I was listening to the Bob and Tom Show this morning and they had a news story about a new television show called Sh** My Dad Says starring William "The Shat" Shatner as The Dad.
This television program is awesome on a couple levels. First, the obvious, it's got Captain Kirk! Second, it's the very first TV sitcom to be based on tweets. In case you don't know, a tweet is the short 140 character messages people post to the popular social networking site Twitter.
Here's the story. A guy by the name of Justin Halpern moves from Los Angeles, back to his parents' house in San Diego. Shortly after he starts a Twitter feed called Sh** My Dad Says which is a series of quotes made by Halpern's father, Sam, regarding random subjects. Justin started tweeting on the account on August 3rd, 2009 and within less than a month, the page was featured on The Daily Show, a popular San Francisco blog called Laughing Squid and on Forgetting Sarah Marshall star Kristen Bell's Twitter feed. As of April 2010, Sh** My Dad Says has about 1,260,000 followers.
A book was released based on the feed and has reached #8 on the New York times best seller list for hardcover nonfiction. And, that led to the television sitcom starring William Shatner.
Obviously they've had to change the name and according to sources the pilot episode has been shot and will air this fall on CBS.
Dangerous Dave
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