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Medium Becomes Choose Your Own Adventure?

by Katelyn on May 14th, 2007

Holly pointed out this breaking news on The Futon Critic: 

“Medium” - In a television first, NBC.com will let fans pick storylines and help write an on-air episode.

It sounds like NBC is trying to get viewers more involved in their favorite shows. My question is, will it work? Do you feel like it is a good idea?

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9 opinions for Medium Becomes Choose Your Own Adventure?

  • Dawn
    May 14, 2007 at 6:53 pm

    This has got to be one of the most lamebrained ideas NBC has come up with yet.

    Why can’t they just leave it alone? Why mess with a good thing? I hope GGC puts his foot down and doesn’t let them go through with this. This is beyond stupid. Leave it up to the writers. If they start letting the fans have any say in it, it’ll ruin it.

  • nansee
    May 14, 2007 at 10:19 pm

    I do like the idea of it; NBC is at least thinking about our show. But I think it really translates into picking “adjectives” or perhaps “nouns” that the characters might utter. They’d probably go for anything plotwise that the majority of fans would want. Free labor. LOL Still sounds like fun, though.

  • Betty
    May 15, 2007 at 10:08 am

    At first it sounds kinda stupid, but how many times have you wished out loud they have a certain kind of plot? Especially for all of us who wish Deputy Doll would disappear, if they got an overwhelming number of requests to get rid of her, or break her and Scanlon up for good, diminish her screen time, maybe they would get the hint.

    I do believe Medium has some of the very best writers in the business with all the clever ideas and plot twists they have come up with this year. It would be nice if on occasion we the viewers suggested a plot and the writers picked it up and made it happen. Maybe one or two episodes a year - this is merely a publicity stunt - like when they have the LIVE shows - I think Will and Grace did that - broadcast a LIVE show and had to perform it again for the West Coast. NBC also does the SUPER SIZE shows - you know a 30 minute sitcom becomes a 40 minute show. Again, these are all publicity gimmicks to either get you to tune in or keep you tuned in.

    I wouldn’t want EVERY episode based on audience feedback, but a couple would be fine. Especially if we could get some more Scanlon-centric episodes out of it! It goes without saying to have less DiNovi - or even NO DI NOVI!

  • Starman
    May 15, 2007 at 10:37 am

    As long as it’s only one or two episodes, I think it’s a pretty cool idea.

    This could have potential for some serious train wreckage but I’ve seen some pretty good fanfic stuff come out of the Medium fandom, so it I could see it working out.

  • Jane and Jarratt Martin
    May 15, 2007 at 2:55 pm

    Okay. I love the Medium family of Arquette and
    husband. The children seem so real. I loved it
    when at the end of an episode Arquette saying to
    her husband, in effect, “Oh, I thought you had
    fish” — which he had had. But my MOXI BROKE DOWN and I am worried about missing the last
    Jason Priestly, Neve Campbell episode. Where will
    it be and when?

  • Holly
    May 15, 2007 at 3:49 pm

    Neve Campbell has been in the last two episodes (”Head Games” and “Heads Will Roll”) and Jason Priestly was in the episode the week before last (”Head Games”). They will both be in this Wednesday’s episode (”Everything Comes to a Head”), the season finale.

    Hope that answers your question. And I remember that line about the fish from last season, too! It made me laugh.

  • Tom
    May 15, 2007 at 7:43 pm

    During an interview with Patricia Arquette, the question was asked do you ever use any of the ideas from the viewers. She said they don’t even pass those kinds of emails/mail to the writers.

    Lets leave it to the professionals. We all have stated on numerous occaisons how great the writing of this show is.

    If you want to write, create your own show, thats my 2 cents.

  • Dawn
    May 15, 2007 at 8:26 pm

    I’ve already put in my two cents worth, but since we’re talking about the writers and creative team, I want to share with you all something I discovered today. I was in NYC at the Museum of Television & Radio and I found the original full q&a session with the cast and creative team of Medium that was held last year at the William S. Paley festival. If you have the season 2 dvd, then you have seen the excerpt of it in the special features. The museum has the full session, which is almost two hours long, including an episode of Medium that was screened that night (Too Close to Call). The q&a session itself is over an hour long and is very interesting and entertaining. Unfortunately, it is not available to buy on dvd (oddly enough, similar sessions of Boston Legal and Desperate Housewives ARE available). It’s very interesting to hear GGC and the writers talk about how they come up with stories, and to hear the cast talk about their characters and they came to be a part of the show, and their approach to their character. Interesting stuff, and a must-see for any Medium fan.

    So I think they should scrap this idea of letting fans help write the show, unless they plan on it just being a one-time thing for sweeps or something like that. But the writers know what they’re doing. Let them do it.

  • Michael W Anderson
    May 17, 2007 at 5:08 am

    DAWN! I was there at the paley Festival alst year, and asked the first audience question. They didn;t happen to zoom up on the people asking questions from the audience did they? I was in the first row and asked the first question…
    We need to all writein to have them produce this on DVD for us fans.
    I wrote in a couple months ago, and know of only one other person who has also done so….

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