While it is not uncommon for networks to develop TV shows covering the same topic (hospitals, law firms, cop shows, etc.) it is very uncommon for a TV network to take a competing networks new show, flip it around 180 degrees and put it in the same time slot as the show they are imitating. But this fall season FOX has done just that.
This Thursday FOX will premiere “Flashback” a show with a very similar premise to an ABC show “Flash-forward.” When called on the similarities of the two shows FOX executives were quick to point out the differences. “Flash-forward is set in present day and is about everyone flashing forward a couple of minutes then having memories of a future they haven’t lived. In Flashback we send everyone back to 1979 and have them live in that year.”
“Our show is like a bad trip down memory lane. In 1979 unemployment was in double digits, our economy was in the toilet, our foreign policy was a joke, lousy music ruled the radio, and we had a Democrat in the White House. So really it is very similar to the way things are now.”
Asked how they came up with their idea the producers said they did not plagiarize anything from the ABC show. “There show is about seeing the future. It is more of a fantasy drama. Our show is about present day and how we have lived with this kind of misery before. So our show is more like “Ground Hog Day in Hell.”
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