$#*! My Dad Says
Lost in Translation William Shatner now stars in a comedy series on CBS that has been adapted from a Twitter feed called Sh*t My Dad Says . I've been a fan of Justin Halpern, the Twitter account's author, for a while, and I'm happy that he's been able to profit from his feed. However, I worry about the success of the show since the success of Halpern's Twitter posts comes because they pack a lot of comedy in just 140 characters. I have not seen the television show, but I worry that stretching a bunch of 140-character one-liners into a 30-minute series is doomed to fail from the beginning. But maybe there's an alternative way to translate the Sh*t My Dad Says Twitter account to television without losing its punch of comedy: Pardon the Interruption What if CBS took the top 150 posts from Halpern's dad and made them into ten-second spots that aired in between each commercial during prime time for one day of the week throughout the whole fall season....