Interest in a TV Show Draft?

[MLSNHTOWN]

Starting this thread to see if there is any interest in a TV Draft and also curious to get people's input into how to do it.

My thought would be snake draft (hopefully we can get 20). 10 rounds. That is the easy part.

My other thought would be cut out stuff that is really difficult to compare things to like news shows (60 Minutes e.g. or Meet the Press), game shows, Sports shows (Wide World of Sports, Monday Night Football), and Interview Type Shows (The Tonight Show, Letterman, Oprah, Springer).

But then again, I don't know that they should be excluded....

the more I think about, the more I think they should be included.

Thoughts?
Interest?

[Father Ted]

I think maybe we should narrow it to a "Sitcom Draft" or "TV Drama draft".

[MLSNHTOWN]

I think maybe we should narrow it to a "Sitcom Draft" or "TV Drama draft".

Yeah that might be easier to do it in parts like that, but I am kind of interested in seeing how people balance it out with cartoons, reality shows, etc. Don't know....

[Quango]

Yeah that might be easier to do it in parts like that, but I am kind of interested in seeing how people balance it out with cartoons, reality shows, etc. Don't know....

I wanted to get one of these started a while back, but my idea got too convoluted. It was mainly to draft 5 or 6 half-hour shows and 4 or 5 full hour shows, then have everyone create their "primetime lineup" for four days with people voting on which channel they'd watch on a particular night. Like I said, convoluted.

I wouldn't leave out the variety and news shows. Maybe limit a news show or late night show to a specific anchor's tenure. Count me in if you get one started, though. Q

[Felixx219]

I would be down for that. I agree that it should be limited to a specific type of TV show like sitcom, drama, new show, etc. Maybe end up doing one for each genre of show.

[MLSNHTOWN]

I wanted to get one of these started a while back, but my idea got too convoluted. It was mainly to draft 5 or 6 half-hour shows and 4 or 5 full hour shows, then have everyone create their "primetime lineup" for four days with people voting on which channel they'd watch on a particular night. Like I said, convoluted.

I wouldn't leave out the variety and news shows. Maybe limit a news show or late night show to a specific anchor's tenure. Count me in if you get one started, though. Q

You know that is a really crazy idea that might be incredibly fun to program a primetime lineup five days a week after the draft is over. I will try to think about this some more to see if we can work it out.

I think it gets too lame to do a
Drama's draft
then a sit-com draft

Where do you put shows that fall in between and how do you categorize them?

Then you have to factor in that is about all of the interest we will have as no one will want to do non sit-coms or dramas.

Let me think on this over the weekend to see if I can come up with some fun format. If anyone finds one on the internet somewhere, let me know.

[Ismitje]

I am interested, and prefer a draft akin to the one in your OP - I agree that there's a pretty fine line sometimes between comedy and drama.

[Felixx219]

A sitcom is 30 minutes and a drama is an hour.

[frasermc]

i'd certainly be interested as well.

[Demosthenes]

I'd be interested.

[Belgian guy]

Would you do it by genre or would it be an all-encompassing draft? And if it is done by genre, what do we do with those shows that are a bit caught in between several genres?

[MLSNHTOWN]

Would you do it by genre or would it be an all-encompassing draft? And if it is done by genre, what do we do with those shows that are a bit caught in between several genres?

I think that is why we can't do it by a particular genre. Because how many TV shows would overlap in the comedy picks and the drama picks?

I think we should probably just allow it all....
or exclude News and Sports shows.

[Demosthenes]

I think that is why we can't do it by a particular genre. Because how many TV shows would overlap in the comedy picks and the drama picks?

I think we should probably just allow it all....
or exclude News and Sports shows.

I disagree. Comedy is 1/2 hour, drama is an hour. That's a universal rule of television. You can go by the way the Emmys categorize things. These are the genres of TV I can think of:

sitcom (1/2 hour comedy)
scripted drama (hour long by definition)
reality/actuality program - non game-show
reality/actuality program - game-show or contest
variety, music or comedy program (i.e, sketch shows, the Daily Show, late night talk shows)
soap opera/daytime drama
daytime talk
children's animated program
primetime animated program (could be lumped in with sitcom)
news magazine program

There are more, but that's what I can think of.

[Val1]

I'm in. I think you ought to open it up to everything. What we're going for is the best mix of shows. Maybe we could have a total time limit, like the 10 shows have to have a weekly screen time of 7 hours to force some people into sitcoms and game shows.

[MLSNHTOWN]

I'm in. I think you ought to open it up to everything. What we're going for is the best mix of shows. Maybe we could have a total time limit, like the 10 shows have to have a weekly screen time of 7 hours to force some people into sitcoms and game shows.

How about we allow it all in? Then just say that you have to put together a network lineup M-F 7-10. 15 hours total. So you get to put together that lineup however you want. Then we vote on best network lineup.

As for # of picks, I say we make it 20 so that people pick a decent amount of sitcoms and other 1/2 hour shows.

Shows that would typically be "daily" like news/sports shows would just count as one day in the draft.

[Quango]

How about we allow it all in? Then just say that you have to put together a network lineup M-F 7-10. 15 hours total. So you get to put together that lineup however you want. Then we vote on best network lineup.

As for # of picks, I say we make it 20 so that people pick a decent amount of sitcoms and other 1/2 hour shows.

Shows that would typically be "daily" like news/sports shows would just count as one day in the draft.

15 hours is a bit much, as is a 20 round draft. I'd say 2 hour nights M-Th (ala Fox). That's 8 hours of programming which is probably around 12 picks.

[scaryice]

I disagree. Comedy is 1/2 hour, drama is an hour. That's a universal rule of television. You can go by the way the Emmys categorize things. These are the genres of TV I can think of:

sitcom (1/2 hour comedy)
scripted drama (hour long by definition)
reality/actuality program - non game-show
reality/actuality program - game-show or contest
variety, music or comedy program (i.e, sketch shows, the Daily Show, late night talk shows)
soap opera/daytime drama
daytime talk
children's animated program
primetime animated program (could be lumped in with sitcom)
news magazine program

There are more, but that's what I can think of.

Each person should pick one show for each category...maybe two for the first two categories. I would include daytime dramas in with the scripted drama category, since that's not fair to guys.

[billyireland]

I'm in.

[Demosthenes]

How about we allow it all in? Then just say that you have to put together a network lineup M-F 7-10. 15 hours total. So you get to put together that lineup however you want. Then we vote on best network lineup.

As for # of picks, I say we make it 20 so that people pick a decent amount of sitcoms and other 1/2 hour shows.

Shows that would typically be "daily" like news/sports shows would just count as one day in the draft.

IMO, putting it together as a M-F lineup is too much, and not necessary.

I would say, just make it a TV show draft, but with limitations (ex: no news programs). If there are certain genres we wish to omit, then we'll just agree from the start that they're out of bounds. Otherwise, it's just come up with a list of 10, 15, or 20 shows. Part of the challenge is arriving at a good mix of genres.

[TheSlipperyOne]

I'll be in depending on how it's run.

I think it should be dramas and comedies.