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"Shit my dad says" from Twitter on TV

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"When a voice is so strong and distinct in 140 characters, you can see great potential for what it could be in a 22-minute episode."

Not sure I agree with this logic.

Wow, a lot of TV shows make way more sense now!

William Shatner is playing the dad? This show is actually going to work.

Yeah I kinda groaned when I saw they were making this, but saw Shatner is playing the dad and now I'm excited.

Actually, Shatner is the consummate master at making one groan, in the way that one's parents often do.

I'm pretty amazed that he gets his own TV show thanks to Twitter. He found one of the few useful use cases of Twitter.

He also did a "Ask me anything" on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9pqjl/i_am_justin_from...

I'm still wondering if his dad is actually saying those tweets or if he's just a good writer.

Landing a TV show on CBS is what you've identified as a useful case of Twitter?

For reference, since I had to google for it: http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays

I'm sad to hear that they didn't cast Alan Arkin as the dad.

The question is: what happens when a smart, pithy collection of short statements uttered by an old man and documented by his loving son gets taken over by the writers' guild and turned into sitcom boilerplate?

This could have been an awesome segment on Conan but a full show?

Hmm, I will have to watch and see.

Is the real-life dad getting a cut of this for his IP?

Stranger things have happened. I remember when I heard that there was going to be a reality show featuring Ozzy Osbourne and his family, which seemed totally nuts at the time.

To be fair, it still is nuts.

That's what's so good about it!

I like that twitter stream, there is some poetry and uniqueness in it, and it can be even considered as a new literary genre. BTW, don't you know more sites like SMDS? (different content, some format).

For people interested in football there was the fake Lucas Leiva of Liverpool FC which was hilarious, but now banned.

The story here, to me, is that CBS picked it up. If it were on cable, they wouldn't have to re-write the title. Then again, if it were on cable, I'm sure the deal wouldn't have been that great.

Without the swearing, this show will suck. Wait, I'm sure it would suck either way. Anybody remember the Geico Caveman show folly?

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