Major broadcast networks ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX are gearing up to run summer pilots that take advantage of this popular political season. The following is a list of promos currently being sent to network affiliates across the country:
HUCK, CHUCK AND JESUS (CBS) - In this righteously funny action series from the creators of “Friends” and “Walker, Texas Ranger,” Mike Huckabee and Chuck Norris play cross-country-roaming door-to-door life insurance salesmen who find trouble wherever they go. Fortunately, Huck and Chuck - armed with a portable Total Gym®, a five-year supply of Just for Men® and an endless reserve of roundhouse kicks - also have Jesus on their speed-dial.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF OCCUPATION (FOX) - Very loosely inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s international bestseller One Hundred Years of Solitude, John McCain leads this all-star Washington cast of Pentagon-fed TV military analysts, Bush administration lackeys and mainstream stenographers in a bid to occupy Iraq for the next hundred years. But McCain’s scandalous long-distance affair with Suad Ali (actress Salma Hayek), an Iraqi cabinet minister’s fetching wife, threatens to unravel the Republican presidential nominee’s occupation plans.
THAT HAGEE AIN'T WRIGHT (NBC) - Can a racist, homophobic, Catholic-denigrating deranged TV evangelist live with a nutty narcissistic pastor steeped in black liberation theology - without driving each other crazy? Or crazier? Find out in this “Odd Couple”-inspired reality series, when Rev. John Hagee and Rev. Jeremiah Wright share a Manhattan apartment in Chelsea this summer. God help them? God help us.
WHO LOVES AMERICA MORE, AMERICA? (ABC) - A cross between “American Idol” and an appearance in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). George Stephanopoulos hosts this game show where, following a series of opening statements by contestants and a McCarthy-era cross-examination by Stephanopoulos, viewers vote for who they think has their flag pin in the right place. If you know what we mean.
WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPSE (NBC) – Reminiscent of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," "Night of the Living Dead" and "The West Wing," veteran White House press corps member Helen Thomas plays herself in this episodic horror series. Surrounded by Washington journalists turned propaganda-consuming zombies, Thomas alone battles the high priestess of White House spin, brain-eating press secretary Dana Perino.
NOW, THAT BROTHA'S ANGRY! (FOX) – “Last Comic Standing” meets “Cops” as closest racist Pat Buchanan, iconic celebrity Mr. T, and current Guinness World Records “whitest man on earth” P.J. O'Rourke judge contestants who try to top each for the title of angriest brotha. Make sure your V-Chip is in place, lock your doors and protect your white women. These guys are not f*&%ing around, motherf*&$ers!
AMERICA'S WORST BOWLER (CBS) - Barack Obama famously bowled a 37. Celebrity juggernaut and host William Shatner begins each program bellowing, “C'mon, I've seen lobsters bowl better frames!" In this innovative game show, before tossing their bowling balls down the lane, contestants are blindfolded, plied with low-shelf tequila and spun at G-force speeds. The winners, those closest to duplicating Obama's score, then compete against each other in a bowl-off. The last one standing faces Obama himself for the title of "America's Worst Bowler."
Networks Announce Politically Inspired Summer Pilots
Posted by: B. Jacobson | May 02, 2008 at 06:39 PM
Love it!!
Posted by: BB | May 03, 2008 at 02:35 PM
I'm highly offended and I think you should be occupied for 100 years. Cheney, MOBILIZE!
Posted by: McManiac | May 06, 2008 at 02:12 AM