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Almost...what about a series focused on NASTAR: the Nebula Association of Superluminal Transport Asterism Racing?

You could have episodes about the pilots trials & tribulations, and every once in a while, show races, complete with Hyperspace drafting, swappin' hull plating, and the occasional wreck. It would be no more scripted than a wrestling show, and would be far more likely to appeal to the genre fiction market.
 

Here's another one: dust off the old Twilight Zone format.

Shows that followed in its wake- especially The Outer Limits- did stories based on not only their own writing staff, but also short fiction by some of genre fiction's biggest names.

Form a partnership with a quality genre fiction magazine- one of the great old ones- NO, not the critters from the Mythos stories! I'm talking about a publication like Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine. Open up their vaults and comb over some of the quality short fiction of the past 5 decades or so, and make 1 hour episodes.

The magazine gets a share, the writers get a share and exposure (important!) and SyFy gets a strong show which, done properly, could be a goldmine. I know for a fact that some of the authors that have appeared in that magazine feature repeatedly reused characters & settings- an episode featuring such a story could easily be spun off.
 

Does anyone remember the old Spielberg produced series based on the TSR publication Amazing Stories? Not just Sci-fi/horror but some really good pulp sci-fi and even some pseudo-science/near alternate future stories.

THAT would be sci-fi gold now-a-days. Of course, the obvious choice means that they bought the rights and the bitch queen of programming has burned all the copies so she can create another wrestling show...
 

Dannyalcatraz said:
Almost...what about a series focused on NASTAR: the Nebula Association of Superluminal Transport Asterism Racing?

You could have episodes about the pilots trials & tribulations, and every once in a while, show races, complete with Hyperspace drafting, swappin' hull plating, and the occasional wreck. It would be no more scripted than a wrestling show, and would be far more likely to appeal to the genre fiction market.
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Especially if they had good CGI, of course it would probably end up like Yogi's All-Star Saturday Racing (for those that remembered that short lived Hanna-Barberra conglomeration on early 80s ABC Saturday morning line-up...or even when they used to HAVE cartoons on Saturday morning.)
 


Dannyalcatraz said:
Almost...what about a series focused on NASTAR: the Nebula Association of Superluminal Transport Asterism Racing?

You could have episodes about the pilots trials & tribulations, and every once in a while, show races, complete with Hyperspace drafting, swappin' hull plating, and the occasional wreck. It would be no more scripted than a wrestling show, and would be far more likely to appeal to the genre fiction market.
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They could actually make it real, and base it on a video game. Then, the real racers drive their real video game vehicles. And the race is cut from different cameras.
 

Janx said:
They could actually make it real, and base it on a video game. Then, the real racers drive their real video game vehicles. And the race is cut from different cameras.
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Now THAT sounds like an idea, kind of like taping the old Battletech simulators they used to have, plus some "outside" stationary ones besides just POV, I assume? Hell, make it a game show, and air live. No reality crap or scripted trash talking, just taped interviews of contestants to be shown at certain intervals, each racer climbs in their sim and the starts the race until crash, finish or DQ.

I LIKE it!
 



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