EVAN, SCOTT, AMANDA, and HECTOR have gathered in their office meeting space. Morale is still low after failing to be able to pick up STREAM’s #1 pilot, Terror In America, to series. EVAN has his computer open with the latest viewership data for all their pilots.
AMANDA
Alright guys, I got a plan. We’re not leaving this room until we find another show we can order to series. What’s our next-best show again?
EVAN
Delta. It’s barely doing any of what Terror In America did.
AMANDA
I bet we can work with it.
EVAN
I wouldn’t count on it. Hardly anyone’s watched it in the last week.
HECTOR
What about one of our reality pilots?
EVAN
We don’t have any reality pilots.
SCOTT
Are you familiar at all with our pilots?
HECTOR
New idea: How about we turn one of our pilots into a reality show?
AMANDA
I don’t see how that would work.
HECTOR
Easy. Replace the actors with real people and throw in a couple mini-competitions.
SCOTT
We’re not turning anything into a reality show. We can get something else to work. How about Tsunami Territory? I liked that one.
HECTOR
I don’t think that’d work as a reality show.
SCOTT
I just said that.
EVAN
Tsunami Territory’s viewership has risen recently…
SCOTT
What are the numbers looking like?
EVAN
It had 10 viewers yesterday, a new daily high.
SCOTT
Hey, better than nothing.
EVAN
Wait a minute—looks like 9 of those viewers quit after the first three minutes.
SCOTT
Alright next idea.
EVAN
Gladys & Glynis?
HECTOR
You got the viewership numbers there, what are they saying?
EVAN
Oh those are terrible.
AMANDA
There’s gotta be something showing potential.
EVAN
Not really.
AMANDA
Active user count is still promising though, right?
EVAN
Just dipped below 2,500 today.
Everyone gasps. They then sit in uncomfortable silence for the next ten seconds. AMANDA starts tearing blank pages out of a notepad.
SCOTT
What are you doing?
AMANDA
I’m giving everyone a piece of paper. Write down on it what you think STREAM should do next.
EVAN
What do you mean?
AMANDA
What do you think is the next move STREAM should make? Then fold up the paper and hand it back to me.
Everyone writes down their thoughts and hands it back to AMANDA.
AMANDA
Okay. This one says…shut down.
SCOTT
Sorry guys.
AMANDA
Oh I was reading mine.
AMANDA throws the piece of paper aside.
AMANDA
Next one…
HECTOR
Amanda, I think you can read them all at once.
AMANDA pauses.
AMANDA
They all say ‘Shut down.’
EVAN
How about this, let’s have one more meeting and see if we’re still thinking this.
SCOTT
I’m with you there. But I don’t think my mind’s changing.
HECTOR
Same. It was a fun experiment.
AMANDA
Thanks for trying, guys.
Everyone leaves the meeting room as discouraged about the future of STREAM as ever.