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Name: Open Skies
Type: hour-long sci-fi/drama airing on SyFy; summer hiatus show with 13 episodes per season
Synopsis: Captained by gambler and socialite Susannah Cassay, the fancy passenger airship Endymion, which makes trans-Atlantic voyages between the ports of Boston, London, and New York, caters to the rich and powerful, who prefer to travel in comfort and style. Some, like the wealthy Charlie Fulton, prefer this method of travel so much they choose to live on board, renting a permanent room, befriending (and sometimes dating) members of the crew as well as fellow passengers. Others, like the mysterious “Johanna Engall” (whose real name nobody knows) come and go, bringing odd occurrences in their wake. OPEN SKIES chronicles the daily lives of the crew of this ship, their friendships and feuds, as well as their adventures when dealing with unexpected happenings and trying to figure out who or what their Mysterious Stranger may be.
Theme song: Come Sail Away – Styx
Closing credits: changes each week, but always a song by Abney Park; songs usually selected for relevance to the episode’s plot.

title: (Re)Group
premise: The semi-estranged members of a massively popular late '90s boy band go on a reunion tour. Shenanigans ensue.
genre: Comedy/drama
miscellaney: Running time, one hour; twelve episodes in season one.


( as long as there's music, we'll be coming back again! )

Title: Morningstar
Prompt: Mytharchical War in Heaven show
Type: Tragic romance? Ensemble drama?
Starring: George Takei, David Krumholtz, Morena Baccarin, Keith Hamilton Cobb, Jessica Alba, Shannyn Sossamon, Isaiah Mustafa
Opening Credits: On the Turning Away, Pink Floyd
Closing Credits: Faithless, Rush
Synopsis: This is what happens when you break up with God.
For further information: see this post

Having read and become dizzy and delighted by mb_jazz_freak87's latest offering to this comm in the form of Fae, a show that is in all ways my kryptonite, I immediately had to write fic.

Here is the fic that I immediately had to write!


title: The Time That Robert's and William's Sisters Figured Out They Were Totally Dating
fandom: Fae
words: 2,000ish
rating: PG for acknowledgement that sex exists and people do it

Name: Fae
Type: hour-long drama on BBC2
Synopsis: The realm of the faeries is always ruled by a queen. Lately, however, there have been a few upsets in the rule over the faerie realm. First, long-standing queen Sybil was overthrown and exiled by her daughter Brigit; after Brigit ruled for 20 years, she was in turn overthrown and exiled by a former member of her court, Adelaide. Brigit and her children have been exiled to a human city – the same one, in fact, where Brigit sent her own mother 20 years ago. Now, they’re forced to live together, re-learning how to get along with each other while plotting ways to get back their family’s rightful throne. The show focuses on the daily lives of both Brigit’s family, learning to make their ways masquerading as humans in the city, and Adelaide’s family and court, getting accustomed to being in control and fighting to keep the throne they have won.
Opening theme: In Caelum Fero by Karl Jenkins

At my personal journal

mods, could I get a "show: fae" tag please?

Title: Unconventional Cooking
Prompt: From augustweary, the heartwarming adventures of an aspiring chef.
Type: Drama-Comedy
Setting: New York, New York
Opening Credits Song: The Blues are Still Blue - Belle & Sebastian; the last two verses until the end.
Closing Credits Song: You and I - Ingrid Michaelson; the last verses until the end.
Synopsis: Red Mercer [JIM STURGESS] is an idealistic dreamer, born and raised in New York City by his immigrant mother. Oblivious to anything outside his little dream world, Red is determined to start up his own restaurant and become a world renowned chef. Too bad he had to go and get caught up with the mob, though. Now, tangled up in a mess of murder and lies, Red, alongside June Hayward [JENNIFER LAWRENCE], a food critic who's being forced to pretend to be his fiance, have to wiggle their way out from underneath the mob's thumb and back to freedom.

If he can manage to become a great chef along the way, well, that's just a bonus.

Title: Special Intelligence
Prompt: From electrumqueen - "teen spy drama! two rival spy organisations are amalgamated and their operatives must learn to work together/not kill each other in their sleep."
Type: Serial action-mystery with some adolescent sexy-angsting. Full version on E4 with a (FCC-censored, probably) synch on the CW.
Setting: Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Paris, London, and Chicago.
Opening Credits Song: "Outside," Stealing Jane
Starring: Kathryn Prescott, Thomas McDonell, Naya Rivera, Nathan Stewart-Jarret, Yaya DeCosta, Mitch Hewer, Logan Lerman, Whitney Thompson, Douglas Booth, Juno Temple, Nick Roux, Georgie Henley
Synopsis: Six months after the United Kingdom merges its covert project B.R.I.T.O.N. with the United States' special forces organization O.P.S. into a transatlantic intelligence unit known as U.N.I.T.E.D., special agent Jane Donner (Kathryn Prescott) is found dead in Chicago carrying a flash drive with unrecognized code and the residue of e-mails sent from the U.N.I.T.E.D. bases in London, Paris, Las Vegas, New York, and LA. The fragile cooperation of U.N.I.T.E.D.'s agents is under pressure as some agents work to solve her murder... and others to cover their tracks. Special Intelligence is a twelve-part series that spans countries and loyalties as teenage spies do what they were trained to do best: lie.

( Characters )

Title: Cooked
Prompt: From grim_lupine: Behind the scenes at a Food Network type show.
Type: Upbeat romantic dramedy with hour-long episodes. Probably on ABC.
Setting: Offices, television studios, and apartments in Chicago, IL.
Opening Credits Song: How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You), Marvin Gaye
Synopsis: After winning a competition to find the next Food Channel star, Dinah Clark finds herself completely out of her depth as the newest addition to the channel's programming.

read the rest at my LJ!

TITLE: Beyond
PROMPT: None. (To tell you the truth, my thought process on this one largely went “Outcasts! So much promise! So much Hermione Norris! And yet... not quite! I FIX NOW. But still with Hermione Norris, because fuck yeah Hermione Norris!” Also it turned into a bit of a Spooks reunion when I wasn’t looking, because I’m predictable like that.)
TYPE: SF drama; 10-episode season on BBC1
TITLE THEME: Brian Jonestown Massacre -- You Look Great When I’m Fucked Up
SUMMARY: A military base on the planet Outbeyond is in the process of adjusting to the arrival of a group of civilian colonists when a bioengineered plague strikes and isolates them from the rest of the galaxy.

( Pitch and character teasers. Probably not dial-up-safe, no. )

Title: Treasured Plague
Prompt: from oneiriad : steampunk zombie apocalypse
Type: Hour-long SF show, perhaps on BBC.
Setting: The Anglo-Franc Republic, primarily London town.
Opening credits song: excerpt from Aniara by Karl-Birger Blomdahl/Erik Lindegren/Harry Martinson.
Closing credits song: Stå stilla i smärtan by Sara Lindvall Nyberg/Ylva Eggehorn.
Synopsis:The Anglo-Franc Republic prides itself on its mechanical marvels, ranging from clockwork prosthetics to mobile islands. There's even rumour that Louis Hulot, the great inventor, is working on a mechanical man that can think for itself - but the rumour has been spreading for a long time, and no one has ever seen it.

Another rumour is gaining more and more ground: that once upon a time, there were great cities, powered by even more miraculous machines, machines so advanced and running on such strange power sources that no one alive can even understand the concept. A team of archeologists claim to have located an ancient treasury which could be the missing piece of the puzzle, and backed by the Edgars & Lycurgus company, they arrange an expedition to open the treasury.

The whole plan backfires, however, when the expedition, far below ground, is attacked by strange overgrown earthworms, bugs, and other critters. After many are bitten and some are killed, the expedition is forced to return to the surface. Only then do they discover the true curse of the ancient world: those bitten develop a strange, wasting disease where one of the symptoms is a taste for human flesh. As there is no cure, the disease progresses - how fast depends on the initial injury - until the mind is gone and the body rotting away, yet the craving for flesh remains. Even worse, those already killed keep returning, mindless, feral monsters.

Martial law is declared and international troops called in to keep the peace, while Edgars & Lycurgus are developing their own methods to keep everything in control, and the general population struggle to get by every way they can.

( Cast )