Let’s file this one under “ridiculous.” Ronald Emmerich is well known for his world-disaster movies like INDEPENDENCE DAY, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, and the upcoming 2012, but it looks like he’s taking that gift to television. He is in talks with ABC to develop a new show called 2013, based around the events that happen after the world is almost destroyed.

As an avid TV watcher, I’m trying to not completely dismiss Emmerich’s idea simply because he’s attached to it. Read on to see what he told Entertainment Weekly about the show.

“The plan is that it is 2013 and it’s about what happens after the disaster. It is about the resettling of Earth. That is very, very fascinating. (2012 writer/producer) Harald Kloser and I came up with the idea and we have the luxury of having a producer on the film who is a big TV producer, Mark Gordon. We said to Mark, ‘Why don’t you do a TV show that picks up where the movie leaves off and call it 2013?’ I think it will focus on a group of people who survived but not on the boats … maybe they were on a piece of land that was spared or one that became an island in the process of the crust moving. There are so many possibilities of what they could do and I’d be excited to watch it.”

We continue to see the effects of Lost on television. 2013 wouldn’t be the first serialized drama with a global scale, but the real question is whether it will be successful. Just look at Invasion and Jericho as examples of failed attempts. Heroes has had success and the jury is still out on V and FlashForward. I’m willing to give Roland Emmerich the benefit of the doubt on this one because I know I’ll be suffering from some serious Lost withdrawals next year and I need a new show (I bet ABC is thinking the same thing).