anarchy 4. Breaking [...]

Reality Show: Funerals

You may have been to one or more funerals (though I hope not). You’ve seen a million of them on TV and in the movies, and they’re all the same. Whereas weddings are all over the place, themewise. This reality show, which I wrote, is now in pre-production. It’s called “Design a Funeral.” There are [...]

Is this really a golden age of television — and a Silly Putty age for film?

I want to do this real scientific. First, I pick three random viewers out of my mom’s colander: 12-year-old boy, 14-year-old boy, 16-year-old boy. Ok. No, wait. To be scientifc, I’ve got to have a fleamale, haha. Ok. And a 94-year-old lady, Esther Goldstein from next door. Ok, guys. Hi, Mrs. Goldstein, would you please [...]

Best Doughnuts for Adults

My agent signed me up to write a script for a doughnut commercial aimed at adults in New York City. The draft below can be tweaked for use with many other products. Feel free to use it as a template if you want to. [We see two doughnuts talking. Subliminal physical clues around their respective [...]

Reality Show: “1,000 Lbs of Love”

This project has been funded by a broadcast network, but is awaiting the signing of the two protagonists in the show. A special RV sits in Van Buren, Maine, in the farthest north-east corner of the continental U.S. Another waits in Imperial Beach, California, south of San Diego and Chula Vista, in the farthest south-west [...]