So according to Michael Idato the name of a show is one of the most significant hurdles in developing a new program or movie.
Using this logic, shows and movies fail due to the lack of inspiration from the production team rather than issues such as overuse of laugh track (Rules of Engagement), highly repetitive plot devices (Rules of Engagement) and television has-beens clinging to their fading careers (David Spade from... yeah ok).
A good name apparently goes beyond merely making a show appealing to the viewing masses. It makes shows and movies that for all intensive purposes should fail, successful. Minor celebrity chefs cooking with vacuous amateurs, hosted by a man who made a career as an interior designer and the winner is declared either a tomato or a capsicum. It shouldn’t wok (sic). But stamp Ready, Steady, Cook! on the show and you have a nicely polished turd ready to please.
So with that in mind we here at sixpack have created three television programmes that although awful will undoubtedly be highly successful due to their eye-grabbing names.
1) Post-Modern Family
Three different families who are all intertwined in a complicated family structure. However all of these families are oppressed by the big corporations and the middle class society that they have been forced to live. What ensues is a heart-warming comedy about love, friendships and scepticism.
2) How I Met Your Stepmother
A warm sit-com about how a true-romantic, Jed, tells his kids about the awesome stories that arise from his long messy divorce and rushed rebound marriage to a Russian immigrant as a means to make his ex-wife jealous. Should be psychologically... wait for it... traumatising.
3) Diaries of a Call-Centre girl
Follows a sexy-yet-innocent 20-something making her way in the dirty world of telephone call centres. It puts the HO in pHOne.
Still sceptical of the power of the names? Sea Patrol is still on the air.
Xoxo Sixpack
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