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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Ross Whatley, ross.whatley@gmail.com. “Dear Mr. Rosner, please remake your 70s to 80s action-packed cop show chips with for modern audiences and a major Network like NBC. Get the CHP and the original cast in behind the scenes roles to really deliver a series that are better than the original in every way and that fans of the original series, new audiences will love regardless of who they are. And to make this new series a real Emmy and Golden Globe multi-award winning groundbreaking show that isn’t afraid to tackle serious and real issues facing society and has five star acting and is really well made. Regards, Ross”
Rick Rosner: Hey Ross. You got the wrong Rick Rosner because there have been at least three Hollywood writers sharing the name Rick Rosner and I’m not the one who did CHiPs though I know him, very nice guy, auxiliary cop which I think is how he got the idea. I assume you’ve seen the CHiPs movie which was with Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell. And updating of it, I know that the real Rick Rosner didn’t entirely love it because it’s half a comedy or maybe more than half. I did have an idea of like future CHiPs, which would have been just a cheap show you could do for like five dollars, which would have been just a couple CHiPs guys on their motorcycles up on Mulholland just talking over their day. We don’t see any of the action because I can’t afford to pay for any of the action but just it takes place 10 years from now and they just discussed some of the stuff that happened during their work day or maybe during their private lives in 2035 when robots are a problem and people who are half robots and 120 year old guys who are now half bio circuitry or zipping around in their in whatever a Tesla looks like in 2035. But that didn’t even come close to happening.
I was getting Zankou Chicken last week and realized 10 years too late that I could have used the Rick Rosner name to maybe get out of a traffic ticket. My wife got pulled over by a CHiPs officer for an illegal lane change which was stupid because she didn’t change lanes. She began a lane change and then decided against it and somebody behind her in a Porsche and we were in LA; the more expensive the vehicle the bigger the asshole driving it, honked at her she didn’t change lanes and he wanted to like go ahead of her but she decided it wasn’t safe. But based on the honk this asshole officer Franklin pulled her over. And like I said it was bullshit because she didn’t do the maneuver he ticketed her for and he couldn’t even have seen her do it because he was behind the Porsche, which was a Porsche SUV. He couldn’t see over that anyway.
So he just pulled her over based on a honk and I realized that she could have said, “Really? You have to pull me over my husband Rick Rosner? Remember him? He created CHiPs, the show that made TV heroes out of you guys. Give me a break.” She would have been lying but she could have backed it up with her driver’s license but we didn’t think about it. So she got the ticket, fought it in court, he showed up, and he didn’t remember but he lied. Anyway, I can’t help you in getting a new CHiPs made. Thanks, Ross.
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Rick Rosner
American Television Writer
Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Founder, In-Sight Publishing
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