Contest Searchlight - Season 1
Season 1
Network
DatesAug 14, 2002 - Sep 4, 2002
Episodes
Season 1Episode 130 min
Episode 1
Denis Leary Seeks out to find another celebrity to be an executive producer with him for a show to give 1 person a chance to have their T.V. show Idea become a reality
There are lots of people trying out and then it gets cut down to 10 then to 3
We get to here the remaining three contestants ideas
Amber Gross's Idea 4 friends in new work( all religious) who meet up and talk about religious things. Then she says that Jesus comes. it seems she had changed her idea for her show because one of the executive producers says she had nothing to do with jesus the day before.
Mike Lombardi's Idea 5 roomates living in manhatten in a place called SHEWS. His idea is basically 30 minutes of improvisation.
Carmine's idea His idea consists of an animated movie he had made before. 5 guys in a beach house for the summer.
Everyone in the room has a hard time picking the winner
In the end they all pick Mike's Idea ""Shews""
Aug 14, 2002
Season 1Episode 230 min
Episode 2
Mike gets introduced to the whole gang of the Shew's show crew and they tell him about how they are combing his show with amber's idea.
Lenny Clarke gave denis leary, the episode before, a rehab number and denis actually called it and went there. Denis Leary had went out and higherd Amber to be his ""eyes and ears"".
So the show is left with Lenny Clarke to be an executive Producer....and Jim Serpico goes nuts on Lenny
Mike ends up going along with the changes everyone had made
Then comes the casting call...They all give names(everyone hates mikes casting idea)....and Lenny Clarke and another try going for Colin Quin(without telling these others)
They end up choosing Peter Gallagher as JESUS Jimmy Burke as Rob Danielle Schneider as Mia Mary Birdsong as Alicia and Adam Ferrara as David
Everyone is ready for the shooting of the show and in comes Colin Quin...everyone starts arguing and Jim Serpico and Colin actually get in a fight!!
They do start shoot the show and Jimmy B
Aug 21, 2002
Season 1Episode 330 min
Episode 3
The cast for ""Jesus and the Gang"" changes some for now the Role of Jesus will be played by Patrick O'neal
The Crew highers Adam Roth to be the composer for the Jesus and the Gang theme song. But no one likes his song so denis leary and another make their own which what do ya know gets put as the theme song.
Everything goes great in the rehersal but when they actually start shooting with people from Comedy Central there watching. A spinkler goes off over the set and gets all the props wet, you see off set there are things getting electicuted and out comes stumbiling Partick Oneal(Jesus) and he falls to the floor.
Aug 28, 2002
Season 1Episode 430 min
Episode 4
Patrice is missing and Jesus and the gang is suppose to start taping today.
Eddie Brill has to do stand up for an audience that has been waiting hours to see the taping of Jesus and the Gang and people end up leaving but a comedy central page ends up getting a bus full of kids to come in and watch.
Eddie Brill takes the role of Jesus since Patrice is absent and Colin Quin refuses to accept jim's apology.
The kids the comedy central page brought in were all deaf and then in comes Patrice ready to go but realizes eddie is out there and he is confused.
Patrice walks in on the set and screws everything up. Everyone is arguing and fights break out! Adam Ferrara punches mike right in the nose and breaks it! Denis and Lenny take off and the whole Show is CANCELED!
Sep 4, 2002
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