The people at NBC are no dummies. They wouldn’t have spent $3.5 Billion to buy The Weather Channel and Weather.com without having some synergies up their sleeves.
But just in case they don’t, we asked the contributors to MediaNewsAndViews to make a few suggestions. Enjoy. And feel free to add a few of your own or vote for your favorites by clicking the Comments link at the end of the story.
Game Shows
- Rain or No Rain: Contestants vie for a chance to win $1,000,000 if they choose the suitcase that contains the correct forecast for Seattle, Washington.
- AtmosFear Factor
- The Biggest Loser: Glaciers
- Twister: A new “twist” on the old game, airing live from the fields of Kansas during tornado season. Helen Hunt narrates along with her sidekick, Toto.
Drama
- Lawn & Order: SDU (Sahara Desert Unit): Dick Wolf extends the franchise as members of the MCS (Major Climate Squad) investigate suspicious reports of lush lawns.
- To Catch a Predictor
- weathER – Any reference to the word, weathER, at any NBCU station or business will be spelled: weathER. In the ER series finale the hospital will be destroyed by a hurricane.
- Days of Our Climes
- The Umbrella Borrowers
- America’s Got Climate
- E.R. – Expect Rain
- Noreaster Parade: Boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy dances-with-girl during a disastrous Noreaster.
Reality
- The Biggest Forecast: In this two-hour celebrity special, Donald Trump, Jay Leno and Mariska Hargitay compete for charity as they travel around the world to see who can return with the most dramatic weather forecast.
- Friday Night Light Showers Followed By Partial Clearing
- Friday Night Lightning – Everyone in a town stays home every Friday night to watch increasingly graphic lightning.
- Nashville Starwatching – A group of families congregate every night to look at the stars in Nashville. The telescopes are also used to spy on each other’s homes.
- The Apprentice Meteorologist
Comedy
- The Dukes of Blizzard: Hilarity ensues when the Dukes discover they have identical cousins, all of whom are employees at Disney’s Blizzard Beach in Orlando, Florida.
- My Name is Hurricane Earl
- Last Cyclone Standing: Celebrity Panel tries to match wits naming the most ferocious weather events of all time
- Most Outrageous Hurricane Moments: Too Soon?
News
- Soak the Press
- Meet the High Pressure
Educational
- 30 Rock: Geology for the over-30
- Scrubs, shrubs and other fire-starting brush
- Passions for Pressure System
Thanks to contributors Jill Davis, Jon Miller, Josh Ostroff & Co, Mollie Vandor, Jordan Yanco and David Zettler.