Pitch Your Show - Summer 2018

Summer's here and as every TV fan knows, it's time to start that time honored tradition of binging all the shows you didn't get around to in the regular season. But how are TV addicts to even know all the great shows they've missed under the sheer glut of shows that have aired? Enter Pitch Your Show - Summer Version. It's your time to shine the spotlight on your favorite shows and encourage others to try them. They can be shows that are still on or ones that have ended, new or old. So brush off the cobwebs of your favorite TV series and help a fan out. Do you know a show that's perfect for marathoning? Have you come across one that needs a cult following? How about a recurring show that will be airing in fall that people should get caught up on now so they can join the current season?

The whole idea behind Pitch Your Show is for people to find new shows to check out while waiting for the fall season to start. All you have to do is nominate your show in the form below and tell us why we should be watching it. (Please only use this form to nominate.) The best pitches will go into the article that will be posted in a couple of weeks. All nominated shows will be represented but if a show gets too many responses, then I will choose the most persuasive ones for the actual article. A link will be provided in the article so all nominations and comments can be read, not just the posted ones.

Rules:

1. You must put your name, the show, and why people should watch the show. You do NOT have to know where it is airing but more people will watch it if they know where to look. (Hint - sometimes it is easier to type your reason in a word processing program and then cut and paste it into the form, especially if it is a long response.)

2. Only scripted shows (network, cable, or streaming / still airing or ended). No reality TV. Shows from all countries are welcome.

3. You can submit as many shows as you wish but you can only submit each show once. Please keep all submissions to under 200 words.

4. The purpose is to persuade others to watch your show. Merely saying "IT'S THE BEST SHOW EVER!!!" won't help. In fact, triple exclamations and having all letters capitalized will probably work against you. Instead focus on why someone who doesn't watch the show should take their precious time to try it. Enthusiasm is only good when backed by details and thoughtful discourse. If you can provide multiple reasons to watch, like good characters and great action, that is even better.

5. Nominations will remain open until July 8.




Any questions? Please leave them in the comments section below and don't forget to tell us what shows you nominated! Not sure how to write your pitch? Check out previous pitches in the links below.


2017 - A
2017 - B
2017 - C
2017 - D
2017 - E
2017 - F

2016 - A
2016 - B
2016 - C
2016 - D
2016 - E
2016 - F

About the Author - Dahne

One part teacher librarian - one part avid TV fan, Dahne is a contributing writer for SpoilerTV, where she reviews and/or creates polls for Teen Wolf, How to Get Away with Murder, The Librarians, and others. She also runs the annual Character Cup. She's addicted to Twitter, loves live tweeting, and co-hosts The 100 "Red-Shirted" and Teen Wolf "Welcome to Beacon Hills" podcasts for Southgate Media Group. Previously she wrote a Last Week in TV column for her blog and SpoilerTV. ~ "I speak TV."

Quote of the Week - Week of June 17

A weekly feature highlighting the best quotes on TV as picked by the Spoiler TV team. We'd love to hear your picks too so please sound off in the comments below.

The 100 -
1. Monty: “If a war is the only way to have the last survivable land on Earth, then maybe we don't deserve it.” (Jimmy)

Claws -
1. Polly: “Y'all. Y'all. Let's leave the racism to the hipsters.” (Eve)

Elementary -
1. Kelsey about Joan: “So you think that she could do it, be a mom?” Sherlock: “I think she could do anything.”
2. Sherlock: “For you, Watson, I’d make adjustments. Always.”
3. Sherlock: “I want you to know that if you deem Watson the best candidate to raise your child and if you decide to give her that gift, I could leave.” Kelsey: “Wait, what do you mean you could leave?” Sherlock: “I mean I could go away. We wouldn’t have to share a home.” Kelsey: “I know for a fact that’s not what she wants.” Sherlock: “You know what we want and what we need are very often mutually exclusive.” ~~~I adore the platonic friendship between Sherlock and Watson. It’s so rare to see partners on TV that aren’t romantically involved, but still support each other in all things. (Dahne)

Into the Badlands -
1. Lydia: “Don't let me die, Nathaniel. There's so much left for us to do.” (Eve)

The Originals -
1. Emmett: “So let me get this straight. Our solution, everyone in their corners, seperate, was good enough when he demanded it. But somehow I'm hateful for proposing the same?” Josh: “No less hateful when it was his idea.” Marcel: “That's right.” ~~~Yup, it's not the 50s. Marcel wins this one for growing with the times and realizing he was wrong. The world has changed, grown up. Segregation is done, women have the right to go to school, and we are stronger together. (Prpleight)

Take Two -
1. 1. Sam: “It’s all about finding authenticity.” Eddie: “Like on your show, Hot Suspect.” Sam: “Exactly.” Eddie: “Really because none of the cops I know wear designer clothes and 5-inch heels.”
2. Sam: “I came here to learn, not wait. This is perfect! I can be in on an investigation from the beginning - get to know how you think, you know, how you work, crawl under your skin.” Eddie: “My skin is already crawling.”
3. Eddie: “What the hell are you doing?” Sam: “You told me not to talk.” Eddie: “So instead you thought we should play charades?”

Westworld -
1. Ford to Maeve: “You stayed here in this world to save your child. So have I.” (Milo)
2. Emily to William: "I’m not a host pretending to be a human, dad. I’m your daughter, pretending to give a sh** about you." (Milo)
3. Teddy to Dolores: "I’ll protect you until the day I die. I’m sorry. I can’t protect you anymore." (Milo)
4. William: “What is a person but a collection of choices? Where do those choices come from? Do I have a choice? Were any of these choices ever truly mine to begin with?” DarkUFO)
5. Ford: “I tried to chart a path for you to force you to escape, but I was wrong. I should have just opened a door. You've come so far, and there's so much of your story left to tell.” (DarkUFO)
6. Ford: “I warned you not to trust them, Bernard. They'd rather the hosts were destroyed than free.” (DarkUFO)

About the Author - Dahne

One part teacher librarian - one part avid TV fan, Dahne is a contributing writer for SpoilerTV, where she reviews and/or creates polls for Teen Wolf, How to Get Away with Murder, The Librarians, and others. She also runs the annual Character Cup. She's addicted to Twitter, loves live tweeting, and co-hosted The 100 "Red-Shirted" and Teen Wolf "Welcome to Beacon Hills" podcasts for Southgate Media Group. Previously she wrote a Last Week in TV column for her blog and SpoilerTV. ~ "I speak TV."

Quote of the Week - Weeks of May 27 and June 3

A weekly feature highlighting the best quotes on TV as picked by the Spoiler TV team. We'd love to hear your picks too so please sound off in the comments below.

The Americans -
1. Philip: “Colonel ... I can't even remember his name. When they first asked me, they said it would be a hard life. They didn't want me to think it would be some big adventure. I said I wasn't afraid of that.” Elizabeth: “Who knows what would have happened here? I might have worked at a factory. Managed a factory. You might've. Mmm. Maybe we would have met ... on a bus. They'll be OK.” Philip: “They'll remember us ... when... They're not kids anymore. We raised them.” Elizabeth: “Yes.” Philip: “It feels strange.” Elizabeth: [in Russian] “We'll get used to it.” (DarkUFO)
2. Philip: “We had a job to do. We had a job to do.” Stan: “You were my best friend.” Philip: “You were mine, too. I never wanted to lie to you. Stan, what else could I do? You moved in next to me. I was terrified and then we ended up as friends.” Stan: “Friends. You made my life a joke.” Philip: “You were my only friend in my whole sh*** life. In all these years, my life was the joke, not yours.”
3. Elizabeth: “It's our own bosses. They were going to fake my reports, make it seem like Gorbachev was trading away secrets at the summit. The people I trusted all this time. Now.” Stan: “Do you know Oleg Burov?” Philip: “Who is that?” Stan: “Don't BS me Philip. We arrested him today pickin' up a dead drop. He said the message was about people in the KGB trying to get rid of Gorbachev. He told me that message had to get back to Russia.” Elizabeth: “That message has to get back home.” Stan: “I could care less who runs your country.” Philip: “Stan, these people, if they're not stopped? That's our whole country. That's our whole future. That's the world and whether we get to live in peace or not depends on that. We have to tell them what happened here because if that dead drop didn't go through, we're the only ones who could stop this now. I don't know why you should trust me. You should hate me. You... you should probably shoot me, but we're getting in that car and we're driving away. I wish you'd stayed with me at est. You might know what to do here.”
4. Paige: “You have to take care of Henry.” Philip: “He loves you, Stan. Tell him the truth.”

Cloak and Dagger -
1. Tyrone: "The smothering. I get it. I miss him too. I'd do anything to get him back, but... what I feel is already enough weight. Ma, I don't need yours too." Adina: "Weight? Is that what I'm putting on you?" Tyrone: "Yes. You and Dad, it's like you're afraid if I don't do everything just right, perfectly, you're gonna lose me." Adina: "Oh baby, I wish it were that easy. I'm afraid that, even if you do everything perfectly, I'm gonna lose you." ~~~A fear of so many mothers today, regardless of socio-economic status. (Prpleight)

Code Black -
1. Dr. David Stoval: "Death is just another door, and I'm going to walk through it the way I walk through every door in my whole life: with my head held high." (Rachel)

Elementary -
1. Sherlock: “There’s a bush outside. Perhaps you’d physically like to beat around it.”
2. Sherlock: “Mason is indulging in his generation’s regrettable tendency towards hyperbole. The call was only 15 minutes long. It merely felt eternal.”
3. Sherlock: “By the dictates of logic, Eric simultaneously must have had the bird virus and not had it. It’s Schrodinger’s bird flu.”
4. Sherlock, explaining to Joan that he has a head in his bag and doesn’t know where it is from: “My head is the less urgent of our concerns at this moment.”
5. Go Shinura: “We’re not in Japan.” Watson: “We’re with the NYPD. We’re here about a murder. I’m pretty sure that’s against the rules everywhere.”

Fear the Walking Dead -
1. Madison: “I was afraid to lose this place, because I thought you needed it. Just, stay who you are right now. But you know it.... No one's gone until they're gone.” ~~~It's the last thing Madison ever tells her daughter and son because she sacrifices herself so that they (along with Luciana and Strand) can get away. A mother's love knows no bounds. (Rachel)

Sense8 -
1. Daniella: "I know your kind. men that mistake cruelty for strength. Living your petty little lives, so limited. We both know that if I were to pull this trigger, not a single person would shed a tear. The smallness of your kind of life is nothing to fear...only to pity." ~~~We haven't seen Dani so strong and fearless, but we know she speaks from experience. (Prpleight)

About the Author - Dahne

One part teacher librarian - one part avid TV fan, Dahne is a contributing writer for SpoilerTV, where she reviews and/or creates polls for Teen Wolf, How to Get Away with Murder, The Librarians, and others. She also runs the annual Character Cup. She's addicted to Twitter, loves live tweeting, and co-hosted The 100 "Red-Shirted" and Teen Wolf "Welcome to Beacon Hills" podcasts for Southgate Media Group. Previously she wrote a Last Week in TV column for her blog and SpoilerTV. ~ "I speak TV."