The Skeptologists
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by blue collar scientistI meant to post about this days ago - and I did, sort of, scheduling a post in the queue to appear a few hours after I’d written it, to kind of smooth out the blog traffic. But I made a mistake and somehow scheduled it for the wrong month, and didn’t notice that it hadn’t appeared. Mea culpa. So here it is, hopefully better late than never:
The Skeptologists was announced, as far as I know, at TAM 5.5. It’s a proposed TV show, the pilot was recently shot, and it features a bunch of accomplished skeptics and cool people. I’m guessing - I have no inside information - that it is going to be a rational approach to the ghost hunting, conspiracy-theorizing, metaphysical crap-umentary shows that have been hitting the television in such profusion lately.
Head over to Phil Plait’s blog for a teaser trailer of the pilot, and take note of the letter there from the director:
Raise your voice! Let it be known that it’s time for a TV series that focuses on the real, the intelligent and important advances in science, critical thinking and skepticism. The Skeptologists will be pitched to major networks soon, and we want to give the programming executives a sense of what kind of support they can received if they invest in a TV series of this kind.
We have started an email campaign to have fans of the show write-in in support of this show idea and let us know why you would watch a show about critical thinking, science and skepticism! We will compile the emails and present to the executives along with our all-star cast, entertaining pilot program and solid production background to seal a great TV deal to give the Skeptics of the world a show they can stand behind, and be proud of!
Take a moment, and send a brief email to skeptologists@newrule.com. You email will be collected and will help support the show.
Do it!
Tags: reality tv, skeptic, skepticism, skeptologists, television, TV
April 14th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
I think I’d like to see more of what this show would actually be about, it’s background philosophy etc. before I submit a blanket endorsement (or, even encouragement).
It might be a show I’d like to see. It might not. (Setting aside, for the moment, that any encouragement I offered television in any form would be horrible, horrible pretension on my part–I simply don’t have time to watch tv and fail at access to cable.)
But does anyone know more about this?
April 15th, 2008 at 1:11 am
It is possible to send a message saying that you support any television content that supports a reality-based view of the universe, a scientific outlook, and a skeptical approach to extraordinary claims. That would do the trick without necessarily endorsing something that you haven’t yet seen. That’s what I did.
April 15th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Fair enough. Mind if I snag your verbiage? I’m super lazy.
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