Thread by @delaneykingrox

Pitch: Peter Dinklage plays a dude in a decaying city on the borders of human space that becomes possessed by an AI entity that constantly provides hard noir style narration to his life.
He becomes a detective trying to solve where the AI came from and how to get rid of it.

Pitch: martial arts have been banned under a totalitarian regime that seeks to make humanity easily controlled.
When aliens attack, the last guardians of those lost arts are the only humans left who can fight.

Pitch: Jurassic Empire

The technique of frog dna manipulation in Jurassic Park spawned an intelligent race of velociraptors. Ultimately, humanity is wiped out.

In the far future, one of them extracts some human DNA and starts a human theme park.

Pitch: spooky quirky Murder She Wrote sequel, a young murder mystery writer is trying to solve the mysterious death of Jessica Fletcher, her hero, who she is obsessed with.

Pitch: a mockumentary following a down on their luck alien band who picks up an ancient earth broadcast of the film This Is Spinal Tap.
Stealing the band name and the shows, they become massively successful.

Featuring the voice talent of the original cast.

Pitch: dungeons and dragons TV show focusing on a tavern, and the locals, regulars and the batshit things that happen. Think Cheers.

Pitch: Buffy sequel that follows @feliciaday's character Vi as the teacher of a school for Slayers. Mostly teen drama but using the same concept of inner demons being outer demons.

Also featuring @tomlenk who is now an occult detective.

Pitch: ancient, massive, tentacled Old One of immense power wakes up and does some recon in human form, finds out that she adores human food, loves video games and pop music and doesn't want the old ones (or the humans) to destroy this good thing . She decides to help.

Pitch: a strange cosmic event fires off and human consciousness is suddenly stuck inside the devices they where using, in the media they where looking at.
Can a band of tech support people reconnect the devices and draw humanity back into a unified space, and find a way out?

Pitch: Mummy (1999) sequel TV show where the original cast return as their older selves and battle the dark forces of the British Museum who have been stealing artefacts holding worse beings than hot dad Mummy trying to become a supreme godlike entity.

Pitch: The Orb. A series of short fantasy stories by different directors and studios that are tied together by a wizard contemplating his orb. His ultimate question is how best to use his power going forward.

Pitch: The Fur and The Furious. A film about sexy furry race car drivers. Think just the weird sexy parts of Cats turned up to 11 for a certain audience.

Ain't my thing, but jesus fuck someone needs to give them what they want.

Pitch: humanity is all but wiped out and vampires survive in a decadent society. The few humans left have social status based on how delicious or nutritious they are, with the most delicious being worshipped like rockstars.

Pitch: Dorian Grey in reverse. A noble grows uglier the more she does good, but she does it anyway, despite her painting mocking her.

Pitch: a dimensional rift splits the earth in two at the equator and slowly begins to suck both sides into it. Nobody knows what is inside the rift as nobody ever comes back.

All humanity flees toward the two poles and argues over its possible impending doom.

Pitch: Everyone in a tiny bookshop gets lost. They find others, surviving in this strange, endless maze of shelves and tea rooms.

Pitch: a cooking show where one side has the tools, the other has the dishes, bowls and ovens.

There is a twelve foot gap in between them that they have to throw the food over.

Pitch: apprentice star. A reality show where a celebrity shares their life with a young person that is down on their luck and they have to teach them all the tricks and tips they know to be their replacement.

A show about busting the myths of celebrity and self improvement

Pitch: Tell All: a washed up movie star writing their autobiography featuring a famous painful breakup discovers whatever they write comes true for their ex. Only problem, the ex is also writing her autobiography with the same powers.

Pitch: The Curse of Miss Fortune. A woman cursed with extremely, extremely bad luck is captured by pirates, only for that wildly bad luck to rubs off at the worst of times. Through a hilarious series of butterfly wings events she becomes an unwitting pirate captain.

Pitch: James Bond movie where Bond realises the villain is actually a hero and their plan will make the world a much better place and decides to covertly help her instead.

Pitch: the most powerful male wizard childe who bears the mark is always destined to take over the college of magic.

So what happens when it turns out that Harry is actually a Harriet?

Pitch: the reptilian shape shifters are unmasked by the harmonics of the latest generation of cell phones- they struggle to fit into everyday society and fight the prejudice of them being baby eating illuminati.

Pitch: breaking bad but instead of ice, a man discovers a blend of secret herbs and spices that makes all over fast food taste like dirt in comparison.

Pitch: after Satan dies of covid, hell freezes over and the now unemployed demons are forced up to live with us. They were just doing their jobs, and aren't particularly evil and just need to adjust to human life.

Set up like Friends, Seinfeld or Third Rock.

Pitch: I dream of Jeannie, but the guy who rubbed the lamp is a basically Jason Bateman. Think Jessica Jones series 1.

Pitch: Notting Hill remakr but Hugh Grant's character is a soft butch lesbian running a small book store.

*remake

Pitch: Postman Pat but it's Post Apocalypse Pat.

Pitch: Ghostbusters but the Ghostbusters are capitalists sucking the ghosts of loved ones up from graveyards and putting them to work in the mail order sales factory.

Pitch: Snow White but the queen falls in love with Snow White, and the king is a much older man and a powerful sorcerer.
The queen must learn witchcraft to beat him.

Pitch: a zombie virus outbreak happens but they find a cure and go around shooting up the zombies with it. The cured only have a dim memory of who they were, and have to put their lives back together. But do their old lives even fit anymore?

Pitch: something happens that means when people die, their conciousness manifests in a nearby animal. So now cows are telling people who murdered them and monkeys really can type out Shakespeare. And when the animals die? They wake up in a new animal.

Uh oh.

Pitch: a Brittish Dyke with ADHD sitting on a sofa in Australia can come up with pitches all day and night. She probably should get a job doing that, but she already has a job making video games and is very tired.

Anyway, if you found this amusing, or want to steal an idea..

...go for it, just make it good.

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