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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Possible Jim Rome Spinoffs


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Jim Rome is both the host and contestant in an analysis-heavy dating gameshow that allows him to showcase his rhetorical skills and his ability to answer live calls from viewers all while choosing the love of his life.

Watchability: 2/5
Plausibility: 3/5
Network: ESPN2/ABC
Timeslot: Primetime

Jim Rome is forced to confront his own mortality by managing a struggling crematorium during funeral season (probably not a real time of year).  He finds he needs to be tough but fair with his employees and he creates real and meaningful relationships with each of them.  The real fireworks come when he has to console the families of the deceased live on the air.

Watchability: 5/5
Plausibility: 2/5
Network: A&E
Timeslot: 9-10pm

Jim Rome cooks each week for a family that is down on their luck.  His subpar cooking skills are made up for somehow by his presence and post-dinner life chat with the parents about getting their lives back on track.

Watchability: 3/5
Plausibility: 5/5
Network: ABC
Timeslot: Primetime

Jim Rome narrates a documentary about Women's Rights that spans from whenever Women's Rights started to the present.  He is incredibly cynical and disrespectful.  Women end up hating all men everywhere.  It quickly becomes a Lifetime daytime staple.

Watchability: 5/5
Plausibility: 1/5
Network: Lifetime
Timeslot: Early Afternoon (Lifetime equivalent of primetime)

Jim Rome is a dealer at the featured table during a World Series of Poker event.  He is forced to moderate both the conversation at the table as well as the phone calls of whoever watches poker on ESPN2.

Watchability: 1/5
Plausibility: 4/5
Network: ESPN2
Timeslot: All day, every day

Jim Rome and a couple other guys with huge biceps, no sleeves, and mustaches hang out in a shitty garage and drink beer while analyzing babes and muscle cars.
Despite the manly premise, Rome and his cohosts regularly approach the segments with slumber party levels of excitement and squealing.
Segments: Chugs & Jugs, Motorbabe Mayhem, Alone with Rome, Backseat Babes

Watchability: 5/5
Plausibility: 4/5
Network: SPEED
Timeslot: 10pm

Jim Rome's quest to become Burning Man's official mascot is chronicled in this three part mini-series.
Part I: Jim interviews Burning Man enthusiasts and learns about the culture.
Part II: Gets into character and starts ingratiating himself to the major Burning Man players.
Part III: Jim ends up naked and hallucinating somewhere in the American Southwest nowhere near Burning Man.  He claims that he finds "the real Burning Man, man."

Watchability: 5/5
Plausibility: 1/5
Network: Indie Film
Timeslot: Debuted at some weird film festival

Rome puts out a series of PSA's about sexual health.  Although the title suggests that these would be lighthearted, in reality they are very gritty and sexually explicit.  Rome warns against the dangers of double penetration and stresses the importance of safe words.  Eventually the PSA's become 30 second blocks of Rome regaling the viewers with his own sexual conquests and darkest childhood secrets.  He ends every PSA with his controversial and misleading tagline, "I'm Jim Rome.  Keep it casual, you guys."

Watchability: 5/5
Plausibility: 2/5
Network: Youtube
Timeslot: Millions of views

Jim Rome hosts a 15 minute behind-the-scenes sneak peak look at the summer blockbuster Real Steel.  Expect interviews with directors of photography and cheesy scenes where Rome is in a black jumpsuit with white balls feigning ignorance about computer graphics even though everyone has seen that exact process reenacted dozens of times.

Watchability: 5/5
Plausibility: 3/5
Network: Disney/Top half of the TVGuide channel
Timeslot: Every 45 minutes

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