Shifty Bastards

Y'know, there's so many creative projects I've poured myself into, worked on which will never see the light of day.

And all that's left is a blog post and a graphic...


And...and....that's it.

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Okay, Cine, here's an excerpt of the pitch Skipper and I wrote up a couple years ago:

‘Shifty Bastards’ is a half-hour situation comedy series. The show revolves around the highs and lows of a right wing, populist, playboy westerner newly elected Prime Minister of Canada.

The PM mixes with the grey-suit wearing civil servants who constantly try to manipulate him or do damage control (knowing a good puppet when they see one - "Just keep him in booze and women, and we can have our way"). Our hero doesn’t know when it's all going end, but PM and wife are loving every minute of it in a chaotic sort of way.

The Prime Minister, Robert Lapeer, is a charismatic former premier of a western Canadian province. He’s a guy’s guy with flashy white movie star teeth that's a million bucks with more luck than brains, more American than Canadian, who loves to party, slap backs, date show girls on the sly. With big business connections in Ontario, he’s the great white puppet leader hope of a conservative grassroots movement that suffers from too much earnest substance and not enough shallow, vote-getting style.

There's more, but it's a bit absurd to display the outline of a 1/2 hour comedy show idea that went nowhere. Basically 'Yes, Prime Minister' meets 'Married With Children'. We actually did do a couple pitch meetings to programming types who seemed like they'd never heard a show pitch before. Brain-dead idiots. The PM character was loosely based on an old British Columbia premier, Bill Vander Zalm.

It was totally insane. Good insane.