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| Ten Thousand Motels |
Geico's Cavemen May Get Own TV Series
The Associated Press
Friday, March 2, 2007; 7:33 PM
NEW YORK -- Those Geico "cavemen" shouldn't be so upset after all _ they may get their own television series.
ABC said Friday it had ordered a pilot for a comedy, tentatively titled "Cavemen," that features the characters used in a series of ads by the insurance company.
In the ads, cavemen appear insulted by a Geico pitchman's claim that the company's Web site is so easy to use that "even a caveman can do it."
The potential series, one of 14 pilots that will be produced by Touchstone Television this spring, features the cavemen as they "struggle with prejudice on a daily basis as they strive to live the lives of normal thirty-somethings in 2007 Atlanta."
It's unusual for characters from an advertising campaign to move into shows of their own, but not unprecedented. The CBS comedy "Baby Bob" featured a talking baby that had been used in several advertisements, according to Daily Variety.
The advertising copywriter who helped create the "cavemen" ads is writing the pilot, the studio said.
A pilot order is no guarantee a show will make it on the air; in fact, the majority of pilots don't make it that far.
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| mojoman |
i prefer goat boy |
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| M.O.W.A.T. |
I'm waiting for the big screen premiere of the AFLAC Duck! |
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| fireontheplatter |
bring it on. i am all over it
these guys crack me up all the time.
i love the on where the 2 are having a drink on the balcony and the one guy comes up all excited and anounces that he and tina are getting back together. i can't wait to see what tina looks like. |
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| mojoman |
land of the lost? cha-ka? |
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| Paranoid_Android |
quote:
Ten Thousand Motels wrote:
Geico's Cavemen May Get Own TV Series
The Associated Press
Friday, March 2, 2007; 7:33 PM
It's unusual for characters from an advertising campaign to move into shows of their own, but not unprecedented. The CBS comedy "Baby Bob" featured a talking baby that had been used in several advertisements, according to Daily Variety.
A true TV classic...I , like most of you, I am sure, own the entire DVD box set...who can forget the episode when Bob's mom shit herself at the DMV and tried to blame Bob for the stench?
The one where Bob latched on to the babysitters nipple and wouldn't let go was another one I loved...the scene of her the next day in gym class was HYSTERICAL!!!
I see CAVEMAN going the way of Seinfeld...Bewitched...and Gilligan's Island...making generations laugh....like families oughta.
[Edited by Paranoid_Android] |
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| Some Guy |
I'm not a 100% in love with your tone... I like that one. |
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| Saint Sway |
Geico's new slogan:
"So easy, even a cracked out Van Halen could do it."
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| glencar |
I quite liked the new Zodiac movie! |
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| fireontheplatter |
quote:
glencar wrote:
I quite liked the new Zodiac movie!
this is high on my list, big time. how was it?
don't tell me about it. |
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| mojoman |
unfrozen caveman lawyer? |
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| glencar |
quote:
fireontheplatter wrote:
this is high on my list, big time. how was it?
don't tell me about it.
Excellente & I'll leave it at that. |
