A TV show that should be

[Max Sinister]

I had the idea some days before:

Four US students (two men, two women) are ISOTed from their campus in (insert your favorite city here) to medieval England. (Not sure whether during Arthurian times, Richard Lionheart's or War of the roses - Hollywood'd probably mix up everything anyway :-( ) Now they've got to work together to survive in these interesting times.

The cast:
Man #1: Some guy who likes to tinker and also knows a bit about living in the wilderness (he's into LARP, geocaching, things like that). A bit of a geek. Will pull the occasional McGyver.
Man #2: Studied either Laws or Business before, member of the young Republicans. Assumes he is the natural leader of the group, but will learn that there's also that responsibility thing. Not the most sympathic guy, but being able to talk them out of everything but the Spanish inquisition, and they're not there yet. With clintonesk means, if necessary. ("Hast thou committed adultery with this wench?" - "Well, it depends how you define adultery...")
Woman #1: Wiccan feminist. Will make useful connections to some real witches (er, as real as witches can be. I imagine them a bit like from Terry Pratchett's novels.)
Woman #2: Studied medieval arts and English, so she's able to translate Olde English for the group in the beginning.

Every week - 45 minutes of history, war of the sexes and lots of other troubles!

[Flocculencio]

Do you mean hollywood arthurian times or real arthurian times? In the latter case, they're going to be caught up in the Saxon invasion and will have to choose between siding with the Romano-Britons or the Anglo-Saxons. If they're not killed out of hand.

Woman #1 had better not be too strident about her feminism or her wiccanism because the former could get her put in the stocks and the latter probably won't be looked on too kindly if certain overzealous churchmen hear about it. Though if the group just sticks to the commoners they probably won't have much of a problem.

[Tyr]

Women were in a OK position in society prior to the renaissance, if its the real Arthurian times they would be pretty much equal due to the primitivness of it all.

To edit the term is not ISOT, they are transported through time and space.
In ISOT a entire island is sent back in time to its exact location.
A few people being sent back in time and transported across space too is not ISOTing.

[Max Sinister]

I thought you could use ISOT for persons, too.

@Flocculencio: Pagan ideas were still widely spread during medieval times, whether the church liked it or not. Think about the "wise women" and those who knew how to make abortions. Of course woman #1 shouldn't be too open, but it would help her to gain some allies for the group.

[Count Dearborn]

You could make it a parallel past. If it was me, I'd throw in the idea that one of them has the ability to travel in time/space, the only problem is that they can't control it. Or, the witches called out for help, and got them.

[Thande]

I don't want to sound grouchy, but it would be nice to have somebody other than Americans ISOTed for a change.

[sergei]

I agree with the above, but if you insist on isoting random people, why not just have them slaughtered by whatever tribe encounters them first? That'd be good t.v.

[Doctor What]

True--but difficult to fill a whole hour in that case, non?

Hey--we're back in time!

Hack! Slash! Arrghh! Aiiieee! Thud!

..followed by 47 minutes of commercials.....

[sergei]

Just send back about 50 of them, obviously you could fill an hour with all the angst and anticipation, but we won't, the first 10 minutes could be them trying to work out what happened, and pulling the ones that have apeared in the ground, burying the remains of the ones that have just fallen from the 20 story building they were just in... Then, have the tribe/psycotic cult/army find them, spend the next 20 minutes engaging them in battle, then take the survivors to the camp where they are put to death in different ways, then have the last person alive lament the goings on and hoping it doesn't happen to anyone else.. Then A FLASH OF LIGHT! And they are all back where they were, in various stages of dead and dying. Who WOULDN'T watch it? Or would it only be successful in places that hate the U.S.? Sure, that's still roughly a 5.9 Billion person potential audience. But I don't think anyone would put the funds forward, no one with any power of this getting made