I'm not really sure if this should go in the Drama or Comedy category.FX has six drama pilots in contention for this fall, and one of them is The Patriot, which is being described as "the anti-24," because it shows all of the mundane things an agent has to go through every single day and not the "there's a nuclear bomb going off/I'm being tortured/gun battle" stuff that Jack Bauer goes through. There's potential here for realistic drama (it's written by Steven Conrad, the man who wrote The Pursuit of Happyness) or funny satire. Maybe they can show him getting coffee in the morning, getting a parking ticket, having a problem with human resources, that sort of thing.
Because there are so many dramas that might make the schedule, FX is going to add more episodes of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, so there's enough comedy on the network too. It returns September 13.
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7-13-2007 @ 8:56AM
Gordy said...
Wow. I got sleepy reading that. Thanks for the warning.
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7-13-2007 @ 10:42AM
Andy Grey said...
That's awesome about Sunny I mean it really is I can't wait for it to come back, but why was the announcement of it's season premiere something we have all been waiting for put as the last sentence in a post not tagged for it's always sunny, but for a completely different show. I read tv squad on an rss feed like many others. I went past the first paragraph because I'm a fan of 24, but if I weren't I would have missed this great peace of news. You know what I'm saying?
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7-13-2007 @ 1:48PM
edd said...
Sunny deserves it's own post! Great sitcome and I can't wait for it to return.
Ed
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7-13-2007 @ 4:20PM
John said...
"Maybe they can show him getting coffee in the morning, getting a parking ticket, having a problem with human resources, that sort of thing."
Or even, y'know, *eating* or going to the bathroom once or twice in a day.
Jack Bauer.
Nicknames: Steel Trap Bowel. Ziploc Bladder. The Camel.
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7-13-2007 @ 6:45PM
Andy Nordvall said...
Weird, sounds a lot like this short film (which, in the spirit of full disclosure, I made with a friend)...
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/5905
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7-14-2007 @ 10:39PM
ctunightfall said...
1. I hope they have something close to the 24 real-time format.
2. I wanna see the main character go into a verbal tirade while being stuck in traffic.
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8-26-2007 @ 8:15PM
Babs Johnson said...
A years worth of breath right strips can't make me watch this junk.
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