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[bxbigshow]

Okay I've looked all over this site and I have not seen a running WWE Network Thread..so I am posting this in the TV section. Feel free to move me, but I tried.

So with the new Network ready to debut in 6 weeks time, I will give you the opportunity to develop an ORIGINAL show for this new service.
When I say ORIGINAL, I do not mean Tough Enough Volume 2/Season 2, or air the past season of Total Divas. I don't mean take a Youtube show and stretch it a half hour.

What original show would you develop for the new WWE Network?

Me? I take a WWE spin on HBO's "Hard Knocks"...follow 3 wrestlers of varying stardom, for example a main guy (Cena/Orton/or Punk) and mid-card guy (Langston/Ambrose/or Sandow) and a lower level guy (Ryder/Gabriel/or Sin Cara).

Hire a great voice-over Live Schriber type...I say Keith David, and chronicle their career for a 3-4 month period. Follow them on the road to the gym to meetings backstage with producers/Creative/road agents. Almost everything Total Diva does without the drummed up drama and made for tv scenarios.

I think something like that can give a real inside look into the stresses and joys of the business. Just an idea...

 

[Devlin]

Ladies & Gentlemen, I present WWE Bad Blood.

Not to be confused with the former PPV of the same name. Bad Blood would be a diagnosis of some of the greatest feuds in WWE history. Having interviews with people involved in it as well as current WWE stars who were fans at the time.

It would run through a vicious rivalry in all it's incarnations. eg: Stone Cold and the Rock, from the Corporate Rock Vs the Rattlesnack to SCSA teaming with McMcMahon to Hollywood Rock Vs Austin at WM 19. Dissecting the storyline and events, what worked, what didn't, plans that never came to fruition, issues around it (Austin going to hospital the night before Wrestlemania, the purchase of WCW around Wrestlemania 17 possible changing the booking).

This could be done for all the greatest feuds, obviously some of them spanning multiple episodes (HHH Vs HBK, Kane Vs The Undertaker, Austin Vs McMahon, HBK Vs Hart, Sting Vs nWo, Piper Vs Hogan, etc).

What does everyone think?

 

[Alastor]

Wrestlers playing wrestling video games and make them beat their pixel counterparts with a CAW submitted by fans. Different challenges every week.

 

[L'autre frere rougeau]

Those who follow the serie 24ch that follows the montreal canadiens throught their season would know what i'm talking about.

I'd like a show tbat follows the wwe 24/7 including what goes on backstage, like what last minutes instructions road agents provides to the roster. Footage of house show and backstage stuff and follows the whole wwe for a few months. Kind of like a full backstage access and also few parts that could follows the wrestlers in their personnal lives.

 

[thewreckingcrew]

I dont know if anyone remembers this show from the 80s but do yall remember tuesday night titans, it was like a late night talk show for wrestling. This would be the perfect time to bring it back have wrestlers come out talk about there fueds and such and bring in celebs as well as a guest band or artist. Just an idea.

 

[THTRobtaylor]

Instead of those Documentaries on DVD's, regular ones based off of guys who wouldn't sell enough of a DVD set. Start it with Rick Rude for example, then do the Outlaws etc... proper 90 minute ones covering the whole story.

I also got this great idea, we send John Cena down to film an action show in Florida, he has a secret supercharged speedboat that he uses to foil....oh wait...

 

[rge2010]

Greatest Rivalries
Following on from the Bret vs Shawn DVD they brought out a couple of years ago. This would probably work better (and make more money) being released as a series on DVD for the bigger guys like Rock/Austin, Vince/Austin, Triple H/HBK but maybe for lower card guys who have a storied history like Big Show/Kane, Mysterio/Del Rio, Edge/Christian they could feature this series on the network.

You book it!
A 30 minute show featuring 2 matches involving legends. WWE post a poll on wwe.com/app with a number of legend matches. This match is taped before/after Raw or Smackdown and airs exclusively on the WWE Network. Who wouldn't love to watch Jake The Snake vs Roddy Piper or Sid vs Diesel just one last time.

Legends Table
I never watched it, but I seem to remember something similar which aired on WWE 24/7. A few legends sat around a table and discussed the past, present and future with a different theme each week. I would like to see this be a weekly show. A good time to wheel back in Jim Ross who could host this. Yes he is 'retired' but he is still working with WWE on DVD releases.

Chair Shot Reality
Just kidding.

 

[Tyrant25]

I like the Legend's Table idea. I'm a mark for roundtable discussions though (Chair Shot Reality)

 

[Wald]

An episodic TV show based in the Performance Center leading up to a big PPV match between two guys

I'm talking about mixing reality and TV in the same manner as the Hills here. Take a format like showing how WWE wrestlers train in the Performance Center on a day to day basis and build up storylines based around anything like relationships (two guys like the same diva), a real life fight (worked obviously) and just keep building the tension with weekly cliff hangers to see if it takes off. Could be a good way of introducing two new guys on to the roster

 

[fenderjapan]

Unless its a straight documentary or behind the scenes thing, I have no interest in WWE adding more crappy "Reality" TV. The good news is my opinion on that doesn't matter since I'll be buying the WWE network for the back catalog.

But for guys like me, I think round table discussions around classic matches/ppvs would be pretty awesome. Like talking dead but with old school shows/pay per views. Get Ric Flair, Terry Funk to talk about their I Quit at Clash IX...HBK and Undertaker walk us through Hell in a Cell... Steiner and HHH comment on their 5 star classic match at the Royal Rumble...

 

[gasM]

I would love to see a straight TV show set within the fictional world of WWE. Kind of like The Office US if Dunder Mifflin was a real place but Steve Carell was still playing a character in fictional storylines.

For example, it could be a sitcom about a struggling writer who gets his big break working for WWE Magazine, only to discover dealing with people in the company is a nightmare (hence the situations that make a situation comedy). For example former stars turned agents would look down on him, he'd be the junior writer on the team until having that one killer idea that makes a Superstar or a Wrestlemania and then the fallout from that...I don't know, but a fictional story about somebody working for the actual WWE. Superstars could cameo as their WWE counterparts, so Kane would still be Kane but the show would acknowledge that WWE is pre-determined.

I just can't get the image of the everyman character finally getting the girl from corporate, doing the showbiz kiss and they all lived happily ever after...then we pan out to see Ron Simmons watching and of course shout "Damn!"