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Celebrity stalking, 140 characters at a time? That seems to be the premise behind a planned Twitter-based television show:
The social-networking service has teamed with Reveille productions and Brillstein Entertainment to develop an unscripted series based on the site, which invites brief, 140-character postings from members all over the world.
The show would harness Twitter to put players on the trail of celebrities in a competitive format.
The producers call their planned series the first to bring the immediacy of Twitter to the TV screen.
“Competitive format” tweeting? Sounds a bit shaky to me. And I’m sure it’ll piss off the hardcore Twitterati by deflecting focus away from regular folks, in favor of the likes of @THE_REAL_SHAQ, @oprah, and @britneyspears.
If this TMZ-patterned concept tanks, maybe they can repurpose it by selling it to C-SPAN as a Congressional online reality show.
Category: Celebrity, Politics, Social Media Online, TV
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There is already a Twitter TV Network http://twittertvlive.com
it’s like CNN meets SNL
Comment by David — 05/26/2009 @ 10:04 AM
Yeah, right. TwitterTVlive is an unofficial YouTubed “production”. This Reveille-Brillstein thing would be real television (although not directly sanctioned by Twitter Inc.). Different order of magnitude.
Comment by CT — 05/26/2009 @ 10:20 AM
STATUS UPDATE BEGETS FACEBOOK FILM TREATMENT…
If Twitter can inspire a television show, then it’s not so outlandish for a stray Facebook status update about a pet dog to get optioned for a movie deal:
Lisa Hamilton Day, a former exec at Dreamworks and friend of [Christy] Fletcher’s, wryly posted last week:…
Trackback by Population Statistic — 06/19/2009 @ 8:45 PM