discuss the rules

Each player creates a television series (or more than one), and writes capsule reviews of the week’s episode. Choose a time-slot that is appropriate for the type of show (soap opera, cartoon, adventure, teen drama, medical, crime, et cetera), but also one that can be used as a deadline for us to expect your review by.

Perhaps some sort of competitive game will emerge to adjudicate the assignments of Special Feature Articles that highlight an actor or episode, but everyone will get a couple opportunities at that. (The mean idea of “if you are so ‘on time’ with your posts, how about writing an extra one this week” comes to mind.)

And if you have an idea for a “Made for TV Movie”, we could probably stand to have one of those once a week too (Saturday afternoon, Sunday evening). (This should probably be rotating among the players as well.)

TV Guide is our model for capsule reviews. Keep it tight, and informative, but in an advertising product sort of way.

Television is the window on the American living room.

5 comments:

1. ouroboros, Fri Oct 14 05:17:15 -0500 2005

   So what we need first are proposals for the structure that assigns players Special Feature Articles and Made for TV Movies.

2. ouroboros, Fri Oct 14 05:20:08 -0500 2005

   Then again, are the Assignments the SFAs and MTVMs?

3. misuba, Fri Oct 14 06:45:45 -0500 2005

   That’s a good thought, or we could do the movies by special dispensation. I think we will want to have assignments for plain ol’ regular shows too – we can just say which kind of thing we want in the assignment text.

4. tim, Thu Oct 20 23:17:45 -0500 2005

   Question: Is this a single network, and thus once a show claims a time slot, it’s “full?” Or can there be competing shows on different networks fighting for viewers in the same time slot?

5. ouroboros, Fri Oct 21 01:32:43 -0500 2005

   Yes, this is a single network.

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