Waterman

Waterman is a thirty minute, light hearted, weekly comedy for television. It's silly, like ‘My Name is Earl’ or ‘Malcolm in the Middle’. It's rated PG (I know that's not a TV term), but not for language, it's for alcohol, hinting at drugs and definitely for sexually suggestive situations. It was on stakeout duty at a criminal hideout when City Cop, Detective Waterman and his partner, Carl first acquired intel that Big Boss' crime syndicate had just picked up a shipment of 'stuff' from the dock. Now, excitement was building. Now. they were about to catch 'em red handed. But here I have to stop and make clear that the main character is water... wha? That's right ...is Water. People never get that via written description so, I provide a link to the Pilot below so you can see visually. The human body is 60% water. What if we upped that to 100%? He's a person made out of a stream of water and, he's a person who lives to fight crime. Being water, when he breaks into the criminal hideout, Sonny, Big Boss' right hand man takes advantage. He sops Waterman up with a towel, throws him in a potted plant, uses a mop like a sword and finally gets rid of him by flushing. That's when waterman really takes a tour of the city, all the way to the city’s water treatment plant. It's hard to fight crime, 'cause Waterman is shackled by the cop rules. You have to have a warrant to enter, you can't use information if you beat it out of the thug, you can't call Big Boss a criminal if you have no evidence to back up that claim. Frustrating. Crime is on the loose and, as a cop, Waterman is not. He's not allowed to be. ...Cop Rules! Waterman is hopeful and always trying, but his efforts fall short and leave him asking “will I ever win?” Always there by his side is his partner, Carl. Loyal, a competent cop but he sure knows how to give Waterman a hard time. “Will you ever win? No.” Baby is Waterman’s girlfriend. He loves her but she gets in the way of fighting crime. It’s a dilemma. In Season one, Waterman goes against Big Boss, mastermind of his very own criminal syndicate. Big Boss is smart, angry and ever elusive. Waterman never even sees him as Big Boss hides behind the scenes, pulling the strings of his henchmen. Like, Sonny, Big Boss' right hand man. And Stinky, a common thug in Big Boss' employ. Stinky loves Big Boss but feels so disrespected that Big boss won't take his call. On top of it all is Mario, Chief of police, forcing Waterman to adhere to the cop rules, stifling Waterman’s efforts to take Big Boss down. So much so that Waterman realizes at the end of the first season’s pilot that he doesn’t have to be a cop to fight crime. He quits, is successful in seizing ‘the stuff’ and having Sonny arrested. When he quits the Superhero Waterman is born! “I’m going to miss you, buddy” declares a tearful Carl until Waterman assures him, “No way, buddy, I’ll still be your partner, just on the outside!” And so, the series in launched. A Superhero made is Water is a story engine that can really last. There are so many funny places you can go. He freezes his arm up to use it to beat a guy, he slinks through the city sewar system to pop up and surprise criminals, he conceals himself as a puddle, to overhear criminal conversations. And there’s lots of laughs to be had too when being water works against him. Fire dries him, rain dilutes him and he easily gets stuck in anything absorbent. He has to use his brains, not just his superpowers. My personal connection to this pilot is the fact that I'm a comedian and the next step seems always to be TV. But what have I to offer as an unknown? Yet another sit-com family? I thought it best to try for something totally unique; something never seen before and hence - Waterman Lives! Series treatment and story bible available upon request. Six scripted episodes ready to go and a pilot shot and, in the can, to act as an example of how great this show really is.