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[Gonzalez]

scott_oconnor_version_smallThe Work, through 20th Century Fox TV, is set in the world of professional wrestling. It was written on spec by Scott O’Connor, author of the novels Untouchable and Half World. The script was shopped to cable networks, with Fox stepping up to take it off the table. O’Connor has been interested in professional wrestling and penned an article about WWE star Brock Lesnar in New York Times Magazine in August.

http://deadline.com/2015/11/parkes-macdonald-smoke-sex-magic-nbc-the-work-fox-1201607886/

HA HA... This ain't kayfabe. This is a shoot, brother. Old wrestling carny is about to hit the mainstream.

 

[The Elite]

Finally, Sports Entertainment will get the respect it deserves.

 

[Sheppard]

Why so soon? Striking while the iron is hot.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Finally, WWE can take inspiration from another show.

 

[Sibersk Esto]

Book me to go over brother dude jack, I'm gonna bury that jobber in front of these marks

And that's a shoot

 

[Fourth Storm]

Well, the storylines are bound to be better than current WWE, right?

I have my doubts that they'll be able to create compelling gimmicks for the characters, though. I expect lots of eye rolling from the wrestling community.

 

[Bronx-Man]

Wasn't the Rock working with NBC to make a show like this a couple of years back?

 

[mclem]

But isn't Professional Wrestling already a Professional Wrestling TV Soap?

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Well, the storylines are bound to be better than current WWE, right?

I know you're joking, but most assuredly 100% yes.

 

[Entropia]

But isn't Professional Wrestling already a Professional Wrestling TV Soap?

It's all a work, brother dude jack

 

[The Elite]

They should put it on Mondays at 8pm.

 

[Bronx-Man]

It's all a work, brother dude jack

https://www.twitter.com/hulkhogan/status/125437560418865152

 

[enewtabie]

It isn't the 90s anymore where you went and drank at the bar after the show. The kids play Xbox and advertise supplements on instagram now.

 

[Archaix]

Well, the storylines are bound to be better than current WWE, right?

I have my doubts that they'll be able to create compelling gimmicks for the characters, though. I expect lots of eye rolling from the wrestling community.

Yeah they'll probably have stupid and unbelievable shit like a 50 year old mid management level employee who is secretly but not secretly a demon. Or just really boring characters like generic muscle guy with wet hair and a bulletproof vest.

 

[bjork]

I hope it airs on Monday nights.

 

[Busty]

Is this falls the trials and tribulations of a small ECW esque promotion as it takes on the 'big guys' then that could be interesting by way of Aronofsky's The Wrestler.

If not?

Meh.

Why so soon? Striking while the iron is hot.

Yup. This show is at least ten years too late.

 

[G-Fex]

Yeah cause the real thing is getting such good ratings.


Have fun sitting with Minority report out in the desert of cancellation.

 

[BobTheFork]

So, this is basically going to be post NWO WCW?

 

[Aiii]

Very interesting. Could be fun.

 

[Penguin]

I think it has potential to do well, if focus on the business of behind the scene politics and not the "art" of performance.

 

[thefro]

I think it has potential to do well, if focus on the business of behind the scene politics and not the "art" of performance.

Yeah, the amount of stuff you could mine from real events is just insane.

 

[Bronx-Man]

Is this falls the trials and tribulations of a small ECW esque promotion as it takes on the 'big guys' then that could be interesting by way of Aronofsky's The Wrestler.

If I ever made it into Hollywood as a screenwriter one day, my first move would be to get an ECW biopic off the ground.

 

[adj_noun]

And it turns out the Gobbeldygooker was really the Anonymous GM while Katie Vick raised the briefcase that ran over Stone Cold! :O

Spoilers.

 

[orioto]

I think it has potential to do well, if focus on the business of behind the scene politics and not the "art" of performance.

I was wondering justly, are we talking about some serious wrestling show with a more narrated, edited site, or a show .. about wrestling industry..

 

[¡HarlequinPanic!]

Man, I would've called it "The Product"~

 

[serenewarfare]

If this is like Empire but for wrestling, I could see it working pretty well actually.

 

[Gonzalez]

Man, I would've called it "The Product"~

"stuffing instead of potatoes"?

 

[Ithil]

But isn't Professional Wrestling already a Professional Wrestling TV Soap?

This would be presumably a TV show about the drama in the behind the scenes of pro wrestling, which is considerably more of a soap opera than their soap opera storylines.

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

Man, I would've called it "The Product"~

I'd have gone with "the drizzling shits"

 

[DMczaf]

Will The Work be a shoot?

 

[adj_noun]

Will The Work be a shoot?

It's a fictitious program attempting to convey a genuine message using cameras, so The Work is a worked shoot shoot shot working on a working shoot-shot set.

 

[imBask]

God damn millennials exposing the business

 

[SomedayTheFire]

fuckin marks with their shoot work shoots

 

[Mr. Luchador]

I'll be watching.

 

[DMczaf]

It's a fictitious program attempting to convey a genuine message using cameras, so The Work is a worked shoot shoot shot working on a working shoot-shot set.

fuckin marks with their shoot work shoots

 

[Deleted member 47027]

This is completely fake. Tune in to RAW and Breaking Ground for the real information.

 

[DMczaf]

I only watch real sports entertainment, friends.

 

[Bronx-Man]

This is completely fake. Tune in to RAW and Breaking Ground for the real information.

It's not fake, it's pre-determined.

 

[Gonzalez]

Will The Work be a shoot?

http://static1.squarespace.com/stat...90c/t/52465ac2e4b08b502162be6b/1380342490895/

 

[Gonzalez]

double post

 

[Deleted member 47027]

It's not fake, it's pre-determined.

The Work is completely fake, however.

 

[DMczaf]

The Work is completely fake, however.

wait...yeah...what?

 

[Gonzalez]

The Work is completely fake, however.

No its a work, that's based on a shoot, but is also worked, that was once a shoot, then became a work, but some believe was a work the whole time, and never a shoot.

 

[PayOffWizard]

But will it be able to match these production values?

 

[Anth0ny]

I have a feeling this is only going to appeal to jabronie marks without a life that don't know it a work when you work a work and work yourself into a shoot,marks

 

[slightconfuse]

Starring Kevin Nash

 

[Fourth Storm]

I know you're joking, but most assuredly 100% yes.

I wasn't joking.

Yeah they'll probably have stupid and unbelievable shit like a 50 year old mid management level employee who is secretly but not secretly a demon. Or just really boring characters like generic muscle guy with wet hair and a bulletproof vest.

Exactly, and TV writers are a large reason why those gimmicks aren't working. Both the Kane and Shield gimmicks did work at one point. But my comment wasn't to imply that WWE was churning out good characters these days. Just that it's not an easy thing to do in general.

 

[DMczaf]

I hope every episode ends with "Goodnight Workamaniacs"