http://www.emilsit.net/blog/archives/grad-school-television/ Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:58:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.emilsit.net/blog/archives/grad-school-television/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Phil Williams Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:40:26 +0000 http://www.emilsit.net/blog/archives/grad-school-television/#comment-73 <p>What about JJ Abrams "Felicity." They weren't grads and storylines tended to focus on hooking up, but there was a decent amount of school events and pressure in the storylines, and it made for a great show.</p> What about JJ Abrams “Felicity.” They weren’t grads and storylines tended to focus on hooking up, but there was a decent amount of school events and pressure in the storylines, and it made for a great show.

]]> http://www.emilsit.net/blog/archives/grad-school-television/comment-page-1/#comment-26 dsandler.org ≡ Computer Science Investigation? Fri, 12 May 2006 14:35:22 +0000 http://www.emilsit.net/blog/archives/grad-school-television/#comment-26 <p>[...] 8:35 am / gradschool tv Emil Sit postulates about a TV drama about grad students. Here’s what would actually happen if you pitched an idea like that to a studio: they’d say, “It’s perfect! Except, maybe as a straight sitcom, instead of a drama. And instead of being about graduate scholarship, we’ll just make the whole grad school thing part of the quirky backdrop. Instead of going to lab or office hours, the characters would spend all their camera time in a coffeehouse or something, engaging in banal four-camera comedy.” [Ironically, this is one of my can’t-miss shows right now, and it just about matches that show profile. I guess I’m a sucker for snappy comedy writing and good casting.] [...]</p> [...] 8:35 am / gradschool tv Emil Sit postulates about a TV drama about grad students. Here’s what would actually happen if you pitched an idea like that to a studio: they’d say, “It’s perfect! Except, maybe as a straight sitcom, instead of a drama. And instead of being about graduate scholarship, we’ll just make the whole grad school thing part of the quirky backdrop. Instead of going to lab or office hours, the characters would spend all their camera time in a coffeehouse or something, engaging in banal four-camera comedy.” [Ironically, this is one of my can’t-miss shows right now, and it just about matches that show profile. I guess I’m a sucker for snappy comedy writing and good casting.] [...]

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