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They’re making TV shows based on Twitter accounts now? Hold on, let me just get my stationary out.
Dear Hollywood,
Really?
Signed,
Professor Tumbldore
From The Hollywood Reporter:
Twitter sensation Shit My Dad Says is headed to television.
CBS has picked up a comedy project based on the Twitter account, which has enlisted more than 700,000 followers since launching in August and has made its creator, Justin Halpern, an Internet star.
Don’t get me wrong, that is a perfectly funny Twitter account. I’m sure it would make a perfectly decent coffee table book. But a whole TV show? So it’s a show about how dads say stuff? I’m glad Arrested Development got canceled and that The Wire is over, this engrossing idea is going to require all my attention! Although it is going to have to share some of my overwhelming enthusiasm with another show based on a Twitter feed (basically):
Shit My Dad Says is the second hot Internet property to land at a broadcast network this development season as a potential half-hour series.
Fox is developing a multicamera comedy based on popular Web site TextsFromLastNight, with Sony TV and Happy Madison producing.
“Four friends live together in a cell-phone as they try to find true text in the big BLAH.” LOL Smiley Face, indeed.
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everybody loves shit my dad says
pretty lame, milhouse. i was always convinced this ‘shit’ was just made up anyway.
I can’t wait till “404: Page cannot be Found” becomes a movie starring Britney Spears and Dax Shepard.
“404: Page cannot be Found” will be an episode of 30 Rock where Kenneth “wins” a game of hide and seek with Tracy.
SMDS is the new MILF. I know you can say ‘shit’ on TV now, but there is no way CBS will call a show that. New game.. What will this show be called?
- Dad, you mad!
- C’mon Son.
- eDad
Dads Say the Darndest Things
American Dad 2: Full Throttle
This Dad of Mine
Modern Dad
Dad’s in the House
Uh Oh, Here Comes Dad
29 year-old living with his parents, twittering all day instead of working and getting his own apartment. Obviously this show should be called Get A Life.
I’ve got it, Modern Family
Real Twitters of Orange County.
Hell’s Twitter.
Shit My Dad Says in the Family
I stopped watching television ever since they cancelled Matlock.
Topher Grace just signed on to play me in the new show about the videogum twitter list. And that is what is up with Topher Grace.
fake.
(please?)
NO FUCKING WAY
I was rambling about Bullshit way before this douchenozzle
On Twitter. Rambling about Unimportant Bullshit on Twitter before this guy.
I save My best stuff for Videogum
LOLnot
“It’s not the gardener’s job to pick up the dog shit. If you don’t want to pick up the dog shit, then learn a skill like gardening.”
so since they can’t use the original title I wonder what they’ll call it…oh, i know – ALMOST EVERY SHOW EVER MADE.
So when does Videogum get its own show then?
Judging by the inversely proportional ratio between quality and screen time, it’ll probably arrive during Fall 20-Never
Clearly @party_boys would make a WAY better sitcom.
If we’re going to make a Twitter account a TV series, my vote is http://twitter.com/fireland
Josh Allen is THE FUNNIEST. Every one of his twitters could launch at least a sketch.
weird. that was my exact sentiment.”Doing crunches with Matt Damon.” episode one all taken care of.
Production costs for @party_boys TV would be like $100M an episode. But ad revenue would be roughly $100B.
Isn’t Texts From Last Night going to translate into a TV show that is, um….porn? With being drunk? and barfing? I don’t think I understand the world anymore.
You guys, Happy Madison is co-producing. From the minds that brought you I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry and Paul Blart: Mall Cop.
“Just pay the parking ticket. Don’t be so outraged. You’re not a freedom fighter in the civil rights movement. You double parked.”
SO TRUE!
“The worst thing you can be is a liar….Okay fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but THEN, number two is liar. Nazi 1, Liar 2″
Wow, this guy is the best!!
man, there goes my idea for “shits my dog takes.” i swear i was this close to getting a book deal.
How does this get picked up for a pilot but my idea for a cop drama based on Google Reader get laughed out of the room?
This gives me hope for my “I Tweet What I Eat” show for the Food Network.
Dad TV
The first person I thought of to play DAD was Emilio Estevez… It could come on after Two and a Half Men.
i feel like we need someone crustier. do you think that clint eastwood is busy?
In a related story, FOX green-lights a http://www.sumodawg.com pilot.
This is clearly the next twitter account that should be turned into a tv show:
http://twitter.com/helen_Keller
Created by Seth MacFarlane, starring Jeff Dunham
Now in development: the Ringtone Variety Hour, hosted by Keyboard Cat and brought to you by a banner ad I once saw on CNN.com.
I love SMDS….favorite:
“Don’t touch the bacon, it’s not done yet. You let me handle the bacon, and i’ll let you handle..what ever it is you do. I guess nothing.”
if i was going to make a tv series into a twitter account, it would be the hills.
Twitter tv makes sense. People’s attention spans are so
Ashton Kutcher has almost 4 million followers! Next thing you know, they’ll try to give HIM his own movie!
…. oh… wait….
:/
I mean… this was a website that existed before twitter? Once upon a time? Though it was always basically twitter in general website form. I always thought it smacked too heavily of the superior Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About and also the Things My Boyfriend Says.
…Evidence of the website’s existance outside of twitter is startlingly difficult to find.
Aaand I can’t find it. It most certainly existed before Aug 3rd 2009 though.
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About got to be a book back in the day before every other online fab becoming a book (so, like 2005). It would totally make a better show.
Good lord. I would like to apologize to everyone who tried to read the first sentence. “Back in the day before every online fad became a book” should make a little more sense there.
Just make sure you throw us a big video pizza party when Hollywood turns our comments into a half hour variety show.