Tremblant Lifestyle

Ever wonder how your favorite “traditional” TV shows could be adapted to a reality format?

The A-Team

Here is a show the whole family can enjoy. We take groups of real American combat veterans (PTSD included), load them into vans and send them off into the urban environment to fight greedy real estate developers, drug dealers, mean people, the elderly, the homeless, Mexicans, etc. A vigilante police force that we can watch on television with prizes for most B.A. Baracus moments, best ability to bark orders, jump out of helicopters, and wrestling criminals, all while smoking a giant cigar, and the million dollar prize at the end of the season goes to the team that maims the most drug dealers, bank robbers, or smug mini-mall developers.  The bigger the explosions, the better the chance for you’re A-Team to earn immunity during the elimination rounds.

Perfect Strangers

We take a Jewish man from Brooklyn, and a man from some Mediterranean country that no one’s ever heard of, and we give them a pizza place to run in the deep South (probably Alabama). Will they become friends?  Will their happiness evolve into some sort of annoyingly catchy dance?  Will the uglier of the two magically end up dating an impossibly hot blonde chick?  Will her father shoot both men because he’s racist?  Tune in and find out.

Miami Vice (it doesn’t get anymore real)

Speedboats! Speedboats! Speedboats! Speedboats! Speedboats! Speedboats! Speedboats! Speedboats! Speedboats! Speedboats! Speedboats! Speedboats! Speedboats! Speedboats!
Speedboats! Cash! Speedboats! Drugs! Speedboats! Speedboats! Speedboats!
Pink undershirts! Speedboats! Speedboats! Speedboats! Speedboats! Hot babes! Speedboats!Speedboats! No socks! Speedboats! Speedboats! Michael Mann rules! Speedboats! Speedboats!

Prison Break

We take your average middle class family and give them eight months to escape from a maximum security prison. If they succeed they win a house and a large sum of money.  If they lose they get shanked or turned into a cell mate’s bitch. With the housing crisis in full swing, plenty of families would volunteer for a show offering the security of a roof over their heads and three square meals a day. The downside would be the possibility of rape and murder at the hand of the other prisoners. Just think of the ratings people! Most of the contestant interviews would just be people bawling their eyes out, barely able to produce words like “horrible mistake” “Oz got it wrong” and “endless beatings.”

The Wire

The Wire is the greatest television show of all time. If you argue with me I will hunt you down like a dog. Here is the pitch for its reality show counterpart. Contestants are split into two groups. The premise is simple:  One side has to dominate the Baltimore drug trade, and the other has to stop them. The best part would be that it would actually take place on the actual streets of Baltimore with real Baltimore characters. Survivors will be given plots in Arlington National Cemetery along with a huge cash prize.  Should the drug dealing side win they can keep their earnings.  Should the drug-stopping side win, they get to confiscate the money, the drugs, and whatever they decide to do with them will be left to their discretion, or possibly recorded for spin-off show opportunities. Participants will be removed based on arrest warrants, gang shootings, stick up boys, and stray bullets flying through the air.

Night Court

We follow the lives of a real Manhattan night shift court room (if budget allows, in the 80s). The real John Larroquette could host since he isn’t really doing anything right now and I’m sure he would appreciate the work. This wouldn’t be a contest like the other shows but more of the day to day lives of underpaid, overworked city workers.

Full House

A group of young women have to live with Dave Coulier. Whoever is still there the next morning is declared the winner and receives a lifetime’s worth of counseling.

Hanging with Mr. Cooper

Mark Curry stars as Mark Cooper, a street wise former NBA player turned gym teacher living in Oakland California with three other people. Contestants named Mark Curry who play the best Mr. Cooper are allowed to keep playing Mr. Cooper and receiving a paycheck for doing so.

St Elsewhere

42 minutes of random children with down-syndrome staring into a snow globe. What’s going on inside their heads? No one knows except for the host of Lets Make a Deal.

Columbo

Peter Falk travels around America in a 1959 Peugeot 403 Cabriolet and solves mysteries with the help of a talking Great Dane and an all female rock band. Real mysteries. Real rock stars addicted to smack. Real talking dog. This show would be amazing.