A slideshow expressing my ideas for a new tv show

1. No Smoke without a fire
By Caitlin McNamee
A proposal for a teen horror TV series

2. A group of five young people (ranging
in ages from 17 – 23) set out to prevent a
pharmaceutical company creating an
apocalyptic world. However, the south
of England is already in this apocalyptic
state so they must fight their way
through the chaos and assist small areas
into creating some form of order. But
can they survive the trials of life on top
of the Cotard Race hunting them down?
Plot

3. Back in the 1990s Artemis Pharmaceuticals released several bad batches of the
birth control pill that not only didn’t work as a form of birth control, but caused
the foetuses to develop a fault. About 30% of the women who gave birth to their
children developed Cotard Syndrome in their post-natal years. Any of the grown
children born under this pill began to act out violently as they reached the end of
puberty.
It was caused by chemical engineering to create a new hormone. The children
born with this hormone became crazed and killed people in the most psychotic
manner, also finding the urge to spread their disease. It can be spread through
bodily fluids however blood is the most effective so the “Cotard Race” (as they
were dubbed) would often force their blood into contact with others by bleeding
into another’s wound, mouth, or by blood transfusion.

4. Before the beginning of the apocalypse, an employee at
Artemis discovers the truth about some recent peculiar deaths
and once the outbreak is in full swing, there is fear of the
pharmaceutical company planning more devastation on a
worldwide scale; their aim being to, not only make a lot of
money from later developing a vaccine, but also kill much of
the world’s population on the east side of the Atlantic.

5. Characters
The Protagonists
• Ethan (23)
• Lisa (22)
• Drake (17)
• Pari (17)
• Vicki (19)
The Antagonists
• Cornelia (29)
• Deborah (51)
• Felix (31)
• Matthias (61)

6. Ethan is good with guns, he’s from a
wealthy family in Oxfordshire and is
acquired to the skills of hunting. He’d
travelled down to South London to visit
an old school friend but got stuck there
as his friend (an employee at Artemis)
was murdered and the Cotard
outbreak began.
Lisa is a natural born leader as well as trustworthy and intuitive. The
small gathering of youths who have become accustomed to her
presence follow her command. However she is open minded and
takes other’s skills, experiences, and opinions into account.

7. Drake, who is Lisa’s cousin, practices
Wicca and helps the gang by coming up
with spells to assist them in situations by
blessing things, cursing others, cleansing
spells, dispelling, health spells, protection,
and other spells. He is also
knowledgeable on alternative medical
methods.
Before the apocalypse, Pari enjoyed
reading and throwing tea parties and
dinner parties, cooking everything herself.
Now she must put those skills to use by
using the knowledge she retained from the
many books she covered and being
creative with making meals from the little
rations and foraged food they have.
Vicki loves science. She is good with
technology and she has the same
creative mind as many inventors,
envisioning everyday objects into life
saving contraptions.

8. Cornelia may appear to just
be the secretary for Deborah
and Matthias but she is a lot
more dangerous than that.
Not only is she protecting
the company, but she is
worming her way into the
personal lives of the people
at the top. She’s playing for
her father’s love after
discovering she’s the
illegitimate child of Matthias.
Deborah is the director of
Biochemistry at Artemis
and is far more interested
in playing the people
around her and doing as
she pleases than using her
scientific knowledge for
any good.

9. Felix is simply the spoilt
son of the CEO. At least
that is how he first
appears. In actual fact he
is very conflicted. He
wants the power of taking
over the world but is sure
the company has gone
about it the wrong way.
He is also afraid he will
lose his right to such a
reputable company.
Nothing is enough for
Matthias. Everyone
disappoints him, even
his son, and that was his
motive behind it all. To
get rid of people and
rule the ones who are
left, control them. But
like everyone who does
evil things, he is not
inherently evil.

10. COMPARABLES
Utopia:
Much of the plot I created is comparable to Utopia. Both plots are focused
around a morally grey plan to lessen the world’s population through
medical means. Furthermore many of the characters are also morally
grey in that the protagonists are not entirely good and the antagonists
are not entirely evil – this being a common factor of both Utopia and No
Smoke Without a Fire.

11. COMPARABLES
Supernatural (2.09 “Croatoan”, 5.04 “The End”):
These two episodes focus on a demon virus that attacks the blood of it’s
victims and causes them thirst for murder. However some of the infected
instead go around spreading their infection through blood on blood
contact. This virus is of course very similar to the one I created for No
Smoke Without a Fire, one of the main differences being how it appeared
and then began to spread.

12. COMPARABLES
Hannibal (1.10 Buffet Froid):
This episode brings to light a mental illness called Cotard Syndrome. One
of the characters believes she is dead and is driven mad by this, therefore
she kills out of fear. In No Smoke Without a Fire, I took inspiration from
this so that some of the mothers affected by the birth control pill
developed this illness because it seemed like an interesting aspect to
introduce to the plot.

13. COMPARABLES
In The Flesh:
This show is comparable to my own in the sense that two key groups are
formed. No Smoke Without a Fire has the main protagonists in one group
who are fighting against the Cotards; these relate to the Human
Volunteer Force from In The Flesh who fight against the “rotters”.
However the Human Volunteer Force are the antagonists of In The Flesh.
The antagonists of No Smoke Without a Fire form a small group similar to
that of the Undead Liberation Army from In The Flesh. Both of these
groups use dangerous forces (Cotards/”Rotters”) to fight their causes.

14. COMPARABLES
Orphan Black:
The similarities between these two shows are more on the scientific side,
both of which feature secret biological experiments which may or may
not have gone wrong.