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| From | "josh chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Monkees? |
| Date | Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:56:37 -0500 |
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Bob, I'd be shocked if this isn't exactly what they have in mind.
----- Original Message -----
From: bob <segarini@sympatico.ca>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: Monkees?
> If someone smart, ( and I'm ignoring taste, originality, and humor, here),
> was in charge, who had a grasp of what a "bread and circus's" existence
> broadcast TV has had foisted on it, and knows how lame the vast majority
of
> broadcast television viewers are to gobble up every mind numbingly stupid
> reality show, and who's taste for humiliation, greed, gossip, and
> voyeuristic wank-fest nosiness seems to be insatiable, he'd do the
> ridiculously obvious:
> Weeks of broadcast auditions, humiliating expulsions from the show,
exposé's
> of the participant's pasts, selecting the four Monkees with an audience
> ballot in cases of Pepsi, Doritos, and Yoo Hoos, sequester the band in a
> house/rehearsal studio with cameras everywhere, vote on who's songs suck
and
> who's should be recorded, solicit songs from the audience, and THEN give
> them the series, with ANOTHER series that follows them behind the scenes.
> The audience could then choose their clothes, their girlfriends,...hell,
the
> possibilities are endless...I think I just heard the NBC creative (ha!)
> department salivate...Christ, it could have it's own channel.
>
> bob
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karen Hoskins" <KarenSH@webtv.net>
> To: <audities@smoe.org>
> Cc: <audities@smoe.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 8:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Monkees?
>
>
> >
> > They already tried The New Monkees in the 80's when The Monkees were
> > having their big revival. It was a major flop. So what makes them think
> > it would work this time?
> >
> > Oh, I forgot, we're talking about network programmers here, Silly me.
> >
> > Karen
> >
> > marmil@MUZE.com wrote:
> > NBC has officially given the green light for "The Monkees," a half-
> > hour pilot based on the 1960s NBC series.<<
> > Has anyone hear about this?
> > Marc
> >
>
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