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These days, hearing that a novelty blog or Twitter account is going to be made into a television show is basically the same as hearing about how a movie that has already been remade eleven times is going to be remade a twelfth time, concurrent with the thirteenth remake of the same movie. Genius business as usual. And in the case of something like Shit My Dad Says, you could pretty much tell where they were going with the TV show version. There was at least a character. But now they’re (“they’re”) going to make a Texts From Last Night TV show? What could that EVEN POSSIBLY BE? From Deadline:
Fox has tapped Ugly Betty creator Silvio Horta to develop a half-hour comedy based on the infamous blog Texts From Last Night. Happy Madison and Sony Pictures TV are producing. The network, Happy Madison and Sony TV first took a stab at developing a comedy based on the Web site two seasons ago with Steve Holland as the writer. Last season, it was redeveloped with different writers, Marc Abrams and Michael Benson. Now a new take will be written by Horta.
Oooh, so no one knows? No one knows how to make this a TV show. Everyone in Hollywood has taken a stab at making this blog about drunken text messages into a TV show and they’ve all failed. Well first of all, please keep trying. Never give up the dream. There are at least thirty billion dollars to be made with the TFLN franchise. Second of all take a look at these options:
- A guy runs a blog about drunken text messages and in every episode he falls in love with a woman who sends in a drunken text message for the site, but almost every time it’s just his younger brother playing a prank. “Will it just be his younger brother again?” everyone will wonder. There will be a lot of tension and every episode you’ll hope that he finds love, but almost always he will just find his younger brother. When it’s not his younger brother, the person is always at first upset because they thought the site was anonymous.
- A person keeps getting drunken text messages sent to their phone. “WHY DO I KEEP GETTING THESE” they’ll ask every episode. Then on the series finale you’ll find out that their phone number was accidentally advertised on the “Texts From Last Night” blog.
- A woman sends a drunk text to a guy and they fall in love, then the series is about the highs and lows of their relationship. They have the fights and their problems, but you can tell there’s a lot of love there and they have a good way of working through stuff together.
- A reality show where the cast is forced to get drunk or high and text each other.
- A person can’t stop sending non-sober texts, every single night. They have a very serious substance abuse problem but it is set to a laugh track. An interesting mix.
- A young girl sends a drunk text to her mom and gets grounded for the entirety of high school. The series follows her relationship with her mother, first enemies and then best friends.
- A reality show where a person is shown all of their drunk texts in front of a panel of their loved ones.
OOPS! Looks like somebody just out-Hollywood-ed Hollywood. Please send me my billions in $10s.
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Actually, the last one is the best option.
“Becky, You Texted – ‘I WANT YOU ANKLE DEEP INSIDE OF ME’”
(Father’s Face Gets all Red, Mom Faints)
I’m much more interested in a reality show where a bunch of writers are basically going insane because they can’t figure out a way to make a show based on a web blog about drunken text messages.
Anyone else imagining “Dude, Where’s My Car: The Series”?
Ok, that was not meant to be a reply. Sorry whoatom101!
I’m still upvoting your comment.
It’s a sitcom set in a bar where instead of money, you have to pay for your drinks with text messages to Texts From Last Night. The bar makes money off the blog revenue. Now give me one Emmy Award and one MBA, please.
Well, according to Wikipedia, Happy Madison is “best known for groundbreaking experimental films.” So pretty much, this is a show for people who consider “Bucky Larson” to be groundbreaking and experimental.
I think they were talking about Grandma’s Boy.
Was it an experiment to determine whether or not Allen Covert can carry a film? Because I could have saved them several million dollars on that one.
I’m thinking about getting metal legs. It’s a risky operation, but it’ll be worth it.
Adios turd nuggets!!! – a person who has seen Grandma’s Boy too many times
When I first read this I thought it was a Hannibal Buress reference, and we almost became friends.
But then I realized it was a Grandma’s Boy reference, and now I don’t think we have a chance.
METAL ARMS!
“I don’t think we have a chance” – TFLN: The Show’s slogan.
This show is just one David Duchovny away from Red Shoe Diaries.
Something tells me the commitment to do this show was sent via a late night drunken text.
best text from last night ever: “dui checkpoint outside of taco bell, i feel like that’s cheating”
“why don’t we just rip off the basic format of How I Met Your Mother?” – everyone in that writers room
is that a picture of the iPhone 5?
It’s a picture of the iPhone 5 with the new, improved version of Hipstamatic.
GEORGE: See, this should be a show. This is the show.
JERRY: What?
GEORGE: This. Just texting.
JERRY: (dismissing) Yeah, right.
GEORGE: I’m really serious. I think that’s a good idea.
JERRY: Just texting? Well what’s the show about?
GEORGE: It’s about texting.
JERRY: No story?
GEORGE: No forget the story.
JERRY: You’ve got to have a story.
GEORGE: Who says you gotta have a story? Remember when I texted LOL that time? That could be a TV show.
As a result of drunk texting (while driving) a man gets into an car accident. To avoid getting the police involved, or insurance, he agrees to be the other man’s butler for life.
My late night drunk texts are nonsense and borderline abstract demented art. If they turned it into a television show it would probably ended being “Crispin Hellion Glover’s What is It?”
No, that movie is way more watchable than any sitcom based on a joke site ever could be.
“Scenes with naked women in elephant masks, Shirley Temple, Glover being lowered deus-ex-machina style into a Maxfield Parrish scene…It’s like Fellini on psychedelics — wildly creative but completely twisted… but, uh, about texting and drinking.”
–Jane Ganahl
San Francisco Examiner
Combine it with the new Dane Cook show
“A person can’t stop sending non-sober texts, every single night. They have a very serious substance abuse problem but it is set to a laugh track. An interesting mix.”
So, what you’re saying is that this TV show will be a total ripoff of TMZ.
Plus laugh track.
The theme song will definitely be Last Friday Night by Katy Perry right? There’s no way that that’s NOT going to happen.
Also, this is so simple. Observe:
40 strangers wake up on a mysterious island. They all have a confusing text from last night on their phones. They must work together to work out who sent the messages. At the end of season one it turns out the messages were sent from a hatch, maybe there’s a polar bear. When it gets cancelled, it turns out it was a corporate bonding exercise gone wrong.
Send me all the money please.
Make it like the twilight zone, with a different group of characters each episode. At the beginning of the episode show the text, and then have the new half hour explaining how that text got sent. It’s like a mini hangover every episode.