Geico's Cavemen May Get Own TV Series
The potential series, one of 14 pilots that will be produced by Touchstone Television this spring, features the cavemen as they "struggle with prejudice on a daily basis as they strive to live the lives of normal thirty-somethings in 2007 Atlanta."
It's unusual for characters from an advertising campaign to move into shows of their own, but not unprecedented. The CBS comedy "Baby Bob" featured a talking baby that had been used in several advertisements, according to Daily Variety.
The advertising copywriter who helped create the "cavemen" ads is writing the pilot, the studio said.
A pilot order is no guarantee a show will make it on the air; in fact, the majority of pilots don't make it that far.***Yes right... Baby Bob. Long running award winning television that was. Gah.
I love the cavemen. I think they are really funny- in 30 second spots. I just can't imagine dragging that bit out over 20 minutes for a sit-com. I bet they pitched it as "Friends, but with cavemen!" Just because something is not unprecedented doesn't mean that it's ok. It's just a horrible horrible idea and will ruin any funny that the commercials ever had.
March 03, 2007
Now this is a phenomenally bad idea
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Yeah, I can agree that it would be bad to have a full 20 minutes of that. Ouch.
"Friends, but with cavemen!"
Hehehe. Priceless!!
you know....that's so funny...i was just thinking over the weekend that there was a severe lack of caveman sitcoms on network TV.
unless it's captain caveman, i'm not really interested
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