{"id":494,"date":"2010-06-10T07:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/dodge\/2010\/06\/10\/a-tv-series-based-on-twitter-postingsnbsp-at-cbs\/"},"modified":"2010-06-10T07:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T14:24:00","slug":"a-tv-series-based-on-twitter-postingsnbsp-at-cbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/2010\/06\/10\/a-tv-series-based-on-twitter-postingsnbsp-at-cbs\/","title":{"rendered":"A TV Series based on a Tweet?  On CBS!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n\t<span><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\">A TV SERIES BASED ON TWITTER POSTINGS?<span>&nbsp; <\/span>AT CBS???<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n\t<span><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>Yep &ndash; that&rsquo;s exactly what this fall will bring.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>CBS has ordered a half-hour comedy for fall based on the popular series of Twitter postings <i>&amp;*$! My Dad Says<\/i>.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n\t<span><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>At first blush, this seems crazy &ndash; using something as slight as Twitter postings to base an entire TV series on.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>I mean, maybe some obscure cable channel might do it, but mighty CBS?<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n\t<span><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>That was my first reaction.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><i>This is crazy!<\/i><span>&nbsp; <\/span>But then I thought about it and realized that in many ways, there is nothing new about taking a series of short, humorous quips and turning them into a series.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>The networks have done it successfully over and over again&hellip;with stand-up comics.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>From Jerry Seinfeld to Bill Cosby to Tim Allen to Roseanne, networks have time and again taken the humor and comic persona\/character created by a polished stand-up act and built a series around that persona\/character.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n\t<span><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><i>&amp;*$! My Dad Says<\/i> does exactly that.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>The Twitter postings (and subsequent New York Times bestselling book based on it) clearly establish the comedic persona and character of Sam Halpern: irascible, uncensored, politically incorrect father of grown children (to be played by William Shatner in the CBS series.)<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n\t<span><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>By the way, with Cosby et al, the networks didn&rsquo;t just plop the stand-up act onto the screen.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>They hired talented, experienced TV writers and producers to develop a show around the central character.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Same thing has happened with <i>&amp;*$! My Dad Says<\/i>.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>The creators of <i>Will &amp; Grace<\/i> were brought in to craft the series.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n\t<span><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>TV series are about characters &ndash; especially their central character.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>The inspiration for this central character can come from all kinds of places &ndash; stand-up comedy, a play, a movie, real life.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>In the case of Sam Halpern, he came from real life.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>We were just made aware of him via Twitter.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>So while some may say that basing a TV series on a bunch of Twitter postings is yet another sign of the dumbing down of TV, I say it&rsquo;s just the 2010 version of the way things have always been.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A TV SERIES BASED ON TWITTER POSTINGS?&nbsp; AT CBS??? &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Yep &ndash; that&rsquo;s exactly what this fall will bring.&nbsp; CBS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":19923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"custom_author_name":"","chapman_pin_hero_slider":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv-broadcast-journalism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | Chapman Blogs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/2010\/06\/10\/a-tv-series-based-on-twitter-postingsnbsp-at-cbs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A TV Series based on a Tweet? 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