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his is a premise parents of unruly teen kids can relate to — a series about a world where youths are quarantined after a mysterious virus makes adults allergic to teenagers. The CW has bought the spec, titled Sick. Described as a provocative cross between Contagion and The Hunger Games, it centers on a band of teens who escape from their containment units and go on the run from authorities. Trey Callaway and Sean Hood wrote the script, which was sold directly to the CW. ICM Partners-repped Callaway is currently the co-executive producer of CSI: NY and also is developing the drama Help Wanted for TNT. APA-repped Hood is best known for his genre work on Halloween: Resurrection, Fear Itself and Masters Of Horror.
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the idea of teens being on the run and it being a cross between contagion and hunger games intrique me.
But seriously, they can do better than being allegic to teens.
Jesus, what an incredibly stupid idea. Perfect for CW!
I’m definitely going to watch. Loved Contagion and Hunger Games, and, as a parent, am allergic to my teen 1/2 the time! Sounds great great to me from both parent and teen views.
So that’s why I’m sneezing so much!
I have to admit, I rarely comment, but I had to. Allergic to teens? This is why I haven’t picked up on a new show in the last couple of years. Okay, I’m only going off the premise listed here, but wouldn’t it make better drama if when a kid turns 13, the adults around him get sick and die (not as if that is much better either, just a bit more intriguing.
Unless that is what they meant when they say “allergic.”
Yeah, at first blush “grownups are allergic to teens” sounds like a particularly stupid sitcom premise but when you think about it, there’s some interesting dama to be mined. Whether CW is the one to mine it is another question.
Don’t forget to mention Hood wrote the 100 million dollar misfire Conan for Millennium.
The CW finally as an Emmy contender.
I think it’s clever and could be a cool satire. Would also make an awesome feature.
No virus needed to make adults allergic to teenagers. It’s their attitudes that make us allergic to them!
It’s the other way around..
With the right tonal approach, this could be a pretty funny satire.
Obviously, that’s not really CW’s thing, but just sayin’….
Love Sean Hood! Congrats!
This is the thinking outside the narrow minded television shows that networks have right now. So much crap is coming out of Hollywood right now for broadcast networks, remakes of old ideas (NBC), clones of shows long past their prime (CB)S, while the premise isn’t entirely new (Australian series called The Tribe only in reverse) but is it a lot fresher than the stale old stuff that is on TV now.
Leave it to The CW to come up with something new.
You guys obviously haven’t read the script. It IS a fatal allergy to teens that is killing adults. And SICK is one of the best pilots the CW has been lucky enough to get their hands on in quite some time. If they don’t screw it up, they’ve got a monster hit on their hands.
What happens when the kids turn 18? Do they magically stop making adults sick?
You’re still a teenager when you’re 18.
Sounds awesome. I’m pretty sure my parents became allergic to me long before my teens.
Anyone who’s worked with Callaway knows what an extensive and generous talent he is. And as for teenagers? Yeah. there are toxic years. Everyone’s lucky to live through them. This is a great idea.
You guys obviously haven’t read the script. It IS a fatal allergy to teens that is killing adults. And SICK is one of the best pilots the CW has been lucky enough to get their hands on in quite some time. If they don’t screw it up, they’ve got a monster hit on their hands.
When the kids turn 18 does their “sickness” go away??? I just don’t get this idea.
I presume that it’s just a generation of kids that are now teenagers. It probably has something to do with when and how they were born, and the sickness started taking effect when they got to a certain age i.e. the teen years.