Lookwell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBQ3HbB0c8Y
This is the amazing pilot episode of "Lookwell," a 1991 TV show that was never picked up. It stars Adam West as an actor who thinks he can solve crimes because he used to play a TV Detective. Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel co-wrote. Seriously, it is well worth the 23 minutes, if for nothing else than to witness Adam West's perfect deadpan. I think it is even better than Heat Vision and Jack, another show with potential that was not picked up (despite the talents of Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Ron Silver).
This is the amazing pilot episode of "Lookwell," a 1991 TV show that was never picked up. It stars Adam West as an actor who thinks he can solve crimes because he used to play a TV Detective. Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel co-wrote. Seriously, it is well worth the 23 minutes, if for nothing else than to witness Adam West's perfect deadpan. I think it is even better than Heat Vision and Jack, another show with potential that was not picked up (despite the talents of Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Ron Silver).
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posted by mmm... @ 6:37 PM
4 Comments:
At 1/31/2007 9:22 AM ,
Anonymous said...
hmm... will have to check this out sometime when i have 23 minutes of uninterrupted internet access. work doesn't like it when you stream video because it eats the bandwidth, so i can't watch it at lunch or whatever, and lately our at-home internet has been really unreliable and we might have to switch services. but eventually, this looks like fun. is it really 23 minutes long? i thought i heard that youtube could only be like 10 minutes and that you had to watch entire episodes in three parts... but i've never watched more than just clips so i wouldn't know.
At 1/31/2007 4:21 PM ,
Renee said...
definitely funny. I especially liked the references to other movies and TV show lines scattered throughout (of course I would). And of course West is pretty brilliant. But where do you go from there? I assume we're talking a case a week, but I think a lot of the jokes have already been done just in the pilot, and what else is there?
At 1/31/2007 9:06 PM ,
mmm... said...
I think if you pull a BBC and do like 10 episodes a year you could do it. I mean, how many episodes did you think they could write about an OCD detective? They didn't explore the story arc of the nephew much, and the tension with the police force. I think a big problem would be devising a coincidence every week for how he found the culprit.
At 1/31/2007 10:31 PM ,
Anonymous said...
Hey, you can film lots of episodes about an OCD detective. Seventy-two at current count. He solves crimes because he's super good at observation and pattern-recognition... no coincidence necessary.
In other news, I haven't watched the episode yet. In fake news, I got a llama today. Her name is Tina.
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