Disclaimer: I am sure every idea is a ripoff of some existing television show or movie.
Television drama centers around human nature and eliminates the mundane stuff. For example, on shows about lawyers, you only really see the part where the suspect is tried and sentenced. You never see intellectual property trials. On shows about doctors, you see the emergency cases and blood everywhere. You never see hospice care or the chronic cases unless there is a major turning point.
I know, I know, this is generalizing. Feel free to contradict me.
How about creating a series about a particular product? For example, those portable defibrilators. Each episode would be about a different life saved or lost. Perhaps there could be a small design flaw that the engineers must debug and fix by the end of the series.
Or tracing the journey of cell phones. The loves lost and found, the emergency calls at midnight for whatever dramatic or mundane reasons, the panicked 911 calls.
Guess this needs a lot more work.
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The portable defibrillators idea seems interesting, but too limiting, at first glance at least. I think it would be possible to focus on an entire engineering department (or, er, however that works); maybe each episode could focus on a different product, or set of products depending on timeframe. The way Alias has different missions each show, and police and lawyer shows have different cases.
Or you could do an Erin Brockovich type of thing with a big design flaw and the consequences of it.
I do like the cell phone idea. It would be kind of like Quantum Leap or The Twilight Zone, with a different cast every week.
I had no idea I knew so many pop TV references.
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