*Make A Wish*
"You Asked For It”
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Nutshell: The reality show that’s a fairy-tale come to life; with a twist. Through street interviews, e-mail and snail-mail submissions, potential participants – as yet unaware of the show - will reveal their wackiest, most personal, or otherwise most interesting desires. Selected participants will be reminded of the adage ‘Be careful what you wish for; you just might get it’ when they unexpectedly experience the reality of receiving their outlandish wish. The MAKE A WISH team will choose each week’s wish based on entertainment value, feasibility, and production cost.
Cast and Crew:
The MAKE A WISH show will feature a FEMALE HOST: A ‘fairy godmother’ of sorts; think the wise-cracking, nose-wrinkling, matronly English hostess of ‘HOW CLEAN IS YOUR HOUSE.’
CAST and CREW will include anyone and everyone on the production staff (the MAGIC-MAKERS team) as part of the behind-the-scenes filming approach.
Image Concept:
-Picture a hot-pink billboard with a fairy god-mother waving her star-trailing wand over the show’s title: ‘MAKE A WISH.’ Except that ‘You asked for it!’ is the glossy-black italicized byline beneath, and god-mother’s twinkling eyes and one raised-eyebrow suggest something slightly more edgy, even potentially hazardous to your health.
-A print-ad, with more room for description, could work the concept of ‘The Fairy God-mother’s Evil Twin’ and her doppelganger team of Elves (‘MAGIC-MAKERS). ‘When magic-makers roll up their sleeves and get to work.’
-A TV commercial could open to the sweet tones of ‘Bibbity-bobbity-baaaaaaaaeeeeeewwwww.’ Tone-downslide.
Possible Wishes:
1. I want to make out with Orlando Bloom. (ok, well I do!)
2. I want to have a tree house that I can actually live in.
3. 8 Year old Billy has always wanted to drive a tank over some cars.
4. I want to actually be a pirate in the Caribbean.
5. I want to ride in an Amish buggy.
6. I want to swim in a pool of Jell-O
7. I want a date, just one date, with my long ago high-school sweetheart.
8. I want to clone a sheep.
9. I want to get in the Guinness Book of World Records for baking the largest Cupcake.
10. I want a cameo appearance as a Simpson Character.
11. I want to blow up my crappy old car and still get charity-donation credit from the IRS.
12. I want a pet Kangaroo that I can walk-hop down the Venice Boardwalk.
13. I want to be shot out of a cannon.
14. I want to learn to sky board (skydiving with a snowboard).
15. I want to go naked to Burning Man.
16. I want to build a snowman at the North Pole.
17. I want a house built out of Legos.
18. I want to push a piano (or my boss) off a skyscraper.
19. I want one more shot at being the pro football/baseball/basketball player I should have been.
20. I want to be surrounded by Playmates in a hot-tub at the Playboy mansion.