The word out of Hollywood is that a TV pilot is being shot for asituation comedy featuring those ticked-off cavemen who make theGEICO commercials such a riot. What's next? A show with the AFLACduck as the star? Perhaps we are headed for the day when an entireTV network will spring up featuring insurance programming. Imaginethe possibilities!

Among the programs that could hit the cable box:

–Insurance Survivor: A reality TV show pitting small mutual andregional insurers against one another after being stripped of theirfederal antitrust immunity. Let's see how long these smallercarriers last when they can't share data or policy language!

–Insurance 24: Jack Bauer, retired from CTU to lead a quieterlife as an insurance adjuster, finds himself thrust into adifferent catastrophe each week, facing off against thousands ofangry claimants.

–Insurance Idol: Industry leaders literally face the music asthey come up against a trio of skeptical judges on a variety ofallegations, including New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who led thecharge against contingency fees, and industry gadfly J. RobertHunter, insurance director of the Consumer Federation of America.The big question is, who would take on Paul Abdul's role as thekinder, gentler judge, who supports the industry no matter how tonedeaf they are? Any suggestions?

–Insurance Jeopardy: Home- and small-businessowners arechallenged to make heads or tails of some tricky policy exclusionsand contract language. The loser is forced to go bare!

–Meet The Insurance Press: Editors from leading insurancepublications yell at one another about the top challenges facingthe industry.

–Show Me The Money: Top insurance brokers struggle to replacebillions in contingency fees while disclosing new incentivecompensation deals to apathetic risk managers.

–People's Insurance Court: Claimants battle it out withadjusters and insurers over less-than-clear causes of loss andmurky coverage terms. No class-actions (or trial lawyers)permitted.

–Wheel Of Insurance Fortune: Carriers are forced to watch a juryspin a wheel to arbitrarily come up with outrageous figures forpunitive damage awards.

–Law & Order SIU: Latest entry of this tired franchisefeatures hot shots from a new crack Special Investigation Unit whofoil insurance frauds for a fictional carrier.

–Insurance Chef: Former Secretary of State Colin Powell talksabout how many ways he has seen rubber chicken prepared as he'searned a small fortune delivering stale, self-deprecating keynoteaddresses to just about every single insurance-related conferencein the industry.

Any other suggestions???