EA Considering Sims TV Show

Reuters is carrying the news that Electronic Arts is considering creating a television show based on 'The Sims'. The show would allow viewers to vote on what the avatars in the show would do. From the article: "One idea could be that you're controlling a family, telling them when to go to the kitchen and when to go to the bedroom, and with this mechanism you have gamers all over the world 'playing the show."

Another follow-weird-family show ...

[Tribbin]

... but then fake.

Who will watch that once the new of it is over?

One out there already?

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't they already have one [strangerhood.com]?

this is a horrible idea

[bechthros]

and i say that as an ardent Sims fan (hell, I bought a new video card just so I could PLAY sims 2). The demands of today's TV entertainment are such that any TV show that's true to the game will BOMB MASSIVELY. TV is about 6-minute chucks of instant gratification and resolving every problem within a half hour. The Sims is about neither of these. If this gets off the ground it will become just another Hanna-Barbara-ish cookie cutter cartoon show, where the only similarity it has to the Sims is in the name (I Robot anyone?) and the characters go through the same tired, demographically neutered plot contrivances as on every other show.

Strangerhood

[someguy456]

I'm surprised nobody (at my threshold?) has mentioned Rooster Teeth Productions' The Strangerhood [strangerhood.com], an online series done using The Sims 2.

Personally, however, I prefer their Red vs. Blue [redvsblue.com], a series done using Halo, and more recently Halo 2.

Ray Bradbury predicted this...

[azalynn]

This is EXACTLY what Montag's ditzy wife Mildred in Farenheit 451 was addicted to, for those of you that have read that particular book. The full-screen televisions mounted on the parlor walls beamed in images of people referred to as "relatives", and the viewers could vote on what these virtual people would do in each episode.

Re:Die Already

[wastaz]

You dont get this do you?
What we are going to see is not sims watching TV, showering and making coffee. It's seeing sims "WooHoo", and sims can "WooHoo" time after time after time after time as long as you make them do it in the jacuzzi.

So basically, EA is going to make a tv show where people are going to have mad sex in a jacuzzi nonstop. Who wouldnt want to see that?