Don’t forget, Will Wright fans, that Bar Karma premiers tonight on CurrentTV! Check your local listings for the appropriate time!

Conceptualized by The Sims creator Will Wright, the show is a ballsy experiment in crowdsourced entertainment that transforms storylines written by passionate non-professionals like Holm into 30-minute episodes produced by professional cast and crew members on a New Jersey soundstage.

“We can take an idea from anybody out there … and put it into a professional production so people can see it on the air a few weeks later,” Wright told Wired.com in a phone interview ahead of the show’s Friday night debut. “What we have right now is basically interactive television with a long lag time.”

True to its groupthink aesthetic, Bar Karma’s overarching premise was created by anonymous participants in an online brainstorming session. It borrows a page from Star Wars‘ famous cantina scene, casting William Sanderson (Deadwood) as the ancient barkeep at an intergalactic cafe, with Matthew Humphreys and Cassie Howarth rounding out the core cast. Each week, a new time-traveling guest star visits the tavern to confront his or her destiny.

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