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1-2-3 Hail TV

Project admins: ouroboros, misuba

Summary: Wake up, switch on, eat my breakfast, and the picture goes wrong; three hundred channels and there's nothing on.

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Television is the window on the American living room.

Players will develop a season’s worth of television shows, in the form
of capsule reviews. Weekly “special feature” articles will invite the
players to expound upon one aspect of their show(s): the actors,
producers, or special episode.

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Schedule of Programming

posted by ouroboros

Although it is in the specifications for Fictionsuit to add more facility for automated indexing of projects, for the time-being it falls to me to look at the individual nodes themselves and create indices.

Here is a schedule of programming:

Monday

no regularly scheduled programming

suggestion of “After-School Specials”, 4pm<...Read more...

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posted by misuba

A couple of points:

Yes, you may work ahead… just note the actual air date of the episode. General Plan has many examples. Yes, 1-2-3 Hail TV is a single network; once a timeslot is booked, it’s full.

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To clarify

posted by misuba

Your first page in 1-2-3 Hail TV should read like a verbose TV Guide entry, first listing the time, title, genre and length of the show in question. (The title of the page, as opposed to the show, should likely be in the format “Show Title – Episode n”, and no, that episode number doesn’t have to start at 1 or go in order. We just need the pa...Read more...

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discuss the rules

posted by ouroboros

Each player creates a television series (or more than one), and writes capsule reviews of the week’s episode. Choose a time-slot that is appropriate for the type of show (soap opera, cartoon, adventure, teen drama, medical, crime, et cetera), but also one that can be used as a deadline for us to expect your review by.

Perhaps some sort of competitive game will emerge to adjudica...Read more...

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