I thought there was already a thread here about Shit My Dad Says turning into a sitcom, but I can’t seem to find it to bump properly.
Anyway, it looks like William Shatner got the part of “My Dad.” My mind is still battling it out whether this makes things better or worse. I guess it can technically only make it better, since the idea of ‘shit my dad says’ as a sitcom is pretty much at the bottom of the barrel to begin with.
Personally, I always read those tweets in my head with the voice of Stacy Keach from his days on Titus.
Weird coincidence that @shitmydadsays famously only follows @levarburton and then Shatner gets cast for the show. Will he add @WilliamShatner? He hasn’t yet!
A list of potential titles: Shat My Dad Says My Dad, Shat My Dad Shat Shat, My Dad Shat is My Father My Father is William Shatner Your Father is Not William Shatner
Has an actor ever had five hit series? Star Trek (yes, I know it wasn’t a ratings hit originally), TJ Hooker, Rescue 911, Boston Legal, and now potentially Shit My Shat Shat? Actually, has another actor ever had four? This is exciting.
I’m pretty sure Shatner’s Raw Nerve on Biography has had decent ratings too. I just don’t understand how you make a show out of tweets. Is this the new “based on the stand-up of some comic” sit-com model?
It’s a fucking idiotic concept, but I think it’s rather apparent how the (extremely overrated) tweets would translate: LOOK AT THIS KOOKY YET RAMBUNCTIOUS OLD DUDE, which sans the obscenity makes it a fairly run-of-the-mill sitcom!
The appeal has less to do with Tweets and more to do with the character (er, real person), and an interesting character is a perfectly valid thing on which to base a show. But I agree that there is no way this concept could ever be good on network television. They aren’t even going to be able to use the title, fer chrissakes. Maybe HBO could take the concept in the direction it would need to go, but CBS sure as hell can’t.
