building a tv series

Pubmeet: where one can discuss fannishness, comics, tv scheduling and logistics of program making... and it's all in the name of nano.

'er, how the hell do I costume Apollo? Lycra=bad bad idea on telly.'
'Yeah, see 7 of 9, they had to re-do her costume.'
'Angie - I think light reflective fabric w/added circuitry. You know, the stuff they used for Islington in Neverwhere. Tron, though awesome, was something like $600 per costume. Not tv budget.'
'So how would you do Jack's feet?'
'Oh, easy, prosthetic treads. Been done.'

'Change or Die would work for an ongoing thread.... No, opening issue would be absolutely fine for a first ep. Big, boombastic, world spanning.'
'Have you thought that everyone would think Jenny being sick pre-credits of the last ep meant she was preggers? That's usual tv shorthand. Sick and coughing is dying, just sick is pregnancy...'
'Given that she's been sleeping with Shen, bloody miracle.'
'Yes, but this is *Jenny*. Drunken shags are a speciality.'

'So, given budget issues, you can't build the Carrier.'
'I was thinking control room, one room with a couch -'
'And Apollo and Midnighter's bedroom. Viewers will demand this.'
'Oh, so you'd have CGI windows that change constantly'
'and one that's always got Angry Birds on it. With occasional mutterings from Angie of 'die, you little green fuckers!' when she's supposed to be scanning.'

'Comic-con. Yeah, given it's a tentpole series, you'd be going with April airing. That means NYCC in Autumn, not San Diego. Guessing 90% of main filming would be done.'
'The Apollo and Midnighter actors will snog for the audience at least once, right?'
'There will also be going way past the interviewer's level of Ellis geekery.'

'Argh, how do I present that Apollo and Midnighter are a couple in first ep in a normal way?'
'Aside from all the publicity.'
'Er, not making a big deal of it married couple in show, married couple in show... um. Get thee to Firefly?'