Rather than a sitcom...

I've been considering the possibility that a sitcom may be too difficult for me to produce at this time, even if I were using the studio of the community television station. Perhaps it would even be more of a milestone in my creative and filmmaking development to make a more dramatic type of serial production.

Tales of Love and Love's Demise

A series of shorts, broadcast in a serial manner which have a dark romance theme in common. Effectively, it could be publicized as the creepiest romance series on community television.

Several ideas for this series:

1) A young woman discovers the secret to eternal youth through a process of intense emotional fluctuations. When a power-hungry pharmaceutical company becomes aware of this extraordinary development they send a sinister man with the intention of acquiring the secret at all costs. The woman, while possessing the secret of perpetual youth, is afflicted with an advanced case of tuberculosis which is beginning to appear increasingly more fatal. She instructs her husband, the only person to whom she has told the secret, not to let the knowledge of perpetual youth be revealed to those who would use it for evil or commercial gain.

She exhorts him to hold out, no matter how much they offer or how dire the situation becomes. The story culminates in a scene where the husband is being confronted by the businessman. The husband is hesitating about rejecting the businessman's offers because he knows that the money can pay for his wife's treatment. He accepts and shortly after sees a ghastly preternaturally pale hand come through the doorway followed by the entirety of her body. Her specter incapacitates the terrified businessman and walks towards her husband.

They embrace and almost kiss when he tries to explain... "All I wanted was a happy ending" to which she replies... "So long as death is life's ending, there can never be any happier one". She then disappears from his arm. The businessman has risen by this point and is standing several feet behind him. The businessman states: "I suppose that means she's dead." to which the husband replies "I'd suppose that too." Businessman... "I assume that means you now have nothing to hold you back from..." He pauses as the husband coughs one quick violent cough and wipes his face to find a speck of blood on his lip. Husband... "You assume too much." Businessman... "What?" Husband as soon as death is life's ending... you'll never get that secret out of me."

I'll tell you the other two later!