Tony is gone, and so too are his quirky explorations into “parts unknown” where he meets interesting people, digs the local surroundings and has culinary adventures.
We are not likely to see a lot of other TV shows like Tony’s because there are not a lot of Tony Bourdain wanna be’s waiting outside CNN’s talent search door. In fact,, we tend to find the opposite. To get your own show on TV and stay on TV, you need to be somewhat homogenized. Like … Anderson Cooper. Cooper is a nice person, but in this interview with Tony Bourdain, you see the difference that I refer to
So let’s give up on TV giving us the next Tony Bourdain type show. But could we get something like Tony on YouTube? I think we might — if we could create the right kind of package to plug into.
That package would need (1) a theme — my best idea,”No Celebs Allowed!” A show that profiles 3 people in a given place who have some cool things to say. They might be writers, artists, journalists, authors, or whatever. But no Kim Kardashians or Paris Hiltons. (2) a host or hosts – our Tony substitutes. Someone or some people who are cool enough and funny enough to provide a bacdrop story and still allow the other people to shine. (3) a follow up thread from people who visit later on and write about what they found – this could be in a blog format.
What do you think? Time to channel your inner Tony!
Err … a weird follow up — I wrote the above to present an idea. Normally, I would be ok with that. But I feel just a tiny bit weird because I just read Greg Satell’s “Here’s Why No Cares About Your Ideas”. I’m ok with that! Really! But it is a bit weird.
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