J-Dog
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TV NEWS Geico's Cavemen May Get Own TV Series Mar 3, 2:39 PM EST
The Associated Press
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. http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=253853>1=7703
First off, I'm not 100% in love with your tone...
First, let me say thanks to all my fellow posters at After The Bar Closes. Even though I am a Neandertal, and they are only "little people", I can count on them to cover my back, should the UD Forces Of Darkness, attack me. I can always count on my friends at ATBC to beat down Austalopithicine-brained DaveScot whenever he needs it. Which in always.
So even though I am now such a Total 100% Star, bigger than you could dream, I want you all to visit me in Hollywood. My cave is your cave amigos!
We'll have your favorite Roast Duck With Mango Salsa once again, enjoy some more Guiness' and BEAT-DOWN UD.
ps - Kris, baby, don't forget that "special screen-test" we've got coming up for you! Yowrrrllll
pps: No, sorry, don't bring Bill. We're trying to do a class operation here, and his constant whining and sniveling just doesn't cut it, you know? I think he's really more cut out for a Spanish Inquisistion role, don't you think?
Ciao
And don't forget to visit me in my crib.
http://www.cavemanscrib.com/
-------------- Come on Tough Guy, do the little dance of ID impotence you do so well. - Louis to Joe G 2/10
Gullibility is not a virtue - Quidam on Dembski's belief in the Bible Code Faith Healers & ID 7/08
UD is an Unnatural Douchemagnet. - richardthughes 7/11
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