My kids didn't want to go to school this morning and like maybe billions of others, I didn't want to go to work either. The only way to get over the Monday morning hump is to try and hit the ground running and have some ideas.
I should be having ideas for tv shows but the only one I could get excited about this morning was "i-weather". I have to say it's genius but I'm going to have to wait about fifty years for the technology to catch up with it.
I’m assuming that someone pretty clever, probably an American or a Japanese fellow, will eventually come up with a machine that can turn carbon dioxide into oxygen and carbon and Shazam! It’s the end of global warming. A little optimistic, I'll admit, but I'm also banking on the fact that, by then, everyone will have grown accustomed to being warm and sun-drenched and will be longing for a bit of variety in their weather. Someone at Apple will then come up with a device – the weatherpod maybe - that you plug yourself into while it creates your own personal weather system.
So if you want to walk into work in bright, fresh, slightly chilly sunshine; go home in a stiff breeze; close your front door just as a storm brews up and wake up the next day to a light dusting of snow, you can. You can build i-weather playlists for certain occasions - overcast and slightly misty for funerals etc - and if you put it on 'shuffle' you can recreate the British weather wherever you are in the world. I'm willing to let Steve Jobs have this idea in return for a Gothic mansion on the Yorkshire Moors.
Anyway, this set me wondering what sort of weather people would choose if they could programme it themselves, and if indeed there might be an incredibly contrived tv show with fancy CGI graphics about The Nation’s Favourite Weather. You could get Sian Lloyd to present it; after Lembit Opik dumped her for a Cheeky Girl she could do with a lift.
This is the sort of idea that lots of people in television have but daren’t tell anyone about it in case, by some freak, it gets commissioned . Often the last thing you want to do with an idea is realise it. Zefrank's Brain Crack piece www.zefrank.com/thewiki/the_show:_07-11-06 sums up this dilemma brilliantly.
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