Published by Swiss James on 21 Aug 2009 at 12:40 pm
“Therefore to preserve own rice bowl…”
Read this synopsis of a popular TV show and tell me what you think it is.
I’ll give you a clue- it’s NOT Battlestar Galactica.
Answers to follow.
*Thanks to Izzy and Allastair who pointed this out to me
**Yes I am aware of what the rice bowl means in this context. But still, come on
Answers? Is it some generic description for every TV show in China?
Clearly it’s for the first series of The Gang Of Three, snapped up for peanuts (literally) by the legendary Inner Mongolia Excellent Mostly Company For Makings Of TV Programmability.
Is it the Chinese version of The Office – but set in Leeds?
But seriously, I think David is right – it is the cd of the Gang of 3 Podcast. They were selling it off the back of a pushbike outside Carrefour last night.
am sure that one of my students handed me that as homework last week!
30 Rock starring Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin, airing on NBC in the US?
(it said my comment was too short)
Mary Tyler Moore, 2nd season
The News at Ten?
It’s a cut-up method version of Sex and The City.
Actually, I am currently working on a pilot episode for a tv series set in Shanghai. Well, a film script about a tv series set in Shanghai. It’s kind of like science-fiction except there are no flying saucers or time travel or anything like that. No science. Or fiction.
“gate relaxed curriculum” is the obvious clue:
Grange Hill?
Im also in for 30Rock-excellent show by the way.
It is 30 Rock.
If you’ve never seen it, basically Tina Fey is the chief screenwriter for a show on NBC. Alec Baldwin is brought in as her new boss – well as you can imagine, this is not a gate relaxed curriculum so to protect her own rice bowl she…