Only if you're a washed up actor from LA Law.

Why would they pay someone to write this script? Get an intern at the dating site to write one up.

I know a guy who writes one Hallmark Channel Christmas Week script a year. He gets about ,000 for it. They apparently have a big list of Christmas related titles they want to use, they have potential writers pick out five, the writer pitches five possibilities, they pick one, he has three weeks to write it, they shoot it in five, it's in the can and never seen or watched ever again once the Christmas season is over. There's apparently dozens of these, he says he likely owns the only copies of his films because nobody puts them out on home media, nobody records things anymore and once they're done Hallmark Channel effectively retires them.

The most recent one he did was about a Canadian boy and an American girl bonding over a matchmaking Yorkshire terrier in a snowstorm. I forget what the title was.

"I forget what the title was."

That was really the most effective way you could have ended that.

This is what occurs to me when I watch various Syfy monster movies. It's not like it would be tremendously hard.

I need to pitch an idea to Syfy. I'm serious. I hate to work.

Did you guys miss that this was written and directed by Corbin Bernsen?

magnesium didn't. how could you miss it?

Your friend is awesome. I've been through many phases of trying to write but I never got a job where you could be paid to write (I am assuming) thinly veiled "unintentionally" funny bullshit and have it green-lit into a tv movie.

Lucky bugger.

So the idea has to get approved by the Hallmark Channel? Because I just read one of the saddest stories I've ever seen over on the My Little Waifu forums, and I'd love to turn it into a Hallmark Channel screenplay. It's about a violent stalker facing serious jail time, who takes solace in the imaginary arms of his tulpa.

However bad this might be, it's got nothing on HBO's The Leftovers. 75 user reviews, 40 of them are red.

http://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-leftovers

The writing is staggeringly bad.

poe should pool its collective talents into a screenplay or miniseries. I was working on this television show that kinda went tits-up so I need stuff to do.

They should make a tinder the movie. It's called "let's fuck in the back of your SUV" and it's 10 minutes long and kind of smells like incense.

Oh wow. That Guy, you weren't kidding. The hell is up with that?! The Leftovers is a really good show!

I thought the backlash was going to be coming over the show's blatant Illuminati messages, but the negative reviews seem to be coming from people who think it's either too slow (yet everyone loves Mad Men...?) or too artsy (I'm not even sure wtf that's supposed to mean!) Is everyone still mad about Lost? Is that what this is? Seriously, what the hell people, it's no My Little Pony, but it's a really fun show!

They're probably the same dorks who ragequit over the ending to Battlestar Galactica.

I really liked the Leftovers novel so I'm curious. I think it's about 5 eps in now so I'll check it out if you guys say it's good. Now that Californication's over I don't have much to watch.

I am not saying it's good!! The writing is like an elephant playing piano, and it deserves all the bad user reviews it gets.

He is saying it's good. The writing is like an elephant who trained at Juilliard. His interpretations of Rachmaninoff are considered amongst the best in the world, and he plays a piano whose keys were made from his very own ivory.

My favorite episode so far was episode six. I won't spoil anything, but: best use of Slayer I've heard in a good long while.

The show goes over a lot people's heads, lots of dream sequences and not enough fucking, but you'd probably enjoy it.

The show goes under a lot of people's butts, amirite.

As long as it's the daughter's hot friend's butt. Mrrow she's a would!

All those record scratches really help sell it.

I praise God this movie was made, but for all the wrong reasons.

Like Lacey Chabert.

She totally makes me want to stab Caesar, if you know what I mean.



(Not really, but I couldn't resist.)

You think she's fetch too, huh?

GOD obviously made her sign up in order to turn her christian since he couldn't have had the exact same thing happen with a different site. Plus there was a sale on.

I know Lacey's cousin, and the strange thing is even in family photos Lacey looks as heavily made up as she does on film. It's strange. I don't know Lacey personally and honestly didn't have any desire to meet her, even though I probably could have. She must be hurting for a paycheck if she took this gig, though.

Acting is one profession where if you're working, you can consider yourself a success. Her IMDB page shows a hard-working actress who isn't too picky. She's got the female lead in four movies in post-production. This is one; the other three all look like they could all be for Hallmark (two have "Christmas" in the title.) She's also done a fair amount of video game and cartoon voice-over, including 13 years on Family Guy.

She wasn't on Family Guy for very long. They fired her ass ages ago (possibly after the first or second season?) and replaced her with the younger, prettier Mila Kunis. Seth McFarlane still makes cruel jokes at her expense.

From I MDB, it looks like she filled in for Mila when she was off doing movie work. She's credited with 13 episodes from 1999 - 2013

I dunno, IMDB gets a bit wonky with dates sometimes; my guess is the credit listings are based off the show's air dates, and not necessarily the actresses involvement. I'm very rusty on Family Guy trivia, but I don't believe she's done anything for them since the first or second year of it's run, with the *possible* exception of one episode where Stewie goes back in time to the pilot episode (IIRC, they just reuse her audio, she does not record any new lines) I don't know precisely why she got fired, but I get the feeling it wasn't very amicable, and I don't think she's had any contact with the show since.

Good work, I'm green lighting at least 2 of these concepts.

I can actually see a few of those happening.

What about Myspace: The Movie?

As someone who grew up with foster parents that had a huge hardon for this kind of crap, I can say that the idea that people once believed in and left their religion makes them extremely uncomfortable. The idea that someone could know their faith back and forth, and leave it for something else, rather than the other way around, ruins their mentally established narrative.

The thing that bugs me most about this is the whole premise; why in the hell would a non-Christian sign up for a Christian dating website? It just seems so silly. And then she ends up going to church and converting because that's what it'll take to stay with the so hawt guy who's a Christian that she wants to screw?

Jesus, Christianity, you sure do like making your religion look like whores R us.

Maybe the twist is he's baptist and she wants to be catholic so they share a last kiss, hold hands and jump into an industrial rock crusher.

After the credits there is an Easter egg of them burning in hell with Skeleton Hitler.

Hate the people, not their religion.