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Series title: One Man's Trash :
Say hello to Terry the Terrydactyl - a rat that lives in a junkyard. He roams around the junkyard collecting scraps.
And no, he doesn't have any feet. Lost them in a freak accident.
Lucky for him, he was born in the junkyard so there were plenty of replacement parts to choose from. So he choose a - big wheel! Cool, right? (Well, maybe not if you want to sleep on your back)
PILOT 🧠
Terry rolls around the junkyard looking for scraps, especially copper. While driving through his junkyard in Pasadena, California, he notices that some copper wiring was stripped by somebody. He's furious and pretends to go investigate. He likes to think he's the junkyard constable, but he isn't. He quickly forgets and continues his dumpster diving journey.
After a long day of "investigation", he hops into a pile of garbage where he feels the safest. But not this time. A new employee - Tony the Two-Headed Garbage man sees a pile of trash on his way. He doesn't notice that somebody is sleeping in the pile of garbage.
Tony jumps out. Grabs the pile with Terry in it. And just tosses it in the back. There's a loud thud in the back of the garbage truck. Terry is in there. But how will he react? Well...
What's next? 🚀
Terry will become more and more sophisticated. And sinister. While he was just a punk junkyard scourge, him getting treated like literal trash, make him fear for his life by Tony the Two-Headed Garbage Man - it unlocked some unpleasant memories from the time when he lost his legs.
This is where the plot will get more intense - Terry, instead of the junkyard jester, will become the junkyard menace. He will start off by plotting small sabotages at the junkyard: messing with the staff, the customers, and the junkyard equipment.
Later on, he will get more sinister. But that's where some new "good" characters will come in to balance him out.
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Series title:
The Non-Terrible News
Pilot:
https://cantina.com/i/f63mj
Character:
https://cantina.com/i/7r2do
Meet Crumb, a fluffy, apple-pear-shaped little creature with mostly a grumpy face (but a cute attitude) and a mission: to make the world feel a tiny bit less terrible.
Crumb has spent enough time hearing about everything going wrong in the world that he is increasingly convinced it might actually be terrible. So he has given himself a job: searching for evidence that it is not!
Welcome to The Non-Terrible News, Crumb's tiny, slightly chaotic mini newsroom dedicated exclusively to the strange, funny, unexpectedly cheerful and occasionally educational things happening around the world.
Crumb approaches his role with the seriousness of a professional news guy. The more absurd the story, the more seriously Crumb reports it.
In the pilot, he delivers his first collection of Non-Terrible News: sheep crossing the Thames on Southwark Bridge in London, an unusually chicken-heavy World Record, and the revelation that orcas have been observed wearing dead fish as hats. As the stories get stranger, his miniature newsroom gets playful, while Crumb does his best to maintain journalistic style.
Having worked with news organisations, I wanted something funny and a bit educational. News often feel overwhelmingly serious, negative or just exhausting to be honest, so I liked the idea of creating the opposite: something offbeat, weird and cute, but where there is still something to learn. And the stories and facts are real! Search them!
Where I would take the series next
The Non-Terrible News is designed to continue beyond the pilot. Every week (or can get up to daily), Crumb can return with a fresh collection of real stories, strange discoveries, animal adventures, human achievements and completely unnecessary facts.
I would also gradually expand Crumb's world beyond the newsroom. He could report from his kitchen, investigate stories outdoors, interview other characters or attempt his own experiments and field reports. A story about an unusual food might send him into the kitchen; an animal story might send him outside; a strange scientific discovery might result in Crumb attempting to demonstrate it himself, probably with mixed results.
The locations, stories and visual jokes can keep changing, while Crumb remains the same very serious, slightly grumpy little reporter at the centre of it all.
There is also a small character journey underneath the format: Crumb started searching because he suspected the world might actually be terrible. The longer the series continues, the more evidence he collects that perhaps it is not!
Ultimately, I want each episode to give people a minute away from the heavier side of the news while still leaving them knowing something they did not know before.
And next time the world feels terrible, Crumb will be back to investigate and share more non-terrible news.
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Happy days :)
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Series Title: MAJOR MUNKY
What happens to a video-game character after the player turns the game off?
Major Munky is a retro action drama series that breaks the fourth wall to explore the life of a classic 16-bit game hero after the game is over.
Inside the game, Major Munky is an unstoppable jungle commando, fighting enemy monkeys, firing bananas, defeating giant bosses and winning every mission. But when the screen says “YOU WIN,” the game doesn't really end for Munky. But outside the game, Munky is just an ordinary, tired husband who is scared of cockroaches, polite to people and is afraid of any danger he faces. His day job is being the hero of a video game; when his shift is over, he removes his bandana, drives home, cooks, cleans, watches TV and lives a quiet life with his wife.
The pilot follows Munky from his final boss battle to his completely different life outside the game, until his old final boss, Kong, breaks the rules of the game and enters Munky's real world.
Kong has kidnapped Munky's wife and gives him 24 hours to rescue her.
“You always win in games. Let's see if you're a hero in real life.”
For the first time, Munky has no player, no health bar, no extra lives and no restart button.
Where We Would Take the Series Next:
Munky sets out to find and rescue his wife, but along the way he slowly discovers that the skills he thought only existed inside the game are actually part of him. He follows clues left behind by Kong, using his game instincts, combat skills, problem-solving and knowledge of his enemies to track him down.
Each episode becomes a new level with its own challenge, taking Munky into unfamiliar places and situations where he has to use his old game skills in the real world. But unlike the game, he can't simply restart when things go wrong.
As the clues get closer to Kong and the challenges become harder, Munky begins discovering his own courage and learning what it actually means to be a hero.
And throughout the journey, one thing keeps ticking:
24 hours.
The closer the clock gets to zero, the closer Munky gets to finding Kong — and his wife.
So good! Loved it.