The market has already shown us that dystopian disaster flicks won’t scare viewers into realizing that climate change is real, and we must act. Let’s try a more consistent and persistent message delivery system. At CoolerPlanet.TV we intend to develop Climate Solutions TV Shows with long legs, that can draw large audiences for 5 to 25 years. Our TV show concepts will also work across all genres, and they’ll always entertain first, enlighten second, and energize third, but never ever preach.
We’re talking about comedy, drama, dramedy, all forms of reality TV shows from competition to makeover, and even game shows. We’ll meet people where they are, for example, creating telenovelas for the Latin American market. Our tech-based and nature-based climate solutions will be woven seamlessly into the typical genre specific television show frameworks. There’s also an enormous advertising and product placement opportunity here for carbon and climate conscious companies.
LOGLINE: A biracial teenage girl from Missoula, Montana named Bella Coola Thundersnow doesn’t believe in the old ways of her grandfather, Big Blackfoot “BB” Thundersnow, who’s a Medicine Man and Rainmaker for the Kootenai Indian Tribe, until she’s struck by lightning and can alter the weather herself.
LOGLINE+ Kootenai legends speak of a half Indian and half White teenage girl who will become the Wisewoman of the One, the greatest Medicine Woman who has ever lived. This Wisewoman of the One will have the power to sing and dance with the sun and the clouds, the moon and the stars, the wind and the rain. She will teach people in every country that all living things are divine and interconnected. We are all cells in an all-encompassing ever evolving global holistic entity called The One.
MASHUP: Bella Coola Thundersnow could be imagined as a mashup of Hannah Montana, The X-Files, and The Magnificent Seven (1960), which was based on The Seven Samurai (1954), directed by Akira Kurosawa. But instead of chasing UFOs and aliens, Bella Coola and The Band of Seven chase thunderstorms, then redirect them to put out forest fires, and mitigate the damage from flooding and drought. As Bella Coola evolves as a Medicine Woman, she’ll chase tornadoes and hurricanes. As her powers grow, the powers that be, will chase Bella Coola.
Bella Coola’s Band of Seven is her Rock & Roll Band, and her first line of defense against all the bad guys who want to control her, and profit from her powers. Here are the Band of Seven: 1) Noah Boatwright (bass, NOAA); 2) Billy Bluewater (drums, Navy Seal), 3) Leonard Rayne (keyboards, Pilot USAF), 4) Brad Stringer (guitar, USDA), 5) Titus Trueheart (fiddle, Army Ranger), 6) Melody Merriweather (tambourine, BG vocals, FBI), and 7) Harmony Merriweather (cabasa, guiro, cowbell, BG vocals, CIA). All seven of the band members have recently resigned or retired from their government gigs. The alligator in the elevator makes the pitch more urgent. Our really scary giant global alligator with great big teeth that are going to bite us on the butt is climate change.
Medical Drama TV show structure blends case-of-the-week plots (patient focus) with ongoing professional and romantic arcs (running plots), using a multi-plot structure (A, B, C stories) within a five act framework (Setup, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution/Denouement) to balance episodic medical emergencies with the character development, ethical dilemmas, and relationship dramas that create tension and drive television series to long-term popularity.
Doctor Shows, Cop Shows, and Lawyer Shows are all developed with pretty much the same bell curve of information, action and emotion. Our Climate Solution Show Bella Coola Thundersnow, which I believe works much better as a dramedy than a straight up drama, will follow that same formula. You can think of our global warming problem as a worldwide pandemic. Within that context there are always hot spots where the pandemic flares up and becomes a localized emergency including these types of patients: forest fires, prairie fires, droughts, floods, sea level rise, heatwaves, blizzards, ice storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, air pollution and water pollution.
Think of Bella Coola Thundersnow & The Band of Seven as the brilliant & beautiful, hunky & handsome doctors with healing powers that the world has not seen before now, and the emergencies listed just above as the billion-dollar patients. These emergencies put plant life, wildlife, human life, and Mother Earth in dire danger. Bella Coola isn’t a typical doctor. She’s the only Wisewoman of the One in the world who can heal these patients. If Grey’s Anatomy can have 20+ seasons, why not Bella Coola Thundersnow 2028-2050, where every life on Planet Earth hangs in the balance?
The largest U.S. cities are NYC, LA, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philly, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, Jacksonville, Fort Worth, San Jose, Austin, Charlotte, Columbus, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Oklahoma City, Detroit, Washington D.C., Boston and Memphis. The population of the largest MSAs in the U.S. is approximately 128.8 million people. This figure represents around 38% of the total U.S. population & TV viewing audience we’ll target in S1 and S2. S3 will feature smaller cities, towns, rural America, and the folks who grow our food.
Bella Coola & The Band of Seven chase and mitigate extreme weather events across America, and then play concerts at every stop to bring people together. They call these concerts their Rolling Thundersnow Revue. Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue Concert Tour happened in 1975 and 1976 with 57 concerts in America and Canada.
This is a Rainmaking Rock & Roll Romantic Dramedy, so song titles are also our episode titles. This creates tons of possibilities for celebrities from all walks of life (film & TV, music, sports, tech, finance, et al), and every corner of America, to make guest appearances on our TV show. Here are the 24 episodes and featured locations for the Bella Coola Thundersnow Season One and Season Two episodes.