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FX Developing Space Parody Show

FX Developing Space Parody Show

August 4, 2010 By Mike Hickerson 4 Comments

Cable outlet FX has some of the best dramas on basic cable.

Now the outlet is looking to develop a few comedies.  Bolstered the success of this summer’s “Louie,” the cable outlet is developing several other new comedy shows.

One is the new series set in outer space from the producers of “Reno 911.”

Set a thousand years in the future, “Alabama” follows the crew of the space ship USS Alabama as they continue a seven-year mission to maintain interplanetary peace.

“The show will follow the heart-pounding action as our crew visits hostile planets, meets alien life-forms, and tries to have sex with each other in their tiny, metal bunk beds,” FX said.

Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant are developing the pilot, which like “Reno 911” the new show will be partially scripted and partially improved.

Garant and Lennon are executive producers along with Peter Principato and Paul Young.

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  1. tensaibaka says

    August 5, 2010 at 2:40 am

    Didn’t Syfy have a show like this recently? Outer Space Astronauts…with the crew onboard the USS Oklahoma. It had a few moments that made me chuckle, but nothing really special. So just move a few states over and call it a new show?

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  2. guardianali says

    August 7, 2010 at 12:55 pm

    Not a big fan of Reno 911 so I doubt id be a fan of this show. What im waiting for is a true real scifi show to bite into again. With Star Trek off the air a while now, BSG over, Stargate Atlantis gone (Not a fan of SGU..more 90210 in space then scifi), its getting to be that time when we need a good, serialized scifi tv show…int he future, space travel, aliens..etc..

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  3. Skiznot says

    August 8, 2010 at 8:39 am

    I does seem the genre is getting a bit too meta with more spoofy stuff than actual sci-fi. I’m just so glad that we have SGU best sci-fi to come out in along time. I did enjoy Atlantis but it was a bit more scooby doo in space than Sci-fi). BSG jump tracks and turned into a fantasy allegory in the end. If anyone thinks SGU is 90210 in space then you must not seen one or the other. SGU has more actual astronomy than your average SG shows. Although I’d like to see these 90210 episodes where they are fighting for control of a ship while getting slammed with pulsar radiation, finding planets seemingly engineered by and advanced race, dealing with time paradoxes, using planetary bodies’ to navigate on low energy, dealing with alien parasites, exploring the technology of an ancient advanced race, using the resources found in a distant galaxy to fight alien bacteria etc. etc. Seems like there’s still people out there that watched the pilot of SGU and said “it’s too different” and gave up. It’s more real sci-fi than a show has been a long time.

    But I could always use more space science fiction because that’s what I’m looking for. SGU is phenominal but we should also still have Virtuality and Defying Gravity and any other stories about humanity exploring the universe.

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  4. Krazy Joe says

    August 9, 2010 at 3:52 pm

    I was more interested in ‘Boldly Going Nowhere’, the sci-fi sitcom that was being developed by Rob McElhenney and the ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ guys.

    ‘It’s Always Sunny’ is consistently one of the funniest and sharpest shows on TV. Their brand of humor in a sci-fi setting would have been awesome.

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