Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski: TV Drama Producers

[RamboLiberal]

“Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are adding a new role to already-full schedules: television drama producers. Scarborough and Brzezinski have been named consulting producers on a new drama series, “Young Turks,” which is in development at NBC, according to Daily Variety.

At first glance, it isn’t clear what the duo would bring to the show, which is about a group of 20-somethings in New York City, however, Variety says the “characters find themselves in the high-powered worlds of finance, politics and media — which is where the expertise of Scarborough and Brzezinski comes in.”

No word on whether Scarborough and Brzezinski have gone to MSNBC’s new 10 PM host Lawrence O’Donnell for advice. O’Donnell was in TV drama as a writer and producer for “The West Wing” before he ever hosted a cable news program.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/joe-scarborough-and-mika-brzezinski-tv-drama-producers_b34953#more-34953

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1. Young Turks? Is this for real? I dont get it

[valerief]

2. Sounds D.I. Joe and his parrot Mika want to bring back the "Greed is Good" eighties to teevee. nt

[vi5]

3. I'm sure we can look forward to a million posts about it...

from the Morning Joe obsessives on DU.

[redirish28]

4. I think NBC might have a lawsuit on their hands... Cenk and the gang will hopefully

make some noise about this one.

[Angry Dragon]

5. I thought that name was already taken??

[Atman]

6. "The Young Turks" is a very old term for "progressives."

Which makes it even MORE odd that Scarborough would be associated with it. He's about as progressive as wax-cylinder phonograph. Anyway, I doubt that it is trademark-able. The term comes from the Ottoman Empire, and describes members of the Ottoman society who were progressive, modernist and opposed to the status quo (in the words of Wiki). Joe may be opposed to the status quo, but he sure as hell isn't modernist or a progressive. Just more posturing and positing before his 2012 run if you ask me.

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[EC]

7. Isn't that title already copyrighted by Cenk?

I don't know how that works...if a web-cast name crosses over to tv or not...

[SoCalDem]

8. If so, they would always change the name to "Young Jerks"

a more fitting title, anyway

[EC]

9. ha

:thumbsup: