Help Wanted

Many a year ago, a group of friends and I got ourselves a website and sub-domain. We really should have each had our own websites but we were in high school and didn't want to spend that much. Enter the sideshow. (our url was sideshow.simplenet.com). Each of us basically just did our own thing on the site with a sideshow.simplenet.com. This was in the days where webspace was really cheap so for something like $10 a month we had unlimited bandwidth, the url and unlimited space. (For my part I created Emulatory Goodness, which was mostly just a collection of a few hundred roms. This was before file-sharing programs so it was a pretty damn good sized resource for roms (esp SNES roms). I had always wanted to do more with it but I was much lazier back in my high school days (believe it or not).

Then I created a personal site back in 2000/2001. It was a horrible looking site but it had some nice stuff on it. It was mainly a collection of quotes (think Quote of the Day without the guess who said it), rants about stuff and recollections of various dreams I had. It's still accessible by going to www.geocities.com/burnsie_104 but I basically stopped updating it back in June of 2001.

Next of the notable online presence type things that I created (I'm glossing over some aborted attempts at sites along the way) was this blog. I started it way back on March 16, 2003 and while 2004 was the only year with daily updates, it is still going along well.

I have, however, always wanted to do more with my site creation and at this point in my life I have much desire to create. I'm already writing lots of fiction but I want to do other things as well. I've been kind of kicking around ideas for a site for a few months now but it wasn't until last week that a cohesive idea really gelled in my head.

There are lots of websites out there devoted to TV shows out there. When it comes to popular shows there's a deluge of sites of varying degrees of quality. There are other shows, however, which are much less known. These shows do not get online coverage outside of IMDB and the like. I want to help change that.

My idea is basically to have a website focusing on the more obscure (yet well worth watching) shows out there. The idea is to give fans of obscure shows a chance to learn more about said show as well as be exposed to other obscure shows they might enjoy.

As I plan to cover multiple shows, there would not be anything TOO elaborate for each individual show; the majority of the coverage would come through a series of episode reviews.

Now, as you probably guessed from the title of this post, I am looking for help. If nobody is interested I am willing to carry the weight on my own until the site is established and then try and bring readers on board but I would rather start with a larger base of writers.

There's not really any limit to the genre of show that could be covered by the as yet unnamed site but I do hav a few criteria.
A) The show has to be relatively obscure. There are plenty of sites out there covering Star Trek, Buffy and Simpsons.
B) Preferably the show should be one that is still available on TV in Canada, the US or elsewhere. If people find out about a show through the site, it'd be good if they could actually watch it. However, if there is a show you want to do that is available only through DVDs or the internet, it could still be covered. I'd just rather focus on stuff that's more readily available.
C) Preferably the show should still be producing new episodes, just because it gives the section a more long-term use. This one is the most expendable criteria however as many good obscure shows do not last more then a season for the simple reason that they are obscure.

As an example of what does and does not fit the criteria of the site, here's a list of the shows I watch regularly (or semi-regularly): Daily Show, Simpsons, Futurama, Delta State, Enterprise, Battlestar Galatica, 24 and Alienated.

Of that list only Delta State and Alienated would qualify as obscure (Battlestar Galactica could be argued for, if only due to the fact it's a relatively new show not available on network television).

Currently I've already written a couple of reviews for Alienated and once the site is up I plan to do about one episode a week. I haven't started Delta State yet but that's because I think Teletoon is going to loop it fairly soon and I'd like to begin at the beginning.

Pretty much anyone reading this blog is a friend of mine. I know each and everyone of you watches some obscure stuff in one form or another and you all have the ability to write so this is pretty much an open call. I'm also looking for some help with the site itself. I can make a decent site layout (don't let the slapped together Burnsie_104 site fool you) but I have no graphical ability so any icons/banner/etc is beyond my capability.

If you are interested in getting involved with the site, just drop my an e-mail at quiltedporcupine@gmail.com or message me on the ICQ.