
Hey! Lots of new shows in development, and based on the ones I’ve selected to include here, the answer to the headline question should be fairly obvious.
1. According to The Wrap, Fox has ordered — and I kid you not that this is the name of the show — Babes on a Bus, a dating show that features 10 women hopping on a bus and traveling the country to find “Mr. Right.” They’ll be taken to towns, wooed by suitors, eat a nice restaurants and, at the end of each week, the women will have to decide whether to hop back onto the bus or stick around and see their relationships through.
Jesus. It’s being adapted from a Norwegian show.
2. According to Deadline, ABC has ordered Weird Desk, a paranormal investigation series set to air next summer. “Based on the alleged real-life mysteries from this world and beyond, it centers on the workings of a clandestine organization rumored to be named Weird Desk. The show comes from Carl Binder (Stargate) and David Tithcer (The Librarian).
3. TNT is developing a new buddy-cop drama, Hit, according to Deadline. The series comes from Jamie Foxx and Numbers producer Robert Port. The show “centers on two former high school football teammates and best friends — one a QB, one a WR -– who years later are ‘drafted’ by the Miami P.D. and assigned to HIT (High Impact Team).” Again, not making this up.
4. Vulture is reporting that NBC is developing a remake of the 1960′s Raymond Burr hit, Ironside, about a detective by a gunshot who must find new ways to investigate murders. The detective, as in the original, will be a sarcastic, abrasive type.
5. Mike Judge’s new show, Silicon Valley, the pilot of which has been given a green light by HBO, is “set in the high tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, where the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success.” It is said to be a single-camera dark comedy, and Mike Judge (Beavis & Butthead, Office Space, Idiocracy) will direct the pilot, set to shoot in the Spring.
That’s obviously my pick for the show to watch, mostly because of Mike Judge, but also because after law school, I helped to build a multimillion dollar Internet company during the dot com boom and ran it into the ground two years later because we had no idea what we were doing. I wish I could say I learned from the mistake, but I still have no idea what I’m doing.

(Source: Deadline)



I would watch:
#1 – I’d rather try to steal a hippo’s testicles.
#2 – It’s a scripted show, right? I’d give it a chance.
#3 – Jamie Foxx started in TV and TNT was wise enough to take over Southland, so yeah I’ll give it a shot.
#4 – Too many variables to prognosticate. We’ll see.
#5 – Mike Judge doing a dark comedy? It doesn’t matter who they are, what matters is their plan. Yes.
I probably will only watch #5. But #2 will be the cult “hit” that everyone screams about when it gets cancelled despite how hokey and poorly written it is.
I’ll watch the new Ironside only if they cast Michael Ironside as the lead.
Only if he has scanner powers.
You say you’re not making it up, but I still don’t believe Hit is a real show.
5 for sure…and probably would give 3 or 4 a shot.
Yeah, “Hit” sounds like one of those made-up pitches that DG did a while back. Holy shit.
#1 sounds like a sluttier version of Bret Michael’s Love Bus, which I didn’t even think was fucking possible.
Which one is terriers?
Babes on a Bus…a love road trip! Hooray true love!
I demand to know what dot com you helped run into the ground, Dustin. Please share that story.
Pets.com
It wouldn’t be a name you know now, but basically, we did what Demand Media did before they came and blew us out of the water, then we built a blogging platform that Blogger.com came and blew out of the water, and with what little money we had left, we built something that Yelp would later come along and blow out of the water. We were ahead of the curve, but other people did it much, much better. However, the second generation of the same company, which I have since left, became hugely popular selling cowboy boots — of all things — after I sold my interest in the company. You can (very) indirectly thank me for all those Country Outfitter links that pollute your FB feeds. YOU’RE WELCOME.
#4 – I’m still holding out for “Wheels and the Leg Man”
Papa Wheelie will not be a side character, however. Never Papa Wheelie.
What exactly is a “detective by a gunshot?”
Wondering the same thing. Pretty sure it’s supposed to say “crippled by” or “blinded by” or something.
Or rendered impotent, perhaps.
In the context of that sentence, this would mean that the detective used to solve crimes with his dick. But I suppose that’s the way most of them do it. Except for the lady detectives, of course, who solve crimes with other people’s dicks.
Idiocracy; The Series.
MAKE IT HAPPEN MIKE JUDGE.
Yeah, the banner pic got me all pumped up for an Idiocracy series. Then I read the article like a fag.
3. I really hope they throw a curve ball and have the two cops be entirely corrupt and just abuse their power to bang hookers and snort confiscated heroin off of their asses, ya know like real cops.
Is “Babes On A Bus” going to make my “BangBus” membership obsolete…?
Weird Desk, from the minds that brought you Space Journey, Two Mountaintops and the surprise hit Galaxy Door!
I’ll give Judge’s comedy a shot. . . I don’t think the babe bus show isn’t going to work out so well. The public transportation is way different in Norway than it is in ‘Murrica.
“Babes on the Bus” sounds a lot like “Madden Nation.”
#1 is gonna turn out to be Bang Bus lite isn’t it? Fox turned into a hardcore sex channel so gradually I hardly even noticed it.
#5, of course. #2 has a funny title, and a premise vague enough that my interest would really come down to the funny title, which is funny enough that it might mean the show will be charmingly goofy.
All of those could be good if they’re executed well. Except for #1.
Good ol’ Danger,never misses an opportunity to point out he went to law school.