Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-3225355-20140806221159/@comment-24918243-20140807202747

WatcherAzazel wrote: @Booboo: then how did Smallville get so many viewers? Or, if you want to go back, the Superman movies. My point on that is simply that whenever you adapt anything to a more accessible medium (ie going from a book or a comic to a movie or a tvshow), you do pick up a large number of people along the way. I'm not even saying the show would be a success by television standards, simply that the small size of the creepypasta-reading demographic, in and of itself, would not be the limits on our audience. Seriously?

Superman has been around for over 70 years. I think you would have a real hard time finding someone who does not know who Superman is...

The point is that the demographic that would love to see a creepypasta series would probably be left out if a series that incorporated the true spirit of the stories here due to their age. It would seriously have to have a LSV rating and most likely have to be shown late, on an independent cable station like FX, AMC or such.

Maybe in a few years you would have enough people who grew up reading creepypastas to have an audience who they could realistically target or interest and make it financially viable to produce a series.

But all of that is a moot point, being that, like I said, a good part of the stories that are famous were either based on a franchise which the author did not own, or would be very hard to adapt to a dramatic narrative. Trust me when I say this, but a TV producer would not touch this idea with a 10 foot pole.

At least not for the next 20 years or so.