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Prime Time Adventures
Producer: Link Current Season: Name To Be Determined
Romeo & Juliet: Detectives & Crime Family
Premise: Two families on either side of the law, joined in peace for many years by a marriage, begin to fray and unravel when the wedded couple suddenly dies.
Tone: Dark and gritty; Snappy dialog and gruesome realities
Genre: Crime Drama with Soap Opera
Setting: Providence, RI
Details Brainstorm
- Play both sides?
- Large cast
- Generation after marriage?
- Righteous and the unjust
- A will?
- Fight over the children?
- Children in trust?
- Fight over the children?
- Focus on two families
- Children are focus?
- Children are not protagonists
- End with spotlight on family heads
- Questionably lawful city?
Franchise Brainstorm
- Violence
- Abuse
- Aftermath of violence
- Occupational scene
- Unexpected character twists
- Characters don’t expect each others’ actions
- Bard’s tongue
- No truly happy endings
- Continuing theme of decoupling and coming apart
- Indication of similarity between families
- Visceral actions
- Swearing
- Racism
- Alteration of perception – Reversal
- Children mirror events
- Narrator – one of the children
- Children as objects
Character Brainstorm
- Upstanding son (Michael Corleone)
- Police Chief McGuy
- Mafia Don/Boss/Slurrio
- Ambitious young turk
- Higher-up crime dood from outside
- Blunt outsider
- Shifty foreigner
- Secret lovers
- Narrator
- Black sheep – conscience?
- Servant (pool boy, gardener)
- Pawns
- Militant person X
- Grandmother, matriarch
- Detective loyal son
- Easy-going con man
- Police chief’s daughter
- Manipulative older advisor with suspect motives
- Trophy wife
- Manipulative wife
- Father confessor to both families
- Golden Boy
- Local bartender
- Surviving sibling of married couple
- Person back from prison
- Public defender
- Back from College
Recommended Viewing
- The Godfather, Part One
- The Departed
- In the Line of Fire
- The Shield
- The Black Donnellys
Air Dates
Showtime: 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm
Title | Episode | Air Date | ||
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TBA | 100 | Monday, June 16th, 2008 | ||
Pilot; No Ned. | ||||
TBA | 101 | Monday, June 23rd, 2008 | ||
Season Premiere; No Ned. | ||||
TBA | 102 | Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 | ||
Episode Two | ||||
TBA | 103 | Monday, July 14th, 2008 | ||
Episode Three. | ||||
TBA | 104 | Monday, July 21st, 2007 | ||
Episode Four. | ||||
TBA | 105 | Monday, July 28th, 2007 | ||
Season Finale. |