fandomhigh | So You Want to Make a TV Show- 2nd Period- Class #3

As soon as everyone was seated, Dana started with, "Anyone who cops to calling me yesterday gets detention. Don't be that stupid. Now that we have that out of the way, this week we're going to be discussing what kind of show you want to do.

"I'll spoil it for you: you're going to be putting together a sports show. Sometimes when you get into this business, you have to take the job that comes to you. Maybe you wanted to work on some cable news show and have to cut your teeth at MTV. It'll happen. Take the experience, learn what you can, and when another opportunity comes, you can move on. Now, you might be saying 'I don't know anything about sports,'" Dana went on. "You're missing out, but that's beside the point. You will pick up things in the course of the job. If you don't, you're not really listening. Lingo will get to you, you'll start recognizing names, and after a while you might actually be able to sound like you know what you're talking about when you're watching a game with your friends, even if you only know it from a technical aspect.

"What we're going to do today is go around the room, and you're going to tell us what you know about sports right now. What's your favorite? Why? Do you play? Why not? And then you're going to get together- or work singly, I don't care- and come up with reasons why you think why working on a sports show might be harder or easier than working at CNN or a Comedy Central news show. Anything you can come up with. Once you know the problems- and believe me, you will run into them- you can start to tackle them. No pun intended."

As Dana took a seat at her desk, she said, "Oh, and don't get too used to this sort of class. Next week I start giving you assignments. Oh, wait, I lied. For homework this week, I want each of you to catch a game. I don't care what kind. Football, curling, whatever you saw, just see something to get some more experience than you do this week."

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"You won't." He was confident of this. He'd done it enough before. "I'm not delicate."

"Good," Adora nodded, reaching out to pat his forearm. "I like having you around. Especially in this class where I am so far out of my element."

"Always happy to help," Hannibal said brightly. "With a sports show," he added, slipping easily back into the assignment, "there are certain sports that are more popular than others. We shouldn't lead a show with a segment about badminton, for instance."

"But both of the footballs seemed to be popular for that placement," Adora added. "And even the ice dancing."

"Ice dancing?" Hannibal asked. "Like...figure skating?"

"Yes! It seemed to have filled the arena where the event was taking place." She sensed this was wrong. "Or not?"

"Oh no no, it has fans," he said, shaking his head. "It's a niche sport. Meaning it's not hugely popular but it's got a loyal segment of fans that watch it all the time."

Adora laughed, "Oh, good! I don't know how much I could watch that. The clothing continually reminded me of something Castaspella would wear to get my brother to pay attention to her."

"Castapella?" Hannibal asked. "She Greek?"

"No, she's um, from Mystacore, back home." Adora wasn't sure how well 'Sorceress' would go over so she left that out for now.

"She's got a huge crush on my brother Adam and flits around half dressed most of the time." Possibly Adora was jealous that she had no excuse to flit around half dressed.

"So, she's your brother's girl?" Hannibal asked.

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Adora laughed, "No. No. Adam is..." How did she explain the concept?

"Adam is...married?" Hannibal guessed.

"He's married to work," Adora replied. "He could never manage to date anyone regularly with how often he's pulled away to...work."

"Ah, one of those guys," Hannibal said knowingly. "And you're not married to work, huh?"

"I try very hard not to be," Adora said, and it was true considering she'd been very married to work when she was a mentally-manipulated captive. "What about you? Think you'd ever get that involved with doing a job?"

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"No," he said and shook his head. "I like having fun too much to get so caught up in my work that all I do is work. I won't let myself get like that."

"I think fun is an important part of life," Adora remarked before clamping a hand over her mouth. She spread her fingers a little to be heard, "And I will stop getting off-topic or we'll never finish the work for this class!"

"It's okay," he said and laughed. "We can talk later. The most popular sports in this country seem to be football, baseball, basketball, hockey, golf and tennis. Not necessarily in that order. So, that's what we'd wanna showcase."

"Right. And then mention the other, less popular sports in short segments before those horrible commercial breaks. Oh! And they like to put those little clips of what's coming after the break to make you not alter the channel." This was Adora on topic.

"You've watched a lot of ESPN," he said, impressed. "Those previews are so the audience doesn't flip the channel during the commercial. Wanna keep them tuned in."

"I've been trying to understand this class, and television seems to be critical to that," Adora told him. "I swear, those com-mercials?" She was intent on getting this right. "Are evil."

"They're boring too," he agreed. "Waste of good television space."

"And the people don't revolt against having to watch them?"

"They kinda can't," Hannibal said. "They're the reason that tv shows can air. They pay big bucks."

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