We’ve all seen the network stunt where they have stars of one show up on other shows. And we’ve heard all about the stunt casting with Britney, Paris and now Lindsay. Now for May sweeps CBS has a special stunt where tomorrow night’s (5/5) Two and a Half Men was written by Naren Shankar and Carol Mendelsohn, executive producers of CSI and this Thursday’s (5/8) CSI was scribed by Lee Aronsohn and Chuck Lorre the executive producers of 2.5 Men. You can read more details here and here.
I confess this will work with me because I never watch CSI and will watch this episode just to see if they can make CSI funny! I do watch Two and a Half Men from time to time fairly regularly. But I hope this doesn’t work out like it did with CBS casting Britney for How I Met Your Mother first with NBC and ABC then tagging along. The last thing I want to see is an episode of LOST penned by the folks who brought us According to Jim (though I’m absolutely certain I’d be more likely to watch the According to Jim penned by the LOST creators).
I’d be OK with FOX trying this between Hell’s Kitchen and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. C’mon, it’s not like Hell’s Kitchen is really all that unscripted (entertaining yes, unscripted, not so much).
“Next, on the most explosive episode of Hell’s Kitchen EVER, Louross’ Mohawk is completely vaporized!”
Though it wasn’t advertised I’m pretty sure we already saw a few episodes of Battlestar Galactica written by the producer of Grey’s Anatomy. What mashups would you like to see done?
May 5th, 2008 at 12:30 am
Hah. It would be funny to see TSCC where Cameron/Summer Glau curses the whole show and throws temper tantrums like Chef Ramsay.
May 5th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Has anyone seen any CBS marketing alerting them to the writers swap this week?
May 5th, 2008 at 12:53 am
They had a conference call April 30. Sadly we missed it — not sure if there is a transcript anywhere, but here was the release announcing the call and outlining the crossover episodes:
http://www.cbspressexpress.com/div.php/cbs_ente...
If you mean have I seen promos on CBS, yes there were a couple but I didn't pay much attention to them (they may be on YouTube, didn't check).
They are marketing some behind the scenes clips on the CBS site though at:
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/two_and_a_half_men...
May 5th, 2008 at 7:50 am
I'm with you, I don't usually watch CSI, but I will check it out this week out of morbid curiosity.
I'd like to see a Heros/Office mashup; Gossip Girl/Everybody loves Chris; and the ultimate in cross network mashups: CSI:Miami/L&O:SVU
May 5th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Two things.
(1) Gotta love how Robert manages to throw a Sarah Connor reference in. And speaking of TSCC, Robert, any comments about Fox's planned lineup? (i.e., October 24th through the end of the year, TSCC at 8 and Prison Break at 9, and starting in January, it's TSCC at 8 and “24″ at 9.) Good, bad? I know you generally don't think much about lead-ins, but is there anything you can glean?
(2) I would want to see Summer Glau confront an assassin and start screaming– “is that any way to kill someone? with rubber chicken? you donkey!!!”
May 5th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Dave and Outlander — both your choices cracked me up. I'd PAY to see Summer Glau going on a “You Donkey!!!” rampage.