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RE: Idea for a great TV show
January 25, 2020 at 2:56 pm
(January 25, 2020 at 2:24 pm)LastPoet Wrote: (January 25, 2020 at 12:43 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Here (New Zealand) the minimum wage is set to go to 18.90/hour in April. This is enough for a single person to live on, provided they work full time and don’t live in one of the larger cities, where rents are fucking insane.
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My handy-dandy online currency converter says 11.33 euros. A pint of beer in a not-very-posh restaurant in Auckland will run you the equivalent of about 5.5 euros.
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RE: Idea for a great TV show
January 26, 2020 at 11:03 am
(January 24, 2020 at 2:58 pm)kingtermite Wrote: I wish I knew someone in the TV industry to pitch this idea to so they could try to make it happen.
I have this idea for a TV show that's kind of like the anti-X-Files.
A couple of investigators, like Scully and Mulder who get calls of supernatural claims all the time (just like X-Files), but by the end of the episode they prove that there was a perfectly natural explanation EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.
How great would that be? 
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! comes to mind. They investigated fantastic claims and debunked them. It was on for several seasons and is available on DVD. I wish they would renew the series and continue the good work.
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RE: Idea for a great TV show
January 27, 2020 at 7:50 am
Here's an idea for the 1st episode
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RE: Idea for a great TV show
January 27, 2020 at 12:36 pm
Probe was a TV series where Isaac Asimov was one of the creators and the main character (played by Parker Stevenson) did a lot of debunking. It didn't last long, though; only six episodes aired.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probe_(1988_TV_series)
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RE: Idea for a great TV show
February 5, 2020 at 6:30 am
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(January 24, 2020 at 2:58 pm)kingtermite Wrote: I wish I knew someone in the TV industry to pitch this idea to so they could try to make it happen.
I have this idea for a TV show that's kind of like the anti-X-Files.
A couple of investigators, like Scully and Mulder who get calls of supernatural claims all the time (just like X-Files), but by the end of the episode they prove that there was a perfectly natural explanation EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.
How great would that be?
There's a ton of these shows on the sci-fi channel LOL
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Dude... In all seriousness I think you just gave me an idea for a small business! Thank you.
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RE: Idea for a great TV show
February 10, 2020 at 1:35 am
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Idea for a great TV show
February 10, 2020 at 1:42 am
Great TV show idea: Not have Ancient Aliens or any shit like it on the fucking History Channel!
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RE: Idea for a great TV show
February 10, 2020 at 9:35 am
(January 24, 2020 at 2:58 pm)kingtermite Wrote: I wish I knew someone in the TV industry to pitch this idea to so they could try to make it happen.
I have this idea for a TV show that's kind of like the anti-X-Files.
A couple of investigators, like Scully and Mulder who get calls of supernatural claims all the time (just like X-Files), but by the end of the episode they prove that there was a perfectly natural explanation EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.
How great would that be?
The original idea for the X-Files was that a lot of the time Scully would be right. The creators just were too lazy to implement it.
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